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Norman Sindlinger

<p>Hi! I&rsquo;m Norman. I&rsquo;m a retired Director of Engineering at Mattel Toys. I&rsquo;m older than the typical author; although I&rsquo;m still very much young at heart. I remain always optimistic in spite of having lived through many tumultuous events since the 1930&rsquo;s, right into today&rsquo;s most interesting political and world events.</p> <p>I always wanted to be a writer. I wrote quite a lot in high school and my first year of college at Ohio University in Athens Ohio while studying journalism, but I never succeeded in having any of my short fiction published.</p> <p>I dropped out of college for a year and worked in my father&rsquo;s marketing research corporation for a year prior to deciding to make a career in the Army while pursuing a BS Mechanical Engineering for four years at Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Pa. a Philadelphia suburb. PMC at the time was one of six so-called tin colleges graduating 2nd lieutenants. The original military school closed many years ago and reopened as significantlly expanded Widener University.</p> <p>Following 22 weeks additional training at the Basic Infantry Officer School and Airborne School in Fort Benning, Ga., I was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii. After twenty-one months of active service, I was released from active duty as a 1st Lieutenant and returned to Reserve Status. Obviously, I did not make the Army a career choice.</p> <p>I began my civilian career as a Research Engineer at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pa. I continued basic research and product development at several other corporations, became a manager of product development at two additional corporations, and a Director of Engineering at a start up computer corporation. I finally moved from NJ to California to join Mattel and retired as one of several Directors of Engineering. During my career, my writing was almost all technical in nature.</p> <p>I returned to NJ in retirement. I&rsquo;m a widower and was married for forty-nine years to, Jacqueline; a wonderful woman and my best friend for nearly 50 years. I have one surviving daughter and four grandchildren. I moved from southern NJ to Boonton, an historic small town thirty miles west-north-west of New York City and began writing again.</p> <ul> </ul>