McPartland, Jeff                                                                            * Home

 

1965(Vestal Central HS)   2005, Gettysburg, PA (Dick McCoy with Joan and Jeff McPartland)

Jeff can be reached at:

jdmpski@aol.com

 

The Summer of ’65 found me working at IBM Endicott as a “temp” to earn

money for college and I decided to stay on by the end of the summer even

though guys were getting drafted around age 19.  Sometime in the next few

months I decided to enlist in the Air Force and also to get married so I

did both.

 

The very best thing I’ve done since high school was to marry my wife, Joan

(formerly Joan Hradisky).  We fell in love in the 10th or 11th grade and

like the saying goes ‘I’d do it again’.  Together we raised 4 children to

adulthood, all boys - Chris, Pat, Scott and Brian and so far we’ve been

blessed with 4 grandchildren - Alex, Zack and Christopher.  Our

granddaughter, Rachel, was born in 1999 and lived only 8 months but taught

us a lot in the short time she was with us.  We celebrated our 39th

anniversary April 16.

 

Joan and I were married in April 1966 and I left for basic training 3 weeks

later.  We spent the next 4 years in San Antonio, Texas where our first two

children were born and I learned to write news stories.  After the Air

Force I returned to IBM for a short time and next headed off to college;,

first to Broome Technical Community College for a year to get the grades I

never earned in high school, and then to SUNY Binghamton where I graduated

in 1975.  We had the opportunity to move a couple more times after that ...

Wilmington, Delaware and San Francisco, California for a short assignment

and finally settled in Camp Hill, PA right after the “Three Mile Island”

notoriety in 1979.  We thought this would be another 4-5 year assignment

but it became our permanent home as the kids got older and our inclination

to move declined.

 

I retired from IBM 3 years ago but went to work immediately as a consultant

doing essentially the same project management work in the “parts” business.

I had a variety of careers all with the same company ... manufacturing,

education, management, marketing, distribution and project management.

Joan helped put me through college by working for ‘Ma’ Bell and then took

time away from work to spend more time with our boys and later returned to

work in the medical claims field and now pursues the ‘bad guys’ committing

Medicare fraud.

 

My main interests over the years outside of family and work have been

bicycling, traveling and skiing and Joan likes the last two but decided no

one of sound mind likes riding on two wheels in traffic and if God had

wanted her to do this then he’s have built her more in the shape of a

bicycle seat ... or something like this.  She is also a fabulous cook,

mother and grandmother.  I got into bicycle camping and traveling when our

kids were young and more easily motivated to go with me and while they grew

out of it I never did.  Fortunately, God must have wanted Joan to ski

because this is one sport we came late to that we both enjoy.  And the

grandchildren - we both enjoy spending time with our grandchildren.  The

nice thing we’ve found about the grandchildren is that it’s not a full time

job and you can give them back.

 

 

 

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