Larry Jendro

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El Centro Elementary
South Pasadena Junior High

My family arrived in South Pasadena on Christmas Eve 1955 after having traveled across the country from Philadelphia PA in a 1950 Chevrolet Sedan. Our first dwelling was a cottage in a court of cottages in an area that was soon converted to the Girl's Gym Field. We lived in a number of rental homes on Diamond St below the library, then Fairview St opposite El Centro School, then Fairview above Magnolia, then Magnolia where we stayed throughout my school years. I left South Pasadena to join the Navy in 1965

Sisters Mary Alice Jendro '62 and Margaret Anne Jendro '67

Bill Clooten '63

October 15, 1965 to Oct 15, 1992

Enlisted: E7, Chief Petty Officer, Electronics Technician
Officer: O4, Lieutenant Commander

Navy Electronics A School, Treasure Island CA 1966
Navy Nuclear Power School, Bainbridge MD 1967
Navy Nuclear Power Prototype, Schenectady NY 1967
Naval Submarine School Groton CT 1968
Naval Scientific Education Program University of Washington 74-78
BS Biological Oceanography
Navy Officer's Canidate School
Navy Nuclear Weapons School, Bainbridge MD
Navy Officer's Submarine School, Groton CT

Submarine Dolphins Enlisted
Submarine Dolphins Officer
SSBN Patrol Pin 13 Patrols
Meritorious Service Medal
Navy Commendation Medal
Navy Achievement Medal
Presidential Unit Commendation
Navy Unit Commendation
Good Conduct 12yrs
Pistol Expert, National Defense Medal

Submarine Nuclear Reactor Operator
Reactor Plant Technology Instructor at Navy Nuclear Power School
Submarine Nuclear Weapons Officer
Submarine Weapons Dept Head
COMSUBPAC Nuclear Targeting Officer
Scientific Liaison Officer ONREUR, Oceanography, Meteorology, Satellite Remote Sensing

Navy Boot Camp San Diego CA
Electronics A School, Treasure Island CA
Navy Nuclear Power School, Bainbridge MD
Navy Nuclear Prototype D1G, Schenectady NY
Navy Submarine School Groton CT
USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN 618 G) Groton CT
Navy Scientific Education Program University of Washington, Seattle WA
USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN 657 G) Charleston SC
USS Daniel Boone (SSBN 629 G) Charleston SC
COMSUBPAC, Pearl Harbor HI
Naval Postgraduate School Monterey CA
Office of Naval Research (Europe), London UK

There was a Universal Draft as I graduated from High School. If you did not have a college deferment you were drafted for 2 yrs. I joined the Navy to: avoid being drafted and sent to Vietnam and, to learn a trade (Nuclear Power Plant Operator) which I thought was the thing of the future. In Navy schools with discipline and applied mathematics, I blossomed. I went on to win scholarships for college and grad school while in the Navy. This greatly improved my life and job situation so that I was able to express myself through my work and live comfortably. I am very grateful to South Pasadena High School for providing enough education, even for the lackluster student I was, to enable my very satisfying worklife and now, content retirement.