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Timely Actions: A Guide to a Better Life and Retirement
Kenneth Glover has been giving advice to his three children and four granddaughters for years. Now those outside of his family will have the opportunity to benefit from his wealth of experience colored by his real-life anecdotes in this book. From health and aging to investment and retirement, the recommendations of the author have the potential to better the reader's quality of life every day.
88 pages, Hardcover
First published June 5, 2015
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About the author
Kenneth W. Glover
1 book3 followersI was born in a small village called Ailsworth in Cambridgeshire, about 100 miles north of London. In 1937 I was able to get a scholarship (the first in our village) to go to a secondary school in Peterborough, five miles away. In 1944, I also got a scholarship to go to Imperial College, London University for a four year Chemical Engineering degree. This was the last of six years of WWII and the bombing of London was about finished, but we were receiving daily V-1s and V-2s which kept things interesting.
When the war ended in 1945, my draft deferment ended and I was called into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps for two years. I became a second lieutenant and spent almost a year in the garrison of Gibraltar. When I was demobilized I was awarded a FETA which is the British equivalent of the GI Bill. It gave me four years of funds for college and I only needed two years for my B.Sc. so I stayed on and did research in the Low Temperature Lab (now called Cryogenics).
In 1954 I got my Ph. D. and emigrated to Montreal, Canada with my wife Doris and our 12 week old son, Nigel. After four years there working for L’Air Liquide, a French industrial gas separation company, and the birth of our second son, Nicholas, we moved to our first house in Rowayton, CT and my job with the same company in New York. Our daughter Melanie, our first American, was born there. We later lived in Atlanta, GA, Jacksonville, FL, and Houston, TX where I retired. I worked for five companies and was president of three of them. I have been retired in Houston for 23 years. We are all now naturalized citizens of the USA.
I played golf for 70 years (age 14-84) and was an avid boomerang thrower member of the US Boomerang Association for many years. I also painted (oils) in the sixties and again in 2000-2008.
When the war ended in 1945, my draft deferment ended and I was called into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps for two years. I became a second lieutenant and spent almost a year in the garrison of Gibraltar. When I was demobilized I was awarded a FETA which is the British equivalent of the GI Bill. It gave me four years of funds for college and I only needed two years for my B.Sc. so I stayed on and did research in the Low Temperature Lab (now called Cryogenics).
In 1954 I got my Ph. D. and emigrated to Montreal, Canada with my wife Doris and our 12 week old son, Nigel. After four years there working for L’Air Liquide, a French industrial gas separation company, and the birth of our second son, Nicholas, we moved to our first house in Rowayton, CT and my job with the same company in New York. Our daughter Melanie, our first American, was born there. We later lived in Atlanta, GA, Jacksonville, FL, and Houston, TX where I retired. I worked for five companies and was president of three of them. I have been retired in Houston for 23 years. We are all now naturalized citizens of the USA.
I played golf for 70 years (age 14-84) and was an avid boomerang thrower member of the US Boomerang Association for many years. I also painted (oils) in the sixties and again in 2000-2008.
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October 11, 2015
What amazing gift to not only family and friends but everyone that wants to be successful in Life, Love and living.
Your wisdom has given your family and friends a golden path to follow. We greatly appreciate what you had to overcome to complete this book. You are truly an amazing and brilliant person with a wonderful supportive wife by your side.
What a great honor to have you as my Father-in-Law!
Your wisdom has given your family and friends a golden path to follow. We greatly appreciate what you had to overcome to complete this book. You are truly an amazing and brilliant person with a wonderful supportive wife by your side.
What a great honor to have you as my Father-in-Law!
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