Unexpected Odyssey

A memoir of a life beginning 5 months after the onset of WW ll escaping the Russian invasion living out the war in Frankfurt and immigrating to America. Growing up in Brooklyn New York being a pizza maker and then eventually graduating from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy as a ship's engineer. The years at sea evolved in teaching Marine Engineering at Texas A&M University as an Associate Professor as the first professor hired and helped start the Texas Maritime Academy. Upon completion of the first training cruise of Texas Maritime Academy and a graduate degree then went on to being a sales engineering executive then back to graduate school for a doctorate and an intervening career as an Executive Chef for 16 years. The story concludes with reuniting with an old friend and moving to Tennessee to become a Senior Clinical substance abuse Counselor and anchoring in retirement.