Thought I would start a page of my personal history, geneaology and biography. I was born July 30, 1937 in the city of Danville, Virginia which is located inside the boundaries of Pittsylvania county in the state of Virginia here in the USA on the continent of North America. I was delivered into the world by Dr. Langston. My pediatrics doctor was Dr. Purcell, My mother was EDNA MARIE CALVERT CORPENING. My father was ALTON LEE CORPENING, SR. My parents were living in The Fitgerald Apartments when I was born. My father and mother both lived in Hylton Hall before I was born. My father worked at Dan River Mills. My mother was a school teacher. She previously taught at Sharon elementary school in Pittsylvania county near Gretna. My parents and I later moved to 357 Averett place in Danville. I remember Doug Haraway, Brenda Sue Owen and Mr. Gentry who lived on that street then. When I was almost 6 years old, we moved to the Martinsville Road across from Woodlawn Baptist Church in that house where that flower shop used to be, I think it is some kind of stylist shop now. The first church I went to was Main Street Methodist. I later transferred to West End Christian Church. My early Sunday School teachers were Mrs. Bledsoe and Evelyn Hartman. and later Lois Clutter. When I got to be six years old, I went to Coates Elementary School. My first grade teacher was Mrs. White, My second grade teacher was Mrs. Elsie Grogan, My third grade teacher was Mrs. Earles and my fourth grade teacher was Mrs. Davis. Some of my early friends on the Martinsville road (now Westover Drive) included Dwain Jackson, Jessie ("Junior") Turner, Donald Richardson, Ruth Jean Scearce, Garnett von Eime, Garland Schumate, Billy Guill, Raymond Worley and others. My mother was originally from Brosville. She graduated valedictorian from Brosville high school and went to Madison College (Now James Madison University). My mother's parents were Johnc C. Calvert and Lulu Long. Lulu Long died when my mother was about five years old. My mother's brothers included Ernest Calvert, Bernard ("Bunny") Calvert. My mother's father later married a lady named Kate who had three children Cecil, Anne and Homie who were my mother's half sisters and brother. Some of my mother's cousins and aunt's included Lettie Long Morris, Glenn Hutcheson Hood, Howard Calvert, Emma Long Sigmon) etc. We (my mother, father and myself) later moved to 14 West Main Extension (across from the Schoolfield Rec Center and Theater). My father was born in Franklin, NC and graduated from Piedmont College, Demorest GA and majored in chemistry He worked in the dye department of the mill and was superintendant of dying. He later moved up into the Research Department. Some of the people he woked with at Dan River and in the Dye Department and Research included Dr. Chase, Dr. Jennings, Aubrey Goodson, Glen Womble, Rural Meadows, Puz Matthewson, Dave Ekstrom, Bill Mcmann, Russell Hudgins, etc. My dad also played quite a lot of golf and had many golf friends. My father's sisters included Brandon and Peggy (Brandon Corpening Till and Peggy Corpening Christy). My father's brother's included Ted (died very young), and Quincy. When we moved to 14 West Main Extension (1948) I attended Baltimore Avenue Elementary School and Schoolfield Junior High School. (fifth through ninth grade). My fifth grade teacher was Mrs Mastin Collie, Sixth grade teacher was Mrs. Beaula Haskins, my seventh grade teacher was Mrs. Lillian Via. My eigth grade and ninth grade home room teacher was Miss Dodd). When I reached the tenth grade I transferred to George Washington High School on Holbrook Street in Danville. During my high school years I was quite interested in electronics. I took a correspondence course from Cleveland Institute of Electronics and learned a lot of electronics from Avery Johnson who ran a TV Shop called Rhodes and Johnson next door to where the Chicken Cafe used to be and also a TV shop on Kemper Road called Avery's TV Service. I later had a Radio and TV Service in partners with Douglas Biggs and another one in partnership with Eddie Friedman. I also was quite interested in audio recording and high fidelity during my high school years. My home room teacher in 10th, 11th and 12th grade was Miss Dean Richardson. My high school english teachers included Miss Lewis, S.H. Perkinson, Sam Greene, Gladys Spangler, Nora Payne Hill, Margaret Kushner. I had A.B. Wilson for Latin. I had Mr. Paladino, Gurtis, El Wilson for P.E. My math teachers were Willie McCubbins, Alma Ricketts, Mrs. Ethel Barker, and Thelma Naylor. My science teachers were Mrs. Jefferson, Mrs. Shelley Mr Thomasson. My history teachers were Miss Sowers (Mrs. Kerns), Nell Berry, Dorthy Jordan. I had Tom Hauser for Government and Mary Olver for Economics. I had Mrs. Gwynn for Social Studies. I had Hampton Benton for band at Schoolfield and Gene Stryker for band at GW. During my high school years I was quite active in music. I attended summer music camps at University of New Hampshire and WCTC (now Western CArolina University) along with Jimmy Fleming who played French horn. )He went to Cincinnati Conservertory and studied there after high school and who later went in the trucking with his father). I took a Sherwood School (in Chicago) Correspondence Piano Music Course. I took piano lesson from Hampton Benton at Schoolfield and Lucille Skinner at Averett. I played first chair of solo clarinet in the GWHS band during my senior year, Gene Stryker directing. I went to VPI after high school and played in the VPI band Highty Tighties there. I had Mr. Spencer, Homer ("Hank") Mauer, NED ("slick") Chapman, Alice Mae Pletta, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Wesley Pace, Mr. Leonard McFadden, and Colonel Davis for mathematics courses at Tech. I had McPherson, Bogart and Brice for chemsitry courses. I had Ussery, Reeves, Bogart for Physics courses.I had William Murray, ("Flash") Gordon and Clifton Cullum for electrical engineering courses. I had Robert Shaver for English. I was in Band Company when I first went to VPI. I later transferred to L Company. My roomate in L company was a senior in metallurgical engineering. His name was Burton ("Bo") Boesser. My room mate in band company was Jerry Massey. We were across the hall from Wayne Bennett and Birdsall. I think the last courses I took before I went into Air Force was Trigonometry under Colonel Davis, Differential Equations from Professor Campbell, Alternating Current Circuits from Clifton Cullum. I also audited electromagnetic waves and fields in Professor Holt's class. I was in Air Force on Active duty from July 1960 to July 1962 and Air Force Reserve from 1962 to 1966. I went into Aviation Program then went into Data Processing. I operated IBM 650 and 1401 computers at Brookley Air Force Base. I met Dr. John Hoover who conducted the Moble Symphony at that time and also was a audio and stereo enthusiast. I bought some high quality stereo components from him and talked to him often while I was at Brookley AFB. After my active duty in Air Force I worked for awhile in electronics at MelPar, Inc., Bailey's Crossroads plant. Then I later worked in laboratory at Memorial Hospital. At Danville Memorial Hospital I trained in Clinical Chemistry, Hematology and Blood Banking. I worked with Kate Meeler, Julio Rojas, Pedro, Margaret Bass, Dot Anderson, Lois Seay, Phyliss Pruitt, Bet Brown, Jimmy Britton, Faye Wren, Dr. Moran, James Burch, Dr. Estevez, Dr. Salazar and others. Next I worked in DCRT at NIH (National Institutes of Health) Bethesda, Md. I operated Honeywell computers there. I worked for Robert A Brown and Carl L. Baker. Some co workers included Nelson Cole, Ray Alvorado, Gracie Rizzo, Tom Keyes, Paul Delaughter, etc. , I later studied business and science at VPI. Business teachers included Kenneth Neathery, Joseph Taylor and others. I had Edna Young for Zoology and Mr. William Dickenson for Botany. I later took more courses at Averett. I had Carl Motley, Dr. John Atwood and Gail Allen for music. In somewhere around 1968 I played the violin in a little string group Benita Shields tried to get up at YWCA and also clarinet in a community band at GWHS that Harry Mamlin tried to get up. I later worked with Gene Stryker and Dr. John Atwood and others trying to get a little community orchestra and band started in Danville, but we couldn't seem to get enough musicians to continue attending rehearsals and some thought the music we were trying to play was too advanced. There were quite a few older people like Tom Carter, Peggy Obye, Pocahontas Brumfield, Bill Heffernan, Mary Brockwell, etc. who were interested. Some music we went through included Beethoven's first symphony and Schubert's Fifth Symphony. I tried to conduct Beethoven's First Symphony and Gene Strker conducted Schubert's Fifth Symphony. I later met Dr. Malvin Artley at Elon College and he invited me to play in the NSOA Director's Orchestra which met at Elon College in 1971. So I played in that orchestra and played my Mazzeo clarinets along with Linda Ruggero who was the other clarinet player for the orchestra. We performed Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony, Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite and some electronic music witten for sythesizer and orchestra by Herman Deutsch. I started playing with Greensboro Civic Orchestra, Barry Auman conducting, in 1978 which later became Philharmonia of Greensboro with Robert Gutter conducting. I have played a number of years in the Greensboro Concert Band directed by Charles Murph and have also enjoyed many years of singing in the Main Street Methodist Choir directed by Jean Caroll Vernon and Diane Collie, organist. I have been an amateur radio operator since 1975 and a PC microcomputer hobbyist from the days the Altair and Radio Shack TRS 80 model I computer made it's debut. I have had about a dozen 2 metter rigs and about a half dozen lo band rigs during my most active ham radio days. I have had several models of the Z80 radio Shack computers and have had a number of Tandy and IBM compatible computers form the days the IBM type computer made it's debut. I have studied much mathematics in college. I met Louise Stallard who graduated in mathematics at Va Tech and corresponded with her for quite a while before I went into Air Force. I had Dr. Don Ethington for Mathematics at Averett in my post Air Force days. I worked for U.S. Post Office for about eleven years, also have done some sales work of various products which included selling electrolux vacuum cleaners. In politics I have been a candidate for the offices of City Council and State Delegate. At this time I don't forsee that I will run for any more political offices, but If I should have a good opportunity to run again at some time in the future, I will give it serious consideration. I have been interested in taking more chemistry and biology and medical electronics. Years ago I studied some organic chemistry at Stratford college when Dr. Arthur Urbanik was teaching and some Anat and Physiology at Averett when Dr. Russell Brachman was teaching. I have also worked for the following insurance companies: Gulf Life Insurance Company, Southwestern Insurance Company, was a broker for E.F. Hutton, Amoco, Golden Rule, World Insurancce Company, also held licenses with Integrity and Investor's Heritage. Then I worked for Independent Insurance Company and Life of Georgia. Then I worked for United Insurance Company, Chicago and American General. I have worked for Pinkerton, Wackenhut, Globe, Danville Detective and Security, Diamond Detective and Security, and at present time work for Richmond Security at Dimon in Danville and ABB in South Boston. I have had quite a lot of other teachers during my college years but can't remember names too well at this time. I will continue my life history and biography (and genealogy) later........