Saturday, July 17, 2010

Max Mallison - LHS Class of 1953

It may look like it, but this is really not another obit. Granted, that seems to be the main news about a lot of those of us who attended Leavenworth High School in the 1950's.  Anyway I'm thinking about Max, not because I remember him from my LHS days, but because I acquired copies of his June Bug's from the years 1950, 1951 and 1952. I bought them from a memorabilia store on eBay. They were mailed to me from Lewisville, TX near Dallas. That also may have been, according to what I've found on the Internet, the last town Max lived in. The SSA death index online shows him having died in Lewisville in 1999. Does anyone out there remember Max? What did he do after 1953 and how did he end up in Texas?  I also found the following listing in the 1995 LHS Alumni Directory. 
And for the rest of you, where are you now and how did you get there? The Old Man is sitting here near Monterey Bay in California. Retired after 43 plus years of working for the US Geological Survey, most of it at the West Coast headquarters of the USGS in Menlo Park CA. How did I get here? After graduating from KU in 1957 I went to work for the USGS in Rolla MO for a couple years and someone asked if I wanted to work in California. I said yes, and here I am, decades later.
Perhaps your story is a bit more interesting.  Please share it.

3 comments:

  1. my father met max in 1963. all he could tell me was he was in the jewelry business.

    my father was looking for his phone number when i came upon your post.

    it seems his wife June passed away january 12, 2007

    he did have a couple of children.

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  2. Max & Wayne Mallison were brothers (twins?). Wayne was in a bad wreck years ago. (I believe while on a church related trip.) Not sure if he left Leavenworth or what. I do remember them both at Leavenworth High...nice guys.

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  3. My father was friends with Wayne.
    I remember going into his jewelry store on 5th Street as a child.
    I had wondered how he had lost his legs, must have been in the accident mentioned in 7/18/10 post.
    I remember he was a very nice man.

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