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Note: I moved from Chicago to York, Pennsylvania, when I was nine months o ld. I went to McKinley School, Hannah Penn Junior High, and William Pe nn High School. After graduating from high school in 1949, I worked f or a couple of years as a grease monkey and ran a gas station. I joined t he navy in 1951, serving at Milton Field, Pensacola Naval Air Station, a nd as a quartermaster on the destroyer USS Eugene A. Green (DDR-711; lat er sold to Spain), based in Norfolk, Va. When I got out of the Navy in 19 55, I went to Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a nd graduated with a B.S. in geology in 1958. I attended Princeton Univers ity from 1958 to 1962, getting an M.A. and Ph.D. I did my thesis wo rk in regional geology of the Coast Ranges (Cordillera de la Costa) of Ven ezuela, not far southeast of Caracas. I joined the U.S. Geological Surv ey in October 1962. I worked in eastern Kentucky (Hazard), Puerto Rico, n orthern Virginia, Connecticut and Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Calif ornia (1975-1992). I worked on geologic mapping, regional tectonics, a nd in California specialized in studies of conglomerates as guides to regi onal tectonics. I retired January 2, 1993 and moved to Yadkin Co., Nor th Carolina, on October 1, 1993. In retirement I worked on genealogy a nd local history. In the molecular genealogy program at BYU his file number is SMGF-24043. Note added by Bradford Peck; I was privelidged to have worked with Vic for several on the Genealogy of the Seiders/Zeiders families. He was an inspiration and he built this gedcom file with tireless effort. We will all miss him.
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