"Hal" Jordan was born in Wisconsin. He became a locomotive engineer with the Milwaukee Road railroad. He piloted the high speed superliner Olympian Hiawatha passenger trains from Milwaukee to Seattle∼William Jordan was a locomotive engineer of the oil-fired steam engines of the Olympian Hiawatha trains of the Milwaukee Road Railroad Milwaukee to Lacrosse Division. He was also a farmer of the Columbia Washington Irrigation District Grand Coulee Dam.
PAST ACTIVITIES of his son Emmett Michael Jordan are:
ASCAP member, USA Class 'C','D','CB' radio transmitter licenses. Radio Clubs: Voice of the
Andes, North American Shortwave, Moscow, British Broadcasting BBC, Poland, DX Team
Berlin, Much Music Network Canada, New Orleans WRNO, Canadian Intl DX, A R Egypt,
M I Saudi Arabia. Wisconsin licensed insurance, bus, automobile, pick-up truck, motorboat,
and motorcycle operator. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) meeting
staff assistant, library correspondent, member, and its Computer Society. Electrical
Maintenance Engineers of Milwaukee. Wisconsin Society of Professional Engineers (Trainee)
(ET-5880). Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Shamrock Club of
Wisconsin. Fifth Senatorial District Young Democratic Club parliamentarian, treasurer,
Eugene McCarthy 1968 WYDC convention delegate, thank you note from Bill Clinton 1992.
Baritone Horn, Harp, Piano, and Organ player. National Honor Society. Tau Beta Pi and Eta
Kappa Nu Honor Societies. Texas Instruments Program Exchange Library Award. Elected
"Fellow" of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1975. Member: National Geographic
Society, Milwaukee County Genealogical Society, Irish Genealogical Society of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Public Museum, Charter Member of Discovery World (Science),
Mathematical Association of America, Pier Wisconsin (Marine Science), Charter Member of
The History Channel Club, Timex/Sinclair and IBM PC computer clubs, Servants of God (Opus Dei),
Military Order of the Purple Heart, Urban Anthropology (Milwaukee). Sons of the Union Veterans
of the Civil War (Grand Army of the Republic).
Author of copyrighted articles, songs, poems, photographs, recipes, inventions, and video
tapes. Published at Music City USA, Internetmusic.net, International Library of Poetry
(Editor's Choice Award 2002, in Sounds of Poetry, Endless Mysteries, Patterns of Life,
Poetry's Elite, and Falling Rain), and performed with Rod Rogers Band at Summerfest Water
Street Brewery alcove 1999 (ExecPC), my solo harps at Milwaukee Catholic Home, MU Alumni
Center, MSOE Student Center, Milwaukee Public Schools OASIS Senior Center, Milwaukee
IrishFest, my solo tenor horn at Zeidler Union Park, my baritone mini-tuba OASIS polka band,
my solo bagpipes and clarinets at OASIS, and IrishFest.
Exhibitor Staff: Wisconsin State Fair, Holiday Folk Fair, TrainTime, Shamrock Club.
Discoverer of the reversible perspective optical illusion of Milwaukee's Hoan Harbor
Bridge as published in the Milwaukee Journal 9/23/73.
My keen eyesight prevented a train wreck by spotting a loose railroad track at
7600 W State St in 1980. My huge book collection emphasizes handbooks, science, engineering,
medicine, foreign languages, repairs, classics, industrial drawings, parts lists, test
reports, specs, mythology, and catalogs. My subscriptions have included Spectrum, Electronic
Design, Electronic Products, Industrial Research, Metro Bus, Alarm Installer, Power Apparatus,
Popular Science, Popular Electronics, Popular Mechanics, Investor's Daily, Wall Street
Journal, Financial Post, Value Line, etc. Sports have included golf, swimming, hurling,
bowling, hiking, fishing, hunting, football, baseball, hand sewing, painting. Saint
Matthew's usher, Captain of traffic cadets, festival worker. Collections include coin,
rock, fossil, mineral. Construction projects include a sail boat, model railroad layouts,
where I identified and corrected a flaw in the design of a Life-Like GP-38-2 Union Pacific
#2007 locomotive, American Basic Science kits, Heathkit radio, Electronic Sample
Distributors kits, often able to make my own minor repairs and upgrades to home computers.
Frequent stock and commodity market investments 1965-present. Extensive business travel by
car, truck, bus, train, and plane in the USA, Canada, and Ireland. My microwave cooking
won an award from Roundy's Foods for a new bread recipe. I proposed an 'excess reactivity'
theory of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to Radio Moscow in May 1986 when officials were
claiming 'steam leak' or 'overheated core' theories. My theory was published in IEEE
Spectrum December 1986. Some of my electrical, nuclear, Gulf War, history, archaeology etc,
writings were published by General Electric Co, MSN, or Prodigy. My ethnic recipe
collection won an award from Chelsea Milling Co. I invented a distillation apparatus
using a NordicWare microwave steamer. Inventor of Davison US Patent disclosure document
592688(1-5-2006) for harp accessory.
PAST ACTIVITIES of his son Emmett Michael Jordan are:
ASCAP member, USA Class 'C','D','CB' radio transmitter licenses. Radio Clubs: Voice of the
Andes, North American Shortwave, Moscow, British Broadcasting BBC, Poland, DX Team
Berlin, Much Music Network Canada, New Orleans WRNO, Canadian Intl DX, A R Egypt,
M I Saudi Arabia. Wisconsin licensed insurance, bus, automobile, pick-up truck, motorboat,
and motorcycle operator. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) meeting
staff assistant, library correspondent, member, and its Computer Society. Electrical
Maintenance Engineers of Milwaukee. Wisconsin Society of Professional Engineers (Trainee)
(ET-5880). Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Shamrock Club of
Wisconsin. Fifth Senatorial District Young Democratic Club parliamentarian, treasurer,
Eugene McCarthy 1968 WYDC convention delegate, thank you note from Bill Clinton 1992.
Baritone Horn, Harp, Piano, and Organ player. National Honor Society. Tau Beta Pi and Eta
Kappa Nu Honor Societies. Texas Instruments Program Exchange Library Award. Elected
"Fellow" of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1975. Member: National Geographic
Society, Milwaukee County Genealogical Society, Irish Genealogical Society of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Public Museum, Charter Member of Discovery World (Science),
Mathematical Association of America, Pier Wisconsin (Marine Science), Charter Member of
The History Channel Club, Timex/Sinclair and IBM PC computer clubs, Servants of God (Opus Dei),
Military Order of the Purple Heart, Urban Anthropology (Milwaukee). Sons of the Union Veterans
of the Civil War (Grand Army of the Republic).
Author of copyrighted articles, songs, poems, photographs, recipes, inventions, and video
tapes. Published at Music City USA, Internetmusic.net, International Library of Poetry
(Editor's Choice Award 2002, in Sounds of Poetry, Endless Mysteries, Patterns of Life,
Poetry's Elite, and Falling Rain), and performed with Rod Rogers Band at Summerfest Water
Street Brewery alcove 1999 (ExecPC), my solo harps at Milwaukee Catholic Home, MU Alumni
Center, MSOE Student Center, Milwaukee Public Schools OASIS Senior Center, Milwaukee
IrishFest, my solo tenor horn at Zeidler Union Park, my baritone mini-tuba OASIS polka band,
my solo bagpipes and clarinets at OASIS, and IrishFest.
Exhibitor Staff: Wisconsin State Fair, Holiday Folk Fair, TrainTime, Shamrock Club.
Discoverer of the reversible perspective optical illusion of Milwaukee's Hoan Harbor
Bridge as published in the Milwaukee Journal 9/23/73.
My keen eyesight prevented a train wreck by spotting a loose railroad track at
7600 W State St in 1980. My huge book collection emphasizes handbooks, science, engineering,
medicine, foreign languages, repairs, classics, industrial drawings, parts lists, test
reports, specs, mythology, and catalogs. My subscriptions have included Spectrum, Electronic
Design, Electronic Products, Industrial Research, Metro Bus, Alarm Installer, Power Apparatus,
Popular Science, Popular Electronics, Popular Mechanics, Investor's Daily, Wall Street
Journal, Financial Post, Value Line, etc. Sports have included golf, swimming, hurling,
bowling, hiking, fishing, hunting, football, baseball, hand sewing, painting. Saint
Matthew's usher, Captain of traffic cadets, festival worker. Collections include coin,
rock, fossil, mineral. Construction projects include a sail boat, model railroad layouts,
where I identified and corrected a flaw in the design of a Life-Like GP-38-2 Union Pacific
#2007 locomotive, American Basic Science kits, Heathkit radio, Electronic Sample
Distributors kits, often able to make my own minor repairs and upgrades to home computers.
Frequent stock and commodity market investments 1965-present. Extensive business travel by
car, truck, bus, train, and plane in the USA, Canada, and Ireland. My microwave cooking
won an award from Roundy's Foods for a new bread recipe. I proposed an 'excess reactivity'
theory of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to Radio Moscow in May 1986 when officials were
claiming 'steam leak' or 'overheated core' theories. My theory was published in IEEE
Spectrum December 1986. Some of my electrical, nuclear, Gulf War, history, archaeology etc,
writings were published by General Electric Co, MSN, or Prodigy. My ethnic recipe
collection won an award from Chelsea Milling Co. I invented a distillation apparatus
using a NordicWare microwave steamer. Inventor of Davison US Patent disclosure document
592688(1-5-2006) for harp accessory.
"Hal" Jordan was born in Wisconsin. He became a locomotive engineer with the Milwaukee Road railroad. He piloted the high speed superliner Olympian Hiawatha passenger trains from Milwaukee to Seattle∼William Jordan was a locomotive engineer of the oil-fired steam engines of the Olympian Hiawatha trains of the Milwaukee Road Railroad Milwaukee to Lacrosse Division. He was also a farmer of the Columbia Washington Irrigation District Grand Coulee Dam.
PAST ACTIVITIES of his son Emmett Michael Jordan are:
ASCAP member, USA Class 'C','D','CB' radio transmitter licenses. Radio Clubs: Voice of the
Andes, North American Shortwave, Moscow, British Broadcasting BBC, Poland, DX Team
Berlin, Much Music Network Canada, New Orleans WRNO, Canadian Intl DX, A R Egypt,
M I Saudi Arabia. Wisconsin licensed insurance, bus, automobile, pick-up truck, motorboat,
and motorcycle operator. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) meeting
staff assistant, library correspondent, member, and its Computer Society. Electrical
Maintenance Engineers of Milwaukee. Wisconsin Society of Professional Engineers (Trainee)
(ET-5880). Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Shamrock Club of
Wisconsin. Fifth Senatorial District Young Democratic Club parliamentarian, treasurer,
Eugene McCarthy 1968 WYDC convention delegate, thank you note from Bill Clinton 1992.
Baritone Horn, Harp, Piano, and Organ player. National Honor Society. Tau Beta Pi and Eta
Kappa Nu Honor Societies. Texas Instruments Program Exchange Library Award. Elected
"Fellow" of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1975. Member: National Geographic
Society, Milwaukee County Genealogical Society, Irish Genealogical Society of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Public Museum, Charter Member of Discovery World (Science),
Mathematical Association of America, Pier Wisconsin (Marine Science), Charter Member of
The History Channel Club, Timex/Sinclair and IBM PC computer clubs, Servants of God (Opus Dei),
Military Order of the Purple Heart, Urban Anthropology (Milwaukee). Sons of the Union Veterans
of the Civil War (Grand Army of the Republic).
Author of copyrighted articles, songs, poems, photographs, recipes, inventions, and video
tapes. Published at Music City USA, Internetmusic.net, International Library of Poetry
(Editor's Choice Award 2002, in Sounds of Poetry, Endless Mysteries, Patterns of Life,
Poetry's Elite, and Falling Rain), and performed with Rod Rogers Band at Summerfest Water
Street Brewery alcove 1999 (ExecPC), my solo harps at Milwaukee Catholic Home, MU Alumni
Center, MSOE Student Center, Milwaukee Public Schools OASIS Senior Center, Milwaukee
IrishFest, my solo tenor horn at Zeidler Union Park, my baritone mini-tuba OASIS polka band,
my solo bagpipes and clarinets at OASIS, and IrishFest.
Exhibitor Staff: Wisconsin State Fair, Holiday Folk Fair, TrainTime, Shamrock Club.
Discoverer of the reversible perspective optical illusion of Milwaukee's Hoan Harbor
Bridge as published in the Milwaukee Journal 9/23/73.
My keen eyesight prevented a train wreck by spotting a loose railroad track at
7600 W State St in 1980. My huge book collection emphasizes handbooks, science, engineering,
medicine, foreign languages, repairs, classics, industrial drawings, parts lists, test
reports, specs, mythology, and catalogs. My subscriptions have included Spectrum, Electronic
Design, Electronic Products, Industrial Research, Metro Bus, Alarm Installer, Power Apparatus,
Popular Science, Popular Electronics, Popular Mechanics, Investor's Daily, Wall Street
Journal, Financial Post, Value Line, etc. Sports have included golf, swimming, hurling,
bowling, hiking, fishing, hunting, football, baseball, hand sewing, painting. Saint
Matthew's usher, Captain of traffic cadets, festival worker. Collections include coin,
rock, fossil, mineral. Construction projects include a sail boat, model railroad layouts,
where I identified and corrected a flaw in the design of a Life-Like GP-38-2 Union Pacific
#2007 locomotive, American Basic Science kits, Heathkit radio, Electronic Sample
Distributors kits, often able to make my own minor repairs and upgrades to home computers.
Frequent stock and commodity market investments 1965-present. Extensive business travel by
car, truck, bus, train, and plane in the USA, Canada, and Ireland. My microwave cooking
won an award from Roundy's Foods for a new bread recipe. I proposed an 'excess reactivity'
theory of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to Radio Moscow in May 1986 when officials were
claiming 'steam leak' or 'overheated core' theories. My theory was published in IEEE
Spectrum December 1986. Some of my electrical, nuclear, Gulf War, history, archaeology etc,
writings were published by General Electric Co, MSN, or Prodigy. My ethnic recipe
collection won an award from Chelsea Milling Co. I invented a distillation apparatus
using a NordicWare microwave steamer. Inventor of Davison US Patent disclosure document
592688(1-5-2006) for harp accessory.
PAST ACTIVITIES of his son Emmett Michael Jordan are:
ASCAP member, USA Class 'C','D','CB' radio transmitter licenses. Radio Clubs: Voice of the
Andes, North American Shortwave, Moscow, British Broadcasting BBC, Poland, DX Team
Berlin, Much Music Network Canada, New Orleans WRNO, Canadian Intl DX, A R Egypt,
M I Saudi Arabia. Wisconsin licensed insurance, bus, automobile, pick-up truck, motorboat,
and motorcycle operator. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) meeting
staff assistant, library correspondent, member, and its Computer Society. Electrical
Maintenance Engineers of Milwaukee. Wisconsin Society of Professional Engineers (Trainee)
(ET-5880). Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Shamrock Club of
Wisconsin. Fifth Senatorial District Young Democratic Club parliamentarian, treasurer,
Eugene McCarthy 1968 WYDC convention delegate, thank you note from Bill Clinton 1992.
Baritone Horn, Harp, Piano, and Organ player. National Honor Society. Tau Beta Pi and Eta
Kappa Nu Honor Societies. Texas Instruments Program Exchange Library Award. Elected
"Fellow" of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1975. Member: National Geographic
Society, Milwaukee County Genealogical Society, Irish Genealogical Society of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Public Museum, Charter Member of Discovery World (Science),
Mathematical Association of America, Pier Wisconsin (Marine Science), Charter Member of
The History Channel Club, Timex/Sinclair and IBM PC computer clubs, Servants of God (Opus Dei),
Military Order of the Purple Heart, Urban Anthropology (Milwaukee). Sons of the Union Veterans
of the Civil War (Grand Army of the Republic).
Author of copyrighted articles, songs, poems, photographs, recipes, inventions, and video
tapes. Published at Music City USA, Internetmusic.net, International Library of Poetry
(Editor's Choice Award 2002, in Sounds of Poetry, Endless Mysteries, Patterns of Life,
Poetry's Elite, and Falling Rain), and performed with Rod Rogers Band at Summerfest Water
Street Brewery alcove 1999 (ExecPC), my solo harps at Milwaukee Catholic Home, MU Alumni
Center, MSOE Student Center, Milwaukee Public Schools OASIS Senior Center, Milwaukee
IrishFest, my solo tenor horn at Zeidler Union Park, my baritone mini-tuba OASIS polka band,
my solo bagpipes and clarinets at OASIS, and IrishFest.
Exhibitor Staff: Wisconsin State Fair, Holiday Folk Fair, TrainTime, Shamrock Club.
Discoverer of the reversible perspective optical illusion of Milwaukee's Hoan Harbor
Bridge as published in the Milwaukee Journal 9/23/73.
My keen eyesight prevented a train wreck by spotting a loose railroad track at
7600 W State St in 1980. My huge book collection emphasizes handbooks, science, engineering,
medicine, foreign languages, repairs, classics, industrial drawings, parts lists, test
reports, specs, mythology, and catalogs. My subscriptions have included Spectrum, Electronic
Design, Electronic Products, Industrial Research, Metro Bus, Alarm Installer, Power Apparatus,
Popular Science, Popular Electronics, Popular Mechanics, Investor's Daily, Wall Street
Journal, Financial Post, Value Line, etc. Sports have included golf, swimming, hurling,
bowling, hiking, fishing, hunting, football, baseball, hand sewing, painting. Saint
Matthew's usher, Captain of traffic cadets, festival worker. Collections include coin,
rock, fossil, mineral. Construction projects include a sail boat, model railroad layouts,
where I identified and corrected a flaw in the design of a Life-Like GP-38-2 Union Pacific
#2007 locomotive, American Basic Science kits, Heathkit radio, Electronic Sample
Distributors kits, often able to make my own minor repairs and upgrades to home computers.
Frequent stock and commodity market investments 1965-present. Extensive business travel by
car, truck, bus, train, and plane in the USA, Canada, and Ireland. My microwave cooking
won an award from Roundy's Foods for a new bread recipe. I proposed an 'excess reactivity'
theory of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to Radio Moscow in May 1986 when officials were
claiming 'steam leak' or 'overheated core' theories. My theory was published in IEEE
Spectrum December 1986. Some of my electrical, nuclear, Gulf War, history, archaeology etc,
writings were published by General Electric Co, MSN, or Prodigy. My ethnic recipe
collection won an award from Chelsea Milling Co. I invented a distillation apparatus
using a NordicWare microwave steamer. Inventor of Davison US Patent disclosure document
592688(1-5-2006) for harp accessory.
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