My name is JOSEPH DUMAS and I was born on the first day of September, 1932 in Hartford
Connecticut and was graduated from Springfield Technical High School in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1950. I ...ver maisMy name is JOSEPH DUMAS and I was born on the first day of September, 1932 in Hartford
Connecticut and was graduated from Springfield Technical High School in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1950. I received my bachelor in science degree in Marine. And Electrical Engineering from the
Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1953 and upon graduation I was commissioned as an officer Ensign in the U.S.N.As an officer in the Navy, I served in the engineering department aboard two large aircraft carriers and finished my stint in the navy as a lieutenant. Early on in my naval career the former JEAN ANN BERNHARDT and I met by chance in her hometown of Rockville, Conn. And after a solid courtship, we decided to hook up replete with marriage license! I then joined the U.S. Merchant Marine Service as a third engineer, steam or diesel, any horsepower. It was here that I sailed the oceans of the world with ports of call on the six continents, the six great divisions of land in this world. I came ashore shortly thereafter to fulfill my family-man calling. JEAN ANN and I have been married for 57 Yz years and have raised 5 sons who have made me very proud; and I might add wisever menos