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Nelson White was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1938. He graduated from James B. Castle High School in Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii in 1956. He served with the U.S. Navy as a Hospital Corpsman in San Diego, California. He graduated from San Bernardino Valley College in 1961 with an Associate of Arts in Electronics. While at S.B.V.C. he was active in the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Motorcycle Posse, as a Reserve Deputy Sheriff, and also spent several years with the Civil Air Patrol as Communications Officer of Search & Rescue Squadron 31, at Norton Air Force Base.
After working several years in the Electronics and Defense fields, he returned to college, and graduated from the University of Redlands in 1968 with a B.A. in Government & Public Administration. He atended Graduate School at both Redlands and U.C.L.A. where he received several Teaching Credentials.
Mr. White has taught in a number of Junior and Senior High Schools in both Southern and Northern California.
Mr. White is presently retired from a NASA contractor, and had worked at Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, and is working on his 134th. book.
Mr. White was also a Private Pilot, and Amateur Radio Operator, a 4-wheel drive enthusiast, was a member of MENSA for several years, and was Knighted by the "Alter Souveraner Templer Orden" , based in Vienna, Austria on June 17th, 1989. Mr White sings with the Richmond Chor, one of the oldest German singing groups in the Bay area.
Mr. White has received numerous community service awards, and was listed in "Who's Who in the West", "Who is Who in California", Who's Who in American Authors, Editors & Poets", "Two Thousand Notable Americans", and is presently listed in "Who's Who in the World".
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