Ed Jewett

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I was born in 1948 at the West Reading Hospital. My mother died five days later. I was raised in Shillington, PA by my father, a Chamber of Commerce exec, and -- for the first four years -- by a Mennonite nanny. I had two older siblings, three and four years older. My father re-married but had the marriage annulled within a year.; I know the woman's name but nothing else about her. He re-married again, this time to a woman who was a hospital worker/social worker who was introduced to him by his boss. She was apparently a war widow. I know her mother and aunt as well. When I was nine, the family relocated to South Williamstown, MA (in the Hopper) when my father took a job as an industrial development exec. I attended a mixture of public and private schools, and then the University of Mass. in Amherst 1966-1973. [Interesting times] I became involved in the student radio station, was very interested in news and public affairs, became the news director, got a degree in communications studies, media production and political science, and worked my way (slowly) through college by working as an ambulance attendant. My future as the next Walter Cronkite dashed, I made a video on what a good emergency medical services system would look like, became one of the first EMT's in the state, as well as an instructor, and climbed the ladder in that field, eventually becoming published in mass casualty incident management and training, and much more.

I married a trauma nurse (my second wife), had two kids (both elite athletes), edited a 20-chapter introduction to performance psychology for them, and now have three grandkids (two more added through blending). I am retired/disabled.