Ed MacCormack - A Life Well Lived

About the Book

Ed MacCormack - A Life Well Lived A Life Well Lived is a factual odyssey of a person born during the Depression years as a first generation immigrant and the type of life’s experience in those days. His early schooling at a parochial grammar and high school the devastating 1938 Hurricane, early sports, the disastrous Cocoanut Grove fire, the difficulties of WW II rationing, service during the Korean War, entrance into the State Police with numerous situations of sometimes hilarious incidents in the law enforcement profession as well as Marriage and raising a family, purchasing and updating the first home, furthering education goals, and ensuring the children´s education. The author retired at age 46 to a second career as a Nuclear Security Specialist for Boston Edison Co., took up learning the bagpipe, and played with a pipe band. He also became a watercolorist. In 1991, he filed suit against the Company for age discrimination. He retired again in 1994, and is enjoying life at eighty years.

About the Author

Edward MacCormack was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1930, as a first generation immigrant of Scottish-Canadian parents. He lived in a three family house during the Depression, attended parochial grammar and high school, served during the Korean War, and joined the State Police in 1954. He had a well-rounded career, and achieved the rank of Captain before his retirement. He married his childhood sweetheart and raised four children in a Cape Cod style home in Weymouth, Mass. He graduated from University of Massachusetts, with a Major in English in 1972, and achieved a Masters in Public Administration from Northeastern in 1974. He joined Boston Edison as a Nuclear Security Specialist in 1976 and retired in 1994. He and his wife sing in the church choir and enjoy the company of children and grandchildren in retirement.