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Bill Borough

  • Age: 82
  • Gender: Male
  • Astrological Sign: Leo
  • Zodiac Year: Ox
  • Industry: Automotive : Aerospace : Art
  • Occupation: Chemist
  • Location: Deerfield Beach : Florida : United States
  • Posted: 08-08-2007

Bill Borough was born, raised, and worked in South Bend, Indiana. His mother, Doctor Lova May Borough, and father Doctor Samuel Borough, were both Osteopathic physicians. He had two older brothers. Dr Lester D Borough a neuropsychiatrist, now diseased and Dr Paul L Borough, a dentist. Paul is 86 years old and lives in Fort Meyers, FL. The family spent there summers at Diamond Lake, Cassopolis, Michigan . Here he learned to sail with his brothers and has been sailing ever since. See His Sailboats .

At Central High School he took science courses and was a breast stroke swimmer on the swimming team. His senior year, 1943, he won first place in breast stroke at the state championship at Purdue University.

In October 1943 he drafted into the US Navy at the Great Lakes Navel Training Center and completed a service school for Electricians Mate. In the spring of 1944 he was sent to the Brookland Navy Yard in NYC for Gyro Compass School. In the fall of 1944 he was sent to Small Craft School at Miami Florida for more training. and was an Electricians Mate 3rd class on the USS PGM 31. Bill has a website devoted to his ship. Please check it out here. For a good discription of the Battle of Okinawa, which was where Bill ended up, click here

After the war he attended Kalamazoo Collage and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Physics and Art.

He worked for The Bendix Corporation in South Bend as a Senior Chemist in the Metallurgical Lab which served both the Automotive Division and the Aerospace Division.

In 1969 he was transferred to the Bendix Launch Support Division at NASA Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida. He worked the for Apollo Mission as a Corrosion Engineer.

In 1978 he retired from Bendix, sold his sailboat business, and moved his family to Deerfield Beach, Florida. and worked as an artist and entered major SE Florida art festivals from 1982 to 1998. Beginning as a marine painter, he then focused on homes of Key West as subject matter. To the right is one of his watercolor paintings of a cigar makers cottage in Key West. He has a selling site at www.keywestwatercolors.com . Please check it out!!

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