Two Trees of Destiny

Louis K. Keroack, born and reared in Berlin, New Hampshire, in the Androscoggin Valley, attended local schools, worked as a machinist, earned his pilots license through CA P, then, in 1942, joined the Army Air Force, in which he served for four years as an electrical specialist and as a glider pilot. After the war he took his B.S. in mechanical engineering at the University of New Hampshire, Maine, and California. Becoming interested in education and philosophy, he attended Boston State College at night, and received his M.S. in education meanwhile working at Wentworth Institute as an associate professor, teaching machine and tool design, kinematics and drafting. Illness in the family took him back to northern New Hampshire, where he taught mathematics and science in a rural school. Presently he is an associate professor in a junior college. Always sports-minded he had been a member of hockey, baseball, and ski teams at school he numbers skiing and golf among his hobbies, which also include hunting, trapping, and the lapidary art. His travels have been extensive in this country, Canada, and Europe, and he has also visited Mexico and Bermuda.