James McKernan:  

Life I was an undistinguished student at CD high. Although I loved playing baseball for the varsity team as a pitcher. I later pitched Legion ball and played at Temple on the MAC Championship teams in 68 and 69' I also played for the semi pro Germantown team the Philadelphia Black Bombers-I was i think the only white player-later played with North Phila. Cardinals of the Pen-Del League. The Phillies actually gave me a tryout when i was 15 a sophmore at Dougherty! After graduation from CD High in 63 I joined the US Merchant Marines sailing on freighters and oil tankers and seeing the world. I attended St. Joe's and later Temple graduating in 1969 with a teaching degree. I married my high school sweetheart and first love, Kathleen O Brien also of St Vincent's in Germantown (Little Flower 64') It didn't work out but I love her still. I volunteered for duty in Vietnam with the US Navy and came home in 1971.I served in combat and my crew saved many pilots lives. I went to Grad school in Ireland at the National University of Ireland in Galway where I did research for a Masters Degree on Irish Gypsy education. In 1973 I won a scholarship for PhD studies with a curriculum project on peace and cultural studies education at the Ulster University, Northern I...Expand for more