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Tim Addington, GM3
to remember
McConnell, John Henderson, FC3c.
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Other Memories He finished his Navy hitch playing football for a service team in Hawaii. He was the only noncollegian. He was home by Christmas 1945 and enrolled at Michigan State University under the GI Bill. He played football for the Spartans. By this time, he was married to Margaret, who taught English and drama at a local school in the Lansing area.
McConnell spent his nights working at an Oldsmobile axel plant, where his business ideas began to foment.