After graduating form the University of Notre Dame in 1940, Gerald Griffin “Jerry” Hogan entered the U.S. Navy where he served as a carrier-based pilot involved in anti-submarine warfare. Later he ...vizualizați mai multeAfter graduating form the University of Notre Dame in 1940, Gerald Griffin “Jerry” Hogan entered the U.S. Navy where he served as a carrier-based pilot involved in anti-submarine warfare. Later he provided air support to Allied troops during the invasion of Southern France.
After the war, he married and joined his brother-in-law in starting Templegate, a Catholic religious goods store and book publishing business with locations in Springfield, Illinois and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He retired from the business world in 1968, earned a master’s degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh, and taught high school English at Shadyside Academy in Pittsburgh for ten years. He died of lung cancer in 1989.vizualizați mai puține