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Glenn H. Whittaker, jr.’s completed works as of 6 August 2007

US ARMY Active Duty Feb 1968 – Dec 1971 Honorable Personnel Specialist 5^th

SIUE – Sep 1970 – Dec 1977 Bachelor Science Degree in Economics

Personal Photo December 2006 photo

USA Copyright Office data Copyrights

Mini Autobiography autobio

Personal thoughts personal_thoughts

FICTION BOOK Legal Numbers Date

Visions in Glenn (Book1,2,3, & stage plays) TX u 1-552-271 21Janu 1993

Sunset Grill, Concrete Path, Farm Hands Time Enough Vau 296-742 10Feb1995

Peace Pipe, H.Ford TX u 845-776 27April1998

TG 7L (Terror Group) Vau 470-996 7 Sept 1999

FICTION STORIES PAGES DATE WHEN FINISHED

DREAM WORLD . . . . . . . . .. 7 Fall 1976

SUMMER 1918 . . . . . . . . 7 Fall 1976

SOAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Spring 1978

SIR IRIN. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Spring 1978

DRAGON'S INN . . . . . . . . 3 Spring 1978

A DEED . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Spring 1978

THE CONTRIVED . . . . . . . .. 2 Summer 1978

DRIVIN' DEAD . . . . . . . . . 4 Summer 1978

BLOP BOP BOPPY . . . . . . . 2 September 1978

LOVE'S HUES . . . . . . . . . 3 Fall 1978

GEORGA ANN . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fall 1979

COWBOYS . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 August 1979

CHICG . . . . . . . . . . . 1 April 1980

THE RACE . . . . . . . . . . 4 Spring 1980

SAMMY, BOUND-FOR-THE-CITY . .30 Fall 1980

THE GADGET . . . . . . . . . 3 August 1980

ANDROIDS . . . . . . . . . . 16 Fall 1980

(a stage play)

STOLEN STONES . . . . . . . . 16 March 1983

WAITIN' . . . . . . . . . . . 3 August 1983

CORNER CHARACTERS . . . . . . 29 Fall 1983

(17 story treatments)

PAINT IT BLACK . . . . . . 30 October 1983

(teleplay – animation cartoon)

FRENCH TRIANGLE . . . . . . . 27 January 1984

THE LOVE TREE . . . . . . . .. 4 March 1985

THE ROYALE ROAD . . . . . . . 27 March 1985

THE MAGNET . . . . . . . . . 27 February 1987

TUNNEL OF LOVE . . . . . . .100 Winter 1987

(a stage play)

WHITTLE WHAT. . . . . . . . . 3 November 1988

THE WHISTLE STOP . . . . . . 32 Fall 1989

DESTINY . . . . . . . . . . 4 September 1990

PINOCCHIO'S WIFE. . . . . . . 19 Fall 1990

A BOY'S MAP .. . . . . . . . 6 Spring 1991

ONE EVENING WITH SNOW . . . . 13 Summer 1991

THE CONCRETE PATH . . . . . . 2 October 1992

SANTA'S SEWER . . . . . . . . 7 December 1992

SUNSET GRILL . . . . . . . . .70 October 1993

TIME ENOUGH . . . . . . . . . 4 January 1994

THE FARM HANDS . . . . . . . . 9 September 1994

H. FORD . . . . . . . . . . . 19 September 1996

PEACE PIPE . . . . . . . . . 12 December 1996

TERRORIST GROUP 7/L . . . . .140 July 98-Feb 2002

THE BUNNY MOVIE . . . . . . . 23 March 2002

A BAKER’S DOZEN . . . . . . . 53 July 2005

MARTIANS IN MARS . . . . . . 91 September 2005

BOARD GAMES

Full House (final prototype –sells attempted) Vau 248-157 28 Dec 1992

Glenn’s Golf (8 hole golf course drawings) Vau 328-674 30Janu1995

Glenn’s Golf (final prototype – sells attempted) Vau 295-243 1 Feb 1995

Cops and Robbers (final prototype – sells attempted) Vau 359-556 16Janu 1996

Border Patrol (final prototype (sells attempted) Vau 384-727 9Dec 1996

Destiny (rough draft) Vau 388-268 2 Dec 1996

Roll and Move (final prototype-sells attempted) Vau 411-244 8Sept 1997

Get & Give (rough draft) Txu 623-635 3March1999

BID and BUY (rough draft 05Apr05) submitted July 2006

INVENTIONS

The Magnet Engine (technical drawing) Vau 244-416 21 January 1993

Key to Nowhere (jewelry design & text) Vau 366-060 29 Apr 1996

BUSINESS FOUNDED

Whittaker-Publishing, Inc. May 1998 - May 2005

Web Page created for fiction stories sale on Internet

Family Board game sales attempts with national retailers

STAGE PLAYS

Androids (stage play in Book III) Fall 1980

Paint it Black (teleplay in Book I) October 1983

Tunnel of Love (stage play in Book III) TX u 1-552-271 21 January1993

The Seven Dwarfs (stage play ) Summer 2002

MOVIE SCRIPTS

The Easter Bunny Movie (original script) TX u 1-038-863 12March2002

The Sunset Grill Café (from Whistle Stop) TX u 1-051-906 21 Aug2002

Snow White (Seven Dwarfs) (from Snow, True Story TX u 1-072-625 30Aug2002

Pinocchio’s Wife (from Pinocchio’s Wife) TX u 1-067-672 17 Dec 2002

The Third Grade (from The Third Grade) TX u 1-074-553 17Janu2003

The Magnet (from the Magnet U.C.U) TX u 1-094-580 31Janu2003

H. Ford (from H.Ford story) TX u 1-114-024 6Feb2003

A Deed –short script (from A Deed story) TX u 1-086-559 28Feb2003

Utopia 666 or Terror Group 7L (from TG 7L) TX u 1-087-738 7March2003

The Bell Towers (from The French Triangle UCU) TX u 1-202-894 27Oct2004

Sammy, the mouse (from Sammy Bound for City) TX u 1-208-473 3Nov 2004

A Baker’s Dozen (original script) TX u 1-249-012 26July2005

Martians in Mars (original script) TX u 1-259-100 7 Sept2005

VIDEO MOVIE

T.O.L. 2hours cartoon (from Tunnel of Love) PAu 2-482-268 14March2000

BUILD HOUSE August 1999 - December 2000

Designed blue prints, was Contractor, Electrical, Plummer, Installer flooring, cabinets, doors, vinyl siding and brick siding, Painter; all finishing work basement and attic

Built entire garage and remodeled work sheds Spring and Summer 2002

Clean up and remodel basement after major fireplace fire January - July 2004

Mix and pour cement driveway hill of 50’ x 10’ Fall 2006

Level hill behind house for deck; concrete blocks mortar 25’x 7’ Spring 2007

COLORING BOOKS

Corner Characters Coloring Book, part 1 (4 short stories) TX u 1 –211-112 15Nov2004

Corner Characters Coloring Book part 2 (5 short stories) TX u 1-207-108 2March 2005

The Library of Congress Copyright Office, 101 Independence Ave. S.E.

Washington, D. C. 20559-6000

Projects need Planning illustrations 23

Telling where Going illustrations 16

Asking for Help illustrations 20

Giving the Right Help illustrations 19

Putting things Away illustrations 16

Property Respect illustrations 23

Save Some for Tomorrow illustrations 15

PHOTO JOURNAL

Accomplishments, travels during 2006,my 60^th year. Photos & comments June 2007

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

24 February 1946

On this date Damaris Jane (Childres) Whittaker gave birth to her first-born child, a son. It was a cold Sunday afternoon and the small hospital was packed with patients. All the rooms were full and Damaris’ gurney was pushed into a linen closet and forgotten. It was there that she gave a painful birth to the boy she named Glenn Harding Whittaker, jr. as that was that generation’s family tradition, naming the first born after the father.

Glenn jr. spent his first two years in a small rent house directly across from Granite City Steel Mill. His tiny lunges toughened by the pollution, he had no difficulty adapting to the rural air some 15 miles away after his grandmother generously gave his parents enough cash to buy land where they built a small house.

For Glenn jr.’s third Christmas present his grandmother gave him a very tiny child’s piano. He sat down and played music, which surprised his parents. Frightened by his performance they destroyed the piano. He would not play the piano again until age 25.

During the warm days Glenn jr. age 4-5, would wander alone all day through the woods behind his parents’ house. Often the neighbors on the far side of the woods would have to drive Glenn jr. back to his parents at dusk. His love of wandering and exploring would take him to many places on the planet throughout his life.

When Glenn jr. was five he met his first alien explorers (in a dream), learning that they traveled the star system by “riding” on sun light. That experience would not make sense to him until he became an adult and learned about space travel from the television.

When Glenn jr. was five his parents tore down their first structure and built a nice new ranch style with room enough for two more children to be raised in.

At five and a half, Glenn jr.’s mother drove him into the city to attend kindergarten school. There he learned how to sit at a hard wooden desk and be quiet for fours hours each day. Glenn jr. met a cute female from the city and fell in love for the first time, but his mom’s car broke so he could no longer attend school.

The next year Glenn jr. was enrolled in the small village grade school near his home and was transported there by the public school bus system. Glenn jr. never saw his first childhood sweetheart again; and the pattern of falling in love and then being separated forever would follow Glenn jr. his entire life.

Glenn jr.’s first day at the grade school still haunts him. During recess he and a girl he was talking to were pinned into a corner of the building. They were crushed together by a group of twenty children, as was the custom initiation of the coal mining village children. Glenn jr. and the girl were saved from smothering only by their sheer will power (and screams) over the group.

At the village grade school Glenn jr. learned about peer violence through a recess game called Slaughter. One person would have the playground ball and run and dodge all the other kids so to keep the ball as long as possible. All the kids would grab and kick and tackle the person with the ball so to get it away from them. There were no teams, it was the person with the ball against all the other kids; the purpose of the game was just to keep the ball as long as possible. This “me against the world” notion instilled by the recess game would guide Glenn jr. through out his life, often saving him from harmful situations, but always causing him to be ever alone.

The village grade school teachers’ main method of instruction was a constant emphasis on memorization through repetitive written and mental problems. This teaching method caused Glenn jr.’s memory to grow and expand so that he only learned enough by memorization to pass tests. And he did not grasp the usefulness of learning until his adulthood, where poverty forced him to learn how to do and repair, create and improvise and be self-reliant.

Glenn jr. learned about bullies in grade school. One boy in particular harassed and intimated other smaller boys and girls to get their food and money. One day that boy chased Glenn jr. and his younger brother as they walked home from the village Sunday School. At the crest of the village’s hill the bully forced him into a fistfight. After a few punches the bully ran home crying and never bothered Glenn jr. or his brother again.

Glenn jr. had to wear eye glasses from the third grade on and learned how easily they got broken and how expensive they were and how his eyes could be damaged by the glasses in a fight, so he spent his life learning how to avoid fight situations, how to use humor, logic and compromise. But when pushed into a corner by a bully, Glenn jr. always fought back and won the few fistfights he was forced into.

In high school Glenn jr. learned about girls, about lust and of sexual frustrations. He learned it was easier to avoid being around girls until he owned his own car. But Glenn jr. did not learn about a career in high school, he just memorized information and passed tests.

Like most young people without a set goal and method to attain it, Glenn jr. tried many low pay, low skill activities, until deciding to learn electronics repair, which led to a year’s formal education. But lust and love replaced school with the need for income to support a marriage.

The Vietnam conflict took most of Glenn jr. peers into the armed services to protect the Homeland from the spreading hordes of Communism, and so too Glenn jr. The Army taught him the discipline of staying on task and doing what told or go to jail or to the dieing frontlines where 50,000 of his peers killed and were killed. During his service in Personnel he realized the main difference in wages was because the officers had gone to college. Upon completion of his military contract he entered his local State University on the GI Bill. During these college years many traumatic experiences occurred between he and his wife: children born, parents died –and sex, drugs and rock & roll.

During his study of the efficient use of resources, materials and people called Economics, two of that department’s Professors encouraged Glenn jr. to specialize. He excelled in these classes. Upon his B.S. graduation from the University, Glenn jr. was compelled to take the first employment opportunity to support his young family. But the Muse led him to fiction writing, wench he followed, taking only part-time positions for sustenance: military, judicial, education, landscaping.

PERSONAL THOUGHTS FROM THE AUTHOR

I am the product of America, a 1946 baby-boomer; educated by television, exercised by rock and roll, and schooled in Business Economics and Secondary Education. I've loved, I've cried. I've born children; I've buried parents.

I am the result of the American dream. Having begun work at the bottom, I rose to the top rung in twenty years: lawn mower, car washer, bullet maker, soda jerk, factory floor sweeper and machine operator and inspector, mail deliver, electronic repairman, insurance agent and salesman, military personnel clerk, mimeograph operator, parking lot attendant, management trainee, auto body repairman, criminal courtroom clerk, chainsaw lumberjack, substitute teacher and family board game inventor.

During the next twenty years I wrote a very lengthy autobiography and a thousand pages of fiction works: short stories, fables and parables, stage and screen plays. Submitted within is a collection of these offbeat, unusual glimpses of the human. These vibrant reflections were meant to be stranger than truth. Often ironic, these works have taken many laborious hours and were perfected to amuse and delight.

From August 1999 through October 2000 I built a house. Professional crews were hired to pour the concrete, frame the house installing windows, put up the sheet-rock walls and apply joint compound. Having a tight budget, I did: all the electrical installation; pumping installation; sanded and painted the walls; laid down the flooring; hung the inside doors; installed the cabinets; put up the vinyl siding; 3000 bricks cemented around the basement walls. During 2001 I made the basement into finished rooms, doing all the work. Then I made the attic into two finished rooms. During April and May 2002 I built an attached garage with large workroom onto the back of the house.

I mention my work experiences to prove that my following opinion is based on first hand knowledge. The most difficult jobs are: 1 - sanding joint compound; 2 - hammering shingles onto a roof. The most dangerous job is: cutting trees with a chainsaw. The most tedious jobs: 1 - autobody repairs; 2 - painting walls; 3 - brick & mortar. The most wear and tear on the body is: 1 - sitting and typing all day. The most stressful jobs are: 1 - war; 2 - police work; 3 - driving.

Life long hobbies: shooting pool; playing music; driving vacations.

My greatest regret: separation from my family.

My greatest joy: being in love.

11 May 2002, that's all folks. glenn H. Whittaker, jr.

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