[Granville-Hough] 19 Mar 2009 - Granville Hough's background

[Trustees and Executors for Granville W. Hough]

	I have been asked a few times about my background; I suppose by people
who stereotype me by my accent as just an ignorant Southern hillbilly.
   I admit that, in most subjects, that would be accurate enough; but a
few months ago I was asked to develop a background for comparative
purposes.  I did not get any more questions, so here is what I wrote in
the third person.

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Professor Granville W. HoughÂ’'s Background.

  Granville W. Hough of Laguna Woods, CA, is Professor Emeritus,
California State University, Fullerton, and a retired Lieutenant
Colonel, Regular Army.  He has been an amateur genealogist and historian
for forty-five years, with more than twenty-five books to his credit,
including eight written with his daughter, N. C. Hough, on Spanish
soldiers of the Borderlands who served during the time of the American
Revolutionary War.  Listings of these books may be viewed on the web
site for the Library of Congress or on the web site of the Family
History Center at Salt Lake City.

  Granville was a student at Mississippi State University in Nov 1942
when he joined the Army Enlisted Reserve.  He was soon on active duty as
an infantryman, but he was appointed to the United States Military
Academy at West Point and joined the class there in Jul 1943, graduating
in Jun 1946 with a BS in Military Art and Engineering.  He served in the
Regular Army as an artilleryman, intelligence analyst, and general staff
officer until Jan 1969, concentrating on Cold War and technical
intelligence research.  After graduating from the Command and General
Staff College in Fort Leavenworth in 1959, he was assigned to the
Pentagon, where he was able to begin his weekend hobby of genealogical
and historical research in the Library of Congress and the National
Archives.  In subsequent assignments, Granville also graduated from the
Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Air War College.

  The Army had constantly changing needs for people with higher education
skills during the Cold War.  Responding to those needs, Granville gained
a MasterÂ’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from USC in 1955, a MasterÂ’s
degree in Business Administration from George Washington University in
1965, and a PhD in Public Administration from American University in
1971 (after retirement.) Also after retirement, he was able to get a
license as a Registered Professional Engineer.

  From 1969 through Spring, 1992, Granville taught business management at
California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), serving three years of
that time as Management Department
Chairman.  His specialty in teaching was Project Management.

  In 1991, Granville joined the National Society, Sons of the American
Revolution.  His research experience has indicated to him that much of
the history of the American Revolution is incomplete and misleading.  He
strongly believes that the NSSAR, and other patriotic organizations,
should be at the forefront of revising the history we teach our children
about our country and those who have worked with us as allies,
co-belligerents, and even as enemies.