Beacon, Elad

The author's namesake comes from a long line of American patriots. His forefathers, the Goodenowe family, sailed in 1638 upon the good ship CONFIDENCE of London, to the shores of Cape Cod, settling in Barnstable, MA in 1639. One early ancestor on these shores, by marriage to either Jane or Lydia Goodenowe, was Gov. William Bradford. A later ancestor, Captain Phineas Beardsley, fought in the Revolutionary War. The author, a graduate of a Western university, received his Bachelors in Business Administration, 1975, and his Masters of Public Administration, 1981. He worked until retirement in both...