MacDowell, William

MacDowell joined the Navy after high school instead of taking advantage of a two year scholarship to become a physical education teacher. The major reason for this change from the norm was alcohol. His drinking started at age seventeen and was immediately cast into the role of an alcoholic. Today, he has abstained from alcohol, became an alcohol counselor, facilitates as a volunteer for alcoholics at hospitals and a local jail and has counseled individuals who are DWI/DUI offenders. In 1988 he retired from the Department of Defense where he attained the highest award a civilian employee ca...