Thaller, Gary

I was born in Youngstown, Ohio and grew up in a blue collar working class family. My father spent his entire life employed by U.S. Steel Corporation. My mother was a late bloomer who attended college in mid-life and then taught school for 30 years. After graduating from The Ohio State University in 1969, I went to work for the Ohio Youth Commission as a teacher. I taught junior high school in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1972, I went work with my father at US Steel in Youngstown, Ohio where I learned how to work make steel. I affectionately described this period in my life as "my Yale College and my H...