Army Signal Corps Officer Murray Hannah

Dinner Speaker for July 22, 2010

* Born Nov 12, 1917 in San Francisco
* Lived on a farm in the Sacramento Valley until 1925 when the family returned to San Francisco.
* Grew up in the Sunset District of SF
* Attended grade school and Polytechnic High School, and the very first year of SF City College (then called SF Junior College) in 1935/1936
* Worked a year to earn enough for the Sophomore year at UC Berkeley
* Worked a year at a Division of General Motors to enter the Junior year at UC
* In the Fall of 1939 the Company made provision for him to work half time (20 hours/week) through Junior and half Senior year, during which he took a full course with a math and physics major
* After the first half of the Senior year, in the Fall of 1940, an opportunity opened at GM for a full time job
* The college years had already been so interrupted, he decided he would complete the last semester later. As it turned out, it was much later, after the war in 1946!
* The story of the war's beginning, army career, and involvment with Seaborne Communications, you will hear on July 22nd.