Background
III, Denver Thomas Dale was born on July 30, 1931 in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Son of Denver Thomas Junior and Ethel Helen (Squire) D.
III, Denver Thomas Dale was born on July 30, 1931 in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Son of Denver Thomas Junior and Ethel Helen (Squire) D.
Student, Virginia Military Institute, 1948—1952. Bachelor, San Francisco State University, 1959. Master of Science, Central Connecticut State University, 1969.
Enlisted United States Marine Corps, 1952, advanced through grades to lieutenant colonel, 1975. Commanding officer Company K., 3d Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, 1961—1962. Manpower management officer 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Iwakuni, Japan and Danang, Vietnam, 1964—1965.
Executive officer, commanding officer 3d Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Ana Hoa, Vietnam, 1969—1970. Head officer force management unit Headquarters United States Marine Corps, Washington, 1971—1973. Executive officer, commanding officer, associate professor naval science Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Unit, Rice University, Houston, 1973—1975.
Retired, 1975; project manager Telemedia, Inc., Teheran, Iran, 1978. Senior marine instructor Marine Corps junior Reserve Officers Training Corps unit Portage (Indiana) High School, 1979—1981, North High School, Bakersfield, California, 1981—1992, chairman department military science, 1981—1992, varsity boys tennis coach, 1983—1986. Principal speaker at numerous civic, fraternity, veterans, high school and college groups, from 1965.
Assistant scoutmaster Boy Scouts American, 1970—1973. Member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Marine Corps Association, Virginia Military Institute Alumni Association, Masons.
Married Elizabeth Ann Donleavy, November 17, 1956 (divorced October 1978). Married Peggy Frances Altice, November 19, 1982. Children: Denver Thomas IV, Matthew J., Jeffrey North.