Gerald Roland Messier

Background

Messier, Gerald Roland was born on September 25, 1927 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Armand and Leda (Pelletier) Messier.

Education

Student, New Bedford Institute Technology, 1949-1952, 1957-1958, 61-62; student, Southeastern Massachusetts Technological, 1964-1965; student, Southeastern Massachusetts U., 1964-1965, 1971-1972.

Career

Office manager, Fawcett Mills, Incorporated, New York Bedford, Massachusetts, 1948-1953; supervisor distributor sales department, Continental Screw Company, New Bedford, 1953-1968; supervisor, manager customer sales/service department, Payment Card Industry Group, Incorporated, New York Bedford, 1968-1984; instructor, Greater New Bedford Reg. Vocational Technology H.S., 1985-1986; director civil defense, Office Emergency Management, City of New Bedford, 1986-1989. Retired; genealogy researcher, New Bedford, since 1989.

Achievements

• Gerald Roland Messier has been listed as a noteworthy genealogist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chairman executive committee Emergency Planning on Hazardous Material, New Bedford, 1987-1989. Delegate Democratic City Committee, Ward 1, Massachusetts State Convention, 1984-1987. Chairman New Bedford School Traffic Committee, 1987-1989, New Bedford Exhibition Hall Commission, since 1982.

Co-chairman of Democratic City, Ward 1, 1976-1979. Member Old Dartmouth History Society, since 1976. Board directors New Bedford Industrial Development Commission, 1976-1982, Foreign Trade Zone Corporation, 1978-1981.

Executive board Moby Dick council Boy Scouts American, also chairman public, 1975-1979, chairman of Cranberry Festival, 1975, 76. Chairman Publicity and Master of Ceremonies of the New Bedford Town Meeting, 1976, chairman Bicentennial Committee for Independence Day Celeb., July 4-5, 1976. Chairman Concerned Citizens and Taxpayers Association, Homeowners Grp., 1975-1976.

Chairman Petition Drive for the location of John F Kennedy Library in Southeastern Massachusetts University, 1975. Advisory, Junior Achievement, 1970, 71, chosen to represent Massachusetts as on of the fifty Directors of Emerg. Management, 1989, numerous others.

With C.E., United States Army. Member American-French Genealogical Society, since 1983. American Association Retired Persons, since 1982.

American Legion (board directors), post 459, since 1975.

Interests

• Avocations: photography, reading, jazz, travel, playing clarinet and tenor sax.

Connections

Married Doris May Pelletier, April 19, 1951. Children: Thomas Jerome, Kathleen Marie, Karen Anne.

Father:

George Armand Messier

Mother:

Leda (Pelletier) Messier

Spouse:

Doris May Pelletier

child:

Karen Anne Messier

child:

Kathleen Marie Messier

child:

Thomas Jerome Messier