E John Gesick Jr9781944891015 Historic Guadalupe County - An Illustrated History AUTOBIOGRAPHY - JOHN GESICK Edward J. Gesick, Jr. (John) was born on March 16th, 1943, in Washington, D.C. at Women's Hospital. His father, Edward J.Gesick, was on the General Staff during World War II and John's mother, Polly, worked in the FBI. John and his younger brother, Bill, were raised in San Antonio. He graduated from Alamo Heights High School in 1961, and in 1965 from Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville) with a BA in History and Spanish. He later completed his graduate studies at Boston University. John served in the Army as a Special Forces Officer assigned to several "A" Teams and later in the Intelligence field throughout world. He returned to Seguin in 1979 where he taught Composite Social Studies and introduced several new courses while at Seguin High School. John was also a founder of Academic Decathlon and Chaired the University Interscholastic League Academic Program at Seguin High School. He was an Adjunct Professor at Texas Lutheran College, later Texas Lutheran University, teaching World and American History as well as Texas and the Borderlands. He also taught in the Sociology Department where he introduced Native Peoples of the Southwest and an Introductory course in Anthropology. John served on several committees and team taught a number of Global Perspective Classes. He was active in the Seguin Community where he was President of the Noon Rotary Club, Vice President of the Seguin Conservation Society, Chairman of the Guadalupe County Historical Commission, a member of the Faith Lutheran Church Council, a long time Board Member of Seguin Youth Services, and gave many talks throughout Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas, and Mexico. He wrote more than several books, presented many academic papers at local, state, national and international conferences, and published numerous papers in academic journals and magazines. He has four beautiful and successful children and has been blessed with nine grandchildren. Read More Read Less