User:Peter Meltzer, Jr.

Peter Meltzer, Jr., is a born-again Christian and a member of the Constitution Party of the United States. Peter was born at Wesson Memorial Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts on June 4, 1952, and is the son of Peter Sherman Meltzer, Sr., born in Springfield April 3, 1920, and Alice (Mary) Lessard Meltzer, born in Laconia, New Hampshire on October 15, 1918. Peter has one brother, Jerry Julius Meltzer, also born in Springfield, January 4, 1956. Peter attended Dorman Elementary School, Margaret C. Elles Elementary School, Marcus Kiley Junior High School, and Classical High School. He played as an outfielder on the Junior Varsity baseball team and was a member of the Boy Scouts, earning the rank of Star Scout and serving as a Patrol Leader and his troop's Assistant Senior Patrol Leader. While in high school, he worked three consecutive jobs as a part-time dishwasher, as a stockboy at a pharmacy, and as an apprentice butcher at meat and vegetable market. He graduate from Classical High School in June, 1970. Peter enrolled as a full-time student at Westfield State College, in Westfield, Massachusetts in the fall of 1970 majoring in Elementary Education, devoting his free time to playing racquetball at the Springfield YMCA and working to pay for his college tuition. During the summer of 1971, following his first year (two semesters) of college, he worked full-time as a general laborer at a construction site for a new apartment complex. He returned to Westfield State College in the fall of 1971 to complete his third semester of studies.