User:Tmcauliffe/sandbox

E. Paul Chaplap E. Paul Charlap was born in Philadelphia PA in 1924. His father was a successful insurance salesman for Sun Life of Canada. His mother ? He attended public schools in Philladelphia, where becasue he was jewish and rascism was prevalant at the time, he had to fight his way home from school most days. He became a Gold Gloves winning boxer as a high school student. He is the older brother of Moose Charlap. He enlisted in the US Army after the attack on Pearl Harbor. There he entered Ranger school because he wanted to do everything he could to end the war as quickly as possible. But he broke his back in training when he fell from a bridge while learning how to wire it for demolition. This ended his military career. He went to ? college where he planned to go into medical school, but realized doctors really didn't know all the answers so he went o business school instead. After the war he sold groceries for a wholsale grocery chain. His friend Max Low brought him on Board Savin Corporation as President when they had secured manufacturing rights to aliquid toner based copier machine. This liquid toner based system was sold as an affordable alternative to the dry toner Xerox copiers so prevalant at the time. He was married 3 times. His first marriage to Corinne "Cookie" lasted 30+ years but ended n divorce. They had two children, Susan and Peter. His 2nd marriage was short lived and also ended in divorce. He married Mary Ann ? in 1984 and they had two daughters. After sucessfully selling the Savin Corp to the Canadian Governement in 1985 he left the company's executive team and ran an independent branch office of thiers in southern Florida. He also was involved in the HEM Corporation, now Hemispherix Corp.