Harold Kachel 02/01/2012

Harold Kachel was born in 1928 in a sod house south of Beaver, Oklahoma. He began his education at a one-room school called Possum Trot and transferred to Balko School in the second grade. In 1942, the year Balko High School disbanded, he graduated from the eighth grade. He then went Beaver High School, where he graduated in 1946. After high school he served in the Air Force and spent 1947 to 1949 overseas in Japan working with the Air Transport Command Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron. When he returned, he took advantage of the GI Bill and earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial arts technology from Panhandle State University in 1952.