Category: Fettig, Art

  • Sub for a Pres

    Sub for a Pres

    In 1975 then President of the United States, Gerald Ford had to cancel his speech for the Michigan Petroleum Association’s Annual meeting at the Grand Hotel,  Mackinac Island, Michigan. The Petroleum Association President  called me and hired me to speak as the replacement for President Ford.

  • Serenity

    Serenity

    God Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change those things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. 

  • Easing Into 2020

    Easing Into 2020

    It is just January 2nd as I write this but this is my third day of high productivity. I cheated and started early. First thing I did was weigh myself.

  • Resolutions

    Resolutions

    Here I go again! I don’t know about you but it seems like every year, a few days after Christmas I get all antsy and I feel compelled to write down a whole bunch of impossible resolutions.

  • Art Fettig: Operation Feint

    It was mid October 1952 and I was an officer’s records clerk in the 99th Field Artillery, a private first class on a Landing Ship Troops (LST)  headed towards North Korea. I didn’t even suspect that we were taking part in a big U.N.task force of warships, planes, landing craft and troops making a feint…