About Me
My name is T. R. Peters, Sr., I was born on November 14th 1929 in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Norman Addison Peters and Eleanor Sneider Mattice Peters, she was born in 1905 and is now 103 years old, I attended Barbour Hall Military Academy near Kalamazoo, Michigan where I excelled at Marching, Sports & ignoring authority, I graduated from Saint Anthony High School in Detroit, Michigan where I led the football team to 9 victories and 1 loss my Senior Year, we attended the Goodfellow's Fund Annual Play-off game where the Catholic Champs (us) played the Public School Champs but we failed to achieve victory. I attended Hillsdale College where I was an ATO and played on the Football Team, everybody called me TP and I won an award for excellence in Writing (though my classmates didn't know I could read) and many years later I was awarded the only Alumni Achievement Award for excellence in the field of Literature. I wrote 4 books "The Education of Tom Weber" Exposition Press, "Two Weeks in the Forties" Xpress Way Press (optioned for a movie) "Into the Emerald City with Gangster Sunglasses" and "Van Gogh Portfolio & other poems" which no copies exist. I married Lillian Joanne Tremonti and have three children Jennifer Leigh Hartman (bad girl), Thomas Robert Peters, Jr. and Sarah Jeanne Peters, I have one granddaughter Caroline Leigh Hartman (hello cookie!) I worked for Wilbur Wright High School, Denby High School, Grosse Pointe South High School, Macomb, Henry Ford Center for Creative Studies, Stroh Brewery, Blue Cross & the Detroit Free Press where I invented the Newspaper in the Classroom Program. I had work published In IN THIS CORNER magazine, Woodward Magazine, BOMBAY GIN, The Detroit Free Press, the Detroit News, The Grosse Pointe News, Vital Speeches of our day Magazine and came in second in many contests including The naming of the REN CEN, which I suggested The International Center & count as one of my accomplishments the naming of the Supremes who were The Primettes when I met Diana Ross....
