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| Name | Wayne Bastedo |
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Hendersonville, North Carolina , United States |
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| Contributor | U Ole Polecat |
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| Info | Wayne was raised in the (then) small rural Long Island town of Stony Brook, a suburb some sixty miles from New York City. He attended Princeton University on a U.S. Navy ROTC scholarship, graduating Magna Cum Laude in Politics, while working in post offices & as a janitor during vacations.
Wayne then served five years on active duty as a junior officer in the Navy, including additional training and about three years--with two Vietnam deployments--in secret communications aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, the first atomic-powered aircraft carrier. Wayne notes that, although on such a powerful ship in the Gulf of Tonkin, he was never really in danger, it was still the most hectic experience of his life, and that technically the U.S. government considers him a Vietnam War veteran. He spent his last year as the Administration Officer at the Concord Naval Weapons Station in California, earning a private pilot's license on the side.
After the Navy, Wayne attended the School of Law at Hofstra University on Long Island, where he earned a J.D., while assisting with the family gem and mineral shop. He then worked as an editor at the New York Law Journal--the official daily judicial record for the NYC metropolitan area--and passed the NYS bar, while living in Greenwich Village & elsewhere in Manhattan.
Wayne went on to work for the General Counsel's Office of the Western Union Corporation in northern New Jersey for 13 years, becoming Associate Counsel. Matters he handled there included the sale of Western Union's WESTAR satellites, and a contest with Universal Studios over the rights to using Western Union trademarks in the films "Back to the Future, Part 2" and "Part 3." While there, he also earned an LL.M. graduate law degree at the New York University School of Law in NYC, studying advanced corporate law subjects part-time. He was downsized at Western Union during a major restructuring of the corporation.
Wayne moved to Hendersonville in 1997 to join his parents (who had retired here in 1985) and his brother. Now semi-retired himself, Wayne is employed part-time at the Four Seasons Cinemas in Hendersonville.
Wayne has considered himself a Democrat ever since he was eligible to vote, & has been active in local Democratic Party poli-tics. He has worked in both large government & corporate institu-tions, & small companies, & thus has seen many sides of society from the inside out. Having been downsized, unemployed & underemployed--at one point even working as a NYC taxi driver, & at times without medical insurance--Wayne can relate to working folks in Henderson County who have lost their jobs and benefits. / *** Wayne can also empathize with those in our community who have faced discrimination. He is a descendant of one of the few Hispanic families in this country that can still trace their coming to the American Colonies to before 1700. The family was thus a minority in America for over 300 years, though Wayne's great-great-great-great grandfather William Bastedo fought with George Washington's forces against the British in the New Jersey & Pennsylvania state militias during America's Revolutionary War. / *** Wayne was raised in the Methodist Church, & now regards himself as a non-denominational Protestant, prizing his spiritual grounding & valuing true Christian principles of concern for one's fellow man. He is divorced and has no children.
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