Don Girvan

Don Girvan graduated from Georgia State University, where he edited the award-winning Georgia State Signal newspaper during his senior year. He also established a community paper called Plantation Times in Atlanta. After graduation, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant Armor serving as a Tank Platoon Leader, Armored Cavalry Troop Commander, and Aide to the Commanding General U.S. Army Alaska, Information Officer for Yukon Command, publishing the award-winning Yukon Sentinel. His last assignment was Editor of the Bayonet at Fort Benning. He was awarded the Army Commendation Medal and decided, upon leaving the Army as a Captain, that he preferred a career in chemical manufacturing with Celanese Corp. After six jobs with Celanese, he founded ProTeam Products, manufacturing a commercially successful line of swimming pool chemicals in the USA and Europe. He holds five U.S. chemical patents and a number of foreign patents. Don retired, following the acquisition of ProTeam by Haviland Consumer Products, and lives with his wife and best friend, Patty, in a home that they built on the St. Johns River near St. Augustine, Florida.