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Dr. Sam Armato
My career has educated me on the vastness of our country. I started out in Brooklyn, N.Y. where I attended elementary and high school. I was drafted into the U.S.Army in 1944 and spent two years in...view moreMy career has educated me on the vastness of our country. I started out in Brooklyn, N.Y. where I attended elementary and high school. I was drafted into the U.S.Army in 1944 and spent two years in various army bases as well as in Germany.
After being discharged I went to Columbia University under the G.I.Bill of Rights, received a Batchelor’s and Master’s degree there and then went to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln where I taught for three years.
I then went to the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana where I received my Ph.D.
I was recruited by USC in Los Angeles to teach in the Comparative Literature and English Department and taught there since 1964. I lived in Manhattan Beach, CA. during that time and still reside there with my wife in close proximity to my three children all of whom have distinguished themselves in their respective fields of endeavor.
My son Leonard is a brilliant lawyer and a Sports Attorney who has cultivated the image of Shaquille O’Neal into a multi-dimensional national personality. He was Shaquille’s manager for many years. Other clients include Ronnie Lott, Oscar De La Hoya, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. My son John Peter Armato is a distinguished Internist and is among the most important authorities on diabetes, its prevention and its cure. My daughter Antonina is a song writer producer who has written :chart” songs for Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez as well as Mariah Carey. My wife Nancy is an outstanding Real Estate Broker who knows the South Bay and Los Angeles in general better than anyone. We all live in Manhattan Beach, CA.
Thus I have completed a continental pilgrimage from N.Y.C. to the Midwest and finally to California on the West Coast.
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