Mascianica, Francis oral history interview

Francis Mascianica was born in 1918 and grew up in Massachusetts, graduating from Everett High School as a track star in 1936. He attended Northeastern University and worked his way through with a job at the Buck Printing Company. Francis then went to the U.S. Naval Academy where he met Ed Muskie and they graduated on January 5, 1943. They both ended up going to Penn State taking the same train and diesel engineering course to prepare for serving on a destroyer. They were roommates at the Nittany Lion Inn. After that, they went off separately to fight in the war. Later, Mascianica worked on research and development for the Watertown National Laboratories in Watertown, Massachusetts