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Just like most American families, we Malicoats have busy and demanding lives. This page is our attempt to take a pause in the action and reflect on just how we arrived at this place in time. We are purposely brief, and provide dates and places only as signposts to help our visitors better determine if we have ever been in contact. Please click here for a reverse chronology.

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August 4th, 1947 - Dave was born in Indianapolis, Indiana at the St. Vincents Hospital to Marjorie and Wendell Mallicoat.

November 29th, 1947 - Diana was born in Indianapolis, Indiana at Methodist Hospital to Joe and Loraine Moze.
1947 - 1953 Dave lives with his parents at his grandparents bungalow house on Banner Avenue, just off Hwy 40 in western Marion county. Diana lives with her parents at her dad's parents house on Holmes Avenue just off 10th Street on the west side of Indianapolis.
1953 - 1955 Dave moves with parents to Edgemont Avenue in northwest side of Indianapolis off 16th Street and near Victory Field, starts school at IPS #44. Mrs McDowell is his first grade teacher. Diana moves with parents to Lockerby Street off Michigan Street on the west side of Indianapolis, starts school at Holy Trinity.
1955 - 1960 Dave moves with parents to New Haven Drive just off Hwy 40 on the far west side of Marion County in the town of Bridgeport. Diana moves with parents to Dunk Drive just off Georgetown Road in Eagledale.
1961 Dave starts junior high school and is in the first 9th grade class of the new Fulton Junior HS. Diana starts high school as a freshman at Washington HS.
1962 Dave starts sophomore year at the old Ben Davis HS on High School Road in Ben Davis.
1963 Diana reluctantly transfers from Washington HS to the new Northwest HS on 34th St.
1964 Dave meets Diana on a blind date. They go to a drive- in theater and see "".
1965 Dave graduates from Ben Davis HS and Diana graduates from Northwest HS. They attend proms senior roms of both schools. Dave starts classes at IUPUI at 38th Street Campus in freshman engineering. Diana starts job with Midland Guardian Finance Co. at 34th and Lafayette Road.
1966 Dave drops out of IUPUI and gets a job as an engineering draftsman at Public Service Indiana. Diana's grandfather, Guy Aigner helps him to get the break. Dave and Diana are engaged to be married.
1967 Dave and Diana are married on May 13th in the Ben Davis Christian Church by Reverend Norris. Dave enlists in the Army and must report for basic training on June 1st. Before he leaves, the newlyweds take a honeymoon in Sarasota, FL on Lido Key.
1967 Dave reports to Ft Campbell, KY for basic training. Eight weeks later, he is reassigned to Ft. Bliss, TX for advanced training as a Nike Hercules fire control crewman. After a short leave at home, he reports to Ft. Bliss on August 3rd. After one month of training in the desert, Dave applies for and is granted permission to live off base with his new wife. Diana travels to El Paso with her father Joe Moze in her '59 Chevy convertible. Joe manages to cram everything they own in the back seat and trunk.
1967 Dave and Diana live in El Paso for one month. During the little time Dave has off, they have fun in Juarez. In early September, Dave and Diana pack all of their belonging in a U-Haul and travel to big LA, CA. Dave's first permanent duty assignment is with HQ Battery, 4th Battalion, 65th Artillery in Van Nuys.
1967 D and D find a little apartment on Woodley Avenue in Van Nuys, and setup housekeeping. Fortunately rents are cheap and they are able to make it on a PFC salary. Dave gets promoted late in 1967 to SP4 and changes MOS from Nike Herc radar crewman 16C, to personnel specialist 71H.
1968 D and D take a leave and return to Indiana to exchange Diana's old Chevy for Dave's '64 GTO. They travel the famous Route 66 and make the trip in a little over three days (2100 miles!!). The old Chevy is burning oil like crazy and they leave a trail of blue smoke across the continent. But the car rolls on, and they make it with only one minor breakdown, a flat tire in Missouri on the third day.
1968 D and D return to California with Dave's silver '64 GTO. Cool car. They make it to the Grand Canyon before the fuel pump gives out, and they are stranded for a day while a replacement can be trucked in. Fortunately, Dave makes it back to the base before his leave expires. Dave gets promoted to SP5.
1968 Dave gets placed on orders to Vietnam. He is to rotate over in late 1968. His personnel officer, CW4 Vernon Selders, gets and extrension of his orders to allow him to spend Christmas with his family. Dave and Diana reluctantly leave California in mid-December and return to Indiana. While Dave is overseas, Diana plans to live with her parents.
December 28th, 1968. Dave departs for Vietnam. He reports to Oakland Army Terminal, CA and is processed for overseas. His plane leaves for Seattle on the 30th. He crosses the International dateline on the way to Tokyo, Japan.
1969 Dave arrives in-country at Bien Hoa Airbase, Republic of Vietnam on Jan 1st. Total air travel time is 27 hours. Dave reports to Long Binh Post and is assigned to USAHAC (Headquarters Area Command) in Saigon. Dave lives in the Bedford BEQ just outside the Tan Son Nhut AB main gate. D and D correspond with each other almost daily.
August 1969 D and D are reunited for 10 days on a beautiful R & R in Hawaii (see Travels). The fastest 10 days in our lives. It's hard for Dave to return to Vietnam, but there only four months left on his tour.
December 29th, 1969 Dave departs Vietnam early morning hours from Tan Son Nhut Airbase in Saigon. The return flight requires one hop in Guam. He sets down before sunrise at Travis AFB, CA on the 29th, one hour before he departed Saigon. (Remember the dateline) Since he is a personnel specialist, he has cut his own orders to bypass the delay and debriefing at Oakland Army Terminal for returnees. He hops a cab to the airport and makes a connection through Chicago to Indy.. Dave and Diana are reunited that evening. Dave has traveled half way around the world (11500 miles) in 35 hours on one day's date. It was worth it.
1970 Dave's next assignment is at Ft. Knox, KY. Dand D move to Louisville and find a nice apartrment in Shively, on the southwest side. Dave commutes to the post each day out the Dixie Hwy. Dave is assigned to the Trainee Personnel Branch, AG Corps. and is responsible for processing Armor trainees to their first duty assignments. Unfortunately, many of the trainees are headed for Vietnam.
1971 Dave terminates active duty in the Army at the end of May. D and D move back to Indy, where they find an appartment on Georgetown Road directly across from Northwest HS. Dave gets his old job back at Public Service. Before he starts work again, D and D take a great driving vacation in New England (see travels). In fall, D and D fall in love with a black lab puppy and adopt him. Malibu Trailblazer (Blaze) becomes part of the family.
1972 D and D buy their first home. It's a small ranch on Biltmore Avenue in Mickleyville. The landlord at Tara apartments tried to get D and D to get rid of Blaze. Instead, they bought a house for him.
1973 Dave returns to college using the GI bill. He enrolls full-time at IUPUI in Pre-Vet. Classes are split between Michigan Street and 38th Street campuses. Diana returns to work to help Dave through school. By fall, D and D are expecting.
1974 Denise Elizabeth is born on March 30th at the old St Vincents Hospital on Fall Creek. Mother and daughter are transported to the new hospital facility on 96th Street. Dave cuts back school hours to allow Diana to stay home with the new baby.
1975 - 1977 Dave works and goes to school. Diana takes care of the baby and works part time. Dave graduates from IUPUI in spring with a BA in Chemistry. He takes a job with The Andersons of Maumee, OH in November 1977 and starts work in December, commuting between Indy and Toledo.
1978 The 3Ds move to Waterville, OH in January. They find a new ranch house on Wilkshire Drive just off Anthony Wayne Trail. Dave is working as a quality control chemist and is busy building a QA laboratory for the Andersons' new animal feed division. Diana starts working as the receptionist at the Waterville Town Hall. She gets to meet many influential people, and is on first name basis with the mayor, police chief and town council.
1979 The 3 Ds take a cross country train trip from Toledo OH to Los Angeles. Then they drive up the Big Sur coast of California to San Francisco, for their first real look at the bay area. It's the first of many return trips to the City by the Bay.
1980 - 1982 The 3Ds are into camping and take several trips into the north woods. One fishing trip to Big Fork Minnesota was memorable because Dave's parents accompanied them. Denise started grade school in Waterville.
1983 Dave leaves The Andersons and makes a major career change. Building on his chemistry background, he signs on with Industrial Fumigant Company of Kansas City. MO. The 3ds move back to Indy for a few months, and then Dave is assigned to the southeast region. The family moves to Charlotte NC in November. Over the next several months, Dave is involved with large scale fumigations of grain, tobacco, commodities. He works in a team traveling around the country. It's dangerous work and Diana wants him to find a safer way to make a living.
1984 After renting a house on the southeast side of Charlotte for 8 months, the family moves into a new cedar two story home on Charlotte's east side. Dave changes companies again, this time going to work for a small chemical distributor based in Newark NJ. He's doing road sales of commodity chemicals which requires extensive travel. His account responsibilities range across the eastern US from Green Bay, WI to Miami, FL. The family makes their first trip to the NC Outer Banks. They take the ferry from Cedar Island to Ocrakoke and work their way north to Nags Head. In its way it's every bit as breathtaking as the CA coastline. They catch their first glimps of Cape Lookout.
1985 Dave changes jobs again, this time returning to the laboratory as an analytical chemist. He goes to work for Sandoz AG, a Swiss-based pharmaceutical and chemical company. Dave's soon promoted to laboratory manager, and works at a large chemical manufacturing site outside Charlotte. Diana goes to work as church secretary for St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Charlotte.
1986 - 1988 The 3Ds take numerous trips during this time, going to many destinations in conjunction with Dave's business travel. Some destinations are Orlando, Jacksonville, Savannah, Myrtle Beach, Ocrakoke, Williamsburg, Washington DC, New York, Atlantic City, Ashville, New Orleans, Phoenix, Las Vegas, LA, San Francisco.
1989 Dave' responsibility changed with Sandoz when he was offered a chance to manage information systems for a new Research and Development facility. This change gave him the chance to mix his scienific background and learn the field of technical computing. This opportunity lead to working in Switzerland with colleagues to develop Sandoz' network of technical databases.
1990 Diana comes to Switzerland to meet Dave. Using the rail system, they bum around Europe for a few weeks (See Travels). Some of the destinations they see: Basel, Lucerne, Zurich, Berne, Lugano, Locarno, Milan, Monaco, Nice, Lyon, Paris.
1992 Denise graduates from Garinger HS in Charlotte. She decides not to go to college, and gets a job in retailing.
1992-1993 Dave continues to learn technical computing which is based on Internet protocols. As the Internet develops in importance, Sandoz offers Dave the opportunity to develop Internet capabilities for them.
1994 Christoper Holden is born to Denise on November 29th, the same birth day as Diana.
1995 The chemical division of Sandoz is spun off as a separate company, Clariant. Dave become Head of Internet Services for the new company. He moves his office from the R & D center to the corporate HQ for North America in Charlotte.
1996 Ashley Nicole is born to Denise on August 20th. Denise, her significant other, Christopher, and Ashely move to a small apartment in Gastonia, NC.
1997 - 1998 Dave makes frequent visits, working in Europe for coordination of Internet business activities. His bases of activity are in Basel, Frankfurt, and Leeds. Diana tries to make as many trips as possible, but her many responsibilities in Charlotte make it difficult to get away.
October 1999 Dave takes early retirement from Clariant. He begins a new career as a consultant for Internet business-to-business activity. His first assignment is with Ingersoll-Rand Co. at their IT headquarters in Huntersville, NC.

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	O U R F A M I L Y H I S T O R Y Just like most American families, we Malicoats have busy and demanding lives. This page is our attempt to take a pause in the action and reflect on just how we arrived at this place in time. We are purposely brief, and provide dates and places only as signposts to help our visitors better determine if we have ever been in contact. Please click here for a reverse chronology.

Home Points in Time Gallery	'Back to the future' Chronology *August 4th, 1947* - Dave was born in Indianapolis, Indiana at the St. Vincents Hospital to Marjorie and Wendell Mallicoat. *November 29th, 1947* - Diana was born in Indianapolis, Indiana at Methodist Hospital to Joe and Loraine Moze. *1947 - 1953* Dave lives with his parents at his grandparents bungalow house on Banner Avenue, just off Hwy 40 in western Marion county. Diana lives with her parents at her dad's parents house on Holmes Avenue just off 10th Street on the west side of Indianapolis. *1953 - 1955* Dave moves with parents to Edgemont Avenue in northwest side of Indianapolis off 16th Street and near Victory Field, starts school at IPS #44. Mrs McDowell is his first grade teacher. Diana moves with parents to Lockerby Street off Michigan Street on the west side of Indianapolis, starts school at Holy Trinity. *1955 - 1960* Dave moves with parents to New Haven Drive just off Hwy 40 on the far west side of Marion County in the town of Bridgeport. Diana moves with parents to Dunk Drive just off Georgetown Road in Eagledale. *1961* Dave starts junior high school and is in the first 9th grade class of the new Fulton Junior HS. Diana starts high school as a freshman at Washington HS. *1962* Dave starts sophomore year at the old Ben Davis HS on High School Road in Ben Davis. *1963* Diana reluctantly transfers from Washington HS to the new Northwest HS on 34th St. *1964* Dave meets Diana on a blind date. They go to a drive- in theater and see "". *1965* Dave graduates from Ben Davis HS and Diana graduates from Northwest HS. They attend proms senior roms of both schools. Dave starts classes at IUPUI at 38th Street Campus in freshman engineering. Diana starts job with Midland Guardian Finance Co. at 34th and Lafayette Road. *1966* Dave drops out of IUPUI and gets a job as an engineering draftsman at Public Service Indiana. Diana's grandfather, Guy Aigner helps him to get the break. Dave and Diana are engaged to be married. *1967* Dave and Diana are married on May 13th in the Ben Davis Christian Church by Reverend Norris. Dave enlists in the Army and must report for basic training on June 1st. Before he leaves, the newlyweds take a honeymoon in Sarasota, FL on Lido Key. *1967* Dave reports to Ft Campbell, KY for basic training. Eight weeks later, he is reassigned to Ft. Bliss, TX for advanced training as a Nike Hercules fire control crewman. After a short leave at home, he reports to Ft. Bliss on August 3rd. After one month of training in the desert, Dave applies for and is granted permission to live off base with his new wife. Diana travels to El Paso with her father Joe Moze in her '59 Chevy convertible. Joe manages to cram everything they own in the back seat and trunk. *1967* Dave and Diana live in El Paso for one month. During the little time Dave has off, they have fun in Juarez. In early September, Dave and Diana pack all of their belonging in a U-Haul and travel to big LA, CA. Dave's first permanent duty assignment is with HQ Battery, 4th Battalion, 65th Artillery in Van Nuys. *1967* D and D find a little apartment on Woodley Avenue in Van Nuys, and setup housekeeping. Fortunately rents are cheap and they are able to make it on a PFC salary. Dave gets promoted late in 1967 to SP4 and changes MOS from Nike Herc radar crewman 16C, to personnel specialist 71H. *1968* D and D take a leave and return to Indiana to exchange Diana's old Chevy for Dave's '64 GTO. They travel the famous Route 66 and make the trip in a little over three days (2100 miles!!). The old Chevy is burning oil like crazy and they leave a trail of blue smoke across the continent. But the car rolls on, and they make it with only one minor breakdown, a flat tire in Missouri on the third day. *1968* D and D return to California with Dave's silver '64 GTO. Cool car. They make it to the Grand Canyon before the fuel pump gives out, and they are stranded for a day while a replacement can be trucked in. Fortunately, Dave makes it back to the base before his leave expires. Dave gets promoted to SP5. *1968* Dave gets placed on orders to Vietnam. He is to rotate over in late 1968. His personnel officer, CW4 Vernon Selders, gets and extrension of his orders to allow him to spend Christmas with his family. Dave and Diana reluctantly leave California in mid-December and return to Indiana. While Dave is overseas, Diana plans to live with her parents. *December 28th, 1968. Dave departs for Vietnam. He reports to Oakland Army Terminal, CA and is processed for overseas. His plane leaves for Seattle on the 30th. He crosses the International dateline on the way to Tokyo, Japan. 1969* Dave arrives in-country at Bien Hoa Airbase, Republic of Vietnam on Jan 1st. Total air travel time is 27 hours. Dave reports to Long Binh Post and is assigned to USAHAC (Headquarters Area Command) in Saigon. Dave lives in the Bedford BEQ just outside the Tan Son Nhut AB main gate. D and D correspond with each other almost daily. *August 1969* D and D are reunited for 10 days on a beautiful R & R in Hawaii (see Travels). The fastest 10 days in our lives. It's hard for Dave to return to Vietnam, but there only four months left on his tour. *December 29th, 1969* Dave departs Vietnam early morning hours from Tan Son Nhut Airbase in Saigon. The return flight requires one hop in Guam. He sets down before sunrise at Travis AFB, CA on the 29th, one hour before he departed Saigon. (Remember the dateline) Since he is a personnel specialist, he has cut his own orders to bypass the delay and debriefing at Oakland Army Terminal for returnees. He hops a cab to the airport and makes a connection through Chicago to Indy.. Dave and Diana are reunited that evening. Dave has traveled half way around the world (11500 miles) in 35 hours on one day's date. It was worth it. *1970* Dave's next assignment is at Ft. Knox, KY. Dand D move to Louisville and find a nice apartrment in Shively, on the southwest side. Dave commutes to the post each day out the Dixie Hwy. Dave is assigned to the Trainee Personnel Branch, AG Corps. and is responsible for processing Armor trainees to their first duty assignments. Unfortunately, many of the trainees are headed for Vietnam. *1971* Dave terminates active duty in the Army at the end of May. D and D move back to Indy, where they find an appartment on Georgetown Road directly across from Northwest HS. Dave gets his old job back at Public Service. Before he starts work again, D and D take a great driving vacation in New England (see travels). In fall, D and D fall in love with a black lab puppy and adopt him. Malibu Trailblazer (Blaze) becomes part of the family. *1972* D and D buy their first home. It's a small ranch on Biltmore Avenue in Mickleyville. The landlord at Tara apartments tried to get D and D to get rid of Blaze. Instead, they bought a house for him. *1973* Dave returns to college using the GI bill. He enrolls full-time at IUPUI in Pre-Vet. Classes are split between Michigan Street and 38th Street campuses. Diana returns to work to help Dave through school. By fall, D and D are expecting. *1974* Denise Elizabeth is born on March 30th at the old St Vincents Hospital on Fall Creek. Mother and daughter are transported to the new hospital facility on 96th Street. Dave cuts back school hours to allow Diana to stay home with the new baby. *1975 - 1977* Dave works and goes to school. Diana takes care of the baby and works part time. Dave graduates from IUPUI in spring with a BA in Chemistry. He takes a job with The Andersons of Maumee, OH in November 1977 and starts work in December, commuting between Indy and Toledo. *1978* The 3Ds move to Waterville, OH in January. They find a new ranch house on Wilkshire Drive just off Anthony Wayne Trail. Dave is working as a quality control chemist and is busy building a QA laboratory for the Andersons' new animal feed division. Diana starts working as the receptionist at the Waterville Town Hall. She gets to meet many influential people, and is on first name basis with the mayor, police chief and town council. 1979 The 3 Ds take a cross country train trip from Toledo OH to Los Angeles. Then they drive up the Big Sur coast of California to San Francisco, for their first real look at the bay area. It's the first of many return trips to the City by the Bay. 1980 - 1982 The 3Ds are into camping and take several trips into the north woods. One fishing trip to Big Fork Minnesota was memorable because Dave's parents accompanied them. Denise started grade school in Waterville. *1983* Dave leaves The Andersons and makes a major career change. Building on his chemistry background, he signs on with Industrial Fumigant Company of Kansas City. MO. The 3ds move back to Indy for a few months, and then Dave is assigned to the southeast region. The family moves to Charlotte NC in November. Over the next several months, Dave is involved with large scale fumigations of grain, tobacco, commodities. He works in a team traveling around the country. It's dangerous work and Diana wants him to find a safer way to make a living. *1984* After renting a house on the southeast side of Charlotte for 8 months, the family moves into a new cedar two story home on Charlotte's east side. Dave changes companies again, this time going to work for a small chemical distributor based in Newark NJ. He's doing road sales of commodity chemicals which requires extensive travel. His account responsibilities range across the eastern US from Green Bay, WI to Miami, FL. The family makes their first trip to the NC Outer Banks. They take the ferry from Cedar Island to Ocrakoke and work their way north to Nags Head. In its way it's every bit as breathtaking as the CA coastline. They catch their first glimps of Cape Lookout. *1985* Dave changes jobs again, this time returning to the laboratory as an analytical chemist. He goes to work for Sandoz AG, a Swiss-based pharmaceutical and chemical company. Dave's soon promoted to laboratory manager, and works at a large chemical manufacturing site outside Charlotte. Diana goes to work as church secretary for St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Charlotte. *1986 - 1988* The 3Ds take numerous trips during this time, going to many destinations in conjunction with Dave's business travel. Some destinations are Orlando, Jacksonville, Savannah, Myrtle Beach, Ocrakoke, Williamsburg, Washington DC, New York, Atlantic City, Ashville, New Orleans, Phoenix, Las Vegas, LA, San Francisco. *1989* Dave' responsibility changed with Sandoz when he was offered a chance to manage information systems for a new Research and Development facility. This change gave him the chance to mix his scienific background and learn the field of technical computing. This opportunity lead to working in Switzerland with colleagues to develop Sandoz' network of technical databases. *1990* Diana comes to Switzerland to meet Dave. Using the rail system, they bum around Europe for a few weeks (See Travels). Some of the destinations they see: Basel, Lucerne, Zurich, Berne, Lugano, Locarno, Milan, Monaco, Nice, Lyon, Paris. *1992* Denise graduates from Garinger HS in Charlotte. She decides not to go to college, and gets a job in retailing. *1992-1993* Dave continues to learn technical computing which is based on Internet protocols. As the Internet develops in importance, Sandoz offers Dave the opportunity to develop Internet capabilities for them. *1994* Christoper Holden is born to Denise on November 29th, the same birth day as Diana. *1995* The chemical division of Sandoz is spun off as a separate company, Clariant. Dave become Head of Internet Services for the new company. He moves his office from the R & D center to the corporate HQ for North America in Charlotte. *1996* Ashley Nicole is born to Denise on August 20th. Denise, her significant other, Christopher, and Ashely move to a small apartment in Gastonia, NC. *1997 - 1998* Dave makes frequent visits, working in Europe for coordination of Internet business activities. His bases of activity are in Basel, Frankfurt, and Leeds. Diana tries to make as many trips as possible, but her many responsibilities in Charlotte make it difficult to get away. *October 1999* Dave takes early retirement from Clariant. He begins a new career as a consultant for Internet business-to-business activity. His first assignment is with Ingersoll-Rand Co. at their IT headquarters in Huntersville, NC.