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Mark McMahon served his country in the US Marine Corps from 1968 to 1973, resigning his commission when he was a captain.
He grew up in Whitinsville and was sent to Officer Candidate School at Quantico in Virginia, then assigned to the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. After assignments in the Mediterranean and Language School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he arrived in Vietnam in 1971.
âI landed in January in the middle of the night and it was so hot and humid, and we had our wool jackets on,â Capt. McMahon recalled. âWe had a battalion commander whom I thought had the mindset to run in battleâ¦made sure I stayed right behind him so that he couldnât.â
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The story goes that in the early ’60s, the actor Richard Burton found himself in Switzerland in the midst of a romance with Elizabeth Taylor when he got a call from John Huston. The director invited him to star in his upcoming film,
The Night of the Iguana, which was to be filmed “in paradise!”
That’s how the renowned director described Puerto Vallarta and its surroundings, which were little known outside Mexico at the time. He understood so little about this area of the Pacific Coast that the actor went to the Mexican embassy in Switzerland and asked to see a map; he wanted them to point to “that paradise” that would serve as the setting for the film adaptation of one of playwright Tennessee Williams’s masterpieces.
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McMahon was a teacher at Ider High School. The reason for resignation was not announced.
Board members Monty Darwin and Chris Andrews were absent from the Monday meeting.
The next meeting is scheduled for March 25, 2021, with the regular meeting at 5 p.m. and work session at 4:30 p.m. in the Facilities Building meeting room.