Simon's Place: Stories of the Benson Hotel - Softcover

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Don DuPay is a longtime writer, and philosopher of life. He was born in Wenatchee, Washington where he spent most of his childhood, later moving to Montana where his parents bought and sold a farm. He settled in Portland, Oregon in 1947 at the age of eleven. DuPay graduated from Grant High School in 1954 where he was an honor student. After high school, DuPay attended Lewis and Clark College for two years before joining the US Navy where he performed top secret radio surveillance on the Baltic Sea, rising to the rank of Cryptographic Technician T-branch E-6. After his Navy service during the Cold War, DuPay joined the Portland Police Bureau in 1961 where he sought to "make the world a better place by putting bad guys in jail." He rose to the rank of detective in 1967 at the age of 31, and was later promoted to homicide detective in the 1970s. DuPay eventually resigned from PPB in 1978 under the suggestion of his doctor, who was a close friend. He resigned for documented medical reasons, which included high blood pressure, depression and a bleeding ulcer. In 1980 DuPay became the director of security for the Benson Hotel for several years in the early to middle 1980s. While at the Benson, DuPay was instrumental in changing hotel safety policies that would ensure better safety for customers and for the actual building itself, taking care of fire code violations that had been ignored for decades. In 2017, DuPay finished his college education, graduating from Portland State University with a liberal arts degree. He was honored in the commencement program for being the "oldest" graduate of that year. DuPay resides in Portland, Oregon with his wife, author, poet and editor, Theresa Griffin Kennedy, who along with DuPay is a native Portlander.