Biographical Sketch 

	Donald Wayne Whitaker was born in the old Columbia Hospital which 
later became the Richland County Hospital and subsequently the Richland 
Memorial Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina at about 11:00 a.m. on Sunday 
morning the fourth of March 1951.  The birth was an extremely trying ordeal 
for his mother and it has been told that the doctor did not think that he 
would survive and concentrated on saving the life of his mother.  Although 
black and blue after the ordeal, he did survive and spent his early childhood
in Little Mountain, SC.  His father reentered the military service when he 
was 5 years old.  His subsequent childhood and adolescent years were 
influenced by the lifestyle of transient military communities in which he 
lived.  He attended school in Annapolis,Maryland; the Federal Republic of 
Germany (FRG); El Paso, Texas; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Blanchester, Ohio; and 
graduated from Stuttgart American High School in the Federal Republic of 
Germany in 1969.
	In October 1969 he entered the military service, joining under the 
Army Security Agency (ASA) enlistment option, with the intentions of making 
the Army a career.  After Basic Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina he 
was sent to Fort Devens, Mass., where he received training as an 
International Morse Code intercept operator.  His first assignment was 
Herzogenaurach, FRG.  While visiting his parents (still living in Stuttgart) 
he met his future wife, Pamela, daughter of an Air Force Military Policeman. 
Subsequent military assignments included the Army Security Agency (ASA) and 
Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM)  Field Stations at Augsburg, FRG; 
Vint Hill Farms Station, Virginia; San Antonio, Texas; Pyong Taek, South 
Korea; San Antonio (second tour); and a second tour at Augsburg, FRG.  His 
last assignment, at the Center for Signals Warfare (of the Communications 
Electronic Command) at Vint Hill Farms Station, Warrenton, Virginia, was 
the only non-ASA/INSCOM assignment of his career.  The Center for Signals 
Warfare was a research and development center for equipment used by 
ASA/INSCOM worldwide.   His training  and career progression was normal for 
a career Non Commissioned Officer.  He attended the Senior Cryptologic 
Supervisors Course at the National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland.  
Awards and decorations include the Army Achievement Medal, Army Commendation 
Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf cluster.
	Family life for Don and Pam included most all of the ups and downs 
normally associated with the transient Military community.  They were 
married on the 27th of March 1972 in Spokane, Washington where her parents 
had retired. Their first child, Janel Kay, was born on September 11,1975 at 
Wilford Hall, United States Air Force Hospital in San Antonio, Texas.  Their 
second child, his father's namesake, Louie Watson II, was born on the 3rd of
July 1984 in the United States Army Hospital in Augsburg, Federal Republic 
of Germany. Charlotte Satyra, there last child, was born in the Walter Reed 
United States Army Hospital in Washington, DC on the 12th of June 1987.
	Retirement from the military in 1989 and reentry into civilian life 
also brought about adjustments.  Don replaced his father as a Security 
Officer at the Georgia-Pacific facility in Prosperity, SC.  In January 1995 
the position was contracted and since then has been employed by Barton 
Protective Services, Inc. with duty at the Georgia-Pacific site in 
Prosperity.