Mark Potteiger and DAR First Vice President Lauren Leep. Photo/Submitted.
Peachtree City’s Fayette Starr’s Mill DAR’s meeting was presented with a program from Mark Potteiger with “Letters to home from WWII.”
His father, Staff Sargent Earl Potteiger, was stationed at the 41st U. S. Army Divisional headquarters in the Pacific, and he wrote many letters to family members at home during his service. Potteiger has compiled these letters for his family and dhared some with us.
Potteiger has been a member of the SAR for five years, and his patriot is Johannes Rentschler, a farmer who enlisted in the Pa. Militia and escorted Hessian prisoners of war from New Jersey to a POW camp in Lancaster, Pa.
Potteiger is an academic who is currently working at both AT&T and Clayton State University. He earned his under graduate degree from Drexel University and his MBA from Temple University. He was employed by Sprint for 16 years, before moving to AT& T, where he has worked for the past 14 years.
After receiving another graduate degree from Clayton State University in Liberal Arts, he accepted a part- time position as adjunct professor at Clayton State University in the history department, where he has been teaching for the past seven years.
He is married and lives in Fayetteville, he has two adult children.
