He continued to play baseball and as a senior became captain of the basketball team. At Wheaton College he majored initially in medicine before switching to business. He returned home to Illinois and transferred to Wheaton College, a Christian university. After David was promoted to vice president of Amdahl's California headquarters, the family moved, and Beamer spent his senior year at Los Gatos High School, just south of San Jose, California.īeamer attended Fresno State University, where he majored in physical therapy and played baseball, in the hopes of playing professionally, but injuries he suffered in an automobile accident ended these plans. He was elected class vice president in his junior year. He attended Wheaton Academy, a Christian high school, from 1983 to 1985, where he excelled in the same sports. The family relocated to Poughkeepsie, New York, and then to Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago, where David worked at Amdahl, a computer technology company.īeamer attended Wheaton Christian Grammar School, where he played baseball, basketball, and soccer. Beamer and his two sisters, Melissa and Michele, were raised "with a strong biblical value system and work ethic". Todd Beamer was born on November 24, 1968, in Flint, Michigan, to David Beamer, an IBM sales representative, and Peggy Jackson Beamer, a muralist, the middle child of three and only son.
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