After graduating from Cleveland West Technical High School, he was nominated for an officers training program at Yale University, where he was a classmate of George H. W. Bush and William F. Buckley Jr.[2] He served as an Ensign on the aircraft carrier, the USS White Plains in the Pacific War in the middle of his college career.

After the war ended, he returned to New Haven, Connecticut, where he lettered in football, wrestling.

Prchlik's nephew, Andrew Perchlik, in an environmental activist and member of the Vermont Senate.

[5][6] Prchlik died December 31, 2003, of pancreatic cancer in Fairfield Glade, Tennessee, at age 78.

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