After graduation, I taught in northern Illinois for three years. Then I ran off to Alaska for seven years where I became a bush pilot in the summer and taught in a one room Inuit school in the winter. I finished graduate school in Oregon in the mid-seventies and finally got a normal job becoming an elementary school principal and school counselor in Portland for the better part of 30 years.\u00a0\u00a0I wrote a couple of self-help books for parents in the early 90’s and that kept me busy consulting for a few years.\u00a0\u00a0I also edited a professional journal for some years.<\/p>\n
My wife Cathy was chair of a college counseling\/advising dept. for many years.\u00a0\u00a0We have three kids and five grand kids who are scattered in location.<\/p>\n
We spend winter south of Tucson, Arizona (almost at the border) and then summer in central Oregon.\u00a0\u00a0Now I golf and play music.\u00a0\u00a0I have a blues band called\u00a0The Slow Lane Cruisers<\/span>\u00a0and we keep busy.\u00a0\u00a0It’s marvelous to see 90 year olds dance to us!\u00a0\u00a0Cathy and I travel as often as we can.<\/p>\n I do plan to go to Homecoming.\u00a0\u00a0Jim Keefe and I have been visiting one another every summer since college and would have enjoyed being there together.\u00a0\u00a0It will be a sadder reunion because Jim died the first week in December<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After graduation, I taught in northern Illinois for three years. Then I ran off to Alaska for seven years where I became a bush pilot in the summer and taught in a one room Inuit school in the winter. I … Continue reading