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Following graduation from SBHS I attended Valley College
(Radio/TV Tech Program), worked for Gene Vanouse and Western
Electric. As a US Naval Reservist I attended US Navy
Electronics Technicial School at Treasure Island (on
an island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay). I
returned to study at Valley College and University of
Redlands, this time with a teaching major. I married Anieta
Grace Nelson (SBHS 1958) and began my teaching career in
Trona on the upper Mojave Desert. Anieta and I were married
for 30 years and raised 2 daughters and 2 sons during that
time.
I
received my Bachelor's degree from Fresno State College,
Master's from Arizona State College, and Educational
Specialist degree from Northern Arizona University.
Advanced graduate study sabbaticals were taken at Stanford
University and UCLA.
Retiring after 32 years in the Trona Schools (Kindergarten
and Elementary) I applied for and was accepted as a Peace
Corps Volunteer for two years on the Caribbean island of
Grenada as a teacher trainer. During this time I met Joan
Mallery Denne (German Town Friends High School 1955) also a
retired teacher and Peace Corps Volunteer situated on the
Caribbean island of Dominica. I traveled between our
islands on many weekends. We subsequently were married.
Following our Peace Corps service in the Caribbean Joan and
I relocated to the White Mountains of New Hampshire our
residence ever since.
Joan and I have continued our overseas volunteer service,
Kiribati on the island of Tarawa at the Teacher Training
College (located on the Equator and International Date Line)
for two more years of Peace Corps, and then 3 different
academic years in Africa as a part of the "Teachers for
Africa Program" facilitated by the International Foundation
for Education and Self-Help (IFESH), first in Tamale, Ghana
at a Teacher Training College, then in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
working for the Ministry of Education as advisors to the
Institute for Curriculum Development and Research, and most
recently an assignment at Awassa College of Teacher
Education (Ethiopia) as facilitators of a Higher
Diploma Program to upgrade the professional development of
college instructors.
We are back now in our lovely town of Lincoln, New
Hampshire (population 1,200) within the White Mountain
National Forest in our small apartment overlooking the river
and forest beyond. We fee so lucky that we have had so many
opportunities to give and to receive!
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