Bill Hubbard:  

Life By the spring '80 I had transferred to Biola University where I eventually graduated ('83) with a BS in Recreation & Camp Administration. The other camp managers I worked with had previously graduated from the same department. Their inspiring lives greatly influenced me. In the summers of '81 and '82 I worked in some unique camp managing waterfront programs of water-skiing, sailing, windsurfing, and marine sciences in Rhode Island. I never laughed so much before. Have you ever seen a prized marlin hanging from a flagpole or a 8' shark suspended above a tent doorway or a counselor's bed set afloat on a dock? Those Jewish campers and staff had a sense of humor. One time I had to face-off with a Jewish mother from the Bronx who had been called to come pick-up her son from camp because he was being sent home for repeated misconduct. That was a long night of saying "no" a thousand times. After college I worked in Newport Beach as a sailing instructor, and commercial truck driver afternoons & evenings to pay down the student loans. On a concert tour stop in Seattle in '84, I met my first wife, Pam. We hastily married a year later and moved to Bigfork (with the gracious & generous assistance of Ron & Carol Pierce) to work with the youth at Swan Chapel. I managed to squeeze in a brief visit for the 10th year BHS class reunion, some school bus driving, skippering an old America's Cup boat for charter groups, sailboat racing, and sailing instruction for the University of Montana. The following winter of '85-86 was a bit overwhelming for Pam. Her Seattle-born dreams of living in a picturesque log cabin were shattered when the reality of living in one in the winter -- a real wood stove and real mice!-- shook her up. Things didn't work out for us in Montana. Pam landed her first good paying job back in Seattle. An anonymous gift received in the mail from locals of the Bigfork area enabled me to buy a truck and move our household to WA. I've always suspected the kind and generous folks from Swan Chapel were behind that. Unknowingly, we moved not far from Mike & Bobbi Wolstein, Mike Caufield, Dan Jordt, and others.…small world! I worked as a Program Director for the King County Boys and Girls Club in Wallingford, did some salmon fishing, and eventually settled down to doing bldg. maintenance and progressed to working as ...Expand for more