Chuck Quantrille:  

After graduation, I worked a number of odd jobs. I worked as a janitor, sold shoes, worked as a welder and I worked for United Parcel Service. While working these jobs, I managed to get in enough classes to graduate from WSU in '77, by way of Pacific Lutheran, Highline Community College and UW. I graduated with a BA in Elementary Education and continued to work for United Parcel Service at night while I began subtitute teaching during the day. I was married in '78 to my wife Mary(going on 33 years) and we moved to a small remote village in Alaska in '80 where I taught the younger grades. I was there for a couple years, but after starting a family, I decided that it would be easier to raise children in a little more conventional setting so I moved back to the lower 48. I taught in a small farming town in Idaho (2nd. grade) for a year and then I moved to Darrington, WA in '85 where I taught 4th grade for a number of years and eventually taught grades 4-5-6 in the same room. I earned a Master's Degree in '90 through Western Washington. A few years ago I made a change and mov...Expand for more