Cliff Mickelson:  

Not married. Still single. Have two wonderful kids, a boy, aged 23 and a girl age 19. My son lives and works in Yosemite National Park. He loves meeting the tourists that come there from all over the world. My daughter moved to Mexico with me in 2006, attending her third year of High School down here before returning to Yakima Washington in order to graduate with her class. She recently returned from attending school in Germany. As you might guess, she likes learning new languages! At this point, she has plans to obtain a degree in Communications. After high school. I attended Chico State for 5 years. I majored in Spanish and English. I hitchhiked around North America during the summers. and...Avoided getting a job at all costs! Also...My high school friend, Joe Joehanson, (LP class of '69) and I began working together as a songwriting team in Oroville. We enjoyed that so much that we then decided we wanted to start a band. The band was called "Pride and Joy" and included some other local well known musicians, including Cris Bagley, Mark Duncan, (OHS) and Pat Mastelotto, (OHS) Joe and I really worked well together and wrote dozens of songs. Songwriting just seemed to happen naturally with him. He was an amazing talent, no doubt about it. I still have tapes of some of the tunes that we co-wrote as well as a few of his single works. They are as good today as they were back then! Joe and I played together for about 3 years and often traveled with Dick Castleberry's light show, playing ...Expand for more