Don Moore:  

After graduating CHS I went to Tennessee Wesleyan College, in Athens. After graduation in 1967 I entered the Marine Corps as a second lieutenant, and served in the 2d MARDIV at Camp Lejeune, MCAS Kaneohe Bay Hawaii and in Vietnam, as a rifle platoon and company commander. I was wounded in the latter on Sept. 14, 1968 and medevaced out of country, spending four months in hospital recovering. I was discharged in 1971 wth the rank of Captain. This is, obviously, a very long story put very short. Semper fidelis....! I decided to remain in Hawaii and lived there for 14 years. I was recruited by the State of Washington in 1983 and moved to the state capital, Olympia. Somewhere along the line I became a criminologist (yes, it was a surprise to me too), and worked for the Dept. of Corrections. I eventually became Executive Officer of the state's Sentencing Guidelines Commission. In 1994 I moved to Seattle and worked as a consultant for a Cambridge-based think tank and consulting firm, Abt Associates. It wasn't easy to leave Honolulu, but I had developed a passion that made it easier: climbing. I was very involved with rock and alpine climbing for many years, and taught it as well. Back country skiing was part of the mix to...Expand for more