Dwight Easterday:  

This is a quick summary of 32 years. I graduated with the high school class of 1972. I continued my education at Arapahoe Community College in Jan 73 after discovering that life did not offer much work opportuity without more education. In the summer of 1974 I graduated from ACC with an AA in General Studies, and proceeded to CSU, graduating in May of 1976 with a BA in Technical Journalism. The job market was tight in the summer of 1976, so in July I entered the U.S. Air Force, and served four years at Nellis AFB, NV. I entered as enlisted, but had a guaranteed specialty as an information specialist. During my last year in the Air Force I served as a unit historian. In 1980 I returned to Colorado. My father died in 1981. My efforts to find work in journalism were discouraging, with the best offer being a copy boy on a split shift at the Denver Post. I went into retail management and was moved all over Colorado, and eventually ended up in Kansas, at which point a recession caused my layoff. I returned to Colorado for a few weeks, and then to California to see my oldest sister and her husband and children. My mother, an aunt, and another sister were also living in the same area. I met my future wife while staying with my sist...Expand for more