Garry Hare:  

When it comes to life's big events, it seems like I'm about a decade behind many of you. I got married, the first time, at about the time some of you were dropping your kids off at school. And the second time, way later than that. A few of you have grandkids older than my daughter, Shannon (25). My son, Casey and daughter-in-law, Courtney have two little ones - my grand daughters - age 1 and 4. If we have a prize at one of our upcoming reunions for the youngest grand child, I should be in the running. After college in San Francisco, I spent a few years at Disney and then moved on to grad school at USC in LA. A PhD is largely the union card for higher education leading to faculty gigs at the Univ of Washington's Grad School of Public Policy, Harvard Business School, INCAE, Harvard's Latin America Institute then based in Nicaragua, USC's Grad School of Applied Behavioral Science and more recently, Fielding Grad School where I was among the founding faculty for the Media Psychology PhD program. INCAE, based in Managua, was the most exciting. It was during the revolution overthrowing Somoza and you never knew when some machine gun toting 14 year old might open up lighting up everything in sigh...Expand for more