Glen Daugherty:  

Hi everyone, After graduation I attended PCC for two years and Cal State LA for one. Since I knew I would not graduate in four years and was unsure of what I wanted to do I decided to enlist in the Army for a job I wanted to do rather than risk getting drafted and landing in a combat role. I ended up working on the psych wards at Ft. Ord Army Hospital. It was something else working on a psych ward while in the military add to everything going on in Monterey (Monterey Pops) and San Fran. (75 miles away) Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, race riots and space travel it was a most interesting time. One of our daily assignments was to pick up the reports from nearby units. I met Betty while she was working as a civilian nurse on the Pediatric Unit. We used to love going there and to the Ob/Nursery as it was an island of sanity in a crazy world. After discharge in 1969 I moved to Connecticut where many of Betty's family still live and we were married soon after. She is one of five so all together we have 27 nieces and nephews, plus too numerous to count grand nieces and nephews, The first several years were a blur as I worked full time at the state hospital and carried a full course load while attending Central Connecticut State College commuting nearly 80 miles per day. Betty worked full time with short breaks to have our three sons; Patrick (1970), Bryan (1973) and Glen Ryan (1975). Thank God for my mother-in-law. When I completed my masters in Special Ed. in 1976 it was Betty's turn to return to school to earn her bachelor's in General Studies and then her masters in Health Care Administration I never did work in Special Ed, instead I became a social worker first in the adolescent service at the state hospital and then for 25 years in child protective services ending as...Expand for more