Greg Christofferson:  

Life After high school (class of '64) I attended my freshman year of college at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. I spent the next two years in Brazil as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), then back to BYU in January, 1968. I met my wife, MarJane Ellison from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, at college in fall of 1968 when we were in the same performing group. We travelled to Central America and the Caribbean on a USO Tour for the military. We saw the first men walk on the moon at a general's home on an Army base in Panama! We were married in January 1970. We moved to Sacramento, California with my first job in 1972, and then to Irvine, California in 1977 where we have lived since. From 1977-82 I was national sales manager for a housewares manufacturing company in Anaheim, CA. Having grown tired of the travel involved and making money for other people, I decided to strike out on my own in 1982. I started in the commercial real estate business selling real estate limited partnership interests for a Los Angeles syndicator. in 1986 I began doing my own syndications and in 1992 I teamed up with a partner and we (with an insitiutional investor) purchased many of the real estate assets from the bankrupcy of an insurance company. In 1997 I refianced that portfolio and turned the management over to a property management company and semi-retired. About the time I became a passive investor in an oil and gas company in Austin, Texas. To make a long story short, I am now the principal owner of that company and spend about ten days a month in Austin (so much for retirement). My wife and I are the proud parents of four children and nine grandchildren. Our married daughter and her husband (a CPA) and their five children live two miles from us in Irvine. Our married son and his wife and four children live in Denver where he is reg...Expand for more