Jeff Parish:  

There have been a myriad experiences since leaving Arco in 1976. We moved to Brigham City, Utah where I graduated from Box Elder High School in 1977. I became very interested in auto mechanics in high school and took a job at a local Chrysler dealership and then a local tune-up shop called Tune Tech. Shortly after that I began working at an automotive machine shop. In 1980, I moved to California to work with my dad in a ServiceMaster janitorial business. This turned out NOT to be my cup of tea, so I enrolled in the local junior college. After discovering that I was a better student at college than I had ever been in high school, I decided to pursue a college degree. Math and science became my new interests and I graduated from College of the Sequoias with a two-year A.A. degree in 1989. I also discovered that I enjoyed tutoring students as a part time job. I had married in 1985 to a wonderful girl from my church, Marla McGee. She suggested that I look into the teacher credentialing program. I found that I could finish a 4-year Liberal Studies degree with little or no travel to the next largest town to the north, Fresno. I graduated from CSU, Fresno in 1990 and began teaching science at Cecil Avenue Middle School in Delano, CA. I have since changed school districts and currently teach at Cherry Ave. Middle School in Tulare, CA. I live in a beautiful home with my wife Marla, my daughter Jessica, and my son Jason, three dogs and numerous daddy-long-leg spiders, a bane of the local fauna, in Tulare, CA. I enjoy gardening, working on computers, surfing the Internet, reading, but my passion is playing rock music with a local ...Expand for more