Jeff Ronan:  

After high school I worked at the Texaco station on PCH near the Torrance airport rebuilding VW bug engines. I entered the USAF in 3/68-12/71. I got my Army draft notice the Tuesday after I arrived in Amarillo, TX. I went to tech school in Rantoul IL and trained on B-52’s and C-141. My first duty station was to Tacoma WA. I was an aircraft mechanic on the C-141 Starlifter for about 1 ½ years and then I worked in the Chief of Maintenance office one of those rooms with no windows, giant telephone sets and multiple radio bands. Very exciting and lots of top secret stuff (no I still can’t tell you). Turned down a promotion to Tech Sgt as part of a re-up package and discharged as a Staff Sgt. And returned to Torrance CA. Sherry Branch and I married in '69 and she joined me in Tacoma WA. Our son Taige was born in April '71. I took some college classes while in the Air Force at Tacoma Community College and attained enough credits to complete the first semester at El Camino completed both years. I won a California State Scholarship and enrolled at Loyola Marymount University where I was a Political Science major and Business minor graduated in ‘75 with honors and went to Loyola Law School completing the first year (hated it). I decided not to pursue law. I joined the Calvary Church (the old Fish Shanty restaurant) on PCH and was a senior high school Sunday school teacher. We started with 7 kids and were blessed to have over 200 ...Expand for more