Jerry Ross:  

Please Google Jerry Ross and find my Wikipedia article for Jerry Ross, painter. Also Google Kenmore and you will find me listed as a notable person. Basically, I attended the University of Buffalo right after graduating. I got involved in anti-Vietnam War protests and organizing. I was a math major at first but then changed that to philosophy and full time protesting. I was arrested many times in Buffalo, eventually getting on the radar of J. Edgar Hoover who tried to get me drafted. Unfortunately for him, my arrest blotter never cleared long enough for me to get drafted. I was once ordered to report for induction but when I got there I was shown a list of subversive organizations and I checked the box next to each one of them. What angered me was that they had listed the Buffalo Jewish War Veterans as a subversive organization. When they saw I had checked that box and all the others, they told me to go home! I was eventually tried in Federal Court of Buffalo in what became known as the Buffalo Nine Trials. This lasted several months with big protests downtown and on campus by U of B students. I received a "hung jury" and was then retried and again, the jury could not reach a decision on my case and the case was eventually dropped.. Before leaving Buffalo, I organized the Martin Sostre Defense Committee. Sostre was an Afro-American anarchist book seller in Buffalo who ran the Afro-Asian Bookstore. He was targeted by police during the 1968 riots in the Afro-American community there. Martin was sentenced to 43 years in prison but was eventually released due to efforts by Amnesty International and Governor Carey of New York after the state trooper that testified against Martin was caught stealing drugs from a police evidence locker (an act used to frame innocent people). Whenever I found a job in buffalo, the FBI would visit the employer and I would get fired. This happened three times and I decided to leave the area for Arizona. I lived and worked there for several years. I had attened Buffalo state Teachers College before leaving Buffalo and so secured a teaching position teaching at a small Mexican-American school in Naco near Bisbee Arizona. After that I hitchhiked through Europe after visiting my sister in London. I spent time in Spain and Germany and then returned to Arizona where I taught T'ai chi chuan in public parks. I was a hippy by then and was experimenting with Peyote and LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs like mushrooms. I arrived back in Tucson with 75 cents in my pocket but was able to crash on the porch of friends and was soon back on my feet substitute teaching and teaching . I eventually hitched a ride to Eugene, Oregon where I applied for teaching jobs and substitute taught. I began teaching Tai Chi Hayward Field and pretty soon had a class of twenty or so students. I met my second wife Angela at the Ken Kesey œPoetic Hoo Haw at the University of Oregon. This event featured poets Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder and Ken Kesey himself. Angela and I have been together ever since (38 years!). She inspired me to go back to graduate school at the U of O (she had earned her MA in Instructional Technology earlier) and I was working as a computer instructor at the local Radio Shack Computer Center. I eventually earned my MA in Interdisciplinary studies (mostly œComputers in Educa...Expand for more