Joe Newton:  

Life After High School I studied a year at American River JC and then a year at De Anza JC in Cupertino. After that I got a job in computer programming. A few years later I quit work so I could practice personal growth full time for 18 months; it helped raise my self esteem. After that I went back into computer programming. I'm a database designer and procedure writer. Like most programmers, I've changed jobs often through the years, but always in the Bay Area. In '93 I met and married Elizabeth, a transplanted east-coaster, also in Information Systems. Our daughter was born in '97; she attends college, class of 2020. We own a home in the East Bay Area. I'm not religious in a traditional sense, but I practice my own form of spirtiuality. BTW: I'm the younger brother of Sally Newton and Nancy Newton, also from Ponderosa, in case you know them. School K-8th at Gold Oak Elem. I remember working in the cafeteria, faking it but not making it in band class, playing on the football team, and playing lots of dodge-ball, soccer and tag. I also remember an ...Expand for more