Kathryn Nelson:  

My life in a nutshell.......after Balboa, I spent a year at CCSF, trying to figure out what I wanted to do. My brother survived Viet Nam and came home and became an Army recruiter. I auditioned on my clarinet for the Army at the Prescedio and got a job in the WAC Band at the WAC training center in Anniston, Alabama. I was there for 6 1/2 years until they did away with the WAC (women's army corps) and it all became the Army. I was transfered to Japan where I served for 3 more years as a clarinet and sax player with the 296th Army Band at Camp Zama, Honshu Japan. It's now 1979 and my tour with Japan ended and they were going to send me to Fort Bliss, Texas. I decided instead, to get out of the Army and go to school so, I went to Ricks College (now called BYU, Idaho) for a year and transferred to the U of Idaho at Moscow Idaho. I majored in Music Education and graduated with a Bach. in Mus Ed,,Instrumental. It's now 1985 and I moved from Moscow Idaho to a cattle ranch near Lewiston Idaho on the Snake River, where I helped a family raise and sell herford cattle. Yes, I rode horses, branded cows...Expand for more