Larry Daniels:  

After high school I attended the U. of A. for two years until losing my student draft deferment status in the summer of 1966. I joined the Air Force and spent until 1970 copying morse code from Russian transmission sites while stationed in Alaska and South Korea. I went back to college at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA (to prove I could do college-level work) and gained entrance in the University of CA at Davis. I obtained a B.A. degree in 1974 with a Spanish major (Russian minor) and an M.A. degree in 1976. I went to work for the Social Security Administration as a bi-lingual claims representative in 1976 and finished in 1997 as a field office manager. I went right into a new career as an employee benefits insurance broker...Expand for more