Philip Corcoran:  

I moved to Redding after we graduated & stayed. A year at Shasta College convinced me that although I was not through with learning, I was with formal education. After a few false starts in Marriage & Employment, I signed on with the Shasta County Assessor in the Mapping Department in January 1964, & was promoted to Supervisor in 1967. In 1990 when the offices of Assessor & Recorder were combined an Administrative position was created for me as head of both Mapping & the Recorder functions that I retired from in December 2001. Auto Racing was an obsession for a number of years, participating as a driver from 1966 to 1976 (20 main event wins & a 1974 Championship in the Super Modified division) & as starter from 1979 to 1998. I was elected to the Northern California Auto Racing Hall of Fame this year & am writing a history of the speedway for th...Expand for more