Richard Harrison:  

Life I began grade school at North Broadway elementary school in Leavenworth, Kansas, then after two months, moved with my family to Arkansas and enrolled at Rena school near Van Buren, Arkansas. After a year and a half, we moved again. I then attended part of the 2nd & 3rd grades at Jarbalo, Kansas before moving back to Leavenworth and finishing at North Broadway school. After going to 7th grade in Leavenworth Junior High, we moved to Colorado where I attended the eighth grade at Mapleton School near Denver, Colorado, continuing on for my freshman year there. That summer my family moved to Hawaii, so as a sophomore in Honolulu, I went to Radford High School during the school years 1957-58. One of my favorite teachers at Radford was Mr. Yamamoto. He helped me win a scholarship to the Honolulu Academy of Arts for the summer session. Later that summer, we moved across the island to Wahiawa and I spent my junior year at Leilehua High School. In July 1959, my dad's contract expired, so we returned to Colorado and I finished school at Mapleton H. S. (the same place I'd begun high school). A week after graduation, I joined the Navy for three years, two of those years as the ship's journalist/photographer aboard the USS Talledega. After completion of my enlistment, I worked for Chrysler Corporation in Los Angeles for a year, then returned to Colorado and hired out on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad in ya...Expand for more