Rob Smith:  

Life Live in San Diego with my girlfriend of of many years. Couple of dogs, canaries, a cat named Spider. Occupied most of the time with my business...one of those things where the hobby becomes the business so it's quite satisfying in that respect. Traveled nationally for many years in the consumer electronics and high technology fields. Still traveling but on a reduced schedule. No chopper - but I do have my eye on a couple of toys and am trying to make up my mind. Must be the approach to 60 to make me even consider such a ludicrous expense as an exotic German ragtop. School Well, the ancient historical facts are that I was a new boy as I entered my senior year at Bullard in Sept '65. Pretty shy, too, which didn't help me get into the "in crowd". I took a journalism class and Mrs. Bedford, the teacher of the class, announced to me that she was considering me for the editor of the school paper the following year. She seemed a bit surprised/chagrined when I told her I was graduating in June. We lived out in Fig Garden on Forkner. Just one street off Van Ness Extension where there were some significant homesteads the likes of which I'd never seen prior to moving to Fresno. Our house was a great house by my family's standards - nice swimming pool and big yards. Nicest we'd ever had. My dad managed the Chrysler dealership downtown. The family went back to the SF Bay area the summer I graduated. By then I had a girlfriend at McLaine High School and didn't want to leave - so registered for Fresno City a...Expand for more