Robert Nylund:  

Life After graduating from Crestmoor High in 1965, I attended College of San Mateo and San Jose State University, earning a B.A. in journalism. I sang in the A Capella Choir at CSM under Galen Marshall and the Men's Glee Club at San Jose State under Dr. Brent Heisinger. I wrote for The San Matean at CSM and then was a member of the Radio Television News Center at San Jose State. I wrote for the San Bruno Herald until I moved to Springfield, Illinois, in September 1969, where I studied at Concordia Theological Seminary. I wrote for the student newspaper there. Then, I returned to San Bruno in May 1970 and did mostly office work. I occasionally contributed items to the San Bruno Herald until 1985. I also joined the Masterworks Chorale in September 1970 and sang under Galen Marshall until February 1985. In 1976, I ran unsuccessfully for City Clerk of San Bruno, my only attempt at running for public office. (I finished third in a field of six candidates.) I was active in the Capuchino Community Theatre from 1982 to 1985, even serving on the board of directors. In July 1985 I married and we moved from San Bruno to Montara in November 1985. I continued to do office work in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Then, in May 1989, my first wife and I took an extended trip across the country. We moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where I did some graduate studies at Concordia Theological Seminary (which had moved to Fort Wayne in 1976) and earned an M.A. in Religious Studies. I worked for Seminary Relations, editing two publications and doing some radio broadcasts on WOWO. I sang in the Schola Cantorum and the Kantorei, a touring choir. My delayed vicarage (internship) was in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and ended in February 1992. I did not become as a pastor. We then moved back...Expand for more