Ron Telles:  

It all started Thursday, November 14, 1940 on 3rd, across the street from the post office in Moscow, Idaho. All went well for the next eight years. Then in 1949 we (my mom and brother Lonnie) moved to Los Angeles. 1951 we moved to San Bernardino. Education I attended school at Monterey Street Elementary moved on to Highland Jr. High then to Pacific High School. At Highland Jr. High I took an aptitude test to determine my future career path. Forestry ranked the highest, drafting second with law enforcement coming in third. After graduation I attended the University of Idaho, College of Forestry majoring in Wildlife Management. I lived with my grandparents because I could not afford to live on campus. My grandmother passed away between my freshman and sophomore year so I returned to San Bernardino enrolled at San Bernardino Valley College and took every class related to drafting I could. As the years rolled by I earned a BA from Pepperdine ('75) and a MPA from USC ('78). Employment My first job in California (1950) was with the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. I sold the paper at the corner of Sunset and Echo Park in LA. When we moved to San Bernardino I again got into the newspaper business. Only in SB you didn't stand on the corner somewhere you stuffed a load of papers in a bag and delivered each of them to some one's home. My route was from 9th and Tippecanoe to Highland and Waterman. Made three cents a paper. Lost my job when I got hit by a car on Waterman south of Highland, near where that huge eucalyptus tree stood or stands. I then worked for Mr. Binney of Stockwell and Binney fame. I mowed his grass and trimmed his hedges. Got the job when Bill Beebe (Class '60) retired. Then it was back to the newspaper business. Acme Color Print was owned by the San Bernardino Sun Telegram. They printed the Sunday comics for the newspapers of the western United States. I was a flyboy, which means I stood at the at the end of a very large printing press, scooped the comics up, shuffled them into neat bundles, hour after hour after hour. I worked with a fellow Pacific grad but for the life of me cannot remember his name. If that was you let me know. With my boatload of drafting classes from SBVC I got a job with Johnson & Hastings, real estate appraisers. I drew the maps for their reports. After two years I had enough experience to apply for a job with the San Bernardino County Planning Department. I was hired as a Planning Delineator and again I drew maps and illustrated their publications. After a few months with the Planning Departm...Expand for more