Ron Snowden:  

I Moved from Florida about 2 weeks after graduation to California with my family. (I lived in Pompano the last year I attended Stranahan) and started at Fullerton JC at the end of summer, attending for a year. My father had a masonry contracting business and I was expected to go to work after a year of college--which I did. I loved college, and continued evening classes, and even became a good student. I married Linda Miller--from Sun Valley, Ca. and took over my dad's business a few years later. Ended up in Michigan where I did the same thing but Linda hated living there, and I hated the cold. We moved back to Florida and started building homes, then commercial buildings. Left there about 9 years later for a 4-year stint at BYU in Utah--then began a teaching career at a university in Washington state. We moved back to Utah to begin a job teaching at BYU; but had to wait a semester for the job to get funded. I ended up taking a job in private industry at a much better salary. Large government projects--military, prisons, courthouses and schools. Got terminal cancer 10 years later, fought it, and won. I had difficulty working full time so I started a consulting business and did well. I also taught part-time at a local college and a university--evenings. I managed Olympic Village construction for the 2000 Olympics in SLC for the state, which turned into huge lawsuits and much stress. My health was failing and Li...Expand for more