Ronald Ballard:  

I stayed in the Seattle area until 1961. I graduated from Edmonds High School in 1956 and worked at Boeing until 1957 when I joined the Army. In 1960 I returned to Boeing, but left for San Francisco in April, 1957. While in San Francisco, I married, worked my way through an A.A. (City College of San Francisco), B.A. and M.A. (San Francisco State College) and my wife and daughter Ivy and son Morgan flew to Scranton, PA the summer of 1970, while I looked for teaching jobs. I was hired by Hagerstown Junior College in 1970 as an English instructor. While there I continued my education at The Johns Hopkins University (C.A.S. , 1976) and then in the midst of a doctoral program at the University of Maryland, we had another child Pepper in 1979, and a year later I divorced my fist wife and in 1982 married my second wife. Unfortunately this marriage only lasted until 1983. In 1985 I married my present wife Shirley and in 1986 I received my PH.D in Philosophy of Education from the University of Maryland (College Park) and in December our daughter Amy was born. I worked at Hagerstown Junior (Community) College for 36 years, retiring in January 2007. I also have been writing fic...Expand for more