Lyle Schilling:  

I left Central and went to PC for a year and ahalf, living with Dave Lindstrom. I realized I wasn't ready for college then so I joined the Army as a medic and spent 2 years In Landstuhl, Germany. Got out and went back to PC where I started hanging out with guys from the class of '67 because all of my class of 65 friends had left. Class of 67 guys liked me because I was old enough to buy beer. When they all turned 21, they still hung around with me so I think they really liked me. The next 5 years were spent going to school at ASU irregularly, going to Indiana to work during the summers, going to Mexico surfing, trying to be a hippie, and worked odd jobs part-time until I finally got my degree in sociology in '74. By then I realized that all a bachelor's degree in Sociology qualified me for was to get a masters in sociology and I already knew all I wanted to know about sociology. The only thing left to do was get another degree, this time in Elementary Education. I did my student teaching in Payson. I was the first student teacher Payson had ever had. They even put an article abut me in the local paper! Then I actually started a career as a teacher in the Washington School District in Phoenix. I met a girl at JayD Schlueter's wedding and e got married 2 years later. We have 2 daughters and I taught for 12 years. My wife was a homemaker and stay at home mother so we were a family living on a teacher's income. We did pretty well at that, but I was always looking for good part time work.. In '82 my daughter went to a birthday party and there was a clown there entertaining the kids. She was having so much fun and when I saw how much she was paid, I knew what I wanted to do. I ...Expand for more