Rich Vaughn:  

I left Santa Rosa in 1975, or should I say I was ran out of town because of my behavior. I was very good at dirty dancing and an alternative lifestyle, wore eye make up to school and was a real embarrassment especially after getting busted for Pot on campus 10/04/66. I spent the following 30 years in and out of rehabs, I was one of the 1st to go thru the Betty Ford Clinic. I was married for 29 years 10 months and lived in LA, Orange County, Palm Springs, WDC , Maryland, VA, Mississippi, Montana and the Bay Area. I served in the USAF, I travelled to Copenhagen and was in Munich in 72 when the Israeli Olympic team were murdered, I worked most of the late 60’s to 80’s as a CNA, I graduated college with my major in nursing and minor in theatre arts .,I was a private nurse to the stars of old Hollywood and as a hobby I did celebrity photography. While in WDC I went to an open casting call at the Kennedy Center with the Washington opera, my 1st performance was in Verdi’s “Otello” as a peasant and master fighter, this open doors for me with the Washington Opera, Wolf Trap, NYC opera, Baltimore Opera, Catholic Univ opera, LA and SF opera companies, twice with the American Ballet Theatre, Australian Ballet and Pina Bausch of Wuppertal Germany, was interviewed on TV for my opinion on the Death of Diana and also Jon Bonet. I also Was on several TV shows. Performing and interviews.. I attended the Oscars the year Cher won for Moonstruck and got to talk at length with Nic Cage about the filming of Peggy Sue. . I also attended the Kennedy Center Honors four years in a row, one great memory is when Katherine Hepburn Posed for me with her medal. My photos hang in many celebs home. Michel York’s wife (photographer) told me to Stop saying I am an amateur photographer because my work was professional. I retired as a Hospice nurse in 2016 from Kaiser. When I lived in WDC I worked at the National Naval Medical Cent...Expand for more