Robert Branch:  

Life After high school I spent two years at Kingsborough Community College majoring in Business Administration. Not really sure of what I wanted to do, I spent two years as an assistant teacher. From there I went to a technical trade school to learn about computer programming and operations. And computing has been my career ever since. I worked for several companies in New York City over the next 10 to 15 years such as Chase Manhattan Bank. In the early 80's I went to Columbia University at night, again majoring in computing. In 1973 I married a girl from England who was living in New York at the time. We bought a brownstone in Brooklyn and lived there until 1987 when we moved to England. Tired of the rat race of NYC we moved to the far southwest of England which is mostly rural. I continued by career, eventually becoming manager of the computer services department of a company. We had several acres of land with our house so we raised rare-breed sheep and produced a small quantity of lamb for our friends and neighbors. It was a lot easier to let the sheep eat the grass than to have to go out and cut it every week. My wife, with many years teaching expe...Expand for more