Steve Douglas:  

After high school, (1971), I went straight to Mich. State as a music major on scholarship....in love with a girl, Michelle Geoffroy of South Bend, I met on an European music tour, (American Youth Symphony and Chorus, based out of Duquesne Univ. in Pittsburgh),...I was a happy freshman....Ultimately changed majors to Hotel, Restaurant Mgt. hoping to combine a business degree with music somehow., In Jan. '73, I met someone else, Connie Corona, also originally from South Bend, but now from Ann Arbor, that I eventually married and it lasted 32 years...no kids, just work and lots of vacation travel.......restaurant mgt., general contracting and music in Silicon Valley......Mountain View, CA for 27 years...I now live in Sedona, AZ and play music full time, organize and arrange music for events.... recent article about one of the bands I'm in check Kudos on line in AZ Fortunate to have reconnected with my high school band director, Mr. William B. Watts....musical mentor of immeasurable importance who now lives in Florida at 87 years old, also a CC grad (1940). Following a year on the road with a band right out of college....The John Mallon Show, I ended up working for Love's Wood Pit Barbecue in Beverly Hills on Pico Blvd where they use to film Starsky and Hutch and Charlie's Angel's right across the street. That lasted a year. I was transferred to the Bay Area and ended up running the Santa Clara store then was promoted to kind of a troubleshooting relief manager and ultimately to district manager overseeing 9 stores, including Sacramento and Fresno. Love's was part of IHOP and was bought out by a German Chicken magnate who reorganized the company....all of us were let go. Next stop was Saga Foods where I was put in charge of the B of A Data Center at 11th and Market in San Francisco...taking BART to work at 5:30 in the morning for a year. 5000 people in that building to feed breakfast and lunch to 5 days a week. Then Atari opened up in Sunnyvale and I was put in charge of that....52 buildings with 7000 Atari workers, 7 food service outlets....tough account to run....have some great friends to this day from that short lived 2 year experience.....one is Kendra Stevenson, now living with her husband Alan in the woods west of Reno....great lady. After 8 years of food service, I had had enough and decided to put my love of construction and remodeling to the test. My wife and I bought a house that I gutted and remodeled completely...ah. a new career. I got my General Contractor's license and we did a bunch of buy, fix and sell properties then when the market shifted in about 1989, I started doing it for my wi...Expand for more