Richard Broughton:
CLASS OF 1979
Rio Mesa High SchoolClass of 1979
Oxnard, CA
Richard's Story
My story? Well, after Rio Mesa I ran track at Moorpark College where I did fairly well but not exactly world class. Then I went to Chico State with a bunch of Rio Mesa grads (there was a huge group there from classes 1978-81). At Chico I spent several years fighting fires for the US Forest Service in the summers and as a ski instructor at Lake Tahoe (Squaw Valley, Mt Rose) in the winters. Then I moved to Arizona and earned a Ph.D. in molecular geneti...Expand for more
cs at Arizona State. After research fellowships at Texas A&M and Cornell, I took a faculty position at the University of Oklahoma. I have an active research program in the area of molecular evolution and am now Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at OU. My parents moved to Palm Springs and I haven't been back to Ventura Co. much since the 1980s (except for Bret Miller's memorial). Hopefully I can get back there one of these days . . .
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