Steve Chell:  

First things first: Our 50th reunion is the first weekend in October, 2009. Seachells at mcn dot org. The following is an "old story." I'll update it sometime! Cheers, Steve Life I've certainly not wandered far from the Sequoia tree! I attended San Jose State, where I played baseball four years, joined the Sigma Chi fraternity, met my eventual wife, and left with a degree in Journalism with a Reporting & Editing emphasis (shades of the Sequoia Times!) Dave Schutz hired me at the Redwood City Tribune in June, 1963, and, several months later, asked me to head up to the draft board in San Mateo for a story. Seems the draft lists from San Mateo County were growing, and he wondered "Why?" Well, "Viet Nam" was the answer -- and I found out my draft number was to be called in a month or two! Long story short, I applied for Navy OCS, was accepted, and signed on the day before I was to report to Fort Ord. Off to OCS in Newport, R.I., the day JFK was shot. Four months later I was in Navy CIC school in Georgia -- then off to join the USS Ranger -- which was relieving the USS Constellation after the Gulf of Tonkin incident (nice timing, huh?). Four years and two 9-month cruises later,I left the Navy while the Ranger was in Bremerton, WA. Carol (from Pasadena) and I had married (7-10-65) and we settled in S.F. where I worked for ...Expand for more