Walter Conner:  

Following two unproductive years at Glendale College during which I worked nights at the American Yearbook Company down on San Fernando Rd in Glendale, I dropped out for a year to work full-time in their litho camera department. (Of passing interest: American printed our 1961 Stylus.) At the end of that year, I returned to JC and raised my GPA enough to get into San Diego State, where I switched my major from biology to radio & TV broadcasting. Not too long after that, the government decided they'™d had enough of my pointless flailing at education and invited me to join them as a member of the U.S. Army. I was inducted three weeks after brother Ralph was discharged, so they had a Conner twin pretty much non-stop for four years. After a year in Southeast Asia (Thailand, not Viet Nam, thank God) where I was "Radar O'Reilly"™ (i.e. company clerk) for a medical group at the time of the Tet Offensive, I was discharged and ended up going to work for Moore Business Forms - yes, another printing operation - starting a 40 year career in the business forms industry during which I worked as an outside salesman, president of a small forms manufacturing plant, partner in a forms composition service bureau, prepress department manager, and general manager of a wholesale forms manufacturer. Along the way I learned computer programming with which I supported my several employers, and was granted a patent for a computer printer stand. My wife, Judy, and I were married in 1967,...Expand for more