Gary Vender:  

Life After OCHS I attended Tri-State University (Angola, IN) with a Mechanical Engineering major. I learned two things very quickly, 1) college is expensive, and 2) I was not cut out to be an engineer. I enlisted in the US Army in 1968, went to Nike Missle Electronics school in Alabama, and ended up in Germany. After 3 years on the military, I returned to school as a Business major at Clarion University. Life was very good as a student the second time around. Uncle Sam paid my tuition and I had a ball running my own DJ business and being a soundman for a couple of local rock bands. I was married for 2 1/2 years to Cindy Fulmer from Rocky Grove - a short but memberable disaster. I also worked for PENDOT as a Real Estate Specialist for 5 years and finally in 1979 I graduated from Clarion and moved to Tucson, Arizona. For the last 20 odd years I have been a trainer for several companies: AOL, General...Expand for more