Howard Teruo Kubota, PhD:  

Hi everyone from the class of '53. Pray you and your family are in good health. I still have fond memories of life at Ogden High, in particular, time spent on the football team playing tailback. Since then, life has been good to me. After Ogden High, I spent a year at Weber (when it was located on 25th and Adams), then joined the U.S. Army for three years, at which time the government trained me as Japanese linguist and assigned me to Tokyo, where I came to appreciate my cultural roots and to get serious about my future career. After my three-year tour in the military, as a civilian in Japan, I met and married Chieko, a lady I've now been married to for over 60 years. In order to complete my education, I returned to Ogden for a year to finish out the associate of science degree at Weber, and then enrolled at the University of Southern California where I acquired my B.A. in international relations, and MBA in management. Work wise, I've received training and skills working for the Japanese Consulate as aid to the consul general, and moved on to further develop my career working for a major retail chain, as a unit manager. After five-six years of that, I moved on into teaching at a community coll...Expand for more