Jack Marti:  

After I graduated, I left home on June 25th, 1974 and went to Albany, California near Oakland and lived in a dorm at OCB (Orientation Center for the Blind) for about nine months. Then, after attending the College of Alameda for a quarter, I moved to Glen Ellen, California and trained to become a licensed psych. tech. at Sonoma State Hospital. I worked as a psych. tech. at Napa State Hospital for about 2 and a half years during with time I married my lovely wife, Laurie, and we had our son, Michael, in July of 1979. We moved back to Glen Ellen, and I worked at Sonoma State Hospital for another two and a half years, during which time our daughter Jessica was born, in January of 1981. Then in 1982 we moved to Garland, Texas and lived there for about three years while I studied computer programming at Richland College until December of 1984. Then we moved back to California and lived in Chico for a few months before I went back to work at Napa State Hospital in July of 1985. Then in 1986 we moved to Dunlap, Tennessee (near Chattanooga) to work at a church affiliated, but self-supporting boarding academy. We worked and lived there about a year and then bought a piece of land near Cl...Expand for more