Jim Sweeney:  

Soon after leaving Beavercreek in 1964 I joined the Army, served a tour in Vietnam, and was discharged in 1967. After returning home for a year, I then traveled to California and made it my home until 2002. I love California. It is a beautiful place full of great memories. I graduated from California State University at Los Angeles in 1977. I worked in two school districts from 1980 to 2002. I retired as an Assistant Superintendent of Business in 2002 from Washington Unified School District in West Sacramento, California. In 1989 upon leaving my school district job in Southern California. I took a break from life and moved to San Luis Obispo, California, up on the central coast, to deal head on with my change of life crisis. I lived there for 18 wonderful months. I have often said It was the best time of my life. I had a few off and on odd, meaningless jobs, got fired from one, drew unemployment, and hung out on the many beaches in that area from Big Sur, to San Simeon, down to Santa Barbra. Once I started to run out of cash it was time I got back to work. That is when I started my job at Washington Unified School District ...Expand for more