Kenneth Clark:  

My wife Gayle and I have been blessed to have found each other. We plan to "stabilize" on longer-term housing after tomorrow's revisit to North Hills from our current Sylmar location. Before that were Canyon Country, Sun Valley, North Hollywood, MacArthur Park, Sacramento and a few others. We continue living each day free from harmful substances, alcohol and tobacco--only with the help from the Lord. Praise Him! Four decades of gradual escalation has ended for some years now! God has allowed us the luxury (necessity?) of our own laptop recently, enabling me to communicate with all my beloved classmates after all these years. I was actively employed for forty years as a cook, sheet metal worker, draftsman, designer, but mainly, 23 years at Burbank Water & Power ending as a state licensed ("grandfathered in") electrical engineering associate. I took occasional side jobs such as working for a landscape architect in the field. I have dabbled in guitar playing and music appreciation. I was actually a DJ on live radio for 12 whole minutes at a broadcasting school in Hollywood about 12 years ago. I am still deeply grieving the loss of my classmates to Vietnam. There are over twenty names on the plaques at the monument at the SE corner of McCambridge Park--people who I thought were destined to use their talents in other ways than giving their lives for their country--people who were familiar to me. I used to take my (previous) family on outings at beaches surfing and in the Sierras camping, hiking and fishing sometimes. As a UCLA math major for two years, I decided to withdraw voluntarily. On the job, I attended UCLA Extension and UC Berkeley Independent Study fo...Expand for more