Raymond Bragg:  

Ray was born and raised in Burlingame, California, a suburb of San Francisco. After graduating from high school, Ray went straight on to community college and finally to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona where he met and married his wife, Karolyn; they both graduated in 1967. Next came two years (1967-69) in the Peace Corps where they both taught English as a second language at the university level in Erzurum, Turkey. Returning to California, Ray and Karolyn settled in Upland and Ray worked as the Senior Urban Planner for the City of Pomona. It was a great time, professionally, where he got the opportunity to really hone his city planning skills developing one of the first 'policy oriented' general plans in southern California. Soon, three children (2 girls & 1 boy) emerged in their lives to round out the family. While working in Pomona, Ray obtained a Masters degree from Calif. State University, Fullerton, in Comparative Public Administration, specializing in the Middle East. Soon afterwards, Ray started getting calls about overseas work. In early 1978 he accepted a position with the R.M. Parsons Engineering Company. Ray became part of a team that would manage the design and construction of a new city on the Red Sea. His family joined him, and they all spent six wonderful years in Yanbu. When Ray and his family arrived in Yanbu, they were one of the first families to settle in. When they left, over 30,000 residents and workers had moved in. At the height of construction, over 50 different nationalities were involved. The new city was an absolutely marvelous urban experiment in a country that was struggling with the growing desire for 'westernism' yet ever cognizant that they are the 'keepers...Expand for more