Rick Culp:
CLASS OF 1978
Casa Grande High SchoolClass of 1978
Petaluma, CA
Rick's Story
After leaving Casa, I went to Berkeley for a while, making the baseball team as a walk on, but later got a scholarship due to the influence of a local Yankee scout. Being only 17 and hoping to get drafted, I dropped out of Cal, immediately hurt my arm and decided to drink my woes away at Chico State. Great school, but the social aspects were rough on the brain cells.
Not knowing what to do, I got into the financial business. I worked with a few firms and became the state senior underwriter for the California operations of the bank in Los Angeles. That gig was supposed to be 6 months long, but I ended up staying for 15 years. When Wells Fargo took us over, I went out on my own into mortgage brokering.
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e grew a small business into 5 offices with 60 independent agents, 15 employees while partying a lot (since I didn't in hs). I was living the single life in Santa Monica.
Met my wife, Dominique Rooney, in 2002. She's a former model and later became an accomplished chef. She's the grand daughter of Mickey Rooney if anyone still remembers him.
We were married in Kauai in 2004, had our son Jackson later that year. and now have a little girl, Yukiko.
We moved back to Petaluma recently in hopes of finding a better place to raise our family.
While a lot us wanted to get away from our small town, I am really happy to be back and was even happier seeing some of your faces at the reunion.
Hope to see many of you around town!
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