Rick Sharp:
CLASS OF 1969
Thousand Oaks High SchoolClass of 1969
Thousand oaks, CA
Rick's Story
Two kids: Megan, mother of two and a teacher in Portland, Oregon; Jared, helicopter pilot and firefighter currently living in Santa Monica.
After graduating from CSUN in '76 I moved to the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon and have lived in Medford, Jacksonville, and Ashland. I taught English for thirty years, six at Ashland Junior High (before middle schools spawned) and 24 at Ashland High School. There is no other high school nationwide where I would have preferred to work. In '82 I planted ten acres of Chardonnay in the beautiful Applegate Valley. Had to sell it in '99 to cover wildly excessive spending from my then soon-to-be former wife.
So what else? I could list a few hundred books I love. I'm currently reading The Tao of Physics (again) and will follow that with David McCullough's biography The Wright Brothers. My heroes include Mark Twain -- he's alone at the to...Expand for more
p -- followed in no particular order by Kurt Vonnegut, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Groucho Marx, Sandy Koufax, Dostoyevsky, and a host of others tied for eighth place. Current favorite living writer is David James Duncan. I recommend everything he's written. I taught one of his books, the last novel assigned to seniors, The River Why. If you read that you'll want to read The Brothers K.
Travelled? Yep. Let's see, all over Europe four times (missed some of the eastern countries), Australia, Morocco, the Canary Islands, and leaving soon for Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Cambodia with my honey Claire (Benveniste, also a TOHS '69 grad). We love live music, including the Kate Wolf Music Festival, a four day affair in northern California each June. We've been to too many concerts to mention.
I see I have well over 18,000 characters remaining so I could talk politics. But no.
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