Robert Weaver:  

Looking back, my time at Lincoln and the following two years at Delta can best be described as unfocused, without a clear direction or goal. That all changed in the summer of 1966, when I enlisted in the Navy. Four years and three trips to Viet Nam later, I began again. Returning to Delta with a focus, a goal and an all consuming intensity to catch up with you, my classmates. You see, in my mind, I was 6 years behind the rest of you in establishing my life and career, and I needed to work doubly hard to catch up. I transferred to San Jose State, and graduated in 1976. It had always been my plan to establish a business in Stockton, but those plans were set aside when I realized that Silicon Valley was the new œgold rush, the place where a young man could stake his claim, and I didn™t look back. I was fortunate to land a job with one of the area™s best commercial photographers. I learned more from him than I ever learned in school. In 1984 I opened Weaver Photography, and like Apple, HP, and others, it began in my garage. I have served as both a board member and president of my local and regional professional photography associations. My photography has won honors at the local, state and national levels. At a dance in the fall of 1977, across a crowded room, I first saw my future wife, Paula. She was a beautiful dancer, very popular and not surprisingly, her dance card was quite full. Now, being patient does not come easily for me, but she needed to kiss a few frogs. Our first date was in June 1978, and we have been together ever since. We purchased our home in Mountain View in 1980, and were married in April 1982. We have no children. As time went on, I became involved in the community. Our neighborhood™s issues and concerns were not being addressed by the city, so Paula and I started a neighborhood association. I was appointed to the Planning Commission where I served for 6 years, and in 2002 I served as chair of Mountain View™s Centennial Celebration Committee. In 1988 I attended meetings of the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission. I noticed that there were no references to the Navy™s involvement in Vietnam on the Place Names Map in the proposed memorial (most committee members were infantry). When I brought this to the commission™s attention,Tonkin Gulf, Yankee Station and Dixie Station were added; the resulting memorial is stunning. When the Navy decommissioned Moffett Field, I sat on the Joint Cities Community Advisory Committee which proposed options for its civilian reuse. Also, I am a founding member of the Moffett Field Historical Association and past pre...Expand for more