Ron Rogers:  

Where does one begin? Some of you might remember me from athletics, I ran track and cross-country for my 4 years at GGHS. Among the cognoscenti of the track team, I was given the name of "Sugar Foot" by coach/history instructor Homer Delabar after I ran a distance event with a candy bar in my shoe. It was one of my first big races and I was just a bit nervous? We would eat candy bars before our events for an energy boost, but I can personally attest that melted milk chocolate on the bottom of your foot has little actual effect. Incidentally, Homer Delabar and his wife Charlotte became life long friends and mentors. I am gratefully and forever indebted to them. After graduating from GGHS I went to Long Beach State and got a degree in anthropology. While there I had the opportunity to do field research with some interesting characters and spent a couple of years studying the Paiute Indian language in Nevada. I also minored in Photography. I managed to endure 2 more years of educational degree certification and began to teach at high schools around Los Angeles and Orange County. I was even a substitute instructor a couple of times at GGHS. That was a strange time warp! Mr. Powell (science instructor) actually looked younger. Then I realized he had acquired a hair piece! Eventually I settled down (marriage) and began to travel. I know that sounds like a contradiction, but we were fed up with the blandness (our perception) of Southern California and in need of new frontiers. So we quit our jobs and ran away to Europe for about 6 months. That was a seminal event because it was there that I decided I did not want to remain a high school instructor for the rest of my life - I had fallen in love with photogr...Expand for more