Steve Young:  

I was born in 1953 at the Presidio in San Francisco, California. The second child of Maj. John and Bette Jane Young, I was enthusiastically welcomed by my only sibling - brother Dana, six years my senior. After my dad retired from the Army he still had a touch of the wanderlust so we spent the next few years exploring Wyoming and Colorado. In 1963 we settled in Durango where Dana and I spent our days climbing trees, skipping stones across the Animas River, and exploring the La Plata mountains, which were our backyard. In the late 1960s my parents moved back to the Bay area of California where I finished high school then went off to college, enrolling at California State University in Fresno. I majored in Mass Communications - a combination of English, Theater Arts and the technical aspects of radio, television and film production. I had those typical, youthful aspirations of becoming a ‘rich and famous’ script writer and filmmaker. Upon graduation I partnered with a local film production company and spent the next several years writing, producing and filming documentaries and television commercials. A combination of the reality of parenthood and a souring economy in the early ‘80s guided my decision to return to school to obtain my teaching credential. The birth of my daughter, Dana (named for my late brother) in 1983 cemented my decision to opt for the stability of teaching over the uncertain world of the arts. I began as a classroom teacher at the same time computers were first ...Expand for more