Volker Schmid:  

Life In short: - Emigrated to US with parents in 1957 from marching Krautland arriving on a train in Boise, losing brother no. 2 (don't worry we found Fritz later on at a railway station about 50 miles away) with leather knee-highs (trousers), sandals on my feet, a Tirolian hat in green on my blond head - a strange sight to be seen - at least in Idaho....and enough to form a crowd of students around us at recess-time. - My father was a POW up in Rupert, Ida., luved it, vowed to come back and succeeded... - Lived in Parma farmwise and later high on a hill in Caldwell, Idaho 1960-1963 (Canyon Hill- North Michigan Ave. - I can see the house up there today if I use Google Earth and y'all can see mine here in Frankfurt) - shook up Van Buren and Wilson Schools - rooti-toot-toot - - Rattled and rolled back to Germany in 1963 - Ooorrrrggghhhh - us kids didn't like that - so much Kraut again!! - Finished School in 1967 and wanted so much to become a Rolling Stone, like a complete unknown.... Ah, princess on the steeple and all the pretty people.. - Apprenticeship as an Industrial Mechanic followed (Reality ........embracing me cold-heartedly...) - Back to High School after 3 years of successful training (Early one morning the sun was shinin, I was layin in bed, Wondrin`if she'd changed at all, If her hair was still red.......) - On to the University of Applied Sciences 1971-1974 - "we can change the world... re-arrange the world..." - 1 year practical training with a municipal administration - fringe-group theory clustering my brain - 1976 back to US for 6 months - International Programme (CIP-USA) at Philadelphia, Pa. a wonderful and utterly inspiring time with students from 12 other nations - ...Expand for more