Barry Baxter:  

February 2008 I was born in Salt Lake City, UT in 1930. My mother and I moved to San Francisco, CA in 1939. I lived up and down the West Coast, including San Francisco; Watsonville, CA; San Diego, CA; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Tacoma,WA; and Glendale, CA, until my graduation from Glendale High School in 1948. After high school I spent five years in the military, one year in the U.S. Marine Corps & four years in the U.S.Air Force. In the Marine Corps I was a special weapons instructor in the Advanced Infantry School at Camp Pendleton, California. In the Air Force I began as a jet fighter mechanic in the 27th Fighter Squadron at March Field, in Riverside, California. My squadron was reassigned to George Air Force Base in Victorville, CA briefly on July 14, 1950 and then to Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, NY, on August 15, 1950. In 1951 I was reassigned to the 7th Radar Calibration Squadron, where I was a flight engineer on a converted B-29 in which we did electronic testing, research and surveillance in the eastern United States and the Artic region. Part of our work included hurricane research off the coast of Florida and the Carolinas.. Following my Air Force duty I enrolled in San Jose State College (now University) in San Jose, CA, from which I graduated in 1956 with a BA degree in Public Relations. Immediately after graduation I went to work for IBM at its San Jose plant. I held various positions there using my skills learned in college. In 1964 the lure of money took me to the sales field and I joined Xerox Corporation, working, out of the San Francisco office. I rose to the position of Federal Government Marketing Manager and left in 1970 to take a sales job with Motorola Corporation in Foster City, CA. Following four years at Moto...Expand for more