Don Moura:  

Life Eighteen days after graduating from San Lorenzo High School on June 11, 1959, I was enjoying the United States Army Boot Camp at Fort Ord with one of my high school classmate's, Earl Wilhite. Like all young people of that age, we probably thought that things were tough at home, and that we wanted to get out on our own so that we could be independent and "do what we wanted to do." Well, the Army had other ideas about who was going to decide what we would or would not do. Home was never viewed so well as while we were in Boot Camp. It was a good growth experience for me as I spent three years in the Army. After returning home from the Army I worked in the Warehouse at both the Lawrence Radiation Lab in Livermore, and the United Can Company in Hayward........until I was able to follow my childhood dream of entering the field of law enforcement. I retired with a total Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) service time of 37 years in law enforcement working in my early career years with the Hayward, Oakland and Pleasanton Police Departments. Commensurate with my early work experience, I graduated with an AA Degree in Police Science from Chabot College; and with both a Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Criminal Justice Administration from San Jose State University. Because of lower back related injuries incurred while working in the field, I moved to the Education and Training segment of law enforcement. I served as an Instructor with the Criminal Justice Administration Program at San Jose State University; taught Part-Time in a number of Community College law enfo...Expand for more