Robert Lundblad:  

Life After graduating from Crestmoor in 1968 I chose to head to Oregon State University instead of taking a post office job in Milpitas. Looking back the post office job might have been a wiser choice but wiser was not in my plans, or lack of. Stayed one year at OSU, very rainy, grey, odd for me. If you remember me I was fairly clean cut at Crestmoor but was very radical for Corvallis. I studied forestry for about a quarter when I felt I was urged to leave the program. I was getting a little out of control but managed to stay in school. I began taking easier courses for me, sociology and the like and did well enough to think I could master that. I transferred to UC Davis for an extended period of substance abuse, counter-culture-carousing, and time wasting. If I did this five years earlier or five years later I would have gotten kicked out of school, or hoped that I would. I got a pretty good education despite my best efforts to avoid one. Within this odd period I got married then and moved to Oregon in 1973 after completing an undergraduate degree there. My job out of college was selling hardware in a department store. I wanted to be a logger but was not logger material. One thing led to another and I was going to be a father so I needed a real job with benefits and all. I got lucky and was able to re-study forestry at OSU and graduated with a second degree in 1977. I worked as a tree planter and survey crew member in Washington for a year and then worked for the State of Oregon for 25 years as a forester of sorts, first in Central ...Expand for more