Robert Sheckler:  

Following graduation from AHS in 1966, I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and was assigned to Hospital Administration at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. I also served a TDY assignment at Tan Son Nhut AFB in Saigon, Viet Nam. My education, employment and travel subsequently took me to two other corners of the country, starting in Coral Gables and Miami, Florida; Anchorage and Eagle River, Alaska; and finally Kirkland and Des Moines, Washington. My two college degrees, one in Business Administration and the other in Education, were received from Florida International University, Miami. I was recruited by Coral Gables Federal Savings out of college and, after ten years, recruited by Home Savings & Loan as Senior Vice President in Anchorage. After living through too many months of darkness in Alaska, I left and settled in the Puget Sound area of Washington State, eventually ending up in Des Moines, WA, where I decided to take up local politics. After being encouraged to run for Des Moines City Council, I was elected to fi...Expand for more