Robert Strickland:  

Life Hello to Cathedral High Classmates... many wonderful memories! I was there for just my freshman and sophomore years, after which my father retired from the Army, and we moved to the Washington DC Maryland suburbs. I finish high school at Gonzaga Prep and attended Catholic Univ where I received a EE degree. I met my wife, Sandra, at 18y/o and proposed on our second date. We married three years later, had a girl and a boy, and recently celebrated 44 years together (47 including dating). After finishing an ROTC committment in the Air Force, I joined Hughes Aircraft as a Field Service and Support engineer. We spent three years on the high plains of Montana with trips back to LA for radar equipment training. Along the way, I became interested in psychology (long story). In 1968 I transfered out of FS&S to an in-house job at Hughes so that we could stay in LA. Both Sandra and I attended psychology courses at UCLA. In 1970 I was accepted into graduate school in clinical psychology at Syracuse Univ in Syraucse, NY. Sandra earned a BS in psych and a BA in art history. I graduated with a PhD in 1975 and started working at a local psychiatric hospital. In 1980 I started a private practice and have been doing that for the last 25 years. From 1978 to 1998 I was involved in bicycle racing, promoting and officialing. I started back into amatuer radio in 1990, I'm very active in that hobby. I am one of the cofounders of the Zen Center of Syracuse in 1972. I was ordained a lay Buddhist m...Expand for more