Rona Walstra:  

Life After High School I didn't go straight to college instead I traveled a lot. I moved to Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle, New York City, back to Cincinnati again for a short time, Indianapolis, Providence, San Francisco then back to Rhode Island and presently living in South Carolina. A lot to tell but I will try to keep it brief. Went to college here and there for photography, broadcasting and advertising design. Worked in the music industry during my late teens into my mid-twenties, which included being a buyer for the rock section at Tower Records (Seattle) after 5 years I moved to NYC to help open the first ever Tower Records on the East Coast, this job led me to a position at MTV (in the early days) as an assistant to the advertising department. After a marriage, a baby and a divorce I then moved to RI (where my parents had moved to our summer home after Cincy) to start over. I went to work for Rhode Island School of Design for 10 years, first as an assistant in the office of continuing education and then as the assistant in the architecture department, while working in the architecture dept. a professor, Friedrich St.Florian, who had worked at RISD for 30 years, won the WWII Memorial competition in Washington, DC. He asked me to come and work for him as his Studi...Expand for more