Stephen Caron:  

A story... they want a story.... Drifted to Southern California for college - 4 years at Harvey Mudd entitled me to continue onto graduate school, and deciding to try something different, I went to Illinois (U of I in Champaign/Urbana - they had the easiest application to fill out). Left Illinois with another engineering degree and a wonderful wife and headed back to CA for my new wife's job... just needed a job of my own at that point. Went to work as a "Rocket Scientist" (go figure) in San Jose. Played the rocket game in various guises for about 15 years, suffered one of my crises (see yellow car pic for the outcome of the other crisis), then jumped into the clinical research field (helping get drugs onto the streets - legally). About 9 months after the '89 Loma Prieta earthquake, my wonderful son backed his way into the world. He keeps me young - brought me into snowboarding and mountain biking while I kept the Boy Scout thing ...Expand for more