Tim Fitzgerald:  

Life I am a misplaced mountaineer, recently relocated from a ski resort where I no longer ski. I thrilled to the climate and scenary, and was inspitred to write often and intensely. I gave up a life pursuing political accomplishments in San Jose, in 1997, after a lifetime in Silicon Valley. I am a lifetime student at San Jose State, and listed in 'Who's Who in America.'I ahve been a political organizer for over 35 years, and held public appointed office a few times. Now,I have just relocated in San Jose after living for a year in a mobile home in Sonora, California - where I intend to capitalize on 30 years as a free lance writer.I never married, but was engaged seriously a couple of times. Just couldn't put it together long enough to get the ring on. School In high school and before, I got the mountaineering bug from my father, and scouting in troop 564. We traveled on the Muir Trail every summer in high school, and I went on to pioneer first ascents 'climbing the walls' in Yosemite Valley in college in the Sixties. I guess my highest honor was being named Mr. Criswell's lab assistant in Physics my senior year. I excelled in sports, setting the school record in the 660 my junior year. I wish I had participated in the social Life of Los Gatos High, but we lived 5 miles out of town, and I never dated until I reached college. I found the departure from high school to college VERY abrupt.It was a lonely adulecsance, but then most of my life prior to college was spent on my own. College My undergraduate years in college is where my 'career' as a student really hit stride. I became a leader on the campus, indisputably, being elected student body Treasurer in 1969 and serving as the executive assistant to the student body president the prior year - a year in which I rewrote the student body constitution, and reorganized the college governing body into a student/faculty assembly along the lines of Tom Hayden's "Port Huron" Statement. I also cut my teeth at national caliber rock climbing in Yosemite Valley, opening up Chapel Wall in 1968 and 1969. Making the record setting 'moon lite' midnight ascent of the Lost Arrow with Chuck Ostin and John Howard in August 1968. My studies lagged as a result, and I didn't become a scholar until I got my third degree as a masters of Social Science concentrating in Socio-economics. I have fiver degrees,, a Masters in History, landed me a New York Literary agent as a writer - my principle pre-occupation today. My Master's Thesis was published by Universal MicroFilms, the archivist of ALL doctiral Dissertations and a hand full, (including mine) of Masters Thesis. They are located in Ann Arbor, Mich. A copy of the thesis "Twilight in the afternoon: The War at Home (1964-70) can be purchase direct from the publisher for about $34.oo Just recently I re-enrolled in the 'over sixties' program, and am finishing my Third Masters in Philosophy. Landed a publisher in 2008 and am finally publishing my Memoirs as a series of three seperate works, ...WAWONA BROTHERHOOD (vol.One);A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH (VOL TWO); and just being released - PURSUIT OF THE DRAGON FLY (Democracy on Trial - the Green Years) VOL Three ending in 2001.And having relocated this last year (2011) in Sonora CA I have elected to place my name on the ballot once more, for a shot in an Open District for State Assembly - it being the first time since an undergraduate my mind was not divided between working and attending school at the same time i was campaigning . Workplace I actually pursued three careers simultaneously during my 35 years since first graduating from college. One...Expand for more