There is a period of frantic youthful alarums and excursions--B.A. Degree from UH--always playing rock and roll to finance my way--back and forth from Hawaii to mainland-- take teaching courses at Sonoma State in Cotati, California--first year of teaching sixth grade at Penngrove School, Penngrove, CA.--how to get a decent job that I like?--back to Hawaii--hired by State Dept. of Ed. to be Chairman of the English Department at Kapaa High School on Kauai--Drama, Speech, English, Yearbook--direct Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story to local critical acclaim--back to the mainland for a year at Northern Arizona University and over to Honolulu again to teach at Dole Intermediate School (The Wizard of Oz) and Kalani High School--(The Music Man and West Side Story again to rave reviews)-- and finally--my big educational and employment break--I am hired to teach Journalism and Mass Communication at LCC, Leeward Community College, the branch of the University of Hawaii in Pearl City, Oahu, Hawaii--near where the battleship Arizona slowly rusts away on the bottom of Pearl Harbor.
I am an Associate Professor at Leeward Community College and Mom is so proud!
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