"If you don’t make a difference, think about who will . . . "
While growing up, my father always said "You live in a community and
you have an obligation to give it some of your time ." . . . I have tried to do that!
A "Native Californian", I was born and raised in Vista, northern San Diego County, on a lemon and avocado ranch. In high school, I was the student body business manager, senior class president, yearbook co-editor, and stage manager. I lettered two years in varsity basketball.
In college, I participated in forensics, Circle K service club (local president, Cal-Nev-Ha District Governor, International Secretary, and International President), EPT (Industrial Arts Honorary Society), PBK(Honorary Educational Society), and my church college organization (MYF). My junior year at San Diego State, I worked in the planning department for the City of Chula Vista east of San Diego. My senior year, I was the school’s lead printer.
While teaching , I spent two summers managing YMCA summer camps for the Metro Y of LA and over ten summers in the studios as a Propmaker (Local 44). For twenty years, I served as an elected member of Las Virgenes Municipal Water District Board of Directors which provides water, and collects and treats wastewater for over 65,000 people covering 117 square miles abutting Ventura County. I was active on state boards in the water community and was known as a strong advocate for total water reuse.
Over the last thirty years, I have served the County of Los Angeles, not only in an educational leadership role promoting industrial technology education, but also as an environmentally responsible land use advocate. Ultimately being appointed to the prestigious Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission, as a Commissioner, which oversees development in all of LA County, a population of over 10 million people.
Retiring early from teaching in 1998, I continued to teach Graphic Arts, Photography, Math, and Web Publishing on a part-time basis at Hale Middle School, in Woodland Hills, CA (LAUSD) until June of 2002.
I reinstated with LAUSD in July of 2002 and taught Science at Mulholland MS an API 1 school, and then accepted a position as a Teacher Advisor (Technology Coach) teaching technology to teachers.
Nancy, my spouse of 42 years, and I designed and physically built our own home overlooking a meadow and stream in the Santa Monica Mountains. Here we raised our three sons. We have had the great fortune to have good health and to have extensively traveled the western portion of the North American Continent.
I enjoy hiking, fishing, camping, traveling, photography, graphics, reading, computers, but most of all, working/problem solving with children and adults.
Author:
Richard Feay
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2/28/2006 12:12 PM (EST)
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