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Robert Byron

The Dancing Man Paperback Book

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At a Glance
Depression-era to modern California
Marine Corps insider perspective
Religious life to military
Entrepreneurial charter school founder
258 pages of transformation
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Southern California is many things to many people. A continuous influx of new people, new ideas, new interests, and different life styles creates a mindboggling diversity. This story covers the life of an individual who is part of that diverse mosaic an East Coast transplant who comes to Southern California by way of the US Marine Corps and San Diego. This book is a chronology of indelible memories that begin with family life in the depression thirties and the earlyon impact of Catholicism from elementary school to midcollege. It provides a unique insiders view of life in a near monastic setting when the author, at age 15, commits himself to a religious order. Leaving the order in midcollege, he joins another highly disciplined organization the United States Marine Corps where, as both an enlisted man and officer, he sheds the earlier mold of the religious life. After military service, years of mainstream jobs follow including city halls, county government, and aerospace all blended with a heavy dose of politics and teaching. His engagement with entrepreneurial undertakings follows with responses to critical needs such as jobs for displaced aerospace engineers when space programs are cutback, creation of a charter school to meet the need for better public schools, and his expansion of academic programs to engage older Americans in mentally stimulating and life enhancing learning experiences. All these experiences are couched within the context of events that...

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Binding: Paperback;258 pages; Publisher: Author Solutions Inc; Classification: N/A; Weight: 471.08 g; Dimensions: N/A

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