Sharing My Story

The last two years I spend on Campus Crusade staff were
(as with previous years) spent in many activities. 1981 was
filled with activities like attending meetings of the San
Bernardino Christian School Board, working with the
Sparks at church, attending book discussions, drawing
with the other Crusade artists at noon and painting with
the group in parks on Saturdays, a car accident (March),
brothers Russ (and Nancy) and LeRoy visiting (July) and
going to Universal Studios with them, going to the
San Diego Comic Convention (July), attending the Creation
Convention with Paul Johnston (November), Jury Duty
(December), Campus Crusade staff training (April & October),
portrait painting class at the Community college plus comic
strip drawing, workouts and dates.

Some of the books I read in 1981 were Art Needs No
Justification by Hans Rookmaaker, Stained Glass
by William F. Buckley, Jr., Addicted to Mediocrity
by Franky Schaeffer, The Book of the Dun Cow
by Walter Wangerin, Jr, The Agony and the Ecstasy
by Irving Stone, Sexual Suicide by George Gilder,
1984 by George Orwell, Lust for Life by Irving
Stone, The Moon by John C. Whitcomb and Donald
DeYoung, The Beginning of the World by Henry M. Morris,
What Ever Happened to the Human Race by Francis Schaeffer &
C. Everret Koop, America BC by Barry Fell and many others.
Also my reading of comics was back in full swing.

This was an enjoyable year as I was working on AIA magazine
(a dream job), Ronald Reagan was in the White House (even
though he took over when the country was in a deep recession
and his abortive assassination), the Iran hostages were freed and
things were busy but fulfilling.

1982 was also one of many activities similar to the previous year.
In March (20th) I moved my office from Arrowhead Springs to
San Bernardino. Campus Crusade built an office complex on
27th Street that would eventually house a significant part of
the headquarters staff. The organization did not want to build
more facilities at Arrowhead Springs making it potentially
prohibitive to possible future buyers. Campus Crusade eventually
moved the entire headquarters operation to Orlando, Florida in 1991.
On April 3 I went hiking with Don Franklin up Mt. Rubidoux
(near Riverside). This year I worked in John Paul Stark's congressional
campaign. I volunteered during his telephone get-out-the-vote campaign
at his headquarters as well as precinct walking. He won the primary in
June and attended his victory party. I also had a lesser involvement in
his Fall campaign which he lose to the incumbent Democrat.

Likewise some of the books I was reading in 1982 were Walden Two
by BF Skinner, Marco Polo If You Can By William F. Buckley, Jr.,
The View from Sunset Blvd. by Ben Stein, Entropy: A New World
View by Jeremy Rifkin, The Maze of Mormonism by Walter Martin,
The Tapestry by Edith Schaeffer, The Last Unicorn by Peter S.
Beagle, Decision Making and the Will of God by Gary Frieson
and many others.