Steve Pulley - 1944-2065 |
Very
nearly born in a Chevy coupe on its way to the hospital early one morning
in 1944, Steve Pulley awoke to the fact that California was to be his home
for the next 21 years. Moving from Alhambra to Temple City in 1947, Steve
made the transition with nary a blink. He attended school there, graduating
from Temple City High School with uncomfortably mediocre grades in 1962,
and then went on to Pasadena City College, majoring in English, not realizing
that he would have been better off had he majored in Vietnamese, Spanish
and Quechua.
In 1966 he served in Vietnam, first as a medic and then as a paper-shuffler, receiving the much-coveted Good Conduct Medal for keeping his nose clean. After his stint in the U.S. Army, he worked as a piping designer for C.F. Braun & Company, an engineering firm in Alhambra. In 1968 he left the United States for Costa Rica, and subsequently to Bolivia and Chile, where he served as a Bahá'í pioneer for the next 27 years. For a living he built houses, owned and operated a leather goods store, administered a medical office, manufactured table lamps, as well as worked as a secretary, a proofreader and a translator, although not all at the same time. In 1995, he returned to California and presently lives in Temple City, where he has his own home business. Besides ruining his posture and eyes sitting in front of a computer monitor 18 hours a day, Steve writes, paints, dances Bolivian cuecas, and does dumb magic tricks as hobbies and for entertaining unwary friends and acquaintances. We don't talk about his slide shows. And, believe it or not, while he has given up tennis, soccer and sumo wrestling, he is nevertheless still quite active in sports. Check these out... |
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