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As a Full Time Teacher
His teaching responsibilities included Physical Science, Family life, Elective Guitar classes, a science
program for the gifted, and an after school aeronautics club. He was also a teacher/director for a Summer School Conservation
class that was a multi grade level program for students in the 4th through 11th grades. He wrote the syllabus for the program
for the State of California so other districts could create similar programs. Mr. Read also took many post graduate classes
at UC Berkeley, Sonoma State and Dominican College.
As an Entertainer
Mr. Read, aka Ruff Read, learned to play the acoustical guitar and sing folk, country, and pop songs
while in college. Summertime jobs as a counselor or program director at children's camps in New England, Ohio, and California
gave him many opportunities to share music around campfires with campers and staff. During his Army tour of duty in Germany,
he entertained the troops as a performer for the USO. In the San Francisco Bay Area, he performed for both public and private
functions. Some venues included KGO-TV, the Circle Star Theater, and for 20th Century Fox in Oakland, CA. He was also the
master of ceremonies for the local Junior Miss Pageant in Novato, CA. He wrote many songs, and organized a folk group called
the Redwood Travelers who performed in the Bay Area.
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