What's Up:
Forty years has flow by in a flash and the twentieth reunion
seems like yesterday. My curiosity of and for life has led me on many
journeys and has heightened my interest in history. How our culture
has evolved to where it is today fascinates me. For the last 5 years I
have been working on a tour book of San Francisco and Northern
California that combines places to go and the history and culture of
the area into one book. It is designed as a self guided tour book with
several step by step one-day tours. It should be ready for publication
next spring.
I enjoy all kinds of activities and with the N.
California weather it is easy to plan just about any activity months
in advance. I used to be into mountain stream fishing and white water
rafting but with the population increase I have turned to more local
outdoor pursuits. Several years ago I was on a white water trip with
Arnold Schwarzenegger (pre Maria time.) and was pitched from the raft
as we went over a rapid. Arnold lifted me up by my life jacket with
one hand and dropped me back into the raft. (You should try having a
water fight when he’s using 5-gallon buckets.)
I love to play golf and play some 30 to 40 rounds
a year. I am the Past President, Treasurer and Tournament Director for
the Walnut Creek Men’s Golf Club. I started a couple’s
nine-hole/dinner group two years ago and setup a mystery golf tour
that went to Whistler, BC. Trips to Ireland and Scotland to play golf
have fulfilled my golfer’s fantasy. Audits at resorts in Hawaii
weren’t bad either.
I have done more traveling in the last ten years
than the previous 30 years combined. There is so much to see in this
country that I wish there were more hours in the day. Trips to Europe
and the Orient are so fascinating after studying about them in high
school.
I have gotten involved in genealogy and have
traced the family name back to Sweden in 1602.
I am going through
a mid-life-crisis with cars and have spent the last 2 years
restoring a 1984 BMW 633csi.
My Occupation:
I graduated with a BSBA in Finance from the University of Denver
in 1969. I was offered a job with US Steel in San Francisco six
months before I graduated. Except for at three-year period in the
mid 70’s when I worked for Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY, I have
called the San Francisco Bay Area my home. I passed the CPA exam in
1985 and have been in the accounting and finance professions all my
life. I have been the controller for four businesses over the years
and after I passed the CPA exam I decided it was time to do my own
thing. I am the Principal of The Steven’s Group,
Certified Public Accountants – A majority of the practice is devoted
to acting as a court appointed receiver. A receiver takes over a
business under a court order and runs the business or sells the assets
until the dispute is settled. Another receiver and I managed an R&B
Hip Hop station in Sacramento last year (and our parents thought
rock-n-roll was bad.) The other part of the practice is involved in
consulting and preparing financial statements, and tax returns for
privately owned businesses and pension plans.My Family:
My wife Linda and I have been married 51 years. YEAH right! (Linda
was married 22 years, I was married 23 and we have been married 6
years – that’s 51 years.) During our four-year courtship we decided to
test our relationship by remodeling a house. We are happy to say that
after 10 years the house (now a home) is totally remodeled and so am
I. We are very involved in the Walnut Creek Episcopal Church and in
the Engaged Encounter program for couples who are thinking of getting
engaged or are engaged.
We have five children between us. Linda’s two
sons run a hedge fund that they started seven years ago. I have a
25-year-old daughter who graduated from UC Davis with a degree in
childhood development and is currently half way through an intensive
one-year nursing program. My two sons 24 and 18 are developmentally
delayed and live in a group home.
Favorite Memories:
Mike Robison and two other guys pulling up to the
ticket booth at the Wadsworth Drive-In movie and doing a 360 in the
driveway and then speeding past the ticket booth in my moms 54
Chevy. Seeing Mr. Beaseley backing up his Chevy 409 into a parking
space in a big rush and being a dimes width from the car behind him.
Watching the Football and Basketball games. Homecoming bon fire. The
smell of fall on a cross-country run. Graduating – couldn’t wait to
be on my own.
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