Rick Gleason

Rick was born in 1948 to a preacher and his wife, was raised in the Christian church, and learned to read from the King James Bible. He was a good student thru a couple of years of Bible College where he met Patricia, the pretty blonde keyboard musician he would eventually marry, and who would bear four healthy children (two girls and two boys). Soon after that marriage in 1968, he enlisted in the USAF, expecting to receive that notorious letter from his Uncle Sam (which occurred a few days after signing up with the Air Force) After eight years of military service he finished his BA magna cum laud, and went to work for a major computer company first as a field engineer installing and servicing large computers, then as a systems engineer concerned with mainframe operating systems and software. In most of those years, Rick read the Bible through, Genesis to Revelation.