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| I grew up in Hilo, Hawaii |
| This is a picture of my sister and me sledding in Hawaii... Yes, I said Hawaii. |
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| Didn't believe me, huh? This picture was taken in 1970 from Coconut Island looking across Hilo Bay at Mauna Kea in HAWAII. (Click here for a 2001 photo). Mauna Kea, in Hawaiian, means "White Mountain." It and its sister mountain, Mauna Loa, are each over 13,000 feet above sea level. Pictured in this poor quality, untouched-up snapshot are my sister, me (a.k.a. Dane Coefer), and neighbors George and Terriann Kaaihili. |
| In 1978, my family moved to the mainland (a.k.a. North America). I graduated from Ashland Senior High School in Oregon the following year. I enrolled in Southern Oregon State College and participated in an exchange program with the Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico. While South of the Border I studied French, German and Pre-Socratic Philosophy. After 6 years of higher education, I graduated with degrees in Spanish, Political Science, and Business Administration, with a minor in French. According to the Southern Oregon State College Registrar, I was the first person in the history of the institution to graduate with three simultaneous degrees. I have subsequently made good use of my education by becoming a custodial worker. |
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| Yes, that is I, in the center of Plaza de la Paz, Guanajuato, Mexico, reading what is either the poetry of Jacques Prevert, in French, or the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, in Spanish. (I know...he was Post-Socratic. It didn't hurt my grade...ocho punto cinco.) |
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