The best place to start is at the very beginning, when City of Redwood City provided public transportation to Ca?ada College. Back then, you had to get off the bus, and walk up on campus from Farmhill Boulevard.
A fellow member of the Associated Students of Ca?ada College got in a wheelchair, to demonstrate to the powers that be here how hard it was to get to classes by bus back then.
I decided, as the uncontested student body vice president to be Ca?ada's spokesperson before the pre-City Council of East Palo Alto, the City Council of Menlo Park, as well as the City Council of Redwood City who raced each other to send their letter of support to San Mateo County. In the fall of 1976, not only was there now public bus service on campus, it also connected those communities to it as well to it.
One day, while riding SamTrans' then 6A back home, to my utter surprise, from the back I was able to espy the president of Ca?ada who was also a passenger on the bus. When I informed the driver whom he most indeed was, that SamTrans employee without much delay told all the other drives whom he had just learned who back then was former president of Ca?ada College!
Now, to make a short story longer, the POTUS on a Thursday, 17 February 2011 was about to break bread with some of Silicon Alley's top money makers: Carol Bartz, Erick Schimdtz Mark Zukerman and Steve Jobs to name just a few.
However, how likely would it have ever been for a young guy who with a doctor's thesis to his academic credits [ as was found in his employment vitae] should have decided to seek employability at such a nowhere place like Ca?ada College? One minute, you would never have noticed the place, and the next, the Secret Service is crawling all over it. Go figure!
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