ABSTRACT
In the mid 1980’s I was giving suicide prevention lectures-lots of them. Nearly 10,000 people a year were exposed to my crash courses in emotional lifesaving. I lectured near and far . . . everywhere and anywhere . . . from the 79 acre plant of General Motors in Wentzville, Missouri, to the beautiful Showboat Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Little did I know, however, that the audience that would have the greatest impact on my future career would be the students at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley; a school I had attended and snared a liberal arts degree from many years earlier. A school right in my own backyard.
