Rick Needham

Recent employment was with a school in the inner-city of Harrisburg, PA for poverty level boys - grades 6-8 -- also with a computer company in Northern California that analyzes Thoroughbred Horse Racing ... and then as a computer consultant for a company that installs internet streaming video equipment on Little League baseball fields. Now working as a chef in a restaurant in Linglestown, Pennsylvania. I have been a chemistry teacher for more than 30 years ... teaching in Massachusetts, Rio de Janeiro, Pennsylvania, California etc ... yep .. I speak languagues other than English ... especially Brazilian Portuguese ... I am currently translating a book ... ""Mochila nas Costas ... e Diairio na Mao" .. into English ("BackPack on My Back - Diary in My Hands)... this book is about a man - Ashbel Green Simonton .. who was born 150 years ago in the small town where I live in PA (West Hanover, Twp) .. and later established the Presbyterian Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! And no .. I am not Presbyterian ... but am