Rick and Stan Visit Mario's
In college I befriended several people with whom I remain in contact. When we are together now, talk often turns to our days at San Jose Bible College where we met. One of these people is Rick Criscione and we now happen to live in the same town, Turlock, CA, go to the same church and remain friends. Rick grew up in San Jose and attended Yerba Buena High School from where he graduated in 1976, making him about one year younger than me. I was already at SJBC when he arrived. I don’t recall how we met, other than it was a small campus with about 200 students in attendance. But we eventually got acquainted and became pals. Rick came to the school with two other guys he had grown up with – Mark Thompson and Rodney Williams and there are stories about them, too, but that’ll have to wait. The following school year Rick and I decided to be roommates and began looking for an apartment. Another student, Steve Walker, said he was also looking for roommates and he had already put a deposit o