Paul is from Northwest Pennsylvania just below Lake Erie and near the Ohio border in a town named Greenville. Actually he attended parochial school in Mt. Vernon, Ohio from grades seven through high school. He graduated in 1959 and went to Andrews University majoring in Theology. He subsequently earned a Masters in Religion in 1964 and a Masters of Divinity in 1975. He helped start a drug dependence program in Williamsburg, KY in 1975 and after a couple of years moved it here in 1977. His program is now called The Bridge to Recovery for which he is President and Chaplain. Their focus now is more on co-dependency and caring for individuals from dysfunctional backgrounds. His wife Carol has published two books. The most recent is called Hooked on Unhappiness. They have two sons one is a CPA in Birmingham and the other a Yale educated PhD cell biolgoist in Boston. Paul says he enjoys walking, bird watching, bicycling, and more and more knocking around with his 6 grandchildren. He said the arrival of the newest one is imminent.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Get to Know Paul Cannon
Paul is from Northwest Pennsylvania just below Lake Erie and near the Ohio border in a town named Greenville. Actually he attended parochial school in Mt. Vernon, Ohio from grades seven through high school. He graduated in 1959 and went to Andrews University majoring in Theology. He subsequently earned a Masters in Religion in 1964 and a Masters of Divinity in 1975. He helped start a drug dependence program in Williamsburg, KY in 1975 and after a couple of years moved it here in 1977. His program is now called The Bridge to Recovery for which he is President and Chaplain. Their focus now is more on co-dependency and caring for individuals from dysfunctional backgrounds. His wife Carol has published two books. The most recent is called Hooked on Unhappiness. They have two sons one is a CPA in Birmingham and the other a Yale educated PhD cell biolgoist in Boston. Paul says he enjoys walking, bird watching, bicycling, and more and more knocking around with his 6 grandchildren. He said the arrival of the newest one is imminent.
