FLSSP Welcomes New Board Member Randy Harrison

Randy Harrison was born into a military family during WWII. He came to Issaquah in 1988 and has lived on Squak Mountain with his family since then. Before that move he had forty-eight changes of address, most of which occurred with his parents and his subsequent six years in the Army. He completed secondary schooling in Lisbon and attended the American College in Paris (now the American University in Paris) for two years. He quit his studies in his junior year, enlisted in the Army, obtained a commission as an infantry officer and served twenty-seven months in Vietnam as a Green Beret.

He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Central Florida, joined the Orlando Sentinel and spent twenty years as a journalist, the last five years of which he was a foreign correspondent. In the summer of 1988 he was hired by Boeing and retired in 2008 as director of media relations for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Within a month of moving from Florida to Issaquah he “discovered” Lake Sammamish State Park and has “hung out” there ever since. He is passionate about Issaquah and its ambience. He is a master docent with Friends of Issaquah Salmon Hatchery, a former member of the Washington State Parks Foundation and served for fifteen years on the Issaquah Development Commission. He also taught citizenship classes at the Issaquah Library. He is a photographer and a long time member of the Issaquah Sportsman Club. He has written two novels and is near completion of the sequel to his first.