Alum Ray Vaughn Returns to His Punk-Rock Playground in San Francisco's SOMA

SF WEEKLY -- With this in mind, Vaughn enrolled in City College and SF State, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and a master’s and teaching credential in special education. He went to work as a paraprofessional at Galileo High School in 1998 and ultimately became the department chair of special education, retiring last year.

“To be honest with you, a stage is a stage,” Vaughn says. “You have to keep an audience engaged. Teaching is performance, if you think about it. But no one who knows me could have seen that turn of events in a million years.”