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Deryl Radder, founder of NorCal Christian Schools, Neighborhood Christian School, Scouting Collectors Society, Worldwide Scouting Items Club, and Lodge Members Society, was born in Bellingham, Washington in 1945.
Early years he lived in Everson, WA. where his father was a dairy farmer, and then later a logger. Moved to California with his parents and 3 siblings in 1957 and graduated from Richmond Union High School (famous because of the movie "Coach Carter") in 1963.
Worked during college and graduate school at the Richmond Independent and met many famous people while there including Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon,
and Pierre Salinger. Graduated from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley in 1970.
Was a cofounder of Higher Heights Christian School in Concord, California.
That school which began in 1970 grew very rapidly and was a major Christian school for many years in the valley. In 1976 he went to Vacaville and helped reorganize a school there, and also established a new school, Neighborhood Christian School in Dixon, CA, which continues to this day as a preschool through eighth grade venture.
He was on many boards in the bay area and an active seminar leader for the Association of Christian Schools International.
In 1983 he married and moved to Erie, PA where he presently lives.
In Erie, he fathered 4 children who are highly successful in both high school and college. His oldest son has travelled already to almost 50 countries around the world at the early age of 21.
During the 1990's he was part of an ongoing educational venture into both Russia and Belarus which helped present a Christian moral and ethical
curriculum for consideration to Russian public schools. He made several trips including to Moscow, Chita, Gorno Altask, and many other major cities. While in such varied places as the Alti Republic and in the czars first university in Belarus, he presented to administrative leaders
a challenge and inspiration as part of a team of 50 or 60 who travelled to each city to meet with from 200-500 at each locale. These highly effective activities brought major change in many parts of the "old Soviet
Union".
An active hobbyist who has enjoyed collecting since his youth, he started what grew to be the world's largest and most active scouting collectors group, The Scouting Collectors Society. From 1999 to 2006 (7 years) it led in the highest membership 1775 members) from 60 plus scouting countries. Now disbanded, it was a huge undertaking, a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week event, and drew the best of scouting collectors together in their common interests. Best of all, the members never ever paid dues, or had any financial responsibility in this totally free group.
