Sherril Bash Nixon (Aurora, Co –Summer) (Lake Havasu City, AZ – Winter) Sherril is divorced and has no children. She was an English/American History/Speech teacher for about 3 years; an administrative assistant in Plant Engineering and construction for Bell & Howell; worked for NIH at University of Southern Cal in viral oncology and wrote/edited/published 48 papers on viruses and retroviruses (which turned out to be the foundation for AIDS research and gave it a huge jump-start); worked in scrap metal and stocks and bonds; insurance; was an editor and computerized all the records of the Colorado River Sun newspaper; marketing research - all the ATM research in CA for Security Pacific, B of A, Wells Fargo, etc.

She also was Western Regional Sales Manager 13 to15 states (and 11 southern states) for Toshiba for their printers and computers when they came to this country and authored 11 books in 9 months to document all of their equipment; developed their dealer marketing programs and started their distribution program; Western Regional Sales Manager for Canon USA in printers and computers (13 western states), building a business from zero to $15M per year; dabbled in real estate; ended working with an 8 year contract as Managing Editor of the Journal Ophthalmology for the American Academy of Ophthalmology.