Focus on TUSD - Summer 2008

Alex Bendyna
Bendyna graduated from Mesa High School in 1974 and enlisted as an Army private the next tear. He spent 15 years on active duty from 1975-1992 with a couple of years of reserve time during the mid- to late-1970s.

He has been with TUSD for two years. He teaches a Master's program for the Army Command and General Staff College to majors and lieutenant colonels, preparing them for senior level command and staff positions. He's been on duty one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer for the last 16 years.

Bendyna and his wife, Shirley, have three children: Shirley, 25; Jennifer, 23 and Alex III, 21.

Photos in the summer issue by Jes Ruvalcaba of Communications & Media Relations, unless otherwise noted.

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