Dr. Leonard Bacon is a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is married to the former Patricia Balzaretti from Mexico City. Dr. Bacon and his wife have three children: Bernadine, Jerry and Tiffany. All three graduated from Bakersfield High School and went on to finish college.   Leonard Bacon was drafted into the U.S Army upon graduation from high school at the beginning of the Korean War. During 1954-58, he served in Rio de Janeiro with the joint Brazil-United States Military Commission. One of his duties was to teach at the Brazilian Command and General Staff School. Also, on his second tour to Korea in 1959, he served as an advisor the Republic of Korea Army Audit Agency. He retired from the Army at the rank of Major in November 1966 after a tour of service in Viet Nam.   While in the military, he attended the nearest college/ university to where he was stationed or completed college correspondence courses. When he was within a semester of obtaining his undergraduate degree, he was send to the University of Nebraska under the Bootstrap Program. That was in 1965 when he earned his undergraduate degree. After retiring from the military, he earned his M.B.A. in 1969 at the University of the Americas in Mexico City. In 1973, he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Mississippi.   Prior to teaching at CSUB, he taught at Delta State University (1971-76) and at Texas A&M at Canyon (1976-79). He also taught at two different universities in Mexico City during the summers of 1974 and 1975. He arrived at CSUB in 1979 and was tenured full professor in 1983. In the fall of 2004 he took early retirement and started teaching part time.