PORT ST. LUCIE PEOPLE
FORT
NASA
“It’s me!” Ron Garan waits to be let back inside the International Space
Station during a six-month mission where he completed three space walks.
He came away from the experience with an “orbital perspective” that
propelled him into a world of humanitarian projects.
in New York and headed for the West Coast. She dropped
by UCLA’s art department, found a job posting and went
to work.
“Daniel was a very talented musician,” Relis says. “He attended
the one-year program and decided that he didn’t like
the lifestyle of most guitarists who were using drugs in the
’80s, so we returned home.”
He attended Hunter College-The City University of New
York in Manhattan where his physics professor urged him to
apply for a four-year scholarship. Later, he earned a Master
of Engineering degree in thermofluids from the University
of Central Florida and has been a mechanical engineer and
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Port St. Lucie Magazine 55
LINDA RELIS
Age: “A lady does not reveal
her age.”
Lives in: Port St. Lucie (October
- April) and Brasstown,
N.C. (April – October).
Occupation: Full-time artist.
Family: Husband, Peter
Lichtblau; three sons: Ron,
John and Daniel Garan; eight
grandchildren.
Education: School of Visual Arts and the New York School of
Interior Design in Manhattan.
Hobbies: “I like to read historical novels and the Outlander
series along with nature walks and bird watching from my
porch in North Carolina.”
What inspires me: “Nature - the way light falls on an object
or something that just takes my breath away.”
Something most people don’t know about me: “I tend to be
reclusive and, as long as I have something creative to do, I
like it that way.”
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