RCSB Meeting -- Connard Hogan -- The Vietnam War

The Santa Barbara Rotary Club is pleased to welcome fellow Rotarian Connard Hogan. A child of the ‘50s and ‘60s Connard dropped out of engineering school in 1968. As a result, he was conscripted into the US Army and served a one-year tour of duty in Vietnam.

Following an honorable military discharge, he received a BS in Sociology at Western Kentucky University and then an MA in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling from the University of San Francisco. As a licensed therapist, Connard worked for twenty-five years in various settings treating addicts and alcoholics, and those suffering from major psychiatric disorders.

Since retirement, Connard has pursued a number of his many passions, including service through Rotary, creating pottery, world travel, hiking and writing.

As a writer, primarily of nonfiction, he authored Once Upon a Kentucky Farm: Hope and Healing from Family Abuse, Alcoholism and Family Dysfunction, published in March 2022 (focused on navigating childhood exposure to his father’s drinking and abuse of mother, and the healing aspects of unconditional love) and Barbwire, Brothels and Bombs in the Night: Surviving Vietnam, published June 2023 (focused on navigating his transition to manhood while in Vietnam).

Discover more about Connard and read his writing, particularly his travel and Pacific Crest Trail hiking posts at www.connardhogan.com.