Michael Peters, Craft Talk
Posted by Wes Bradford
on Aug 18, 2015
Mike Peters, our Club’s newest member, was born in Alabama where his mother was an Army Reserve Captain and his father worked for the railroad. He grew up in Lakewood, California, and attended Artesia High School. He started playing football at age 11 and hoped to become a professional football player. After college interviews at the University of Illinois and at Ole Miss, he chose the Ole Miss Rebels to avoid cold weather. (However, one of his favorite places is Alaska, where he loves to go for fishing trips, in summertime, of course.)
As a senior, Mike collided with another football player at high speed on the field and tore his knee. He watched the film of that play only once, but that was enough to end his football dreams. He got a job with Wells Fargo Bank and then with Dean Witter Financial Services who sent him to New York for training in April 2001 (a few months before the fateful 9/11 attack). He worked for Crowell Weedon until 2 years ago, when he transferred to Waddell & Reed (on Del Amo Boulevard in Torrance) as a financial advisor for insurance products.