Name: Jim Donovan E-mail: jjkdonovan@aol.com Telephone: 2143920325 Comments: Thanks Marsha for reaching out. I’m living in Austin, Texas (moved to Dallas temporarily with Kaiser Permanente 32 years ago) with my wife Jane; our two grown children live in Austin also. I will check my work schedule to see if I can join y’all. It’s been too long. Thanks for all your effort pulling this together. Jim  

Gretchen Schafer Ibarra 05/06/18 Here's my own brief bio. We came to Orinda from Caracas, VZ in 57, after my dad had a heart attack. Miss Lavis was my teacher and boy that was a rough year. Really enjoyed IVI (Mr. Titus was great!) and Campolindo too. After graduating CSU San Jose, on Behavioral Science, I saved my money and flew off to Europe solo. My intention was to eventually hook up with my sister and her husband and daughter in Turkey. But first did the Eurail Pass until it was really out of date, then took a student flight to Kenya to meet my college roommate and her husband for an East African tour in a VW bug. We even had my birthday celebration in 73 in Mombasa, sleeping on the beach. Met my Aussie husband in Greece then went to stay with him in No West London. That's when the money ran out. Back to the U.S., married in 76 and began in recruiting, then went into outside sales. Had two awesome sons who are both married now with their first born sons. I got into electronic test and measurement sales, then sales leadership, met my current husband Fernando there and eventually left the company to buy our own wire, cable and connector company while living in El Dorado Hills outside Sacramento. We returned to Belmont in 2002, and I got into technical sales recruiting in 2005. Two years ago the boys said they were done with California so we thought we might try Colorado and absolutely love Fort Collins now. I travel every quarter now but still do some returned recruiting when I'm home. Never knew hiking and snow and mountains could be so incredible. Love this semi retirement stuff and will divest more this year to travel. That's it so far!! Gretchen 

Maddy and Marsha, thanks so much for reaching out to our classmates to check in! This is a crazy and different time for sure. I am especially grateful for all of the e-ways to stay in touch. What would we do without e-mail, Facebook, Zoom, etc. right now? I'm doing OK in Colorado, where it seems to be winter/spring every other day. It snowed yesterday, about 6 inches, and today is bright sunshine and near 50. Trees are leafing out and plants are awakening after winter, though, so it will soon be full on spring. I enjoy thinking back to our 50th reunion and am so glad I made the trip to join in the fun. Thanks again for all of the work and prep to make it such a great weekend for all. Take care, Barbry  

50 years wow

  Cougars                                                                                
By Leslie Maxson                                                            
alive in fields
golden fields and
green mountains
slink large and wild  

predators
feline
lovers
beauty in all its truths  

special groups gather
companions
in times of peace
in times of love
in times of war
our lens extends
50 years  

playful
remembering
male/female
gender’s smart intensity
softly assembles
into bodies
with style  

We are all Cougars.      
Dedicated to the class of 1968
On their 50th Reunion
Campolindo High/Cougars mascot
Beautiful fields  ‘campolindo’
Our class with class.  

The past 50 years have went by like a blink of an eye, I moved to Minnesota in 1969 and I'm still here and will never leave. I got married in 1971 and was drafted into the Army in Nov. 1971 and spent 2 years in Alaska, it was a great place to be. I returned home and attended Dunwoody Industrial College and earned my 2 year degree in electronics, shortly after that I joined the Air Foce Reserve at the Minneapolis/St Paul International Airport working as an Avionics Technician on the C-130 Aircraft and then I eventually moved into maintenance supervision, I did the same job both as a reservist and a civilian technician. I supported the C-130 for 34 years in a varity of countries in Europe, Central and South America, and the Pacific and then completed 2 tours in the Middle East. I divorced in 1991 and never remarried but I have 3 wonderful sons, 2 sons are electricians and one is a welder and the best part is the 7 grandchildren, 4 girls and 3 boys. I retired in 2008 with a total of 37 years in the military, 6 years active duty at different times and 31 years as a reservist, it was a great ride while it lasted but everything must come to an end. I work part time as a damaged freight inspector for something to do and I spend part of my winters in St Thomas in the Virgin Islands and my summers are spent on Lake Vermilion in northern Minnesota. I wish I could be at the reunion but certain events kept me from coming I wish everyone a long and healthy life. Darryl  

My life/career journey, as the song goes, has been a long and winding road. It started at DVC, where I earned an AA in Art in 1970, followed by a BA in Art in 1972 from UC Davis. I paid for most of my college education by working nights, weekends, summers and breaks at Safeway. I started the summer after high school as a courtesy clerk (bag boy) and eventually worked my way up to journeyman checker/stock clerk. Over the years, in addition to Safeway, I've had many different jobs including sign maker at Cost Plus, furniture delivery driver, dishwasher, waiter, sales clerk at UC Bookstore, print shop/darkroom tech, just to name a few.  

After college, I bounced around for awhile with odd jobs and some travel in the continental U.S. and abroad, including a trip to Hawaii and another to Hong Kong, where I stayed with a college roommate's family for a month. Later, realizing a degree in art wasn't going to get me that career job, I enrolled in the CSU, Hayward, teaching credential program, which I graduated from in 1975. Ironically, that year there was a glut of teachers so I couldn't even find a teaching job...unless I wanted to move to the middle of nowhere. (I never even used that credential until many years later.)  Fortunately, I had found a job as a full-time graphic artist at Chabot College in Hayward, where I worked for over two years.

A breakup with my girlfriend of four years prompted me to re-evaluate my life and make some changes. I wanted to teach at the college level so, in early 1978, I had left my job and got accepted into the Masters Degree program in Public Communication/Graphic Design at CSU, Chico. After graduating in 1980, my first official full-time job was Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Arizona State University. Myself and three other people were hired on a temporary, year-to-year basis to rebuild the Graphic Design Department, which was outdated and had declined in recent years. We developed a thriving new design program which soon earned an excellent reputation. I absolutely loved my job and was looking forward to a continued career there. Unfortunately, after three wonderful years, in a political move, a newly hired dean decided to change everything and bring in some new blood. Sadly, our contracts were not renewed for the following year.

Disappointed, I moved back to Chico and first worked full-time in a graphic design studio for three years, then took a job as Art Director for Videomaker magazine and I was teaching part-time classes at CSU, Chico and Butte Community College. Meanwhile, I was still applying and interviewing for college teaching jobs, which were limited and extremely competitive. I was often one of the top candidates, but someone else always got the job. In 1988, the prospect of a higher income motivated me to move to the Bay Area, where I was employed as an account executive for a promotional products company. The money was very good, but, after eight years, I felt unfulfilled, burned out and needed a change, so I resigned and began to re-set my life once again. I missed teaching and, to get a job, I needed to go back to school to learn about computers and computer graphics. I was living off my savings and took some classes at Foothill College for several semesters.

In 1996, after depleting much of my resources and wanting to get out of the Bay Area, I moved to Sacramento, where I had family. Fate stepped in. Shortly after moving there, I was hit in a car accident. I wasn't hurt, but my car was totalled. Call it dumb luck...because the insurance settlement helped to support me while I finished up the classes I needed. With my new knowledge and past teaching experience, eventually, I got a full-time job teaching desktop publishing at Sacramento Unified Adult School.

After being on staff there for three years, in 2000, a position opened up at Delta College in Stockton. It came down to me and one other candidate, who I happened to know. She got the job since she was known and had already been teaching there part-time. She told me she would be leaving her position at a local small, academy high school. I applied and was hired on the spot. (Finally my teaching credential from 1975 came in handy!) The classes I taught were Computer Graphics, Graphic Design, Illustration, Art, Cartooning and Digital Photography. I was on the faculty for 10 years until, due to funding cutbacks, my position was eliminated. I figured that was a good time to retire early, with a combined total of 17 plus years of teaching.

I'm loving retirement and the freedom to do whatever I want, whenever I want! Unlike most of my classmates who married and had children, although I've been in several long term, serious relationships, we never tied the knot. I still live in Stockton (which has a bad reputation) and I've been contemplating renting or selling my house and moving somewhere to start the next chapter.
I enjoy traveling, getting together with friends and family, taking and teaching art workshops, going to dances, concerts, theater and sports events, church activities and working on projects around the house. I love movies, all kinds of music, and playing my guitars, especially classic 70's rock (always wanted to be a rocker...as the years fly by, I guess it won't be long before I'll just be sitting in one!).
Where did those 50 years go? Looking forward to seeing everybody and catching up!

 

Time Flew By too Quick Hard to believe where a “Campolindo Mechanical Drawing” class would take you in Life’s Journey. During my years at Cal I spent my summers in NYC doing drafting for an electrical contractor (Pizza/beer/car expense monies for the non-summer months in Berkeley).  As a result of that job I was able to work on projects from hundreds of feet below the streets of New York City to the 110thstory topping off ceremony on Tower A of the World Trade Center.  I’ve used that drawing skill in my 36 years of volunteer work at Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park and as the map and tech drawings illustrator for James Rollins and James Clemens series of books. My wife Judy and I also run a Sci-Fi/Fiction Writer’s group in Sacramento. Some of the members of the group have 20 plus books on the NY Times top ten best seller’s list. After getting an Engineering Degree at Cal, I went to work for Honeywell and became their West Coast trouble shooter, and developed the prototype “Honeywell Energy Conservation Control Products Line” Marketing program.  Rather than leave the Bay Area after the company offered me a promotion and a move to Oklahoma, I decided to start up my own Energy Conservation consulting company with a fellow Honeywell employee. After a year or so, I decided to sell my portion of the company to my partner and joined the newly formed California Energy Commission.  So, in August 1977 I started my life as a civil servant (during the 1st Jerry Brown Administration). While at the CEC, I helped develop energy conservation sections of Title 24, the State’s first version of making California’s buildings more energy efficient.  At the commission, I also developed a master plan for State Government Facilities Energy Conservation. (The program was announced by the Governor in a “State of the State” speech.) Within a year, the Governor’s Energy Policy Advisory Committee (EPAC) was formed. I held various positions on EPAC ranging from a department rep to vice chair and Chair up to the point of my retirement as a State Engineer at Caltrans in 2012.   I had a rare opportunity while working as a civil servant, my job was to find ways for government to reduce it’s cost of doing business. Energy and water conservation, alternative energy systems (small hydro, solar electric/thermal, hydrogen fuels, alternative vehicle fuels, recycling/reuse, green/sustainable design/construction).  I used the knowledge gained from the private sector to market and use “Life Cycle Cost Analysis” (LCCA) to sell cost savings programs to state management who were focused on spending.  With the development of quality light emitting diodes (LEDs) I was able to utilize my research budget to fund human factors studies, which assisted my project team to develop the world’s first performance tech specs for traffic signals to be converted from incandescent bulbs to LED arrays.  The draft specs were opened for public comment. (6 months later the EU adopted my team’s specs.)  by 2000 the statewide conversion started. We got almost a 97% reduction in consumed energy and grid electric load.  Once all cities and counties adopted the Caltrans’ Spec and implemented (in partnership with the State’s energy utility rebates) enough electricity load was saved statewide so one electrical power plant the size of Rancho Seco could be redirected or taken off line.  The next major project was to develop LED lighting systems for indoors and outdoors. My last project was to develop LED exterior lighting retrofit performance specs for street/road/highway lighting systems. Using LED technologies in conjunction with quality sensing controls the night lighting can now be automatically turned off when it is not needed.  My team at Caltrans helped give birth to a multi-trillion worldwide LED lighting industry resulting in the creation of millions of jobs.  Fully implementing LED tech will free up enough existing power plants to meet the charging-needs of electric hybrid and electric vehicles well into the future.  So, on April Fool’s Day of 2012 I retired from State service during the last Jerry Brown Administration. (Time Warp!!) As to what do I do with my free time? Well, Judy and I continue with our volunteer actives at Sutter’s Fort State Park (1982 through the present) where we do historic restoration and rehabilitation to the Fort exhibits, demonstrations of 1840s crafts and trades (i.e., for me it’s woodworking). I’m also the current Board Chair for the non-profit organization that supports the Fort’s mission.  As mentioned above, Judy and I coordinate a speculative fiction group (from 1988 to present) where we write and edit stories for publication. We like to travel and collect images to be included in educational presentations. I continue to work in my wood shop to make traditional 1840’s items with period hand tools. And yes, I still do some singing with the Alumni Octet at Cal Berkeley.   Judy and I chose to not have children when we got married in 1982. That way we could be supportive Aunt and Uncle to my sister and brother’s children and now we are Great Aunt and Uncle to the next generation. 

Hello all, I am writing this is almost total disbelief. I am so much enjoying the bio reads so far. Hope more folks continue to send them in over the next few weeks. I went to Miramonte as a freshman before spending 3 increadible years at Campolindo. I enrolled at DVC for the next couple of years, I think, and studied Recreation 101- 110. When the smoke cleared I went to the U of Minnesota. After 5 winters of full time work and school,I moved back to the Bay Area  in '75 with a degree in English. I hooked up with friends James Fager, Kevin Wheeler, and more especially, my brother David. I  managed a warehouse in Emeryville until I moved to Sonoma, Ca.in '77 and  hooked up with my brother again. I opened my own small art gallery and custom picture framing business.I married a school teacher in '80. I lelt California in '81 to avoid another year of state taxes. I moved to Lost Wages, NV. to accept a job in bank management. I just loved banking. Went back to school and earned a degree in bank finances and operations. In addition to being a branch operations manager I taught adult education at night and spearheaded the new ATM systems that were evolving. The industry changed to a sales atmospher so I left. From that time until now I have been in management positions including a production manager for Milgard Windows, which led me to KBHome. My last position there was regional manager before I was layed off like a lot of folks when the building industry crashed.  For the last nine years I have been with Fedex Office. I helped devlope a pilot program to have Fedex Office business centers in all the mager hotels. Almost every hotel in Las Vegas has a Fedex Office in it now .Lately I have been a currier drive, trainer, and safety advocate. Feels great not to be in management for so many years. I remarried and at the age of 49 my 1st daughter Nicole was born and Kyndal 1 1/2 years after that. My two girls are my life. Both girls graduated with all kinds of scholastic honers and nice collection of trophies for cheer compitition. Both are in school with scholarships and doing well. Kyndal is at U of Nevada, Reno and Nicole at U of So. Nevada.She moved back in last year to finish school. We both are enjoying each others company as adults. As the single dad for many of the past years it has kept me from retirement, however, after the reunion I may finally call it quits and move back to Texas which has always been my home. From there I can finally start traveling and see some of the rest of the world. This reunion has the momentum of being an increadible event. It feels like the excitement and energy the class of '68 has maintained over the years It wasn't until I moved back to the Bay Area did I realize how special that time was. One of our classmates and best friend of mine described it as The Wave. So very much looking forward to this gathering. See ya on campus, Ed Sharpe  

Hello from the great State of Texas.
I had planned to attend our 50^th Reunion, but family commitments require that I be in Pennsylvania helping my in-laws deal with some growing health issues.

Life has been quite a journey since graduation day in 1968.  My folks had moved to Minnesota in the middle of our senior year.  I had stayed behind in Moraga to finish my senior year at Campolindo.   A day or so after graduation I left California and flew to Minnesota.  I attended the University of Minnesota and graduated in 1972 with a degree in Geophysics.  I then moved on to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia to work on a graduate degree.  I completed a master’s degree in Geophysics at in the fall of 1974.  After a three month working vacation, doing research in Antarctica, I moved to Houston, Texas and spent the next 41 years working in oil exploration and the geophysical service industry.  I retired in 2016.

I met my wife, in Houston in 1975 and we were married in October 1976.  We put down roots and never left the greater Houston area.  We have lived in the same home for the past 30 years in Sugar Land, Texas (a suburb of Houston).  We have two children.  Our son, his wife and two active sons live 20 minutes from our home in Sugar Land.  Our daughter and her husband live just north of Dallas, Texas.  We will celebrate our 42 anniversary in October.

My 41 years in the oil patch was an interesting career.   I started out working for a Chevron after graduate school.  After working for several oil companies for 14 years, I moved over to the geophysical service industry where I spent the rest of my working career.  Through the years I held a wide variety of jobs.  I done Seismic data processing, seismic field operations, geophysical research, technical marketing, sales and various management positions.  I spent the last 15 years doing project management.  Along the way I was able to visit all seven continents.  
In 1998 I starting volunteering with an organization called Habitat for Humanity.   It is a nonprofit Christian based organization that builds home for low income families. Over the past 20 years I have helped build over 60 homes.  It continues to be a great way to give back and help our community.  It makes a real impact on the lives of families who live in less fortunate circumstance. 

My wife and I have traveled the US extensively, visiting our National Parks.  Yosemite, Crater Lake, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Bryce, Zion, Arches, Canyonlands, Acadia, and many more.

A year ago we experienced the adverse effects of Hurricane Harvey.  We were very lucky as the rain stopped just in time as the water came within three inches of flooding our home.   We had approximately 50 inches of rain in two days. 

So, life has been very good to me and my family for the past 50 years.  I would love to hear from my friends from Campolindo HS.
 
Bob Ayers
 

Hi Everyone.  Just went through all the pictures I have from our high school days.  It’s obvious we had a great time, especially our class picnic on the beach!!! I’m sure none of us will look a day older at our reunion...... During my first three years of high school I thought I would be a PE teacher but late in my senior year changed my mind and decided to become an RN.  I applied to Samuel Merritt Nursing School in Oakland and surprisingly got accepted.  In my junior year I received additional training in surgical nursing (which I absolutely loved) and went on to be an OR nurse for most of my career.  In 1970 I was invited to go to a party at Dave Bollwinkel’s apartment at Cal Berkeley. Terry Crowley was Dave’s roommate. Dave and Dawn introduced Terry to me and it was love at first site. We married in Feb 1972 and stayed in Oakland while Terry finished at Cal.  In 1973 we moved to Mountain View where I worked in surgery at Stanford hospital.  We then moved to Sacramento in 1975 and I was hired to work at Methodist Hospital in south Sacramento.  Through crazy circumstances and attrition I advanced from RN to Supervisor to Director of the OR in short order.  I quickly realized I needed to go back to junior college ASAP to try and catch up academically to match my responsibilities at work.  Somehow it all worked out.  In 2009 I changed focus and moved from Director of the OR to Manager of the Bariatric (surgical weight loss) program.  I went from managing employees and docs to managing patients.  I loved the OR but was ready for a change and it turned out to be a great job.  Terry and I have two beautiful daughters Darci (38) and Sarah (35), two terrific son-in-laws, Luis and Rafael, and two beautiful grandsons Toshi and Daniel both 2.5yrs old.  They all live in Sacramento which made retiring in April 2018 a wonderful decision. I played a lot of softball early on and continue to play golf whenever I get a chance.  I dearly love my family and am so grateful to have close friends, especially my BFF of 68yrs Kay Shirey (class of 67) and all my friends at church. God has blessed my life abundantly.  Can’t wait to see everyone at the reunion.  

I'm probably remembered as a hot rodder and a lousy student.  If the yearbook had a category of "Most likely to be pumping gas at a gas station the rest of his life" I would have easily won.  After barely graduating, I lucked into Cal Poly SLO in Mechanical Engineering.  On a whim, a buddy and I transferred to UC Berkeley our Senior year and joined the same fraternity that Randy Ammon and Tom Halloran were in.  Great move since I ended up meeting my future wife Debbie at one of our parties. After graduating UC, I worked at a truck company then quit and built a drag racing Corvette.  I raced it semi-professionally until I ran out of money and had to get a real job.  I then worked for a diesel engine manufacturer.  Deb and I got married and she had this crazy notion we should own a house in Walnut Creek with furniture in it instead of owning a racecar, so the car went away.  While racing I came up the the idea for a set of timing clocks and Deb and I started a side business called Dedenbear Products to manufacture them.  These became standard on all drag strips.  I then invented and started manufacturing an electronic control box which also became standard equipment on all drag cars.  For no other reason other than it seemed like a good idea at the time. I decided to get a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering at UC, only I talked the Dean into letting me take mostly Electronic classes.  Working full time as an engineer. full time grad student and running a growing business on the side was a tough 2 years of 18 hour days. Quit the diesel company and got a job blowing up nuclear bombs in Nevada.  Eventually quit and went Dedenbear full time.  I invented numerous products and basically started a whole new industry of putting electronics on board drag cars.  We also branched out into making trasmissions and off-road parts which we spun off as a new Corporation called Reid Racing.  An equity investor group bought Dedenbear and we were going to semi retire and just tinker with Reid Racing but things kind of got out of hand.  We ended up buying another building in Concord and going full blast again.  We have 15 patents and supply parts to Ford, Chrysler, the US Navy, drag racers, off-road racers. every "Monster" truck in the world, and numerous TV shows-even the steering parts for the Batmobile used in the Batman movies. Last month Deb and I celebated our 40th anniversary.  We didn't stray far: we live in Lafayette and have three kids(2 girls and a boy) along with 2 granddaughters (third one on the way).  Deb loves the water so we've always had a boat and the familly grew up water skiing in the Delta.  We've travelled extensively in the US and a little Internationally.  It's been a hell of a ride and I wouldn't trade a minute of it for anything, especially the great times at Campo.

Wow, was reading some of the interesting experiences of my classmates and am anxious to learn more.  After graduating I stayed in touch with hardly anyone [really only Dawn Schram, Mark Knudsen, and a couple of others] so this is all new to me.  I graduated from Cal and opted out of law school to teach social sciences in high school while also coaching football and basketball.  After four years was offered a position on the Cal basketball staff which started a 25 year odyssey of college coaching [ass't. Cal, Oregon, Colorado State, San Jose State, Dayton, Wisconsin and head coach Cal Poly-Pomona and Saint Mary's College].  Along the way I married Dawn Schram which lasted a couple of years, remarried for 15 having two great childern Stephanie 43 and Aaron 35, divorced again and now married for 20 years to the amazing Alix Mitgang.  In 2001 Saint Mary's fired my butt and I decided to leave college coaching but remain in the Bay Area.  Started a business that works on teamwork development with companies, which I still do a little.  Then three years later went to work fulltime in the NBA, firt with the 76ers and now in my 14th year with the Chicago Bulls serving as our lead scout in college and Latin America.  Alix and I live in Kensington, so after coaching around the country been back in the East Bay since the mid 90s.  We love to travel, in Oaxaca doing a basketball camp/clinic as I type.  Basketball coaching/scouting has taken me to Sicily, the Bahamas, Argentina, Dominicana, Chile, Canada, and Mexico.  Also travel a lot outside of basketball with Morocco being the most unique of our trips.  Enjoy listen to the Blues [Jazz Fest in New Orleans is a yearly stop] and live for good food and drink.  Looking forward to gettting reacquainted.

As the Dead said "What a long strange trip it’s been". After graduation off to the University of Nevada Reno with Tom Struhm. Worked at Squaw, asked to leave UN, forgot you were suppose to go to class..  Back to Lafayette, some time at DVC and then off to San Diego State with Steve Rivers and Tom Struhm.  Worked as a bartender great fun and money.  Explored the Baja extensively in my jeep before the road was paved.   School not so much. In 1972/73 Struhm and I decied to drive to South America.  Perhaps we should have bought a map.  Bought a used  pickup and headed south.  Got to Belize when Tom decied to return to San Diego.  Called Rivers and Charley Tarpley and asked them if they wanted to come down to join me..  They came. A long great story.  Spent months exploring Central America.  Made it to Panama.  Back to Tahoe.  Decied to join the Peace Corp.  Greatest travel agency in the world.  Off to the Truk District Micronesia. Now Chuk. Had watched too much Sea Hunt!    Had two different and amazing experiences.  Experienced the GREATEST DIVING in the world long before any one was there. Dove most of the ship wrecks.  Some we very well may have been the first people to see them since they were sunk in 1944. Exceptional marine life!!  Even helped publish the book “Ship wrecks of Truk” with my future brother in law. Then off to a tiny coral atoll in the outer islands of Truk, Pulawat.  I mean tiny perhaps 150 people, three missionaries and the highest point of land was 2’ above sea level. Loin cloth, grass shack, bare breasted maidens.  Great memories of a world and culture that no longer exists. Back to Lafayette just in time to be hit while walking by a speeding car on Saint Mary’s road in broad daylight.  Severe injuries.  Spent next two plus years  in traction off and on, on crutches, in and out of hospitals. Multiple, multiple surgeries bone grafts and the like.  While convalescing got my contractor’s license.  Never mind I had zero experience!!   Through a strange set of circumstances formed a partnership with two others and built 100’s of  apartments in Oakland in the early 80’s. People thought we were crazy! Partnership ended and bored I answered a Sprint ad for a construction manager. Became Sprints construction manager for northern CA and built cell sites all over the state. Met my future partner and we came up with the idea for a foundation system to support cell towers.  Applied for and received  US and Foreign patents.  Created our company Cell Blocks.  Turns out it was a very good idea and we ended up building cell sites all over the country and three foreign countries.  Got to go to places few do. In 2016 we sold everything and Cell Blocks was acquired.  I now live in Kona, Hawaii with my wife of 32 years Elsbeth and our dog Blaze. I most likely will not be attending.  If anyone wants to catch up my # is 510-418-4322

Well graduating from high school was quite an accomplishment for me as I was not a very conscientious student.  After graduation I attended Modesto Junior College to study agriculture and animal science.  Graduated in 70 and went to look at the University of Idaho in Moscow.  I went in January and that gave me the distinct observation that was not a school for a California kid.  Went to Fresno State for one semester in animal science with my focus on beef cattle and horses.  Then uncle Sam decided it was my time to come in.  Went to my physical and my feet and my knee from a horse accident kept me out of the service.  However, I did serve 4 years in the US Naval Sea Cadets while in High School at NAS Alameda and went to boot camp on Treasure Island one summer and spent 3 months on the Coral Sea aircraft carrier.  1982 I graduated from St.Marys College after going 3 years at night while working, with a BA in Bus Mgmnt.  Worked at selling ag equipment until a car accident in 1990 and I was off work for 1 year.  Had to find a desk job which was to become a loan officer for the Federal Land Bank.  After 20 yrears retired from there as VP of Marketing for our 2 county $1.5 billion ag bank.  Expanded my cattle and horse business after retiring until my second back surgery in 2014.  Didn't work out well and the doc said my choice was a wheel chair or giving up the horse and cattle business.  In 2014 started my own comany and imported agriculture plant nutrition products and sold through CA and AZ.  Still doing this but taking a lot more time off.  I have a beautiful supportive wife, 2 beautiful daughters and great son in laws and four of the best grandchildren.  We spend a lot of time with our grandkids as they are keeping this old fart young relatively speaking.

1968 Graduated and immediately departed, with family, to Bern Switzerland where my father was taking a sabbatical for a year. 1969: started at Prescott College in Prescott Arizona.  #361 in draft lottery. 1975: Graduated from Prescott College after lots of rafting, kayaking, climbing and self-directed study with degree in Outdoor Education and minors in Spanish and Buddhism. 1975: Founded Boojum Institute (boojum.org) with 4 Prescott College chums, moved to San Diego.  Guided whale watching/natural history trips in Baja California in winter. 1978: Met my wife to be, Linda Svendsen (also Prescott alumni) 1984. Founded Boojum Expeditions (boojum.com).  Began running adventure travel in China and Tibet specializing in horseback treks.  Also in 1984, became partner in Baja Expeditions. (bajaex.com) 1985: Married Linda Svendsen in Inner Mongolia.  1990: Sold stake in Baja Expeditions, moved to Bozeman Montana.  Became "modem cowboys" offering adventure travel in Central Asia and South America. 1994: Moved most operations to Mongolia:, horse treks, cultural treks, tv production fixers. 2007: Appointed Honorary Consul of Mongolia for MT, WY, ID. 2011: Retired, turned business over to our Mongolian employees. Since then... investigative journalism, road biking, travel (without clients!)  Have just discovered the miraculous invention of Ebikes!  Manage a couple of Airbnb rentals in downtown Bozeman.  Kent Madin   Campo '68

Wow,  Impossible that 50 years have flown by.  It is so much fun to see all your names and stories and brings back so many memories.
I graduated from Cal Poly with my teaching credetial and moved to King City to marry a cowboy and teach in Greenfield.  I loved the ranch life and my two children, Kim and Ryan, and 4 grandchildren, are still active in the Ag community.
  I ended up getting into the travel business and opened an agency in Paso Robles after movimg there in 1978.  Oh, that travel addiction has plagued me all my life and I am so fortunate to have a career that feeds it. I sold the agency in 2008 and now work out of my home.   I'm still leading groups around the world but have a lot more time to spend with my "perfect" grandkids.
After a major life shake up,  I married Earle.  We shared 25 exciting and adventurous years together until he was killed in a motorcylce accident.
Living in beautiful Paso Robles with an amazing network of friends and family keeps me constantly busy!
I am also the President of the Paso Robles Rotary which is a full time job.
Can't wait to see you all in Oct!
 

After Campolindo I went to DVC for 2 years and transferred to Berkeley as a junior, and majored in applied math and minored in computer science. I then continued there in graduate school in operations research but became disillusioned when it was mostly theory and I was more interested in applications. So I stopped after 4 quarters and found a job in The Netherlands at Philips Data Systems doing software development. Then I became disillusioned with them because developments in the US were lagging what was happening in the US. I quit and was on my back to CA in 1976 when an opportunity arose in the Chicago area for a subsidiary of Philips and went there.

Met my wife in the Chicago area playing tennis and we have been playing since. The company was going to move the NJ and since neither of us wanted to go there I joined 6 other engineers and started our own contract engineering design firm. We spun off a contract manufacturing company that was so successful that I was able to retire in 2001. My wife had already retired in 1998 after 2 separate bouts with cancer. I then became a substitute teacher in HS math and finally quit that last year (2017). So I replaced that activity by volunteering at the county jail helping inmates in their math for the GED degree. My wife volunteers with meals-on-wheels. We keep busy with yard work, reading, going to concerts (classical), travel, and occasional home maintenance.

Sorry I can't make it to the reunion. I had been looking forward to it. I wish you all success.

Holy Smokes.....  How could this happen?  Here I am in Los Angeles having returned to my home town 1 year after graduating from Campolindo and 1 year lost in space at Chico State. Fast forward to this ripe old time, I have managed to complete my PhD in Psychology and my doctorate specialty in Psychoanalysis. I found my groove early as a psychotherapist and am writing this bio from my practice of 30 years. No intentions to retire but I have cut back on hours and enjoy my 2 grown beautiful kids and my husband of 35 years. I am pretty independent and spend time writing and studying poetry and traveling to conferences and traveling for pleasure. My brother lives in Orinda and my dear friend in Napa so I come up north frequently.  I try to take care of myself although the pleasure seeker demands my attention plenty. I finally got over being shy, and really want to know what is to become of our precious planet.  Looking forward to revisiting the fields of Campolindo.  Leslie Maxson 

Hello! I hope that you all remember me. My family moved to Moraga in 1966 and I spent my last two years of high school at Campolindo (and they were wonderful years, I must say). After CHS I went to UC Davis for four years, graduating with a degree in Zoology. But before I could use my degree I joined the US Air Force, went to Officer Training School, flew KC-135s as a Navigator, and finally separated from the service as a Captain after six years. While in the USAF I earned two Masters degrees from Gonzaga University, an MS in Human Resources Management and an MBA. (Think about it -- that makes me both an Aggie and a Zaggie!!) Returning to the Bay Area I then worked in electronics (Varian Associates), semiconductors (Signetics - now Philips), and a start-up software company that didn't start up, before finally spending almost three decades in biotechnology at BD Biosciences. I retired from BDB in 2016. When I was 50 I discovered theater ... as in performing. Since my debut in The Mikado in San Jose I have been in over 40 musicals and operas, and have also produced and designed sets for other shows. Most recently I was in A Christmas Carol at the Lesher Center in Walnut Creek. I married Kathy whom I met at UCD and we have two daughters and two grandchildren. The whole family still lives in the Bay Area which is very nice. Kathy and I now live in San Martin (which is south of San Jose) on a small ranch with our golden retriever, horses, and lots of cats. That's a lot to fit into 50 years, but somehow I've done it.

Hello Classmates,
The basic summary is went to UCSB after Campolindo and graduated from there in 1972.  Moved to Sonoma County, CA shortly after, where I got a teaching credential and taught high school history and math for 37 years.  During that time, married in 1975 to Fran, followed by two children, Ralan (40) and Audra (36).  We are still living in the house we bought near Cotati in 1980 with no plans to move any time soon.  Our main interests over the years have been travel, backpacking, scuba diving, and most recently, sailing.  Fran and I retired in 2011 and are using this window when we have good health, some money and adequate time to travel and keep the Sonoma County wine industry profitable.  It's been a fast 50 years!  Best wishes to you all.

Hi all, Sydney and I were married back in '73, 45 years ago, after four years at Cal and then grad school. Spent twenty-five years in the electronics industry, mostly living in New York, New Jersey, England, Southern California, and finally Pennsylvania. We raised two daughters and a son during that time, all off doing their thing and spread between Italy and Oakland. Enjoying our three grandsons, aged 13, 9, and 5. Changed careers, moved to Maryland, and became a business consultant. Currently still working in Chandler, Arizona, spending summers in Colorado.  

Campolindo was a slow four years.  I played some sports (not well), chased girls (I had better luck with that) and took 4 years of Spanish.   Just prior to my senior year, my Grandmother gifted me her 1953 Ford. 
That ’53 Ford took me down to UCLA in the Fall of 1968, headlong into the teeth of campus turmoil with a Rock n’ Roll soundtrack.  While driving through LA one day, I turned on the radio and heard George Harrison live introducing the White Album.  Music was everywhere from the Whiskey A Go Go on Sunset to the Troubador on Santa Monica Blvd.  Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton were playing basketball for John Wooden and UCLA was winning championships.  Pistol Pete played at Pauley.  O.J. was across town at USC.   I was lucky and managed to get through UCLA in four years without having to face the draft or Viet Nam. 
I worked my way through UCLA as a night janitor and delivery driver at the American Film Institute in Beverly Hills where I met some Hollywood legends.  Following graduation from UCLA, I worked on various film projects using connections I had made at AFI but was not making any money.  So, in 1974, I came back to Northern California to work as a Journeyman Painter/Sandblaster at Kaiser Steel in Napa and, following that, at the shipyards in Richmond.  One day, while lying on my back under a ship with about four feet of clearance, sandblasting its hull and contemplating the possibility of contracting silicosis, I realized I had to make a change.
Ultimately, I chose to go to UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, starting there in 1976.  I became the sixth member of my family to graduate from Hastings when I left there in 1979.  I had a 34-year career as labor and employment law specialist, practicing in Walnut Creek.  I retired in 2014. 
In 2015, my wife and I sold our Walnut Creek home and most of our belongings.  We became full-time RVers.  Our home base is outside of California.  Since going full-time in our RV, we have traveled through various parts of the US and Canada, including Alaska and the Yukon Territory.  At least once per year, we travel abroad. We have applied for permanent residency in a Latin American country.  Muchas gracias, Senor Nessler, for those four years of Spanish at Campolindo more than 50 years ago.  I never stopped speaking it.
 

After graduation I attended 2 years of college at Cal State Hayward then transferred to Cal Berkeley and graduated with a B A in poly Sci.  I then met and married the love of my life Carol Wilson who graguated H S in 68 from Ignacio Valley. We have been married 44 years and have a 38 year old son Jason and a 30 year old daughter Christie, both of whom attained Masters Degrees and are currently in practice in the bay area.
Our family has lived in livermore , then Benicia , and now in South Lake Tahoe over the past 50 years. Carol was a dental assistant for many of our early years together and then a store owner and has been a home maker since then. I worked 30 years in the medical sales industry serving the physician market and then moved to SLT and  we owned two Mailboxes ETC stores stores for 12 years before retiring. Throughout my years I have enjoyed swimming, boating , scubba diving, sailing and amateur sports car road racing in three different local and national racing series. In 2009 we took a 9 month trip around the USA and raced at 13 of the greatest racing tracks available like Road America, Road Atlanta, Watkins Glen etc..I am currently campaigning a vintage 1969 Lotus 7 in a national Vintage series. We will run Sonoma, Indy and Mid Ohio tracks this summer.    Best wishes to you and yours . Sincerely , Jim Cotcher.

50 YEARS IN A FLASH!
4 yrs at U of Oregon with a secondary education degree then realized I didn’t want to teach. I waitressed to save for travel then Dec. ’72-June ’73 started out solo at Calexico border (thx Rivers and Struhm for the ride!) and made it as far as Guat. City; back to Ore., more waitressing, left in Sept. ’74 with a girlfriend for Europe, Morocco and split off on my own for West Africa (9 mo.s there), then back to Haarlem, Holland and returned home Dec. ’75.  Short stint at paramedic school, more waitressing. Just before my job at a Kaiser clinic was to start, I broke my ankle jumping over a hedge.  I was dating Larry Petersen who was starting a business as a rep. for consumer audio.  Since I was off my feet for several months, I helped him set up the business office in his home and then garage until we found a great old 1800's brick warehouse in Oakland, near the estuary where we were for 30 years..  This became so much more interesting than working in a clinic or doctor’s office, that I used the secretarial skills learned in paramedics to continue with the new business, L.P. Marketing which we incorporated along with a Pro Audio repping business and ultimately a distribution business and a little land development corp. in the fire zone for awhile with our fabulous home builder and friend, Mark Becker.  We married in 1981 and have lived in Alameda and Oakland.  We built a home in the “fire zone” in 1986, a really fun project and love the result.  After 33 yrs, we retired and are loving our life!!! I love travelling/adventure, photographing places and nature, gardening and making stuff.
  In 1991, a very significant event happened to me: after being an only adopted child for 41 years, my 3 birth sisters and 1 brother found me! Long story but a very good and happy one.  Where I once had a very tiny family, now I have a large one.  And to find people that look like me in different degrees: Awesome! 
 The reunion has been a very fun project to be a part of!  Can’t wait to see everyone!
 

  Graduated from SF State with intention  of teaching high school Industrial Arts but at graduation teachers were being laid off and the IA classes were being fazed out! So I need to find something else to do. If you remember jobs were pretty tight in the early 70’s. I ended up in the North Sea as a rough neck working on barges installing  oil rigs and learned how to operate large cranes. Biggest one was a 2000 ton that wasn’t mounted on the stern of a converted coal/oil ship. After that I circumnavigated the planet with my brother for 6 months and ended up back in Orinda/Lafayette in early 1977. Got hired to help construct the Maui A platform in New Zealand and was there’s about a year and a half. Returned home got married in 1978 then went and worked in the Bay of Campeche setting oil rigs and laying pipelines. while there our ship was the main support ship for supplies and control of the largest oil spill in histort...at that time. Ixtoc 1 look it up. After mexico was done we moved to Quincy, CA worked as a mechanic, log truck hauling, long haul driving until finally the logging shut down and i was lookin for work again. Back to the oil field and i ended up in Los Angeles installing the Eureka platform...again ..look it up. that job done lookin for work again ended up in Redding running crane, driving truck and operating all heave equipment for ShastaCountyPublic Works for 15 years then finally quit and went to work for Caltrans as an engineering tech and retired as a surveyor and now retired for 4 years. OK thats enough...