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Accomplishments

• City Engineer, Los Angeles, California, responsibility for more than $3 billion of LA County structural improvements
• Employee of the Year, City of Los Angeles
• El Camino Distinguished Graduate

Memories

After the war ended in 1945, my parents made the decision to return to Southern California to re-establish the family home where they had been for over 25 years. We were able to return in the fall of 1945. However, the timing was such that my brother and I would miss the start of school. Mrs. Adelia Dwight, who was on the faculty and did not have children of her own, generously extended an invitation to my brother and me to come early (before my parents could return) and stay with her so that we could enroll in school on time. Because five of my sisters and brothers had graduated from Redondo, we had a strong desire to also graduate from Redondo. I had attended Beryl Heights before being evacuated. My brother and I will never forget her kindness and love extended in helping two strange teenagers that she knew nothing about, except that she knew our parents, to fulfill a dream to graduate from Redondo High. Attending Redondo was very important to me, being the last of eight children to graduate from Redondo.