Harald Loeffler:  

Life Graduated from Downey in '75 after my junior year, moved to Austria and attended a high school in Linz for a year to improve my German. Hooked up with Kathy Aguilar ('74) who had been studying in Spain, in Italy and travelled around northern Italy. Back in Modesto I attended MJC for 2 1/2 years, then went back to Italy and Greece before transferring to UC Berkeley where I got my BS in Business. Took off for two years backpacking around the world, going west to Hawaii, Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Western Europe. Came back to the States and ended up in Brooklyn for 3 months. Shared an apartment with Matt Elson ('76) and worked in Manhattan as a live art model. Got back to California, worked at the Pacific Stock Exchange on the options trading floor, then moved to Clear Lake where I was a cost engineer for 1 1/2 years on the construction of the largest gold mine in the U.S. Took off for almost another year, spending time in New Mexico before heading across the border to explore Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Came back to California, moved back to Berkeley and met my future wife on New Years Eve. Worked for an institutional investment consulting firm (BARRA) as a tech writer for a few years, then sarted graduate school at U.of Oregon in the architecture program. After a 3 year grind, during which time I got marri...Expand for more