Robert Hitchcock:
CLASS OF 1964
John H. Francis Polytechnic High SchoolClass of 1964
Sun valley, CA
University of OregonClass of 1968
Eugene, OR
Richard E. Byrd Junior High SchoolClass of 1960
Sun valley, CA
Sun Valley Junior High SchoolClass of 1960
Sun valley, CA
Fernangeles Elementary SchoolClass of 1957
Sun valley, CA
Robert's Story
2019 Update
After lots of reflection and missing the San Francisco peninsula we have decided to move back to the mid-peninsula. Wendy is retiring in February and plans to seek out a few board seats in firms focused on medical issues and will continue her deep interest in vascular disease as a member of the board. She is also been asked to join the Board of Directors of Wake Forest Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
One of our sons works at Stanford. He and our daughter in law, Amy, bought their first home on the Pacific Coast between San Francisco and Half Moon Bay. They love the location and have a wonderful view of the ocean. We'll get to see them more often.
This past spring, our other son made the decision to finish his education so he will be transferring this coming fall to one of the 8 schools he has applied to for acceptance.
We've found a wonderful home in an area a few miles north of our old home but smaller and more attuned to our current needs.
2017 Update
Since my last update, a great deal has happened. In August of 2015 one of our sons married a terrific woman, so we are now a family of five. Our daughter-in-law works at UCSF where she is a pediatric oncology nurse and our son is a manager for the School of Engineering & Research at Stanford in Palo Alto. His team's focus is on investment analysis for the Computer Science and Chemical Engineering departments. He is also responsible for training the entire Engineering and Research group.
Our other son moved out of retail (REI) and most recently was the operations manager for an attorney in Palo Alto. He decided to move out of the Bay Area and moved to Reno where housing is a good deal less than it is in the San Francisco area. But he and his girlfriend missed the Bay Area and have made the move back. He is joining a friend who has been working on a software game for the past two years. They hope to launch their initial product sometime in the next several months. It's a new area of exploration for him and he is looking forward to the challenge. He is also back in school full time as well and a couple of years to complete his bachelor's degree. He is seriously considering marine biology or anthropology.
After 32 years living in the wonderful community of Atherton (on the San Francisco peninsula) we decided to move to Sausalito, which is just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. We met in Sausalito 43 years ago during the early stages of my time with IBM and decided to move back to celebrate our 40th anniversary. We look forward to many great new adventures in the years ahead.
Wendy continues to lead the Vascular Cures Foundation. They are now the only foundation in the country focused on vascular research with a specific concentration on peripheral artery disease.
Prior comments
After graduating from Poly I went to the University of Oregon (Go Ducks!) a...Expand for more
nd graduated with a BS in business in 1968. After graduation I went into the Navy (pilot) and then on to graduate school to get an MBA .
After graduate school, I initially went to work for the William Wrigley Jr. Company (chewing gum) in Chicago and shortly thereafter moved to England and then France. Great people, terrific company and living in multiple cities in England, as well as Paris, was a wonderful experience. However, the opportunity wasn't what I had envisioned so I resigned and moved back to the Bay Area where I went to work for IBM as a salesman in San Francisco. I also had IBM tours in Toronto and LA (& Phoenix) managing sales and systems teams.
I left IBM in 1980 and have spent the majority of my working career in high tech (both large companies and start-ups) running sales and marketing operations and as president & CEO. It was a wonderful opportunity to be a part of the computer industry and its rapid growth for so many years.
In 1999 I left the world of high tech and started a Mergers & Acquisitions & brokerage intermediary firm that provides complete sell-side and buy-side advisory services for mid-market privately-held companies. We help middle market business owners sell their company.
My wife, Wendy, and I have been married for 37 years ( 2013) and she is by far my better 3/4's. We met at IBM where she was working as a summer intern, in the San Francisco office, between her junior and senior year in college. She went to Brown University and had come to San Francisco for the summer to end a college romance. We talked about getting married shortly after we met and we were married the following year, a few weeks after she graduated from Brown. She spent the first few years as a consultant for Laventhal & Horwath, one of the former Big 8 accounting firms. While we were living in Los Angeles in the early 1980s she got her MBA at UCLA.
We've always been a dual career family. Wendy has spent the majority of her career in biotechnology and medical devices. She is currently the CEO of a nonprofit foundation called Vascular Cures, a foundation focused on accelerated vascular research. As we are all aging, I hope you'll go visit their website to better understand these issues. To find out more you can go to the website which is vascularcures dot org. It's a great team of people doing a terrific job.
On the family front, we have two sons (twins) who are twenty seven years old (2013). One son just moved back to San Francisco with his girlfriend, who is a bone marrow transplant pediatric nurse. He is currently working in finance at UCLA. Our other son works for a large, regional retail sporting goods operation where he is a manager in one of their SF Bay Area stores. In an environment that is a challenge for many young adults, they're both fully engaged, healthy and embarking on careers.
For the past thirty years (2014) we have lived in Atherton, California about halfway between San Francisco and San Jose and just a couple of miles north of Stanford University. It is a wonderful place to live and a great place to call home.
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