Robert Sydnor:
CLASS OF 1965
John Muir High SchoolClass of 1965
Pasadena, CA
Robert's Story
Life
Hello to my classmates at John Muir High School, Pasadena, California:
My full name is Robert Hadley Sydnor, and I graduated from John Muir HS in June 1965.
Afterward I graduated from Whittier College, BA in geology, June 1969, and completed graduate school at the University of California at Riverside, MS in geology, 1975. Spent my sophomore year abroad at the University of Copenhagen, and lived in Denmark. Travelled widely throughout western Europe on five dollars per day.
Worked summers in the US Forest Service (firefighting, fire lookout, trail construction) while a college boy. While in graduate school, I spent summers in arctic Alaska as a field geologist with Mobil Oil Corporation.
Worked for many years as a consulting engineering geologist in Orange County, then in 1982 I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to become the District Geologist for the California Geological Survey. Married in 1986 in Walnut Creek. My beloved son Christopher was born in August 9, 1987 at John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek. Transferred to Sacramento headquarters in 1988 where I have lived in Fair Oaks. Was divorced after only 3 years of marriage, and have raised my wonderful son on a part-time b...Expand for more
asis since then. Have not remarried (as of 2005), but enjoy a pleasant social life with professional ladies who are Protestants, physically fit, and interested in horseback riding and other outdoors actvities.
I am a member of Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church.
Classmates are welcome to call my cell phone at 916-335-1441.
Military
Served six years in the Reserves during the Viet Nam War (1970-1976)
Basic Training at Fort Ord, California
Six Summer Camps at Fort Irwin, California and Fort Bragg, North Carolina
18th Armored Cavalry, Colton, California Army National Guard
later transferred to a US Army Reserve unit in Mountain View
(military intelligence) and finally discharged from a MI Company in Pasadena
I was fortunate to never have actually been sent overseas to Viet Nam, and am very saddened that several of my John Muir High School classmates were killed in the Viet Nam War. I attended the funeral of Douglas Yuki. Twenty-five years later, I went to the Viet Nam War Memorial in Washington DC to honor my friend Doug, and to run my fingertips gently across the engraved letters of his name. It was a very emotional experience for me (a survivor), and Doug Yuki (a soldier and classmate).
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