Richard Holdredge:
CLASS OF 1963
New Trier High SchoolClass of 1963
Winnetka, IL
Sunset Ridge Middle SchoolClass of 1959
Northfield, IL
Richard's Story
Sailing is listed because it's close to flying, which is what I've been a student of lately...
After New Trier I went to the University of Wisconsin at Madison and studied Radio, TV, and Film. Bob (Robert F.) Cardwell came a year later and with Sandy (Elliot) Youngberg, NT Class of '62 we continued our folk singing together for a while. Inevitably we drifted apart and Bob and I both followed the Rock 'n Roll path, me with a fraternity band and Bob with another in town. My band did Beatles, Stones, and Kinks, and some of our own. Even joined the Musician's Union. During summer after my freshman year a had a great job as a trainee at Foote, Cone, & Belding Advertising, and cultivated an interest in producing TV commercials.
After UW I went to Grad School at the University of Southern California in Cinema, seeing myself as the next great creative commercial director. George Lucas was a judge for my first student film there. After hitting the streets looking for any kind of part-time work with an ad agency I stumbled upon a part-time job doing films and video at the USC School of Medicine. This direction was more satisfying for me than advertising. My camerawork got the attention of two physicians on the faculty who were teaching psychosocial aspects of disease and disabilty for the then "new" Curriculum. Dr. Lorin Stephens and Dr. Barbara Korsch became great mentors for me and we collaborated on many interesting ...Expand for more
video programs dealing with telling patients' stories related to their medical problems in a holistic manner, as well as one on the professionalization of medical students.
Dr. Stephen's early death of a stroke at age 48 spelled the end of the grant we were working on, although I continued working with Dr. Korsch free-lance on many projects at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. A documentary film about Dr. Korsch is in final editing. Hope it makes it to PBS.
After the grant closed at the Med School found a job as faculty at East Los Angeles College in Media Production. I've been at Los Angeles Valley College since 1980. Right now I'm running a grant teaching digital media tools to professionals in the entertainment industry. Served for a while as Department Chair of Media Arts, but that plus the grant almost killed me.
My wife Rosa is a Vice-President at Antelope Valley College. I have two sons from a previous marriage. The are in their 30's. Matt has two daughters with Bianca in Orange County and is a wholesale rep for a surf clothing company. David has a son with Aimee in VA and engineers new rock albums for upcoming bands. He had a Grammy nomination in 2003, I think, and lost out to Nora Jones like everybody else.
If you read this far, I'll reward you by ending here.
Oh. And I got to film an interview with Orson Welles at his suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel around 1970. More name-dropping later, maybe...
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