Richard Marston:
CLASS OF 1970
Los Altos High SchoolClass of 1970
Los altos, CA
University of CaliforniaClass of 1974
Los angeles, CA
Glendora High SchoolClass of 1970
Glendora, CA
Goddard Junior High SchoolClass of 1967
Glendora, CA
Sellers Junior High SchoolClass of 1965
Glendora, CA
Richard's Story
I was born in Bethesda, Maryland, on 6 April 1952. Our family moved from Maryland to Glendora, CA, in 1956. Attended school through 9th grade in Glendora: Williams Elementary for K-3, Cullen Elementary for 4th grade, Bidwell Elementary for 5-6 grade, Sellers Junior High for 7th grade, Goddard Junior High for 8th-9th grades. Great memories of playing sports, hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Left early in sophomore year at Glendora High School as our family moved north to Los Altos. I graduated from Los Altos High School in 1970. Earned money for my first car by working as Fuller Brush Man for three years! That was Plan B; Plan A was to letter in three major sports but that didn't quite work out!
I attended UCLA 1970-74 and graduated with a B.A. in Geography-Ecosystems after having developed a love of travel, maps, a desire to understand and solve environmental issues, and a curiosity about the world. I earned money for college tuition by fighting range fires in Nevada during summers and washing dishes during school year. I watched a lot of great UCLA baseketball in those four years.
I attended Oregon State University for graduate studies 1974-1980 and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geography. During that time, I worked as a teaching assistant and as a researcher at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Lab in Corvallis. Married in 1977, divorced in 2012.
I accepted my first job as a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas-El Paso 1980-86. I went on my first scientif...Expand for more
ic expedition to the Nepal Himalaya in 1984. Our son, Bryce, was born in El Paso (yes, he is a Native Texan!) in 1986. I left UTEP to move to the University of Wyoming, where I was employed as a professor in the Department of Geography from 1986-1999, except for one year at the University of Alaska-Southeast (in Juneau) when I also served as Director of the Foundation for Glacier and Environmental Research. Our daughter, Brooke, was born in 1990 in Laramie. I spent six months in France in 1993 and four wonderful summers conducting research projects on the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park.
I left UWyo to move to Stillwater, Oklahoma, where I took the Sun Chair in Geology at Oklahoma State University from 1999-2005. I was part of a research team studying the Garhwal Himalaya in India. I moved north to become Head of the Department of Geography at Kansas State University in 2005. I was appointed a University Distinguished Professor in 2006. My career has received a huge boost from a group of friends and colleagues. I stepped down as Head after 2011 to resume my full-time faculty position. I was awarded a year-long sabbatical leave for the 2014-15 academic year and am spending it in Newport Beach, CA, and Bern, Switzerland.
To close, let me pass along this quote from Mark Twain:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover."
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