Bob Taniguchi:  

Life Dear Friends from Carbon High, Hi, this is Bob Taniguchi, graduating class of 1963. I live in California now, but but I've moved plenty of times. After my formal education from the U of U and Utah State, I began teaching in Las Vegas (1968), served for Uncle Sam (1970-72), and lived and taught in Malaysia (Southeast Asia, 1973-76). I returned to Price in 1976 and taught at East Carbon, Mont Harmon, and eventually ended up at College of Eastern Utah. In 1989 we moved, and now I live in Merced in the heart of California's agricultural region. I married Nancy in 1974. She's a native of the Washington D.C. area and we met overseas. We had children later in life, so they are relatively young. Dash, my son is 29 and works as a production manager for a biotech firm in Sydney, Australia. He's been there for one year now and loves being "Down Under". My daughter, Darcy, is a Ph.D candidate at Scripps Insititue of Oceanography, studying phytoplankton. She will finish in 18 months. Both are single, so no grandkids on the horizon. I am now 67years old and have been teaching for 40 years. My years at CEU were very rewarding, as well as my 22 years here at Merced College. Although I teach math, I feel my greatest contribution was at CEU when I became Athletic Director from 1986 to 89. We did lots of innovative things. I'm still a "jock" at heart playing lots of golf and tennis. I have volunteered exten...Expand for more