Spencer Bader:  

Updated: 10/2013 I attended two different high schools my senior year: Rock Island, Ill. and Mount Vernon, Va. Returned to California for undergrad at UCSB. Graduated in 1967 and went to the Harvard Business School for an MBA. In 1969 I started work at Hewlett-Packard after grad school. In 1971 I got a second masters in industrial engineering from Stanford, while working at HP in Palo Alto. Moved to Santa Rosa with HP in 1973 and stayed with them until 2001. Did consulting for about three years, then in early 2005 became the finance and administration manager for the Sonoma County Water Agency. I retired from full time work on May 1, 2013. I volunteer as a mentor to and occasional investor in start up companies. I volunteer for the local chapter of SCORE and on the United Way of the Wine Country Board, and VITA tax prep program. I have been married to Sandy since 1974. We have three kids, who all are finished with college and gainfully employed in San Diego and Reno. Recently, Jennifer, the oldest, finished a Masters from UC Berkley in Cyber-security. She is now working on the customer facing software used by United Airlines. On November 11, 2007, our son Martin and his wife had our first grandchild, who they named Ressa after my mother. In the meantime, our other two kids have married, and we now have a total of 8 grandkids -- four births and four that came with the marriages. Keeping up with their lives via email and Facebook takes up a good deal of each week for Sandy. Sandy was a high school math teacher at Ursuline, an all-girls Catholic school here in Santa Rosa. She enjoyed not having the crowd control issues of a public high school environment and especially enjoyed teaching the young women. As the department head she kept the math classes single gender, while most of the departments were coed with the Catholic boys school which shared an adjacent campus. She found that the girls do much better in math when they don't have to contend with the boys. Many of her students have gone on to successful math and technology related fields. I was a soccer referee for over thirty years. Not chasing kids any more, but spending time instructing and mentoring referees. I am also an assessor for the USSF referee program around northern California. On a recent trip to Barcelona, Spain Sandy and I went to see an FC Barcelona home match. A real bucket list item shared with 100,000 of my closest friends, just as Covid was making headlines!...Expand for more