Eric Bagai:
CLASS OF 1958
Los Angeles High SchoolClass of 1958
Los angeles, CA
Los Angeles State CollegeClass of 1971
Los angeles, CA
Los Angeles Community CollegeClass of 1964
Los angeles, CA
Virgil Junior High SchoolClass of 1955
Los angeles, CA
Alexandria Avenue Elementary SchoolClass of 1952
Los angeles, CA
Eric's Story
Life
As of 2009, I'm a 69-year-old anti-war ex-organizer, produced security many anti-war marches in Portland, and have done pro bono printing for such groups since 1978; director of The Mourning Project (memorial for all the dead of the Iraq invasion, no longer active), and was program director for the local Veterans for Peace.
Less recently I was a Board member of the Portland Jugglers, and director of the Portland Juggling Festival for several years. (If you can run a juggling festival, you can organize a 70,000-person march.)
Twenty-five years ago I ran two TRS-80 computer clubs for a while. One of my students invented pop-up ads (forgive me). 15 years ago I began working as a juggler and low-level entertainer while still maintaining my publishing business. I wrote the review column for Jugglers' World and for JUGGLE magazine for 10 years.
Thirty-five years ago ran summer camps for AFSC because I wanted that kind of experience for my kid too. Forty-five years ago I helped found Veterans Against the War, but left after VVAW established itself. I was discharged just before Nam.
Fifty-five years ago I was more crazy than not, but that was JHS and HS so no one noticed.
I quit as Asst Director of Special Ed for Montebello Schools in 1974--the ki...Expand for more
ds were great, the administrators were idiots. I've been a publisher of diagnostic and instructional materials for kids since then and now have two publishing companies: Foreworks and Flaming Sparrow Press. FSP is the fun one, where I write circus-arts instructional books, and sell them and juggling props & supplies, and instructional DVDs.
I'm recently widdowed after 40 years of marriage, still live in Portland, Oregon, and am inordinately proud of my son, Jeremy, who has his own publishing company.
Ray Wurfl was, of course, a formative figure in my early life -- at Virgil JHS too. I miss him. I also miss my neighbor in 1948, Mrs. Ruhack, who let me read her large, illustrated, two-volume bible. It made me an atheist. She and Ray taught me the value of kindness and principle and effort, and the printed word.
I'm findable in the usual search engines (contact juggling, building hacking, everything in between), have blogs at erictheoccasionalDOTblogspotDOTcom (my stage name), and Tribe (as me).
Most recent head bending experience was going to Burning Man. Loved it!
Married once again, this time to a woman 29 years my junior. She's a designer and commercial artist, with a 17yo daughter. life is more interesting than it's been in quite a while.
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