Roger Schafer:
CLASS OF 1946
Long Beach Polytechnic High SchoolClass of 1946
Long beach, CA
University of California - Electrical EngineeringClass of 1953
Los angeles, CA
University of California - Electrical EngineeringClass of 1953
Berkeley, CA
Long Beach City CollegeClass of 1950
Long beach, CA
Roger's Story
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My address is roger.schafer and I'm with att.net and we live at 5602 Club View Dr., Yorba Linda, CA 92886, (714)779-6022. I attended Hamilton Junior High and Poly. I alternately worked and attended the Business and Technology Division of Long Beach City College, studying electronics. I transferred to UCLA in 1950. During the summer of 1952 I entered into a partnership with a high-school classmate, building small homes. I took my senior year at the UC Berkeley, graduating in 1953 with a BS degree in electronic engineering. I was married a week after graduation and a few months later was drafted into the Army. I spent two years at Fort Gordon, Georgia, where I first taught electronics and then managed one of the phases of the year-long course. In 1956 I worked for an AM radio station in Santa Ana, California, designing a new antenna system to protect other radio stations that were using...Expand for more
the same carrier frequency. In 1957 another school classmate and I started a radio-paging business (beepers) in Sacramento which we eventually sold. I then went to work for the Douglas Aircraft Co., which eventually merged with Boeing Co.) in the missile and space vehicle division. One of our major programs was the Saturn/Apollo, which placed a man on the moon. I worked in middle management until my retirement in 1984 at age 55. I then started a choose-and-cut Christmas tree farm on land I owned near Riverside, CA. I retired from the business in 1998 due to a troublesome back problem. My wife, Ardi, and I have a son and a daughter, born in 1962 and 1964. The oldest, a son, lives in lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Our daughter and her husband own an art gallery, gift shop and framing business in Seal Beach, CA. Ardi and I have done considerable traveling. We live in Yorba Linda, California.
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