Bowles Hall, University of California Berkeley

Jack was always proud of his membership in Bowles Hall.  He was listed as a senior there in the Blue and Gold Yearbook, class of 1946.  Jack said that he was elected president of Bowles Hall, and I remember once seeing a plaque there with his name on it to that effect.  His brother Don also went to Bowles Hall.  Jack had a picture of Bowles Hall hanging in his office.  He never graduated due, he says, to a bad case of dysentery, plus not being able to get credit from Berkeley for his studies at Harvard and MIT during the war.  Jack went on without BA in hand to have a satisfying career as an electronics manufacturer's representative, which makes him not much different from many contemporary computer CEOs.  Sometime in the 1980s he was invited back to Berkeley to give a talk about his career.  He saw that as a kind of vindication.  .