Work

2002 Retirement

1992-2002 De Anza High School (chemistry and earth science)

1987-1988 Chair, Berkeley Humane Commission

1987 Orinda USD Coast Environmental Arts Camp

1986-1991 assorted schools in Berkeley, Richmond, Pleasanton

1984-1986 Humane Educator/Adoption Counselor; Oakland SPCA

1983-1984 St. Brigid’s School: grades 3-8 (science)

Member, Geological Society of America and Northern California Geological Society (chair, education committee)

1974-1981 Exploration Geologist; British Petrol Alaska, Inc./SOHIO

1971-1974 Marin Country Day School: grades 5-8 (science)

1970-1971 Laytonville High School: grades 7-12 (6 sciences)

Vice President, World Union, Pondicherry, India

Organizing Committee, World Citizens Assembly, San Francisco, California, Paris, France, and Innsbruck, Austria

Vice President, International Cooperation Council, Los Angeles

Chair, Academy of World Sciences, San Francisco

1968-1969 Assistant Director, American Humanist Association, San Francisco, California

Jobs (University of Minnesota)

1965-1967 Assistant Geologist; Montana - Dakota Utilities Co., Minneapolis

1962-1964 Parking cars (-30 degrees), washing pots and pans in dining hall, cleaning in Student Union bowling alley

Summer Employment (Yale)

1960 Colorado minerals exploration

1957 Colorado/Utah minerals exploration

1956 Virginia minerals exploration

1955 Utah dinosaur dig

1954 Utah dinosaur dig

1953 Yale Office of Admissions

Education

2013 - M.S. Geology; California State University, East Bay

1971-1974 San Francisco State University: worked on teaching credential and M.A. in Intercultural Education

1969 San Francisco State University and California Institute of Asian Studies: Social Science and Psychology

1962-1965/1967 University of Minnesota National Defense Education Act Fellowship: graduate studies in Philosophy; advanced to within orals of M.A. in Asian Area Studies and halfway to doctorate in Political Science (Comparative Government and International Relations)

1961 University of California, Berkeley: Geology

1961 University of Minnesota: Philosophy and Social Sciences

1958-1960 U.S. Army: Basic Training, Vietnamese Army Language School; National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland; Translator, Manila, Philippines; honorably discharged

1957-1958 University of Minnesota: Philosophy and Literature

Awarded three-year graduate fellowship in geology at Stanford; resigned 1957 under perceived pressure from draft board

1953-1957 Yale University, Trumbull College; awarded 2 letters in basketball, 1 in baseball; graduated magna cum laude B.S. Geology

1947-1953 Park High School, St. Paul, Minneapolis; awarded school letter in basketball; graduated with high honors

Following graduation from Yale, John spent three years with the Army Security Agency - part of that time in the Philippines. After a short period of graduate studies in Geology, the political excitement at Berkeley in 1961 reached him, and his time through 1967 was spent mostly at the University of Minnesota engaged in graduate work in Philosophy, Asian Studies, Comparative Government and International Relations. John was also peripherally involved in the peace and free university movements.

Around 1965, John had attended an American Humanist Association meeting in Minneapolis. In 1968, he moved to San Francisco to join their national staff, often representing the AHA at conferences in America and Europe (for example, 1968 in Hannover, Germany). After the AHA West Coast Chapter was dissolved in 1969, John spent several years teaching science, including earth science, in California elementary schools, before joining the staff of BP Alaska, Inc. in 1974 as a technical assistant. Promoted to Geologist, he spent three drilling seasons on the Alaskan North Slope.

Since 1966, John had acquired a reputation as a world citizenship activist, principally in the field of education. He was a candidate for the M.A. in Intellectual Education, a member of the Board of the Academy of World Studies at San Francisco State University, chairperson of its education committee, and founder of its committee for an International School in San Francisco (affiliated with the International Schools Association of Geneva).

John was active in the International Cooperation Council (Los Angeles), World Union (Pondicherry, India), and the World Citizens Assembly (S.F., Paris, Tokyo), of which he was organizing secretary of the education commission.