After Oceanics and high school, I immediately went to college, starting in junior college in Palo Alto, California, where I grew up. I majored the whole time in engineering. Also, went to University of Santa Cruz, for a bit. Then in 1977, I moved to northern Arizona. Took a year off, to get my residency, and work as a mason in construction. Went back to school, at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, for three years, and graduated in 1981, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
After school, I moved back to Santa Cruz, CA, and work for 12 years at Moss Landing Power plant, for PG&E, in management as a power production engineer. I married and had my two children who were born then, and I was married for ten years. During that time I started sailing, and had an Ericsson 23 sailboat, that I kept in Santa Cruz yacht harbor, for 14 years.
Then in 1993, I moved back to Palo Alto, CA and got a job at Stanford University, as the Central Energy Facility (CEF) engineer, also working in management at the Cogeneration Plant on campus. I subsequently sold the Ericsson, and bought a Laser performance skiff, and enjoyed that for 12 years, doing quit a bit of racing. While on vacations I visited many countries around the world traveling about seven weeks a year. When at home I crewed on larger sloops in San Francisco bay, for about 15 years.
In 2014, I retired, after working for 21 years, as the CEF engineer. Immediately after retiring, I moved to the Philippines, and live on the tourist destination island of Boracay. My main activities are kiteboarding and beach-combing. I still do a lot of international travel, and have now visited over fifty different counties. I still trying to go to new countries every year.
Marc Alexander
Boracay Island, Philippines
January 2023
Chris, Maddy and Noelle.
Statsraad Lehmkuhl Oceanics 1972-73 
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