Category: Biographies: Shipmate updates
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Dr. Alan Abbott
I was born (1944) and reared on a small farm in mid-Indiana and graduated from the Indiana University Medical School in 1969. In the late 60s I had some success in bicycle racing, and then in amateur motorcycle racing. During my 1-year internship at Los Angeles County General Hospital I earned my private pilot license,…
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Marc Alexander-Frutschi #92
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,…
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Gerry Del Hagen #25
After sailing on the Statsraad Lehmkuhl I went on to the MS Sea Venture out of New York. New York to Bermuda for about a year or so then got the draft card from A1 had to go in, so I went in to the Army and served. From there I went in to the construction…
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Joe Feinblatt #4
I joined the Oceanics School after completing my Masters in Folklorefrom UCLA, graduate courses in Chemistry for a PhD at Iowa StateUniversity, and a bachelor’s in chemistry from Reed College. I was asked toteach folklore, calligraphy, photography, chemistry, and physics as well asproviding photography to the school and sharing shipboard duties.I had no specific knowledge…
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David Freedman #9
Just prior to graduating from college I spent a year in Israel and Palestine working on every dig I could get on-seven all told. I missed graduation as I was in Colorado working at a Uranium mine. After the voyage I went back to school to consider a graduate degree in Anthropology, took the GRE’s…
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Rick Goodfriend #96
After I got back from Oceanics, I attended a one-year trade program at National Camera Repair School in Englewood Colorado. I loved Colorado and I might have stayed there. However, my dad passed away midway through so after graduation I returned home to Miami. I immediately started work at Bensons Camera and loved it. Over the course of…
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Debbie #3 & Steve #1 Hilbert
Debbie and I just celebrated our 52nd anniversary in November and we both hit 75 this January…. OMG. We returned to Incline Village, Nevada (Lake Tahoe) after the Statsraad and picked up the pieces of the business that we left, essentially starting over. During the 30 years that we were in Tahoe, we grew our…
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Jim Johnson #85
For a couple years after Oceanics, I did some adventuring. I rock climbed a lot and I worked as a rock climbing guide. I spent the summer of 1974 in Alaska working on a salmon troller. I also worked as a medical aid at a hospital. I attended Mankato State University for two years and in…
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Billy King # 63
After our amazing voyage ended in the spring of 1973, I went back to Wakefield High School in Massachusetts and graduated in 1974. I met my wife Beverly during my senior year and we married in 1979. We have two children and 5 grandchildren (one more on the way). I joined the Navy in 1976…
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George Kramer #57
After Oceanics I went to the University of Minnesota dental school then medical school and residency at the Mayo Clinic. Have been involved in natural medicine and musculoskeletal medicine for 40 years. Started the sports medicine center, back clinic and acupuncture clinic at a large medical center in the 1990s. For the last 20 years…
Statsraad Lehmkuhl Oceanics 1972-73 