Education

High School

1960 graduate of Westchester High, Los Angeles School District

  • Senior class president

  • Varsity basketball and baseball captain

  • Honor society president

  • 3rd place, L.A. citywide essay contest on What the Bill of Rights Means to Me

  • Graduated Magna cum Virgin

College

1964 graduate of University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Communications and Public Policy

  • Flunked Subject A (Bonehead English)

  • Varsity baseball letterman, three years

  • Set Cal record for strikeouts in a game (19) that stands today

  • Social chairman of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity

  • Lost virginity on November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated

  • Met future wife Denise Loder, the daughter of movie star Hedy Lamarr, during infamous Free Speech Movement

  • Graduated with a 2.18 g.p.a.