Candidate for
Board Member; Monterey Peninsula Community College District; 2 Year Term

Educational & Professional Background: BA San Jose State, MA UC Berkeley. Post Graduate work Humboldt University, East Berlin. Active duty military service US Army (Korean conflict) and US Navy. I have taught students from the 8th grade through graduate school. I taught for 3 years at the Naval Post Graduate School with a specialty in the Government and Politics of sub Saharan Africa. I was also Executive Officer of the Foreign Officers' Program during that time.

I have taught at MPC for almost 45 years as both an adjunct and tenured full-time faculty member. During that time, I have worked with 8 or 9 MPC college administrations, was Social Science Division Chair and the chair or member of many hiring and other campus committees. I have been the President of the state Academic Senate of California Community Colleges (ASCCC), Vice-President of the state California Teachers Association-Community College Association (CTA-CCA), President of the MPC Academic Senate; founding member, President and negotiator for the MPC Teachers Association (MPCTA). I am the recipient of two WHO awards ("We Honor Our Own") from the state CTA-CCA, President emeritus ASCCC and Professor emeritus MPC.

Civic Experience: I have served on many community organizations, boards and committees including 6 years as Chair of the Monterey County Democratic Central Committee, President of the Carmel Music Society, member of the board of the Chamber Music Society of Monterey Bay, member of the Pacific Grove Library Board, Chair of the Pacific Grove Repeal Association ("bourbon renewal"), executive board member of the Foreign Affairs Council, executive board member and Conservation Committee Chair of the Sierra Club Ventana Chapter, President of the Ft. Ord Flying Club, member of the Navy Flying Club and I am presently the Vice-Chair of the California Democratic Council for Region 9.

Experience with Diversity, Travel: I suppose my awareness of other cultural and diverse groups began in college where as a young college student I met and mingled with older students, veterans, some handicapped, of World War II. Then I met the woman who has been my wife for more than 52 years, Anita Arellano - small, dark, Latina and to me, exotic. She was like no one else I had known, was herself a Civilian Defense worker in WWII (a "messenger") and her father had been a Navy Sea Bee. What a difference her family from mine. But they enveloped me and to her and to them I became "Carlos". We worked and played together. We became the best of friends and we built a friendship as we built a cabin together in the mountains without electricity or running water during the early phases of construction. It was our accomplishment and our bond.

For the first year of our marriage, after a stint in Washington, D.C., Anita and I lived overseas in Orleans, France as "guests" of the US Army + I as a draftee soldier and she as a "DAC", a Department of Army Civilian. We traveled extensively throughout Europe and were thoroughly bitten by the travel bug. Anita always thought of us as "innocents Abroad" (ala Mark Twain's book). During a fascinating post war period, we mingled with European peoples and were not thought of as American outsiders. I spoke fair French and considerable German. My wife managed decent Spanish, some French and Italian. It was a wonderful time of adventure and discovery, of growing up and developing new awareness, sensitivity and respect for the feelings and views of others.

Since that time we have traveled extensively + to Africa several times where I led a tour to West Africa and to West, East and South Africa with my wife; to England, Ireland and Scotland; to Europe several times including the former East Germany and East Berlin before and after the "wall" cam tumbling down; to Russia; to Mexico, Central and South America; to China; and the islands of the South Pacific. These were trips where we traveled in obscure regions, small towns and always, met the people. We have also traveled in North America to Alaska and Canada + by rail, bus, boat or car sometimes as back packers or as senior hostel members. Every trip has provided new opportunity to learn and appreciate the lives and views of other peoples.

And finally, there is the cancer journey, a road my wife and I have been traveling for four and a half years since she was diagnosed with advanced stage cancer. As members of that community and the Cancer Wellness Group, we have met people from all over the peninsula, from every city, from the Salinas Valley and the Monterey Bay area and the many caring medical people who walk the same road. We have come to share their stories and know their thoughts about community support systems, about health care and many other issues. These journeys have informed us, enriched us and rendered me better able to work with other community members for the best community college we can have.