1970s

High School (1970-1973)

Steve 1970 — Ninth grade, 1970. The world is about to end in nuclear war, and I look pretty pissed about it. Harvard School for Boys had changed from a military school to dark blue uniforms. By 1971 we were all wearing tie-died bell bottoms and had hair down to our ass.

Steve 1972 — Well maybe not our ass, but en-route there. Eleventh grade, rock musician, speech and debater, but still a geek.

Oregon Camping

…which we spent feeding chipmunks. This guy, Hungry Harry, showed up two years in a row.

Muffin Oregon — Meanwhile, our cat, Muffin, hid in the closet of the camper.

Muffin 1972 — An art shot of Muffin, 1972.

Early Projects

Programs in BASIC (1970) — A book we wrote in ninth grade about computer programming. Our school’s 33ASR teletype with punched tape reader was the bleeding edge of technology.

Forbush Man (1969) — Comic strips created with my best friend John Bayard Taylor Campbell III (now a US Congressman). 21 strips plus 2 for Garbage Man.

Harvard Sentinel Yearbook (1973)

Yearbook Staff 1973 — 1973 Harvard Sentinel Yearbook Staff – I was the editor

Graduation 1973 — High School Graduation from Harvard, 1973

The Epilogue I wrote for the yearbook:

Each year it is the somewhat dubious privilege of the editor of the Sentinel Annual to write the final, all-encompassing Epilogue. It is perhaps presumptuous on my part to believe that I am able to sum up a year in the lives of some 700 students and faculty members in a few short paragraphs…

As I sit writing this I think back upon my experiences at Harvard. Indeed, the graduating class this year has probably witnessed more changes than any previous class in the history of the school. Established traditions have repeatedly been discarded in favor of newer procedures. The passing of first the military and then uniforms. New buildings and a new administration. Longer hair and wilder clothes. Change.

And now, if you will permit me my presumptuousness one last time, I hope that on that cold dreary night many years from now, as you finish reading the reflection here inscribed, this annual and the memories that go with it will have as much meaning for you as they have had for me.

But enough of the past. Now let us seek a future.

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College Essay (1973) — I don’t think this would get you into many schools these days.

Beverly Hills Cotillion

I taught dancing at The Beverly Hills Cotillion for several years. Here are the programs I designed for two of their galas.

Cotillion 1973 — Words cannot express how hard these were to make with only a typewriter and rub on letters.

Cotillion 1974 — I snuck my camera into a store and took a picture of this radio, then printed it in the darkroom using Kodalith film.

Meeting Linda (1973-1974)

Linda and I met in 1973, while we were still in High School. We were both taking Ballroom Dance lessons at the Beverly Hills Cotillion. We attended the UCLA School of Engineering together.

Prom 1974 — This was taken at her senior prom, May 18, 1974, which we still recognize as an anniversary.

Linda 1974 — Linda’s high school graduation, 1974.

Linda and Reagan — Linda receiving her diploma from Ronald Reagan, then governor of California, at her 1974 high school graduation.

Linda graduation reception — Linda’s high school graduation reception, 1974.

UCLA Years

Photo booth 1975 — A photo booth in 1975. Cool shades, eh?

UCLA Graduate ID — UCLA graduate student ID

UCLA Registration Cards

This is what the quarterly UCLA Registration cards looked like. They were very proud of their computer. (Yes, they had exactly one. It was an IBM 360/90.) So they used it to make these IBM punch cards, which you folded up to fit in your wallet.

Engagement Photos (1976)

These were taken mid-college, 1976 or so, after we became engaged (although our parents didn’t know it). One of my early experiments with contacts had just failed, but I took my glasses off for the picture. Unfortunately, when we gave the photo to our parents as a gift, they didn’t recognize me.