EDUCATION

B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1957. 
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1965. 

PERSONAL

   Karl taught chemistry full time at Cabrillo from 1965 until 1986, when he became the BECHO Division Chair. In 1994, after 8 years of that, he resigned as DC, taught chemistry full time again for one year, and then retired from full time teaching in 1995, grabbing a golden handshake while the grabbing was good.

  Karl has been teaching, half time more or less, as a part time instructor since then. He has taught laboratory sections in Chemistry 1A (General Chemistry), 1B (General Chemistry), and 5 (Quantitative Analysis); and he has been the instructor of record for Chemistry 2 and Chemistry 30A.

Karl likes Yosemite (he was there in June of  2005), Walt Disney World (he was there in January of  2003), string quartet concerts (he heard a bunch of them in the summer of 2005 at the Music@Menlo Festival  and he goes to several of them every year locally and at Stanford), total solar eclipses and the like (he saw a total eclipse in Australia in December, 2002, and he saw the transit of Venus in Greece in June, 2004; the photo above was taken in the Caribbean during the eclipse of February 26, 1998), card modeling (castles and birds, mainly; in the chemistry storeroom you can see a life-sized card model osprey that he assembled)  and Cabrillo Seahawk football. He has been the cameraman for the Seahawks since 1968; he routinely goes to all games, both home and away. He and the video camera did it again in 2004 and will be doing it again in 2005.

Finally, Karl has been the Secretary of the Santa Clara Valley Section  (SCV) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) since 1989; he attends all monthly dinner meetings (if he's not chasing another eclipse) and all meetings of the Executive Committee, where he (naturally--what else does the secretary do?) takes minutes. He also produces the Section Directory, prepares the Annual Report for the Section, and maintains several parts of the SCV web page. 

CONTACT

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