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On the other hand, there seems to be evidence that points to the
following facts: Paul was a Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Explorer
during his youth, and is an Eagle Scout. He swam competitively in
high school and college (still holds a California record!), and got
his bachelors and masters degrees from Stanford. He's an electrical engineer,
working at Amdahl (7 years) and now
Compaq Computer/Tandem Division (14 years).
He is an
expert in IC packaging, and for the past year or so has been in
R&D technical education. Technical interests include Windows NT,
HTML, and the World Wide Web.
He has a number of awards from his professional organization, the IEEE. His worldwide volunteer staff exceeds 250. He has organized over 60 courses for engineers in the Santa Clara Valley. He served on the board of regents of a university for 6 years in the '80's, lectures each semester at San Jose State University to the senior/grad EE students, and has instructed at Career Days at Miller Junior Hi and Lynbrook High School. He received the PTA honorary service award twice. He has been treasurer and president of his church, and occasionally teaches adult classes.
Still, his favorite hobby has bee Scouting - mainly hiking, backpacking or snowshoeing in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. He's taken a Mountain Medicine course, maintains a CPR certification, has both Scoutmastership Fundamentals (basic) and Wood Badge (advanced) training, has taken Backcountry Awareness training (in fact, he helped teach it twice a year), and has instructed at the Polaris District Roundtable on several topics. He has the SM Training Award, the SM Award of Merit, the BSA Medal of Honor (for saving a life), the Polaris District Award of Merit, and the Council's Silver Beaver. As a local "community hero", he participated in the torch relay for the 1996 Olympics.
He has also developed infinite patience for dealing with the minor problems and varied learning styles of boys. Paul sets a high standard (and high expectations) for the Scouts, in a relaxed manner, and stresses leadership training for both youth and adults. Our Troop had about 25 Scouts when he became Scoutmaster in 1985; it has grown steadily to a registration count in the 70's, reaching as many as 90 before his retirement in the summer of 2001. Now you can find him on high-adventure outings with High Adventure Crew 566. His two college-age sons were each SPL's in the Troop; one earned Eagle, the other was a Life Scout (and supreme backpacker). He and his wife Gail also like to camp and hike. Other hobbies are fly-fishing, ham radio (he's KM6LH), and writing HTML.
email is a sure way to get to him!
