I was born in a Japanese internment camp in Tule Lake, California. My parents were Nisei, the second generation here. We were later moved to Topaz, Utah. After the war, we moved to Richmond, California. In 1950, we moved to Berkeley, where my parents owned a mom and pop grocery store, first at 1701 Parker Street and then at 1700 Dwight Way. They retired in 1977. My father passed away in 1984. My mother is still alive and well. She has four children, five grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. She will be 87 in July. Reiko Akagi's mother and my mother are sisters.
After Berkeley High School, I attended Heald College in San Francisco. After graduation, I got into data processing and computer programming at Montgomery Wards in Oakland. After three years there, I did some job hopping and eventually went to work for Lockheed in Burbank. br>
During the gas crisis of 1974, I had a chance to transfer back to the Bay Area with Lockheed. I worked 22 years for them as a programmer, analyst, and project leader. I left there during a layoff in 1995 and did consulting work at Lucent Technologies for three years. I've been single all my life and have lived the last 24 years in Newark, California. I retired three years ago and am enjoying it.
David is the second from the right, in the second row, wearing a dark blue shirt.