Peter Carl Berg

Profile Updated: June 11, 2023
Residing In: Mill Valley, CA USA
Spouse/Partner: Nancy
Children / Grandchildren John, Jason, Alexander
Class of 1960 or 1961?

1960

Grade school attended?

Homewood Grade School

Background regarding time from HF days to today:

After graduation I hung around home distressing my parents that I wasn't going to college. Finally, to their relief, with tears in our eyes, I left for Cleveland, Ohio ( the armpit of the nation ) and attended Case Institute of technology where I obtained a degree in electrical engineering. I went to work in New Jersey, breathing refinery byproducts for a year, living in Teterboro, and later in New Rochelle, New York. I was seeking to transport myself to California, home of the free etc, and finally got a job offer, and off I went. I have been here ever since, except when I went to live in Canada for four years because my then wife couldn't stand Dick Nixon. After living in BC for a few years she couldn't stand me, and she moved to Hawaii, and I moved back to the San Francisco Bay area. We had one son, who is now an adult, and he has one son, who is still a baby. I have continued my engineering career, now designing satellite hardware, the kind for NASA.

I was living in San Francisco during the seventies, and experienced the "summer of love" and various other strange phenomenum. I used to go to rock concerts given by now defunct but famous bands. Janice Joplin used to give concerts on the street outside my window, that sort of thing. Music was a big part of my life - I even sang with two friends and played guitar at my son's wedding. See the photo

I co-founded a business, Strobotronix, that made psychedelic strobe lights, but my partner and I got into a tiff regarding my then girlfriend (whom I later married) and I dissolved the partnership. He resumed it and for all I know it remains today. We sold to some famous places, like the American Conservatory Theatre, and Bill Graham Presents. It was a lot of fun back then.

I remarried a very beautiful woman named Nancy. We each had a boy and lived in a variety of houses. Nancy got an RN and worked for the VA. Now we're in Sausalito and look at San Francisco bay from our windows.

We enjoy movies, dinners, Chihuahuas (Nancy) and working out daily at the gym (Me). If you think all Californians wear Hawaiian style clothes and talk like the girl in legally blonde, you're thinking of LA, not San Francisco.

That should fill you all up for now. If you want more, email me, lol.

What has been your occupation?

Electrical Engineer

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My email is dc2dc@outlook.com

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Happy Birthday Janet

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Aug 18, 2023 at 4:39 PM

I remember riding in the car with you and having kid-grade fights about Bloom vs Thornton

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Posted on: Jan 18, 2023 at 6:25 PM

It's funny how I remember reading your huge comic book collection and maybe? did I? take over your paper route one time when your family went on vacation? Do you recall?

Aug 28, 2022 at 10:49 AM

Hi Janet

It's Steve's older brother Peter. I think Steve was friends with your brother. After a long fight with pancreatic cancer, Steve passed away in July. Actually he got permission to put himself to sleep due to a new law (2018) in California. Steve had every medical intervention imaginable and lived ten years after diagnosis instead of the usual six months.

Aug 25, 2022 at 6:31 PM

Happy Birthday Peter

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Happy Birthday Rita

Jun 30, 2022 at 11:11 AM

Happy Birthday Collette. My folks were furniture mavens, lol. Most of their pieces were sold. I recently found out how valuable they were when a coworker found a Herman Miller chair on line at a government auction and I remembered rooms full of them in our Homewood home.

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Lets promote vaccination! So important to protect ourselves and others! Millions have been vaccinated and very very few problems.

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Happy Birthday Rita

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Sep 06, 2019 at 3:44 PM

You were in the class following me, so I have the faintest recollection of you. The reason I am writing this is I saw somewhere your switch over toward the Democrats from the Republicans, and was pleased to read of that from many standpoints. Good for you. I hope you can help replace the present administration with one that's got a little heart and doesn't think there are good nazis and doesn't tear little children from their parents.

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Wedding Song

I'm playing at my son's wedding
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At my nephew's wedding
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With the RHESSI spacecraft behind me
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My nephew's wedding reception outfit
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A Kid in Homewood
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