Whittier College

Don came from Excelsior High with Varsity Letters Earned in All Major Sports

• Rated by the Coaching Staff as one of the Best Right Ends Ever to Play for Poets

• Won 3 Varsity Football Letters

• All Conference SCIAC on the 1939 Championship Team

• Earned 3 Letters in Baseball on Three Championship Teams

• All Conference at Left Field 1940

• Held .422 Batting Average for 40 game schedule in 1939

• Played End as Professional for Hollywood Bears in 1940 and 1941

• Lt.-U.S. Navy 1942-1946

• Awarded Silver Star

• A Science Major, MS Degree, He set aside a promising Sports Career to Enter the Oil Industry and become a leading developer of Off Shore Petroleum Production