Jim Adams passed away June 3, 2014. He was a native Californian, born February 19, 1931, in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles. In high school he ran cross-country and the mile, was President of the Susan Miller Dorsey High School and a Thespian.
Jim had a life-long interest in the theater and music; was a singer with the El Camino College band; and majored in Speech and English at UCLA. After a stint in the data processing department at North American Aviation, he received his MBA at the University of Chicago and worked for the Data Processing Management Association in Park Ridge, Illinois, as Director of Education, a post he filled for the Association of Computing Machinery in New York for twenty-seven years.
Upon retirement, he moved with his wife, Beverly, to La Jolla, where they have lived for the past twenty years. Jim and Beverly traveled throughout the world, especially loving France and visiting Asia, South America, Tahiti and Australia. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in April of this year.
Jim leaves his wife, Beverly; three children, Wendy Sue of Montezuma,GA, Kevin of Milford, CT, and Caroline of Aliso Viejo, CA; and two grandchildren, Clayton of Clairemont, CA, and Lindsay of Milford, CT.
Burial will take place at the Mission San Luis Ray in Oceanside on Friday, June 13, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. A Memorial Service will be held at the Casa de Mañana on Sunday, July 6, 2014, at 2:00 p.m.
Published in La Jolla Light on June 12, 2014
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Jim Adams passed away June 3, 2014. He was a native Californian, born February 19, 1931, in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles. In high school he ran cross-country and the mile, was President of the Susan Miller Dorsey High School and a Thespian.
Jim had a life-long interest in the theater and music; was a singer with the El Camino College band; and majored in Speech and English at UCLA. After a stint in the data processing department at North American Aviation, he received his MBA at the University of Chicago and worked for the Data Processing Management Association in Park Ridge, Illinois, as Director of Education, a post he filled for the Association of Computing Machinery in New York for twenty-seven years.
Upon retirement, he moved with his wife, Beverly, to La Jolla, where they have lived for the past twenty years. Jim and Beverly traveled throughout the world, especially loving France and visiting Asia, South America, Tahiti and Australia. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in April of this year.
Jim leaves his wife, Beverly; three children, Wendy Sue of Montezuma,GA, Kevin of Milford, CT, and Caroline of Aliso Viejo, CA; and two grandchildren, Clayton of Clairemont, CA, and Lindsay of Milford, CT.
Burial will take place at the Mission San Luis Ray in Oceanside on Friday, June 13, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. A Memorial Service will be held at the Casa de Mañana on Sunday, July 6, 2014, at 2:00 p.m.
Published in La Jolla Light on June 12, 2014
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