HALL, HAROLD ROBERT, retired computer engineer, was born in Bakersfield, California, on Feb. 7 the second son of Edward Earl and Ethel Mae Hall. He married TennieBee May Hall, Feb. 20, 1965. His education includes a BSEE/CS (1956), an MSEE/CS (1957), and a PhDEE/CS (1966) from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AA from Bakersfield College. He was employed as Chief Engineer of the wave-filter division of Transonic, Inc., Bakersfield (1957-60), Chief Design Engineer of Circuit Dyne Corporation, Pasadena and Laguna Beach, California (1960-61), Senior Development Engineer at Robertshaw Controls Company, Anaheim, California (1961-63), and Research Engineer at the Naval Command, Control, and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research and Development Division, Navy Research Laboratory, San Diego (1966-95). Currently he pursues the avocation of web page designer, having designed web pages for not-for-profit organizations such as Friends of Ostomates Worldwide-USA, Inc., Project SHARE, the California State Association of Parliamentarians (CSAP), the Sigma Delta Unit of CSAP, Mission Hills United Methodist Church, and the San Diego Chapter of the United Ostomy Association, for the late Scott Odell, well-known author of children's books, and for the book DEMOCRACIDE by Nathaniel Gilbert. He served as Treasurer of the Pacific Beach Town Council, San Diego (1996-98), of Friends of Ostomates Worldwide-USA, Inc., Akron, Ohio (1992-2000), of the United Ostomy Association, Inc., Irvine, California (1988-1990), and of the Pacific Beach and Mission Hills United Methodist Churches, San Diego, California. He was a co-recipient of the national Service Award of Friends of Ostomates Worldwide-USA in 2001, and a co-recipient of the President's Award of CSAP in 2006. He received the Thomas Clair McFarland Award, Electrical Engineering Division of the College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1956, and was a National Science Foundation Fellow, 1957. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America and Phi Beta Kappa and a life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), and the California Alumni Association. He has had an amateur radio license since 1951, currently holding extra class operator privileges and station call W6MGP. He has been listed in Marquis' Who's Who in Science and Technology, Who's Who in the West since 1974, and Who's Who in America since the Millenium Edition. He enjoys books about voyages (and battles) of the sailing ships of the fourteenth through nineteenth centuries, having read, among others, the Aubrey and Maturin series by O'Brian, and the Bolitho series by Kent.

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