Ted Gifford

Ted Gifford died March 8, 2019. We will keep his personal web page on the Chaffey class of 1967 web page. You can read Ted's obituary by clicking here.

After graduation, I traveled for a summer in Europe with classmates David Blanton, Steve Moore, and Paul Roberds. I attended college at UC Santa Barbara and then went on to UC Berkeley to graduate school. In 1973, I moved to Alaska and worked for a time with classmate Mark Ervice doing carpentry and remodeling and also started teaching at the University of Alaska. The next year I started a software engineering company and was involved in construction of the Alaska Pipeline and various other large projects both in Alaska and elsewhere over the next 25 years, developing mathematics and engineering software. That year I also met my future wife, Teresa, who was taking a ceramics class from Mark. We have two sons, Ethan lives in Sweden and teaches and does research at the University of Gothenburg and Duncan lives in San Francisco and applies his background in meteorology and computer science to alternative energy. Both are married and our first grandchild is due in December. In the intervening years, I also spent a couple of sabbatical years at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and also led a math research group at a software company in Marin County. After 25 years with the University of Alaska, I spent a final year as Dean for Finance and then retired in 1998. I then worked for several years as the director of quantitative research for an investment company before taking a position as head of engineering and research at a logistics company in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Here I remain with my second retirement still on the horizon.

During my more youthful years, I spent too much time playing handball and rugby, which afforded the opportunity to travel to Africa, South America, New Zealand, Australia, the Far East and Europe. Now with a couple of artificial body parts, my recreational outdoor time is occupied with sailing, biking, and skiing. I also enjoy woodworking and reading, and a good argument.

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