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Sanford Holst, early days and career bio |
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Boomers Life You are a Baby Boomer if you were born be- tween 1946 and 1964. Together we grew up sharing experiences, special people, and great music. We also share current challenges and an open future ahead of us. Boomers Life is about awakening the desire among Boomers to do things with the great life we have. Browse if you like, share experiences if you can, complain if you must. This is our world, and welcome to it. Our Music Our Interests Health and fitness innovations Baby Boom generation experiences Issues for work and retirement Number of Boomers in each U.S. state Surprising increase in Social Security claims Bodhi Tree Bookstore Closing is a Boomer Experience Do Boomers still care? Protests then and now Our People More
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Sanford Holst
Born November 4, 1946 ...in Batavia, New York to William Holst, a U.S. Army counter-intelligence officer of German descent, and mother Catherine of Irish and Scottish heritage. To request Sanford Holst speak to your group, click here. |
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Sanford Holst in the Early Years Growing up as an "Army brat" meant home moved from New York to Maryland, Virginia, Vermont, Massachusetts, Arizona, California, Germany and Japan during those years. Even when going to college in Boston, it seemed natural to travel to San Francisco for a summer job, which is where I was during the Summer of Love in 1967. It was a time of playing music, surfing, uninhibited sex and smoking marijuana -- but I wasn't particularly good at any of those so I had to look for a Plan B. A year later, I graduated from MIT and moved to Los Angeles. Getting a master's degree in the history of business at UCLA stirred up some new ideas. That's how the magazine got started.
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Sanford Holst in Recent Years After sowing some wild oats earlier, I got into mixing technology and business, which turned out to be more fun than it sounds. A stint as vice president of information technology was followed by managing a huge investment in software technology for DirecTV and News Corp. Taking equally good care of my own investments, I managed to take early retirement at age 56. Though few people would recognize this as retirement. An avid reader and collector of history books since younger years, I had already written a few books on interesting discoveries from around the world involving health and social survival. Now I jumped into it full time. Traveling all over the Mediterranean, I finished a long-time study of the Phoenicians, those ancient sea-traders who helped build Solomon's Temple. After the book came out in 2005, I continued that interest in Solomon's Temple, which led me to the Knights Templar and Freemasons. The deep level of secrecy surrounding these societies was fascinating, and a new exploration began. That's the great thing about life: there's always something new waiting to be experienced.
Sanford Holst in Sidon, Lebanon In 2008, I traveled to London to present a research paper at Queen Mary College, and after that was elected to membership in the Royal Historical Society. To add some fun to the trip, I spent a few weeks visiting my long-ago family roots in Scotland and Ireland. Ate a haggis and survived! Don't have the legs to wear a kilt though. Some traditions are best left unexplored.
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magazine was all about things of interest to young people in Los Angeles, and
became known as the Taurus, since it was born under that sign. That
quickly led to free passes to review bands at the Troubadour and Whisky a Go Go, where
artists like James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and the Doors were
"discovered" early in their careers. Since I was publishing lots
of reviews, we were inundated with free albums, movie previews, free dinners,
and tickets to performances like Godspell at the Aquarius Theater. A
magical time. Then the competition got really tough, and we were bought out by a larger
publisher. So it was time to move on to the next project.
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