Bill Lansing

Placer High School

Class of 1963

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Bill Lansing - Class of 1963 - Placer High School

First Name	Bill
Last Name	Lansing
Graduation Year	Class of 1963
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	OR
Country	United States
Occupation	Retired
Married	Yes
Favorite School Memory	I graduated from Colfax High School, but went to Placer Hills Elementary School where some of the children went to Placer High and some went to the new high school in Colfax. I was in the first 4-year graduating class at that school
About Me	After graduating from Colfax High, I enrolled at Sierra College to study forestry. After Sierra, I went on to Humboldt State College again to continue my education in forestry and engineering. After HSU, Yale offered me a full-ride fellowship and I gave up flying jets for the Air Force and continued my education in Forestry. After graduation, I went to work for a forest products company and worked my up the "food chain" retiring in 2006 as the President and CEO. I have written six coffee-table style books on local history which has put me in touch with many interesting people. A couple of years ago, I wrote a biography of my memories growing up in Placer County - Eden Valley. My brother - Gene - went to Placer High for a couple of years before being transferred to Colfax High where h...(read more)