Famous people I've met and/or worked with (a list)

• Will Vinton (Claymation film producer—worked for him 1977-1980)
• Michael Phillips (producer of The Sting, Close Encounters, Taxi Driver, Cannery Row, etc.)
• Saul Zaentz (producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, The English Patient; Creedence Clearwater)
• Dr. Lawrence Peter (author of The Peter Principle)
• Joan Baez (interviewed her for my college paper, The Pioneer Log)
• Alex Winitsky and Arlene Sellers (producers of Cuba, House Calls)
• Buddy Rich
• Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny, etc.)
• Cliff Robertson (starred in Charly, narrated the Claymation film The Little Prince)
• Matt Wuerker (Politico’s Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist)
• Claudia Weill (director of Girlfriends, the movie)
• Dallas McKennon (character and voice actor)
• Robin Trower
• Earl Newman (artist)
• Bindy Irwin (daughter of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin Terry Irwin, owner of the Australia Zoo)
• Jean Auel (author of the Clan of the Cave Bear series)
• Brian Bressler (comedian on Laugh In)
• William Stafford (poet, my freshman year poetry teacher, winner of National Book Award)
• Nick Bosustow, producer of Mr. Magoo and other cartoons
• Tom Waits
• Brian Willis (drummer for Quarterflash)
• Colin Meloy (singer/songwriter for The Decemberists)
• Susan Orlean (author of The Orchid Thief, Saturday Night, etc.)
• Joan Gratz (former colleague at WVP, Academy Award-winning creator of “clay painting”)
• Fred Child (host of NPR’s Performance Today, and former bandmate with Neal Gladstone & Friends)
• Temple Grandin
• Marshall Efron (host of PBS's The Great American Dream Machine)
• Rick Spinrad (former Chief Scientist for NOAA; had dinner at his house)
• John Byrne (former administrator of NOAA; posed with him for photo honoring revision of Trees to Know in Oregon, for which I served as editor and did the layout)
• James Dillet Freeman (Unity Village author of the poem “I Am There” and The Case for Reincarnation)
• Rose Naftalin (former owner of Rose’s Delicatessen, author of Grandma Rose’s Sinfully Delicious Desserts cookbook)
• Mike Ryerson (photographer/creator of the “Expose yourself to art” poster, and editor of The Northwest Neighbor newspaper, for which I wrote freelance articles)
• Walter Sear (pioneer in the use of synthesizers, especially Moog)
• Sean McKean, who had his dreadlocks shaved off by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder during a live performance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG2IHdn-xmg)
• Jim Goodwin, keyboardist for Uranus (a progressive rock band for which I played drums) and semi-famous for his work with Bono, Peter Gabriel, and soundtrack composing (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329486/), and for being the son of Judge Alfred Theodore Goodwin of the Ninth Circuit (famous for ruling that “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional)
• Michele Mariana
• Gary Ogan
• Peter Sarsgaard (actor, met at Middlebury, VT, Co-op)
• Maggie Gyllenhaal (actor, met at Middlebury, VT, Co-op))
• Leroy Preston (drummer/singer/songwriter for Asleep at the Wheel; met in Middlebury, VT)