RON CHILCOTE
Laguna Beach, CA
RON CHILCOTE
Laguna Beach, CA
Laguna Beach, CA
An active environmentalist, Chilcote has also been involved in conservation and wilderness protection campaigns, especially in California and Wyoming. Since 1974 he has served as a board director of Laguna Greenbelt, which campaigned to preserve 22,000 acres of land in a rapidly urbanizing area of Southern California. He has combined this environmental activism with his work as a landscape and nature photographer. In 2003 he co-founded Laguna Wilderness Press, which has published 13 books of photography to promote the preservation of pristine environments. Chilcote’s photographs have also been exhibited at art galleries in Southern California and Wyoming, including a retrospective of 60 of his photographs of the Laguna Wilderness at the Founders Gallery of Soka University of America from January to August 2012.
RON CHILCOTE
Laguna Beach, CA
RON CHILCOTE
Laguna Beach, CA
An active environmentalist, Chilcote has also been involved in conservation and wilderness protection campaigns, especially in California and Wyoming. Since 1974 he has served as a board director of Laguna Greenbelt, which campaigned to preserve 22,000 acres of land in a rapidly urbanizing area of Southern California. He has combined this environmental activism with his work as a landscape and nature photographer. In 2003 he co-founded Laguna Wilderness Press, which has published 13 books of photography to promote the preservation of pristine environments. Chilcote’s photographs have also been exhibited at art galleries in Southern California and Wyoming, including a retrospective of 60 of his photographs of the Laguna Wilderness at the Founders Gallery of Soka University of America from January to August 2012.
Ron Chilcote, Ph.D.
- Chilcote came from an upper-middle-class Republican family that owned a small business in Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturing photo mounts. Following several members of his family, he attended Dartmouth College, where he was a member of the English poetry circle, led by Richard Eberhart.[citation needed] Through Eberhart’s seminar, he met Richard Wilbur (then at Smith College), Donald Hall, and Robert Frost. Later, at Stanford University, he attended the literature courses of Yvor Winters and Wallace Stegner.[citation needed]After returning from an extended stay in Europe, he enrolled in the Stanford University Graduate School of Business to study for an M.B.A. He received funding to conduct a study of U.S. business in Guatemala and Chile, hitchhiked through other countries, and visited Cuba on the eve of the Cuban Revolution. Exposure to Latin America’s extreme inequality led him to Ronald Hilton‘s M.A. program at Stanford and then into a Ph.D. program in political economy, including studies with Paul Baran. His interest in the roots of Latin American poverty shaped his long-term research agenda, beginning with a doctoral dissertation on Spain and continuing with a book on Portugal and the Portuguese colonies in Africa. This work occurred under the fascist regimes of Francisco Franco in Spain and António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal, and included a research trip to Angola, where he was arrested by the Portuguese secret police in Luanda and held prisoner and interrogated for ten days. Denied the possibility of returning to Portugal, he refocused his research on Brazil, especially the high poverty Northeast.He and Frances Bunker Chilcote have been married since 1961 and they have two sons, Edward and Stephen.
Ron Chilcote, Ph.D.
Chilcote came from an upper-middle-class family that owned a small business in Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturing photo mounts. Following several members of his family, he attended Dartmouth College, where he was a member of the English poetry circle, led by Richard Eberhart.[citation needed] Through Eberhart’s seminar, he met Richard Wilbur (then at Smith College), Donald Hall, and Robert Frost. Later, at Stanford University, he attended the literature courses of Yvor Winters and Wallace Stegner.[citation needed]After returning from an extended stay in Europe, he enrolled in the Stanford University Graduate School of Business to study for an M.B.A. He received funding to conduct a study of U.S. business in Guatemala and Chile, hitchhiked through other countries, and visited Cuba on the eve of the Cuban Revolution. Exposure to Latin America’s extreme inequality led him to Ronald Hilton‘s M.A. program at Stanford and then into a Ph.D. program in political economy, including studies with Paul Baran. His interest in the roots of Latin American poverty shaped his long-term research agenda, beginning with a doctoral dissertation on Spain and continuing with a book on Portugal and the Portuguese colonies in Africa. This work occurred under the fascist regimes of Francisco Franco in Spain and António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal, and included a research trip to Angola, where he was arrested by the Portuguese secret police in Luanda and held prisoner and interrogated for ten days. Denied the possibility of returning to Portugal, he refocused his research on Brazil, especially the high poverty Northeast.He and Frances Bunker Chilcote have been married since 1961 and they have two sons, Edward and Stephen.
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