![]() ![]() He participated in intramural sports in those years as well, and was somewhat surprised to find out that he was, in fact, a decent athlete. I thought I knew everything back then, and I cringe to think how little I actually knew."Ĭarl was an English major at Berkeley, spending many hours reading the classics and writing (bad) poetry and stories. But I'm not sure we understood much of what was happening. "Yes, we students were right about Vietnam. He participated in many of those protests, but looking back is not so sure how he feels about those days. So, by my senior year the only sport I was still playing was golf."Ĭarl attended the University of California, Berkeley during the heady days of student protest over Vietnam. "I was too slow and too short for basketball I was too small for football, too frightened to hang in against a good fastball. He describes himself as a classic second-stringer. He was good enough to make most teams, but not good enough to play much. Once he started school, Carl continued to wander about in the woods above his house but, as he grew older, he participated in sports. Mainly he kicked around with his friend Paul Garibaldi, looking for frogs and lizards and the occasional snake. ![]() ![]() As a young boy, he spent many hours in the creek behind his house and in the wooded area west of his house. Carl Deuker was raised in Redwood City, California, the son of Jack Deuker and Marie Milligan Deuker. ![]()
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