– Member Biography –
Tim
Hillebrand
SASP President 2001, 2002
Born in Santa Barbara, California, Tim is
a ninth generation Californian interested in his Spanish heritage and local
history. He served as the director of the Santa Barbara Historical Society
Museum before moving to Los Angeles where he taught at Occidental College. He
has also taught at UCSB, UCLA, and California State College at Los Angeles. He
earned a Masters in anthropology and Ph.D. in archaeology at UCSB.
As the vice president of a film company he
traveled to South America to produce archaeological films. Returning home with an
insatiable wanderlust, he founded a travel company called UNITREX for Unique
Travel Experiences that ran archaeological expeditions all over the
world.
In 1988 he retired and moved from
Pasadena, California to Salmon, Idaho to get away from smog, pollution,
over-population, crime, fires, and earthquakes. Bowing to his wife’s pressure,
he moved to Moscow, Idaho to be near the university where he teaches a course
from time to time. His wife Romana teaches in the English department at
Washington State University.
Finally realizing a long unfulfilled
desire to write novels, Tim has written a series of six (so far) archaeological
sagas featuring the same protagonist. The books, currently available as eBooks,
are based on some of Tim’s own archaeological experiences around the world.
Recently he revised an electronic book titled The List Business Manual.
Tim is also the president of Synergetics International, a data processing and
electronic publishing company. His most recent endeavor involves writing
children’s stories for his grandchildren.
Tim is an enthusiastic advocate of
electronic publishing and has lectured widely on the subject and is a
contributor to Pocket PC Magazine.
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