Profile: Scott Cameron

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Dougal Scott Cameron (58) BA UCSB, MS CSULA both in physics.
Physics and Calculus Teacher at San Marino High School in San Marino, CA.
Have coached basketball and volleyball for over 25 years.
Been teaching here since 1972.

Physics highlights:
1) Hearing Richard Feynman talk at UCSB in '60s.
2) Doing Raman Spectroscopy with 2 watt Ar laser in Broida's lab at UCSB in late '60s.
3) Building spark chamber with Don Sylwester at UCSB senior year.
4) Climbing spiral staircase of Leaning Tower of Pisa.
5) Having Richard Feynman come talk to my physics students on 2/11/76.
6) Being selected for Conference on Teaching Modern Physics held at Fermilab in April 1986.
7) Attending an amazing 3-day Feynman memorial at St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco at AAPT meeting following his death in February 1988.
8) Working four summers at Xerox Electro-Optical Systems on Miles, Fiber Optics, and Special Film programs.
9) Working two summers at JPL on Mars Observer program and learning about planetary atmospheres.
10) Hearing Edwin Land talk at Caltech's Beckman twice.

Hobbies & interests include hiking, skiing, detective mystery reading, family vacations, black & white photography, and astronomy.
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