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Abrams, Harold Ain, Gregory Alexander, Robert E. Antelline, Jon P. Batter-Kay Associates Beckett, Welton Benedict, Hiram Hudson Bonini, Vincent Brownell, J. Herbert Buff, Straub and Hensman Campbell, Donald Cody, William F. Crane, Loch Davis, Ronald K. Decker, Arthur Deems-Lewis Delawie, Homer Des Lauriers, Robert Drake, Gordon Eckel, George Eggers, Henry Ellwood, Craig Ferris, Robert Fickett, Edward Forester, Russell Fowble, Robert French, Stanley J. Frey, Albert Gill, Irving Goldman, Donald Gordon, Kenneth & Robert Grossman, Greta Hagadone, Walter Harris, Harwell Hamilton Henderson, John Hester, Henry Hope, Frank Hufbauer, Clyde Hubbell, James Jackson-Scott Jones, A. Quincy Jones, Robert E. Kahn, Louis Kellogg, Dick Kellogg, Kendrick Bangs Kesling, William Killingsworth, Brady & Smith Kowalski, Joseph Krisel, William Ladd, Thornton Lareau, Richard Lautner, John Leitch, Richard Liebhardt, Frederick Livingstone, Fred Lotery, Rex Lykos, George Macy, Al Malone, Ed Matthews, Roger May, Cliff McKim, Paul Mitchell, Delmar Mock, John Mortenson, John Mosher & Drew Naegle, Dale Neutra, Richard Norris, Fred Paderewski, CJ Paul & Allard Paulson, Ted Periera & Luckman Platt, Robert Ray, Eugene Reed, John Richards, Sim Bruce Rosser, William Ruocco, Lloyd Salerno, Daniel Schindler, Rudolph Simpson and Gerber Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Soriano, Raphael Spencer & Lee Stone, Edward Durrell Therkelsen, Lloyde Tucker, Sadler & Bennett Turner, Herb Veitzer, Leonard Vickery, Dean Weir Brothers Weston, Eugene III Wheeler, Richard Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lloyd Wright, Lloyd Wulff and Fifield	Stanley J. French (b. September 6th, 1923 – d. November 12th, 2006) Stanley J. French Following graduation from USC in the 1947, Stanley French practiced architecture in San Diego through 1975 when he relocated to New Mexico where he continued to design. Soon after graduation from USC's School of Architecture, French worked for Lloyd Ruocco in his office at The Design Center. Following his tenure with Ruocco, Stanley worked for Henry Hester in the early 1950s He became interested in commercial construction and moved on to a position with L.C. Anderson Co. as an estimator for a number of years. By the late 1950s, he had begun with Boyle Engineering. The first project I am aware of is the Balboa Stadium expansion in 1960. According to French, “This project for the city of San Diego focused on enlarging the seating capacity of the original stadium constructed by the WPA on a junior college site. We designed the upper deck over the existing seating. I received my contract in June and the city scheduled football games in late August. This called for fast action. Main columns and footings were poured on site using precast, pre-stressed concrete with “high early” strength cement. Seat sections (again using "high early") were poured on one day and put into place the next. I practically lived at the job site, and we nearly made the deadline by only rescheduling the first game.” We know that the Chargers played their first league game against Oakland in this stadium only weeks later on September 17th. He designed a series of 22-ton precast beams 53 feet in length to support the second tier of seats. Each beam was cantilevered on a single caisson of poured concrete. Employed with Boyle Engineering from the late 50’s into the 80’s, he was the senior architect for projects such as a proposal for a floating stadium for the San Diego Chargers. The San Diego County Juvenile Detention Center (1967) is a project he was still proud of in later life. The design for this building included some solar power considerations that were ahead of their time. French recently stated, "The entire line of exterior sunscreen panels moved so that screens were protecting exterior glass and were activated by solar clocks. They automatically returned to the starting position at night." Among many designs (some while the lead architect at Boyle Engineering), he contributed some significant work to Southern California's built environment. He recently remembered, "While I lead Boyle Engineering Architectural Division, we provided complete services for El Camino Memorial Park from its inception, including all surveys and mapping, design of roads, water system and drainage, administration building, cremation facilities, mausoleum, and illustrations for sales kits. The three arch design theme has been carried throughout the park. This photograph shows the administration building foreground with the first phase of the Mausoleum of the Bells at the top of the hill overlooking the lake and administration building below." Through Boyle Engineering, he traveled to Ruidoso, New Mexico to meet a Mescalero Apache Chief interested in establishing a magnificent inn, golf and boating resort. Soon, through mutual respect for each other, Jim was selected to create the Inn of the Mountain Gods, his largest career project. His creation of a towering interior lobby with a “reaching to the sky” centered stone and copper fireplace became a well know landmark in the town of Ruidoso and throughout the southwest. He became enamored with the town and decided to relocate with his entire family to this mountain jewel. There, with his private practice, he designed several private residences, commercial buildings and a golf course until he retired for health reasons in 2000. Pacific View Memorial Park, Newport Beach San Diego County Juvenile Detention Center (1967) El Camino Memorial Park El Camino Memorial Park Balboa Stadium Partial List of Projects Balboa Stadium Expansion (1960) SDSU (demolished) El Camino Memorial Park 5600 Carroll Canyon Road, San Diego Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood Kircher Residence La Crecentia, Point Loma Montecito Memorial Park, Colton Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino Pacific View Memorial Park, Newport Beach San Diego Zoo - SkyFari and Wegaforth Bowl San Diego County Juvenile Detention Center (1967) Santa Clara Memorial Park, Santa Clara Spanish Landing Park on Harbor Island Valley of Fire Monument, Hawaii.