RESIDENCE HISTORY

1936                   Born, Erie Pennsylvania

1937                   Columbus, Ohio

1938                    Akron, Ohio

1940-48              Cleveland, Ohio

1948-50              South Central Los Angeles

1950-56              Altadena, CA

1956-59              Tucson, Ariz

1960-62              Palo Alto, CA

1962-present       Newport Beach, CA

ROGER MACGREGOR AT VARIOUS AGES ALONG THE WAY

EDUCATION

Riverside Elementary School, Cleveland, Ohio  1940-46

Huntington Park High School, Los Angeles    1946-47

Elliot Junior High School, 1st and 2nd year of high school, Altadena, Ca  1947-49

Pasadena City College, 3rd and 4th year of high school, Pasadena, Ca,  1949-50

Occidental College, Eagle Rock, Ca, 1952-1956, Bachelor of Arts degree, Economics, Phi Beta Kappa,   2nd highest grade point in class of 300

United States Air Force, training, Cheyenne, Wyoming,  1956

Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 1961-1963, Master of Business Administration degree, 2nd highest grade point is class of 280

EMPLOYMENT

Age 7 to 18:       A wide variety of jobs, including a very large newspaper route (age 7-10) in Cleveland, Ohio, A variety of retail sales jobs, and lot of manual labor.

1956:                 Securities Analyst, Occidental Life Insurance Company, Los Angeles

1956-1959:        Officer, United States Air Force, Strategic Air Command, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Ariz.

1961-1967:       Administration Manager, Ford Motor Company, Newport Beach (Aeronutronic Missile and Space Division)

1965–2013:       Founder, owner and president, MacGregor Yacht Corporation and MacGregor 65 Corporation,
with a 5 acre plant in Costa Mesa, California.  220 employees.  Manufactured approximately 800-1000 sailboats each year.   

2020-present:    Owner of MacGregor Properties, LLC.  After retiring and shutting down the boat building operations, MacGregor formed an industrial leasing company to lease out portions of the boatbuilding plant to eleven industrial businesses.  The factory was built in 1968.  It was designed with multiple buildings and separate units that would allow rental of all the spaces after MacGregor’s retirement from the boat manufacturing industry.

HOBBIES AND OTHER INTERESTS:

Yacht design
Sailing (racing, cruising and daysailing)
Unpowered flight (sailplane design)
Graphic arts  (airbrush, computer graphics)
Computer systems.  Fluent in Adobe Photoshop, Rhino (3D modeling and drafting), Rhinocam (a
computer control system for automated factory equipment), Autoyacht (3D yacht design and
hydrodynamic calculations), Microsoft Word, Excel and Access.
Architectural design

1968: Commodore, Lido Isle Yacht Club