About Stuart Gustafson
Stuart Gustafson was born into a military family as the third of three boys in Santa Paula, California. He was only
2-1/2 when his Dad left for two years to serve in the Korean War. The family later moved to Orange, Texas; back
to Santa Paula; to the island of Guam in the Marianas Islands; to Lakewood, California,and finally to El Centro,
California. This is the town where the family lived when Stuart's dad retired from the US Navy, but was killed by a
drunk driver two years later. A year after that, Stuart graduated from high school.
Living now in Boise, Idaho, Stuart has been married to Darlene Smith of Jackson, Michigan for over thirty-four
years. They have one daughter and one son. Stuart's 91-year old Mom lives five blocks from their house.
Stuart has a BA in Mathematics from San Diego State University, and an MBA from the University of San Diego,
where he received a faculty nomination for lifetime membership in Beta Gamma Sigma as recognition for his
outstanding academic accomplishments. Stuart is now retired from the corporate world, but he worked for such
companies as JC Penney, General Electric, Xerox, and Hewlett-Packard. He now spends his time writing,
teaching MBA classes at the University of Phoenix, and traveling. He has flown over 730,000 actual flight miles
on one airline alone. He and his wife Darlene usually spend the first few weeks of February escaping the cold of
Idaho and going to Los Cabos, Mexico.
The last eight years of his career were spent in customer-facing roles where he used both his quantitative skills
and his ability to relate with people at all levels of the organizations. It is this latter talent that has allowed him to
be an outstanding university instructor and a compelling public speaker. He also sings tenor in his church choir,
although he prefers to be called a "blending tenor," blending in with whatever the person next to him is signing.
Classical music is his favorite, and the highlight of his music collection is a 171-CD set containing every
recorded piece of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The rest of his CD collection is catalogued in a
computerized database so he can quickly find any work that he has on CD.
Stuart Gustafson was born into a military family as the third of three boys in Santa Paula, California. He was only
2-1/2 when his Dad left for two years to serve in the Korean War. The family later moved to Orange, Texas; back
to Santa Paula; to the island of Guam in the Marianas Islands; to Lakewood, California,and finally to El Centro,
California. This is the town where the family lived when Stuart's dad retired from the US Navy, but was killed by a
drunk driver two years later. A year after that, Stuart graduated from high school.
Living now in Boise, Idaho, Stuart has been married to Darlene Smith of Jackson, Michigan for over thirty-four
years. They have one daughter and one son. Stuart's 91-year old Mom lives five blocks from their house.
Stuart has a BA in Mathematics from San Diego State University, and an MBA from the University of San Diego,
where he received a faculty nomination for lifetime membership in Beta Gamma Sigma as recognition for his
outstanding academic accomplishments. Stuart is now retired from the corporate world, but he worked for such
companies as JC Penney, General Electric, Xerox, and Hewlett-Packard. He now spends his time writing,
teaching MBA classes at the University of Phoenix, and traveling. He has flown over 730,000 actual flight miles
on one airline alone. He and his wife Darlene usually spend the first few weeks of February escaping the cold of
Idaho and going to Los Cabos, Mexico.
The last eight years of his career were spent in customer-facing roles where he used both his quantitative skills
and his ability to relate with people at all levels of the organizations. It is this latter talent that has allowed him to
be an outstanding university instructor and a compelling public speaker. He also sings tenor in his church choir,
although he prefers to be called a "blending tenor," blending in with whatever the person next to him is signing.
Classical music is his favorite, and the highlight of his music collection is a 171-CD set containing every
recorded piece of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The rest of his CD collection is catalogued in a
computerized database so he can quickly find any work that he has on CD.
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