Hugh Hunter

Professional

After graduating from Baltimore City College (high school) I spent a year at Colgate University before doing a stint in the Army just prior to the Vietnam War. After the Army, I spent 3 years at the University of Maryland earning a degree in business. While at Maryland I worked for a transportation lobbyist in Washington, D.C. and got an insider's view of Washington politics.

Soon after graduation, I headed west in my VW bug and eventually landed in Los Angeles where I went to work for Douglas Aircraft Co.(later McDonnell-Douglas, much later Boeing). I was a financial staff assistant to the vice president of operations. During my time at Douglas I earned an MBA at Cal. State Long Beach.

In 1970 I entered the doctoral program at the University of Southern California with a two year Commerce Associates fellowship. While at USC I taught in the business school and the graduate school of public administration and worked as a researcher for the Center for Futures Research. In 1976, I received my doctorate in finance and business economics.

My first full time teaching position was at the University of Minnesota- Morris. From there I moved to Whittier College in California. We then packed up and moved to the Pacific Northwest. I taught for a year at Washington State University, then for 18 years at Eastern Washington University. For 2 years I ran the bureau of business research and for 4 years edited a regional business journal. I and two co-authors wrote Foundations of Corporate Finance. The second edition was published in 2001.

In 1998 we returned to Southern California. For six years I taught at San Diego State University where I received outstanding faculty awards in 2000, 2002 and 2003. In 1999 I took early retirement from Eastern Washington University, and became an emeritus professor in 2000. In 2004 I retired from San Diego State.

Personal

I spent several, relatively blissful, years in the pre-Vietnam Army, including a winter on the Greenland ice cap and 16 months of rum, sun and diving in Puerto Rico. After college,I escaped from Washington, D.C. and finally came to roost in the Belmont Shore section of Long Beach, California. There I met people who became lifelong friends. Most importantly, I met my wife, Maureen, then a teacher. Within a few years our son, Hugh, and daughter, Nancy, were born. They grew up in Eastern Washington. For a time we lived the rural life, made more poignant by being occasionally snowbound. Both children went from public schools in Spokane to colleges in the East. Hugh graduated from Yale in 1998 and lives with his wife Kim in Hollywood. His considerable computer skills provided a nice income, but, as with his sister and father, writing is in the blood. He chucked the paycheck for the screen writing program at USC cinema school and has optioned a couple of screen plays. Nancy graduated from Tufts University in 1999 after spending her senior year at University College, London. She lives in the trendy and slightly funky Silver Lake area of LA. She is a senior network editor for a leading media company.

I have a number of avocations and interests that ebb and flow over time. My passion for writing has spawned a recently completed novel, War Dance. Conjoined with writing is my interest in history, especially the events preceding our entry into World War II. While I sympathize with Huck Finn who bemoaned the effort of making a book, it seems to me that no one would write this much unless they derived some intrinsic pleasure from it. I only wish I could write like Mr. Finn.

One of my great joys is sailing. For several years I owned and sailed a 33 foot sloop on Lake Coeur d'Alene in Idaho, but discovered that a big boat on a small lake was a recipe for monotony. Until recently, I sailed with a club at Dana Point about 40 miles north of Carlsbad. Now I enjoy hanging out at home in Carlsbad-By-The-Sea and driving my not quite new Porsche and traveling, most recently to Asia.

BRIEF RESUME

Academic 

• Lecturer in Finance, San Diego State University, 1998-2004 (retired). Outstanding Faculty Award, 2000; Mortar Board Award for faculty 2002-3, 2003-04.
• Professor of Finance, Eastern Washington University 1980­99 (Emeritus 2001). Taught also at University of Minnesota- Morris, Whittier College and Washington State University.
• Director, Bureau of Business Research, Eastern Washington University, scholarly papers, publications and teaching cases
• Editor, Northwest Business Review, Book reviews for West Publishing Co., Dryden Press, McGraw-Hill/Irwin and John Wiley & Sons. 
• Case Editor, Business Policy and Strategic Management, C. E. Merrill.

Business 

• Taught in Merrill Lynch CFP program, Financial consultant and Senior financial analyst, McDonnell-Douglas Corp, (California).

Degrees 

• BS, Business Administration, University of Maryland, 1965 (Colgate University 1958-59)
• MBA, Finance, California State University, Long Beach, 1968
• DBA, Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California. Commerce Associates graduate fellowships, Staff of Center for Futures Research, Beta Gamma Sigma.

Textbook

• Foundations of Corporate Finance, with Kent A. Hickman and John W. Byrd, West Publishing Co, 2nd edition, South-Western College Publishing.

Community Service 

• Board Member and Treasurer, Alga Hills Homeowners Assn.; Chair of church council; treasurer and member of the executive board of Inland Empire Swimming; vice Commodore, Panhandle Yacht Club; nationally certified official for United States Swimming; five interviews, including one live in studio, by KREM-TV (CBS), Spokane.