Full Biography for Ralph Bauer

Candidate for
Member, City Council; City of Huntington Beach

Ralph H. Bauer was born in Los Angeles of immigrant parents. He attended North Hollywood High School. Ralph entered UCLA in 1948 and graduated in 1952 with a B.S. degree in Chemistry. Ralph spent two years in the U.S. Navy before he returned to UCLA in 1954. He worked on the steric and electronic effects of the Paracyclophane Series with Professor Donald J. Cram and received the Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1958.

Ralph then joined Shell Development Corporation as a Research Scientist, and in 1966, he joined Unocal as a Research Chemist. He became the International Marketing Manager of the Petrochemical Division of Unocal in 1983. Ralph was one of the founding members of the UCLA Chemistry Advisory Council as well as the UCLA Association of Chemists and Biochemists. He holds a number of patents and is the author of a number of scientific papers. Ralph retired from Unocal in 1985.

Ralph married Charlene Uhlik in 1952. Ralph and Charlene have two children, Elaine and Eric, and between them, five grandchildren. Ralph has actively participated in many community service areas, including the Board of Trustees of the Huntington Beach Union High School District, the Ocean View Elementary School District, the Huntington Beach Planning Commission and many aspects of Huntington Beach City and Orange County Government. He is currently a Councilman in the City of Huntington Beach, and past mayor of Huntington Beach.

SERVICE TO CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH

• Charter member of the Personnel Commission, 1964-1965 • Member of the Recreation and Parks Commission, predecessor to the Community Services Commission, 1967-1968 Member of the Planning Commission, 1977

• Member of the Historic Resources Board, 1991-1992

• Member of the Pier Design Committee, 1991

• Chairman of the Huntington Central Park Task Force, 1992 • Member of the Budget Review Task Force, 1992

• member of the Linear Park Citizen's Committee, 1991

• City Council Member, 1992-Present

• Mayor of Huntington Beach, 1997

SERVICE TO SCHOOLS OF HUNTINGTON BEACH

• Member of the Ocean View School Board, 1966-1974. President of the Board.

• Member of the Huntington Beach Union High School Board, 1968-1976. President of the Board.

• Member of the Ocean View School District Capital Resource Review Committee, 1992.

SERVICE TO COUNTY OF ORANGE

Member of the 1986-1987 Grand Jury (This jury carried out a management study of the County with the assistance of the Claremont Graduate School of Business). Past member of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Council of Aging.

OTHER COMMUNITY SERVICE

Member of People for Parks Committee who spearheaded the bond issue to purchase Central Park.

• Charter and life member of Friends of the Library.

• Life member of the Historical Society. Member of the Arts Associates.

• Charter and life member of Amigos de Bolsa Chica.

• Member of the Bolsa Chica Land Trust.

• Member of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association Huntington Valley Branch. Past member of the Board of the Huntington Harbour Property Owners Association.

• Member of the Huntington Beach Chamber of Commerce.

• Patron of the Huntington Beach Art Museum.

PERSONAL

• Married to Charlene for 46 years. Two children and five grandchildren.

• Attended Los Angeles city schools and graduated from North Hollywood High School in 1948

• Received a B.S. with honors (1952) and a Ph.D. (1958) in Chemistry from U.C.L.A. The Ph.D. thesis foreshadowed the research by Professor Donald J. Cram for which Cram received the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Author of a number of scientific papers and patents.

• Played freshman basketball during Coach John Wooden's first year at U.C.L.A.

• Served in combat aboard Minesweepers in the Korean War.

• Employed first by Shell Oil and then by Unocal over a 27-year career in positions ranging from Research Chemist to International Marketing Manager.

• Currently retired and devoting time to civic affairs and fund-raising for U.C.L.A. Received Seaborg Medal in 1992 - Given for outstanding service to the U.C.L.A. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

• Received Man of the Year Award from Huntington Valley division of the American Heart Association.

• Received with my wife, Charlene, "Golden Stars of the Year" award from Goldenwest College.

• Received "Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Human Relations" award from the Orange County Human Relations Commission.