James Mathieu

Profile Updated: May 22, 2018
Residing In: Jackson, WY USA
Spouse/Partner: Roberta Mathieu
Occupation: Commercial Real Estate Brokerage
Children: Henry Mathieu (born 1979)
Corinne Mathieu (born 1981)
Avery Mathieu (born 1985/deceased)
Comments:

I graduated from Williams College in 1972 and moved to Jackson Hole. I have variously been: a lift operator, a ski patrolman, a land surveyor, a truck driver, a retail manager, a mail order manager, a clothing designer, a sales manager based in Paris covering western Europe, and a commerical real estate broker since I returned from France in 1996. I am terminally self employed. I took MBA courses at Idaho State Univery and received a Masters in Spiritual Psychology in 2012 from the Univeristy of Santa Monica. In the Fall of 2012, I taught an elective course in Philosophy, called "The Power of Ideas", at the Jackson Hole Community School. I developed this curriculum specifically for high school seniors because that's the age my youngest son was when he died.
I have never really known what I wanted to be "when I grew up", but I have always had a clear idea of where I wanted to be.

School Story:

Alex Carlon and I got kicked out of school for distributing a (very poorly written) flyer, on Sadie Hawkins Day, urging our classmates to vote for a simple tape recorder and projector for the Westside Martin Luther King Study Center where Alex and I tutored (mostly black) kids after school. All told, this was as a small portion of the '68 senior class gift. The class voted for the gift (rejecting eucalyptus trees in the junior parking lot, a color TV in the faculty lounge, and/or a bronze bull dog). The administration claimed we didn't write the flyer (which we did) and kicked us both out of school. The Friends Society, where we printed the flyers, told the NAACP about this and they pressured Art Dittberner to let us graduate with you all in the Rose Bowl. That was then ...

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May 22, 2018 at 1:27 PM
James Mathieu has left an In Memory comment for Robert McClean.
Aug 10, 2015 at 5:34 PM

   Bob and I were good friends.  We surfed together, I sat in with him in his band ("Feather" with Dave St. John), and I knew Bob's parents and younger brothers and sister.  We took a 14' outboard motorboat over to Catalina and surfed LIttle Harbor and Ben Weston.  Bob and I also went down to Baja and surfed around Ensenada. Ernie Posey, Bob McClean and I used to drive up to Alta/Utah and Sun Valley/Idaho, sleeping in my '65 VW panel van, on ski trips.  However, after we went off to college, I lost track of Bob.

 

   In 1975, I was driving down State Street in Santa Barbara, visiting my sister who lived there, and I saw Bob standing on a street corner eating an ice cream cone.  I went around the block and to make sure it was him ... and it was.  For the next couple of days, we surfed together at the old oil piers (south of Rincon) and at Leadbetters.  Still, Bob was different ... mentally.  We laughed a lot, but his comments were random and he repeatedly stared off toward the horizon.  The next thing I heard, Bob was dead.  I still wish I could hear his laugh...

 

James Mathieu added a comment on Profile.
Aug 10, 2015 at 4:47 PM
Posted: Dec 16, 2013 at 10:16 PM
Steelhead fishing on the Cowlitz River, in Washington State, with: Mike Hawkins, Alex Carlon, Pat McGuire and Ernie Posey
Posted: Dec 16, 2013 at 10:16 PM
I have a mobility addiction.