Doug Millward - deceased

Occupation: Physicist, consultant
Children: 1


I started school at the U of W in 1962, got married in 1964, divorced a couple of years later. Married again in late 1969, had a daughter in 1973, and divorced in early 1996.

I graduated from the U of W in Physics in 1969, went to work for Boeing that summer, left Boeing for TRW in Ogden, Utah in 1978, and left Utah for SAIC in San Diego in 1980. I've been here ever since and love it. I've had my own company, Millward Research, since 1994 and love the independence this gives me -- I should have done it years ago! I do hope the work continues until I'm ready to retire, however. Due to the nature of my business (military, aerospace, electronics, semiconductor devices, nuclear weapons) it's been a challenge to stay busy since peace broke out in the late 80's. I've been lucky enough to keep busy most of that time.

During the early 60's, I played folk music in the Seattle coffee houses until they all closed around '65 or '66. After a 25-year break, I got interested again in the early 90's, and began playing around town and frequenting most of the coffee houses in San Diego. I stayed very busy in the music arena until quitting a couple of years ago. I guess I just burned out after being so busy with music for so long. I'll probably get back into it after a while, but need a break for now.

My daughter Jennifer graduated from the University of California at Irvine a few years ago with degrees in dance and English. After a two-year stint in Alaska running a ballet studio, she returned to San Diego for grad school. She is presently teaching English in the San Diego school system.

I've finally found my soul mate and Bev and I are planning to get married sometime in the future. We're both looking forward to spending our retirement together, travelling and pursuing our hobbies (hiking, camping, astronomy, rock hounding, and music). In the fall of 1999 we spent three weeks in Australia and Vanuatu (used to be called the New Hebrides, the islands where James Mitchner was stationed during WW-II and where he wrote Tales of the South Pacific) sailing with friends. In the future we look forward to traveling all over the world.

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Doug Millward Diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, 2003

Shortly after the reunion, Doug was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. He went through five cycles of chemo and finally found a matched unrelated donor (MUD) for a bone marrow transplant. Doug was admitted to the City of Hope in Los Angeles. Unfortunately the leukemia took Doug's life June 14, 2003.