Cal was born in Hightstown, N.J., and came to Princeton from the Peddie School. He joined Cannon Club, played in the marching band and concert band, and was a member of Triangle Club. He majored in aeronautical engineering and stayed at Princeton to earn a master’s degree in that subject.
Cal spent six years with Martin Co. in the advanced design department before moving to Houston to work in the NASA Apollo manned lunar-landing program. It was there that he met and married Lisa Langner and where their three children were born.
In 1970 they moved to Cambridge, Mass., so Cal could work in the Transportation Systems Center of the U.S. Department of Transportation. He remained there, becoming director of the office of information systems before retiring to Canyon Lake, Texas, in 1994.
In retirement, Cal was able to pursue his love of woodworking, doing marquetry work to create images in wood. He and Lisa relocated to Beaverton, Ore., in 2004, just before the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease appeared.
Cal is survived by Lisa and their three children, Linda, Karen, and John.