Otto Emil Lohrke Jr. ’46

In 1968, when a job change took Zeke from New Jersey to San Francisco, he and his family all became (in his words) “ardent Californians.” By then he had become vice president of marketing at a major company that manufactured paper. Then, he said, “I took a hard look at what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.”

The result was that Zeke graduated in 1974 from Santa Barbara’s Brooks Institute of Photography, and within a few years started his own accounting and tax practice that continued until his retirement.

Zeke’s death Aug. 2, 2014, in Santa Barbara, left his wife, Jacqueline Kirk Lohrke; children Katherine, Pamela, and Tyler; and three grandchildren. The class wishes them well as we salute this classmate who wrote in our 50th yearbook, “I’ve become totally convinced that the secret to health and happiness is to make life choices that give you the most satisfaction, regardless of their economic considerations.”