Philip 'Woody' Dike
| Last Updated: | April 12, 2009 |
| Residing In: | san clemente, CA USA |
| Spouse/Partner: | Judie |
| Occupation: | Landscape Architect |
| Children: | Judie and I have been married for 10 years and through this union have accumulated 4 boys. My sons are David and Sam. David is 40 and is married to Rika with one son Austin who is a Junior at Swarthmore University. David is a Senior Design Architect at HOK in Chicago and Rika is Vice President of Interior Architecure at VOA in Chicago. Son Sam is 37 and lives with his partner Ted in St. Crox where they have an art gallery which features Ted's photography and other artists. Judie's son Kevin is 38 and lives close by in Dana Point and is Vice President of Lee and Associates Commercial Real estate in Newport Beach. Her son Bryan is 35 and maried to Sue...they live in San Francisco. Bryan is Vice President of International Marketing for Wind River in the Bay area and Sue is heading up Marketing for Charles Schuab in SF. That is it and only one grad child so Judie is pineing away until they hopefully arive. Animal wise we just lost our beloved Golden Retrever Daphne so hard times around here but Marla the cat is still here to pester us. |
| Comments: | o Started a landscape design office in Claremont in 1962 to suppliment College. o Gradiated from Cal Poly Pomona 1964. o Married in 1967 and resided in Claremont until moving to Laguna Beach in 1968. o Graduated from Claremont Graduate School with a MFA in environmental design and minor in ceramics and drawing 1968. o Opened POD Landscape Architecture in 1968 on the Circle in Orange CA with 3 past school chums from Cal Poly Pomona. o Opened my own firm Woodward Dike Associates in Laguna in 1973. o Merged frim with another and formed Dike/Runa in Newport Beach in 1987. o Moved firm to Irvine Spectrum in 1990 just before the big recession and had my partner skip out and leave me with disolving the deal...lots of life lessions. o Opened Ivy Landscape Architecture in 1993 in San Diego with another partner. o Opened Ivy in Laguna Beach in late 1993 and Ivy in Long Beach in 1994. o Divorced in 1995. o Maried in 1998 to Judie on a beautiful ranch property in Cayucos where we were in the process of building a high tech home. o Moved to Central Coast and Cottontail Creek Vineyard 2000 where I taught 5th year landscape design at Cal Poly SLO and had another branch of Ivy in the barn. o Started Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Division for Wallace Group Civil Enineers in San Luis Obispo in 2002. o Sold the ranch in 2007 and moved to San Clemente where I practice landscape architecture and town planning out of the "bonus room" |
| School Story: | Always remember Nick Polos going down to the teachers lounge to have a smoke when he gave out the tests for the class to so we could cheat and he could hear us thru the register in the wall heater... Also Nick giving us hall passes to go down town and run errands for him... And the day I was taking him home from school in the old red MG and he thought I was going too fast and turned off the ignition on Indian Hill and threw the keys into the gutter and I just kept on coasting along...the two of us had to walk back a couple of blocks with all the students laughing and find them... Also the cherry bomb incidents...one over the math classroom and the flood and the other in the boys locker room where pieces of white porcilain went clear to the coache's office...wonder no one was killed... And of course Adams and the Circus Mobile 55 Buick with the moons and flames one month and scallops the next by Van Dutch...WOW... Roger P. and his great voice and guitar and his and my consistent side kick Moye S. and his ability to drive a car much faster than it was designed to go... And the football games and the dances and so much spirit and fun...great group of kids... Ms. Turner our art instructor and a person who sent many of us on to greater things... GOOD TIMES AT CHS... |
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