by Richard Frey » Thu Jul 30, 2020 1:34 pm
I entered Fresno Hi in 1958 and Eric Mitchell was my photo instructor. He must have liked my work as after my first year he got me on the Owlet newspaper as the photographer. I had free access to the photo lab and got to use the school's 4 x 5 Graphflex camera any time I wanted to. During two of the summers that I was at FHS, he took some of his photo students on photo trips. One year we drove to Bryce Canyon and on the way back home got to go down into Hoover Dam as part of a tour. Eric Mitchell earned his Ed D from Stanford in teaching mathematics. He and his wife would would have parties for his photo students at their home on east Olive Ave. While I never heard him play a musical instrument, he was formally trained as an orchestra leader. He was an officer during WWII and two days after the first A bomb in Japan, while stationed in Hawaii, he got a great color picture of unique clouds in the western sky. At his funeral, it was great to see some of his former students.
I entered Fresno Hi in 1958 and Eric Mitchell was my photo instructor. He must have liked my work as after my first year he got me on the Owlet newspaper as the photographer. I had free access to the photo lab and got to use the school's 4 x 5 Graphflex camera any time I wanted to. During two of the summers that I was at FHS, he took some of his photo students on photo trips. One year we drove to Bryce Canyon and on the way back home got to go down into Hoover Dam as part of a tour. Eric Mitchell earned his Ed D from Stanford in teaching mathematics. He and his wife would would have parties for his photo students at their home on east Olive Ave. While I never heard him play a musical instrument, he was formally trained as an orchestra leader. He was an officer during WWII and two days after the first A bomb in Japan, while stationed in Hawaii, he got a great color picture of unique clouds in the western sky. At his funeral, it was great to see some of his former students.