CUTLER, CRAIG LEE Branch 15 Gen 12

Activities:

Based on the printed versions of over half-century of Dad's research and development of the Cutler Family History books, I founded and have been maintaining the CutlerFamilyHistory.Com website since 2000. It has now been 30 years since the publication of the 1976 book. This 2006 edition is an electronic book containing over 3,000 files. Carrying this banner has been an honor and a challenge. It requires time, energy, money, technical knowledge, and collaborating with people who do not speak English very well about Internet technologies. Last but not least, this project requires trying to entice family members to contribute to and understand the value of preserving our common genetic history and heritage. I share Dad's sorrow for the pages in this record that contain nothing more than a name.

Joanne and I have been generous contributors of our time and talents to non-profit organizations over the years. We are fixing up the house we built by ourselves 25 years ago. Joanne manages the garden.

I am the founder and President of the society for YBR. My brother Jeff has been the faithful Vice-President since 1949. He keeps trying to persuade me to change the name to OBR ( Older Brother Rules ). He has gone to many far-reaching lengths to influence me to vote for such change, including the acquisition of the license plate for his vehicle that proclaims him as victor in the ongoing deliberations. He frequently pays the bill when we go to our favorite Mexican food restaurant, where we have great laughs about the subject. Even though he was captain of the debate team in high school, I refuse to surrender or allow the official name change to OBR (even if my brother says "uncle"). Because he and I are the only two members of the society, there is no way to break the tie vote, unless, perhaps, he transplants his vineyard from his garden to mine...

1952 - Check out those cars !

Circa 1960 - There's nothing like your childhood memories of home,
which I still visit at 13431 Wedding St., Van Nuys, California, USA

1962 - My friend and cousin Phil and I near Grandpa and Dorothy Cutler's home in Del Mar, California

1967 - I started growing hair.

1977 - With my daughter Christine in Yosemite National Park. Visit soon.

1980 - Craig (after 10 years of experiencing the pain of a broken marriage),
and Joanne Christensen announce wedding plans in Marina Del Rey, California.
We celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary in 2006.
Footnote: I often advise youngsters that...
"There are few personal tragedies worse than a marriage that doesn't work, and
few triumphs greater than a marriage that does work".

1984 as Vice President of Cutler & Company.
Thanks Dad, Jeff and Brooke for the opportunity and experience.
Thanks Mom for the beautiful building that we had to work in.

1990 - Ken's 70th Birthday Party in Hawaii with family Brooke, Jeff, Pat and Craig

2000 - The Ken and Pat Cutler family at their "60-80" party
Celebrating Pat and Ken's 60th anniversary and Ken's 80th birthday ...and many more.
This family has truly lived the American Dream. We all worked in the family business (Cutler & Company), and have individually (and successfully) managed our own businesses. Anyone can do it.
All it takes is blood, sweat, tears, YEARS, luck and a little help from your friends (very important).

2003- Jeff, Pat, Ken and Craig at the Northwest Cutler Family Reunion in Seattle - Fun !

2003 - "Grandpa" Cutler - I can't believe it !

Here I am, in 2005 with Mom and Dad celebrating my 50th year of visits to Yosemite National Park.

2005 - Going camping in Alaska - I love it ! - Home for 32 years so far...
Anyone interested in frontier life, really good people, organic gardens, halibut, salmon, crab, shrimp,
scallops, oysters, or wild game? Here it is - big time !

Married	Date	Where
Joanne Lynn (Christensen) Cutler	Jan 1, 1981	Soldotna, Alaska
Cheryl (Sumpter) (Cutler) Sherwood	Nov 1, 1968	Van Nuys, CA
Children	Birthdate	Where
CHRISTINE LEE CUTLER	May 8, 1969	Glendale, CA

Education: Graduated from Van Nuys High School, Van Nuys, California, 1967. Entered Northrop Institute of Technology (now University) Mechanical Engineering 1967 Within a year I found myself getting married, with child, and working full time as well as taking 12 units at the local college in my pursuit and dream to graduate from MIT. Attended Oregon State (Now University) in 1994 taking Computer Science programming courses, while working for Cutler and Company as a System Analyst, Programmer along with serving as Vice-President and shareholder. All together, I completed 60 college credit units, but never received any formal credentials or paperwork, except the receipts for tuition payments. (Thanks, mom and dad for struggling and making that possible). Hey, for all of you who gave it the old college try and never "made the grade", I will have you know that many of my heroes never "graduated" either, including John Muir, Bill Gates, and Jesus - to name a few - so that's Okay. Keep your chin up and keep on learning - then teach. My dad always said that "you go to school to learn how to learn". Right he was. Finally, I learned and graduated from the school of hard knocks! H.G. Wells declared that "Civilization becomes ever more a race between education and catastrophe". Along with my wife Joanne, I am conducting research, developing, programming and integrating multiple forms of educational media (audio, video, graphics, 3d models and databases) into multiple interactive formats (CD-ROM, DVD, and the Internet). The function of these products is to help educate and train people with these new technologies. Our current focus is working with physicians developing integrated multimedia products that train health care professionals in anatomy, technology and applied procedures. A major part of the value of this family history is the application of this information to the education and health care of our children, who will benefit from records that have been passed along to them through this family network. Many people do not see that yet, but soon will. For example, the imagery from photographs will be used in analysis and reconstruction of those who have been injured. One does not have to be smiling in such images to achieve the applied value - so hang on to all of your photos, each were taken for a special reason by the photographer. All other aspects of our heredity will somehow benefit the health and happiness of our descendants augmented by the information pool provided by these family history documents, human intellect, and the use of technology in tying this information together. I encourage and invite you to participate and contribute to this family network in the future by contributing information in future versions.
Employment: 1958: Neighborhood gardener. Worked and saved until 1966 then spent savings touring the United States. 1966: First cook ever to produce 96 hamburgers in 4 minutes for McDonalds. 1969: Installed software for Southern Pacific Railroad and trained the old guys how to run it. 1970:1974 : Various positions with investment firms. 1974:1984: Various positions with the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Project 1984: Joined Cutler & Company, Medford, Oregon, securities trading, computer programming, and making videos. 1985: Established Video-Jo (for Joanne) Multimedia. Went corporate as American Multimedia, Inc in 1996. 2006: Twenty-one years and counting as AmericanMultimedia.Com In 1996 our company was recognized as being among the "Top 100 Multimedia Producers" in an international contest sponsored by Sony, Cinram, and Scala. That was all of the credential I felt that we needed to go forth in this new and exciting field and forge a living. At the time, no educational institutions offered curriculum on this new field. I suppose I could just fork out some money to take the examinations from an accredited online University to achieve a diploma in the profession that I helped pioneer and have been working in for 2 decades, however, because Joanne and I are self-employed, we have only to answer to our clients and to Uncle Sam.
Activities: Based on the printed versions of over half-century of Dad's research and development of the Cutler Family History books, I founded and have been maintaining the CutlerFamilyHistory.Com website since 2000. It has now been 30 years since the publication of the 1976 book. This 2006 edition is an electronic book containing over 3,000 files. Carrying this banner has been an honor and a challenge. It requires time, energy, money, technical knowledge, and collaborating with people who do not speak English very well about Internet technologies. Last but not least, this project requires trying to entice family members to contribute to and understand the value of preserving our common genetic history and heritage. I share Dad's sorrow for the pages in this record that contain nothing more than a name. Joanne and I have been generous contributors of our time and talents to non-profit organizations over the years. We are fixing up the house we built by ourselves 25 years ago. Joanne manages the garden. I am the founder and President of the society for YBR. My brother Jeff has been the faithful Vice-President since 1949. He keeps trying to persuade me to change the name to OBR ( Older Brother Rules ). He has gone to many far-reaching lengths to influence me to vote for such change, including the acquisition of the license plate for his vehicle that proclaims him as victor in the ongoing deliberations. He frequently pays the bill when we go to our favorite Mexican food restaurant, where we have great laughs about the subject. Even though he was captain of the debate team in high school, I refuse to surrender or allow the official name change to OBR (even if my brother says "uncle"). Because he and I are the only two members of the society, there is no way to break the tie vote, unless, perhaps, he transplants his vineyard from his garden to mine...
The future: My personal goal is to continue with my hobby and profession (multimedia production in the fields of education and training) for the benefit of humankind for current and future generations.

Submitted by: Date	Craig Lee Cutler - July 4, 2006