Walter Haas, Sr. Multi-Cache
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This cache recognizes a famous person in the San Francisco Bay Area history. You will go to the first stage and find a plaque. Using that information, you will go a short distance away to find the final.
Walter A. Haas, Sr. (May 11, 1889 - December 7, 1979), son of the founder of Hellman-Haas Grocery (which became Smart & Final), was a former President and Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.
In 1910, Haas graduated with a BS degree from the University of California - Berkeley College of Commerce. (He also earned an honorary degree from Berkeley in 1958). Haas served in the U.S. Army Field Artillery during World War I. Upon his return to the United States in 1919, he worked at the Levi Strauss & Company, then a small drygoods wholesaler and maker of work clothing, owned by the family of his wife. In 1928, he became president and served in that position until 1955; thereafter, he served as chairman until 1970 and remained active in company affairs until his death in 1979. Haas' tenure and dedication at Levi Strauss - along with that of his business partner and brother-in-law Daniel E. Koshland, father of physicist Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. - is widely credited with saving the company leading it through the Great Depression racial integration at its factories, the global popularization of the Levi brand, and the creation of the Levi Strauss Foundation.
A Republican, he was an alternate delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention.
In 1914, Haas married Elise Stern, daughter of Sigmund Stern (for whom Stern Grove is named), the nephew of Levi Strauss (Strauss had died unmarried and without children and deeded his company to his four nephews). Haas had three children: Rhonda Haas Goldman, Peter E. Haas, and Walter A. Haas, Jr. (former owner of the Oakland A's).
In 1989, the University of California-Berkeley Regents voted to rename the business school the Haas School of Business in his honor, after a large gift from the Haas family. (source: Wikipedia)
At the posted coordinates you will find a bench and a plaque in a rock. From this plaque you will gather the following information: The Plaque was placed in honor of a birthday - the birthday was the ABth. The year on the plaque is CDEF. The final is at: N 37 43.F(A/3)C W 122 29.B(D-2)(E-1)
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