Walter Achuff
Memorial services for longtime penologist-educator-school board member Walter D. (Dick) Achuff, 64, will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday at First Methodist Church in Ontario. There will be no funeral.
Achuff, of Alta Loma, died Monday at San Antonio Community Hospital following a three-month illness.
The two-time president of Alta Loma Elementary School Board (1974-1975) served eight years on the board, stepping down in March when his second term expired.
Achuff, a Fayette, Mo. native, began his career as a Methodist minister serving in several churches before becoming chaplain and coach of a boys reformatory in Boonville, Mo. Later he became superintendent of that institution.
Achuff entered the California corrections system in 1948, serving as an educator and administrator at Soledad, Folsom, San Quentin and Chino where he was deputy superintendent at the California Institution for Men. He also served in the federal penal system at Terminal Island and San Luis Obispo.
During his career in California, Achuff was loaned by the state to Massachusetts for a year to reorganize that state's prison system. He spent several months on loan to Utah doing similar work.
While at CIM, Achuff also taught night classes at Chaffey College in Alta Loma and coordinated a program administered by Chaffey College at the state's penal institution in Norco. One of Achuff's innovative plans was organization of classes for mentally gifted elderly patients at CIM.
Achuff was a general consultant and on the board of directors of Ontario-Pomona Association for Retarded Children (OPARC) and active in working on programs for retarded children, both as a school board member and director of OPARC.
Survivors include his widow Joan; a son, Marc and a daughter, Susan.
Contributions may be made to OPARC or the Dick Achuff Scholarship Fund of Cucamonga Methodist Church.
-----from the Progress Bulletin, Pomona CA, May 10 1977, page 4
Memorial services for longtime penologist-educator-school board member Walter D. (Dick) Achuff, 64, will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday at First Methodist Church in Ontario. There will be no funeral.
Achuff, of Alta Loma, died Monday at San Antonio Community Hospital following a three-month illness.
The two-time president of Alta Loma Elementary School Board (1974-1975) served eight years on the board, stepping down in March when his second term expired.
Achuff, a Fayette, Mo. native, began his career as a Methodist minister serving in several churches before becoming chaplain and coach of a boys reformatory in Boonville, Mo. Later he became superintendent of that institution.
Achuff entered the California corrections system in 1948, serving as an educator and administrator at Soledad, Folsom, San Quentin and Chino where he was deputy superintendent at the California Institution for Men. He also served in the federal penal system at Terminal Island and San Luis Obispo.
During his career in California, Achuff was loaned by the state to Massachusetts for a year to reorganize that state's prison system. He spent several months on loan to Utah doing similar work.
While at CIM, Achuff also taught night classes at Chaffey College in Alta Loma and coordinated a program administered by Chaffey College at the state's penal institution in Norco. One of Achuff's innovative plans was organization of classes for mentally gifted elderly patients at CIM.
Achuff was a general consultant and on the board of directors of Ontario-Pomona Association for Retarded Children (OPARC) and active in working on programs for retarded children, both as a school board member and director of OPARC.
Survivors include his widow Joan; a son, Marc and a daughter, Susan.
Contributions may be made to OPARC or the Dick Achuff Scholarship Fund of Cucamonga Methodist Church.
-----from the Progress Bulletin, Pomona CA, May 10 1977, page 4
Walter Achuff
Memorial services for longtime penologist-educator-school board member Walter D. (Dick) Achuff, 64, will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday at First Methodist Church in Ontario. There will be no funeral.
Achuff, of Alta Loma, died Monday at San Antonio Community Hospital following a three-month illness.
The two-time president of Alta Loma Elementary School Board (1974-1975) served eight years on the board, stepping down in March when his second term expired.
Achuff, a Fayette, Mo. native, began his career as a Methodist minister serving in several churches before becoming chaplain and coach of a boys reformatory in Boonville, Mo. Later he became superintendent of that institution.
Achuff entered the California corrections system in 1948, serving as an educator and administrator at Soledad, Folsom, San Quentin and Chino where he was deputy superintendent at the California Institution for Men. He also served in the federal penal system at Terminal Island and San Luis Obispo.
During his career in California, Achuff was loaned by the state to Massachusetts for a year to reorganize that state's prison system. He spent several months on loan to Utah doing similar work.
While at CIM, Achuff also taught night classes at Chaffey College in Alta Loma and coordinated a program administered by Chaffey College at the state's penal institution in Norco. One of Achuff's innovative plans was organization of classes for mentally gifted elderly patients at CIM.
Achuff was a general consultant and on the board of directors of Ontario-Pomona Association for Retarded Children (OPARC) and active in working on programs for retarded children, both as a school board member and director of OPARC.
Survivors include his widow Joan; a son, Marc and a daughter, Susan.
Contributions may be made to OPARC or the Dick Achuff Scholarship Fund of Cucamonga Methodist Church.
-----from the Progress Bulletin, Pomona CA, May 10 1977, page 4
Memorial services for longtime penologist-educator-school board member Walter D. (Dick) Achuff, 64, will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday at First Methodist Church in Ontario. There will be no funeral.
Achuff, of Alta Loma, died Monday at San Antonio Community Hospital following a three-month illness.
The two-time president of Alta Loma Elementary School Board (1974-1975) served eight years on the board, stepping down in March when his second term expired.
Achuff, a Fayette, Mo. native, began his career as a Methodist minister serving in several churches before becoming chaplain and coach of a boys reformatory in Boonville, Mo. Later he became superintendent of that institution.
Achuff entered the California corrections system in 1948, serving as an educator and administrator at Soledad, Folsom, San Quentin and Chino where he was deputy superintendent at the California Institution for Men. He also served in the federal penal system at Terminal Island and San Luis Obispo.
During his career in California, Achuff was loaned by the state to Massachusetts for a year to reorganize that state's prison system. He spent several months on loan to Utah doing similar work.
While at CIM, Achuff also taught night classes at Chaffey College in Alta Loma and coordinated a program administered by Chaffey College at the state's penal institution in Norco. One of Achuff's innovative plans was organization of classes for mentally gifted elderly patients at CIM.
Achuff was a general consultant and on the board of directors of Ontario-Pomona Association for Retarded Children (OPARC) and active in working on programs for retarded children, both as a school board member and director of OPARC.
Survivors include his widow Joan; a son, Marc and a daughter, Susan.
Contributions may be made to OPARC or the Dick Achuff Scholarship Fund of Cucamonga Methodist Church.
-----from the Progress Bulletin, Pomona CA, May 10 1977, page 4
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