Affordable housing champion
Alfred Diaz-Infante, a longtime community leader, died in a car accident August 9 at age 60. The son of immigrant farmworkers, he was raised in Salinas, California, and made his life’s work there, creating affordable housing and advocating for housing policy for Monterey County. He served as the president and CEO of CHISPA (Community Housing Improvement Systems and Planning Association) for nearly 24 years, leading the development of thousands of housing units geared mostly to farmworkers on the Central Coast.
He was also a public servant, serving as a Monterey County planning commissioner in the 1990s and a board member of the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare District from 2017 to 2018.
His community service also included leadership roles on the boards of various organizations, including the Community Foundation for Monterey County, Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, Big Sur Land Trust, and Hartnell College Foundation. In 2015, he was named Citizen of the Year by the Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce.
IN MEMORIAM
Phyllis Hudson, BS 41
Walter Joe, BS 43
John Emery, BS 48
Paul Witmer, BS 48
Mervin Fahn, BS 49
Charles Grant, BS 50
Charles Morse, BS 50
Donald Dodson, BS 51, MBA 53
Ralph Nishimi, BS 51
Peter Schabarum, BS 51
Douglas Vernon, BS 51
Melvin Siegel, MBA 52
Russell Bigelow, BS 53
Jerome Lustig, BS 53
Stuart Seiler, BS 55
Richard Worth, MBA 55
Betty Cropper, BS 56
Robert Cannon, BS 57, MBA 58
John Erickson, BS 57
Ismail Ghazalah, BS 57
John Delucchi, BS 59
William Engs, MBA 59
Gary Kimmel, BS 59
Earl Reeve, BS 59
Frank Moller, BS 60
Masaaki Kobayashi, BS 61
William Scott, MBA 62
Donald Ovadenko, MBA 63
Gregory Spreen, BS 65
Peter Duisenberg, BS 66
James Rumpsa, MBA 67
David Shields, BS 68
John Parziale, MBA 69
James Brunetti, BS 70
Michael Barbitta, MBA 72
William Dittoe, BS 76, MBA 81
Lawrence Oesterich, MBA 83
Timothy Johnston, MS 90, PHD 93
Mayra Addison, MBA 92
David DeYoe, MBA 04
Zachary Carper, BS 16
Alford Ashuckian, Friend
Janet Emmerich, Friend
Barbara Mattson, Friend
Doris Young, Friend