Joseph PEDUTO Peduto

I worked a a electro-mechanical inspector and metrologist at Nippon Miniature Bearing, JBL Loudspeakers, Tandon, and Talley Industries, before going back to college in 1985. I attended UCSB and SBCC before getting a BA in photography from Brooks Institute. Since then I've worked as a photographer shooting everything from concerts to weddings, products, portraits, and of course CLASS REUNIONS!

I guess my one "claim to fame" at Royal was that I designed the steps that were installed off the MPR on the side facing the library. The construction Tech class built them, and on 12/15/75 a time capsule was buried where they would lated be built. A few hundred people put their signatures on pages that went into the time capsule. The intent was that it would be excavated and retrieved from under the bottom step in 2026. I thought the steps would be something of a lasting legacy, but beginning in 2022 the MPR underwent a major renovation, and the steps were demolished and the time capsule was recovered, and given back to me. The pages were displayed at our 50 year reunion for the Class of 76, on July 17, 2026.