Lee Torliatt

Lee Torliatt is a fifth-generation Petaluman, born on Groundhog Day, 1933. After attending San Francisco State and the University of California, Berkeley, he went on to a career in teaching and journalism. Torliatt taught Social Science and English at Santa Rosa and Piner High Schools in Santa Rosa before retiring in 1993. He was an editor and writer at the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat , Petaluma Argus-Courier , San Francisco Chronicle, and Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo. On the board of the...See more

Lee Torliatt is a fifth-generation Petaluman, born on Groundhog Day, 1933. After attending San Francisco State and the University of California, Berkeley, he went on to a career in teaching and journalism. Torliatt taught Social Science and English at Santa Rosa and Piner High Schools in Santa Rosa before retiring in 1993. He was an editor and writer at the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat , Petaluma Argus-Courier , San Francisco Chronicle, and Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo. On the board of the Sonoma County History Society, he has served as archivist and editor of the Sonoma County Historian quarterly magazine. He has written two major local history books, Golden Memories of the Redwood Empire and Sports Memories of Sonoma County, published by Arcadia Press. He also worked with fifth graders at Roseland School in Santa Rosa on a history of their area. His community volunteer projects include Catholic Worker, Friends Outside, and international exchange programs. He has a daughter and two grandsons who live in Santa Rosa. See less