May 28, 1936 ~ June 21, 2024
Mr. Bauder was born on May 28, 1936, in Chicago, Illinois to Donald Charles and Eleanor Goble Bauder. He grew up in Glen Ellyn, Illinois where he graduated from Glenbard High School. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1959 with a BA in Business Administration. As a senior he was the Editor of the Dally Cardinal, the university’s student newspaper. This set him on a path to a lengthy and distinguished career in Journalism. After serving in the US Army he returned to the university to earn an MS in Journalism.
In 1962 he married Ellen Templeton of Evanston, Illinois. They celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary in
September 2023.
His first job was with Illinois Bell Telephone, but he soon moved to the Chicago Bureau of Business Week
magazine and 2 years later became its Cleveland Bureau Chief. He served in this position for 7 years and
covered all the major industries and businesses in Ohio.
The year 1973 brought another change to Financial Editor and Columnist for the San Diego Union. When the
newspaper became the San Diego Union-Tribune he became a senior columnist for the combined papers, for
a total of 30 years with the newspaper. Based on his reporting on the J David scandal, he wrote Captain
Money and the Golden Girl, which landed on the LA limes best-seller book list for over 2 months. He was
often on local television and radio shows and was a visiting scholar at the journalism schools of the University
of Wisconsin and the University of Missouri.
After retiring from the San Diego Union-Tribune he and his wife moved to Salida where he continued for 15
years to write columns and feature articles for the San Diego Reader, the wonders of the internet allowing him
to work remotely. He fully-retired In 2018.
He loved classical music, especially opera, and served on the board or advisory board of the San Diego
Opera for 30 years. In Salida he continued to pursue his musical passion as a board member of the Salida-Aspen
Concerts for 12 years. He was a prodigious fund raiser for this organization as he had been for the
San Diego Opera. He and his wife hosted many post-concert receptions for the musicians.
He was preceded in death by his parents Eleanor G and Donald Bauder and his brother George Bauder.
Survivors Include his wife Ellen T Bauder, sons Clinton and Russell (Carolyn Huynh) Bauder and 2 grandsons
Matthias and Dashiell Huynh-Bauder.
There will be no services.
