Background
Blasco-Ibanez, Alec Montgomery was born on March 7, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Alejandro Serrat and Dalmyra Burnett (Montgomery) Blasco-I.
Blasco-Ibanez, Alec Montgomery was born on March 7, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Alejandro Serrat and Dalmyra Burnett (Montgomery) Blasco-I.
Student, University Notre Dame, 1949. Bachelor of Philosophy, University Southern California, 1957.
Sports editor Maywood-Bell Industrial Post McGiffin Public Company, California, 1959, editor Bell Gardens Review and Post Star, 1959. Assistant director University Southern California News Bureau, 1960-1961. Special science correspondent Los Angeles Examiner and Pictorial Living magazine, 1961-1962.
Combat correspondent and photographer covering North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and United States Armed Forces Europe, Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia & Far East. Graduate military paratrooper schools United States Army 8th Infantry division, (West Germany), Federal Republic Germany Fernspach 200 Company, Schoengau, French Foreign Legion, (Algeria). Correspondent, photographer 1st Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and Hearst Headline Service, 1962-1966.
Administrative assistant Republican John G. Dow, New York, 1967. Director Dow Peace Mission, S. Vietnam, 1967. Travel and military affairs editor Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 1968-1980, California Living Magazine, 1968-1980.
Travel editor daily radio program Ports of Call-Word on Travel Station KFAC, 1975-1981, covered American Floating Arctic ice stations Arctic Ocean, 1960-1962. Covered Northern Alaskan Eskimo whaling hunts University Southern California Arctic Research Laboratory, 1961. Deepest Arctic Ocean ice-pack penetration United States Ship Burton Island, 1961, United States Ship Glacier, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 1961.
2d expedition to relocate South Magnetic Pole United States Ship Burton Island, Commonwealth Bay, Adelie Land, 1962. Member Chile-Peru trench expedn. United States Ship Anton Brun, National Science Foundation, 1965.
1st to photograph living-fossil Neopolina and possible lost undersea Inca city, 1965. Participant Sargasso Sea expedition, 1965. Pioneer in deep-sea photography, photographed abyssal sea creature Holothurian Duke U.'s Eastward, 1965.
Member Mayan Sacred Wells (cenotes) expedition, Isla Cozumel and Yucatan Peninsula, 1965, Inter-American Geodetic Survey expedition, Peruvian Andes, 1965, 1st. correspondent to search for Che Guevara Bolivia, 1965-1966. Member native Africa music expedition Dundo Anthropological Museum, Angola, 1966. Member lion-human fear response expedition Gorangoza National Game Preserve, Mozambique, 1966.
Member Mount Kilimanjaro ski expedition, Helicopter ski expeditions, Nevada del Ruiz, Colombia, South America, Columbia Mountains, Canada, 1969-1976. President Silver Spur Enterprise, Los Angeles, since 1976. Editor-public Horses of the Kings magazine, The Andalusian World magazine.
Originator, editor-public Cowboy magazine, since 1976. Breeder, trainer, exhibitor Andalusian stallion, Paladin, since 1976.
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1948-1953. Lieutenant colonel United States Marine Corps Reserve. Member United States Marine Corps Reserve Combat Corrs.
Association (Outstanding Citizen award 1976), United States Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association, Appaloosa Horse Club, Andalusian Horse Association, International Andalusian Horse Association, Chief Joseph Trail Ride Society, Explorers Club, Japan Ukiyo-e Society (Tokyo) Clubs: Safari International (Los Angeles).