Education
Stanford University.
Stanford University.
A pioneer of the audiobook industry, Hecht founded Books on Tape, Incorporated. in 1975. He later sold the company to Random House. Before that, he obtained a Master"s degree in Journalism from Stanford University and was a Marine pilot.
After receiving his Master"s degree, Hecht went on to teach English at Menlo College in Atherton, California.
While at Menlo, Hecht established Menlo"s first rowing club where he was head coach until he moved to Southern California. Hecht established the rowing team at University of California, Irvine in 1965.
Later he went on to coach the rowing team of University of California, Los Angeles before coming back to Irvine in the 1990s. Hecht once again returned as the head coach of the men"s varsity rowing program at UCI in the fall of 2008.