Richard M. Nordin is a Midwesterner by birth and an Angeleno by choice. As historian for the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, the oldest and largest civic organization in Los Angeles, he played a critical role in their 125th anniversary in 2013. He has served as a speaker and on the luncheon committee of the Los Angeles First Century Families?a group whose relatives arrived in LA before 1881. He also has had a successful forty-year career in fundraising at local and national institutions including USC, UCLA, and Cal Poly Pomona. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California.