The following year he served as a military governor for the Stadtkreis and Landkreis districts of Germany wih responsibility for agriculture, rationing,supply, fianance asnd property control and transpotrtation.Īfter the war Stern returned to California and started his own business designing and supervising the construction of apartment buildings. Stern participated in the Allied invasion of France with an engineer battalian and supervised the construction of bridges and barracks for combat troops in Belgium, locating lumber and reopening seven sawmills. In 1943 he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers. While stationed in Ogden Utah with a signal company, Stern renovated the officers club, base theater and Post Headquarters Building. After graduating, he worked for a time as a sketch artist for a Hollywood film studio and on various government military construction projects until he was drafted into the army in 1942. Stern went to the University of Southern California where he studied architectural engineering. After he completed high school, his family moved to Beverly Hills California, although his father was almost always on the road. was born in New York on April 9 1917, the son of a traveling salesman.
