
Dr. Carl Martin Jensen 1929 – 2015 Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Danish and Swedish immigrants Anna and Martin Jensen. Carl moved across the country to Arcata, California, with his parents at the start of World War II. After graduating from Arcata Union High School in 1947 he attended Columbia University for a year and then Humboldt State. While pursuing his education he married and had a child. To support his wife, Donna, and baby he worked at the Arcata Union newspaper and on weekends managed the local movie theater. At the start of the Korean War Carl joined the Air Force. He attended Officers’ Candidate School at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and became a First Lieutenant. He served most of his military career at Ramey Air Base in Puerto Rico where he worked in intelligence and in his spare time entertained the troops as a disc jockey on the radio.