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for three of the perimeter gate monuments for San Jose State University. He served on the Tower Foundation board at San Jose State University, which advises the university president and raises funds for the university. He established and funded Diridon Leadership Scholarships at the College of Business and the women's athletic program at San Jose State University. He worked to establish a scholarship endowment at the Mineta Transportation Institute, for which he is also a donor.
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Congress authorized the creation of the new center. Santa Clara County voted in term limits for county officials in November 1992, precipitating Diridon's retirement from the county Board of Supervisors. After his retirement at the end of 1994, Diridion became the founding executive director of the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI), based at San Jose State University. Diridon directed the Institute from 1993 to 2014. He is now the
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University Board of Trustees in 1996. Three specialized certificates are also offered—in transportation security, transportation finance, and high-speed rail management. Diridion arranged for the classes to be taught via the California Department of Transportation video-conference system at 28 locations throughout California. With degrees granted through San Jose State University, the program has graduated more than 300 students.
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Diridon founded CTRC in 1982 to collect and restore historic trolley cars for use on rail lines in San Jose. He chaired CTRC from 1982 to 2014, retired for a year, and then resumed chairing the organization in 2016. In 2014, the CTRC historic trolley barn in San Jose's History Park, where work on the
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Rod Diridon has served on a number of corporate boards, including the San Jose Business Bank and San Jose National Bank. Since 1970, he has been a director of Empire Broadcasting Corporation, owner of South Bay radio stations KRTY 95.3 FM and KLIV 1590 AM, among the last locally owned radio stations
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Diridon served for 20 years as the chair of the Joseph B. Ridder Foundation, administering funds donated by friends of the late newspaper publisher, which funded journalism and mass communication fellowships primarily at San Jose State University. He also co-chaired the late-1990s fund drive efforts
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Diridon founded the San Jose Symphony Foundation and served on its board. He served on the regional Wells Fargo Bank Corporate Advisory board. He chaired capital campaigns and annual fund drives for the San Jose Metropolitan YMCA, the Santa Clara County Music and Arts Foundation, and the California
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While in office, Diridon chaired nine public rail construction and operation projects. These included the Santa Clara County Rapid Transit Development Project, which created a master plan for transportation for Silicon Valley. Diridon proposed the half-cent sales tax to fund transportation projects
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in 1974, representing the Fourth Supervisorial District. He served five terms as a member of the Board from 1975 until 1995, and he served six times as its chair. During his service on the Board, Diridon chaired several San Francisco Bay Area regional government agencies, including the Metropolitan
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Diridon has chaired non-profit boards at the local and regional levels. He served as president of the San Jose Symphony, the San Jose Rotary Club, the San Jose Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees), the San Jose United Service Organizations (USO), and the Central San Jose YMCA. He chaired the Santa
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specialists, distributing the reports via publications, conferences, and the Internet. MTI research focuses on best practices internationally, through case studies on issues such as transit systems security, transportation financing, and transportation-related land use policies and sustainability.
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From 1975-1991, Diridon chaired the Guadalupe Corridor Light Rail Project Joint Powers Board to design and build that 21-mile project. Following that, Diridon chaired the 1982-1996 project to design and build the Tasman East Corridor and Tasman Corridor West light rail projects. Beginning in 1974,
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After returning from Vietnam, Diridon became a management systems analyst at Lockheed Missile and Space Corporation in Sunnyvale, California. He founded the Decision Research Institute in 1969, which did statistical research, needs assessments, and organizational consulting for public agencies and
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A needs assessment in the early 1990s identified the lack of a master's degree program teaching transportation systems management in the United States. MTI designed a Master of Science in Transportation Management (MSTM) degree program, which was accepted for accreditation by the California State
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In collaboration with then-House Transportation Committee Chairman Norman Y Mineta, Diridon prepared the legislative language for Congress to create a new university-based transportation research center that focused on mass transportation policy studies. Through the 1991 ISTEA legislation, the US
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Beginning in 1988, Diridon chaired the San Jose Station Study Joint Powers Board to determine whether the historic main Southern Pacific/Amtrak train station in downtown San Jose should be retained after being damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The study recommended the retention of the
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Diridon convened and chaired the Peninsula Transportation Alternatives Project that led to the CalTrain commuter rail system from San Francisco to San Jose and Gilroy. He served on the Joint Powers Board that guided the negotiations to acquire and manage that system until his retirement in 1995.
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in 1961 with a BS in accounting and finance, continuing to earn a Master of Science in business administration with a concentration in statistics in 1963. Diridon then attended US Naval Officer's Candidate School and served on active duty in the US Navy from 1963-1967. Diridon served two combat
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Under his leadership, MTI performed an annual needs assessment with the US Department of Transportation and California Department of Transportation, which identified research priorities. Based on these priorities, MTI conducts peer-reviewed research involving teams of academic and professional
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station and expansion of the facilities to accommodate additional rail service including CalTrain, light rail, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system, high speed rail, a bus interchange point, and the Capitol Corridor and Altamont Express trains. The construction was completed in 1994.
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tours on destroyers in Vietnam as an anti-submarine warfare officer and a weapons officer. His collateral duties included serving as ship's chaplain, cryptographer, auditor, legal officer, and communications officer. He completed his service with the rank of lieutenant jr. grade.
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Diridon has served as vice chair of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) in Brussels, Belgium. He has chaired the American Public Transit Association (APTA) and its High Speed Intercity Rail Committee, and he co-founded APTA's Diversity Council.
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He assisted the creation of Joint Powers Boards to begin and operate commuter rail systems between Stockton, in California's Central Valley, and San Jose (the Altamont Express), and for the Capitol Corridor rail between Sacramento and San Jose.
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Clara County Mental Health Association and is the founding chair of the Santa Clara County branch of the National Council on Alcoholism. He chaired the board of Breathe California of the Bay Area, formerly the American Lung Association.
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From 1982-1995, Diridon convened and chaired the Vasona Corridor Light Rail Joint Powers Board that designed and built the light rail line from San Jose to Los Gatos.
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Trolley and Railroad Corporation, and for 11 years, he chaired the annual Jamboree and fund drive for the Santa Clara County Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
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from 2001 to 2003. He currently chairs the advisory board of the United States High Speed Rail Association, and he chairs the National Heritage Area Project for
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Transportation Commission (MTC), the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD).
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In 2016, Diridon received the Don Goldeen Award from the San Jose Rotary Club for significant contribution to the City of San Jose.
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in leadership on environmental issues, the arts and culture, higher education, community organizations, and philanthropy.
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In 2019, Diridon was honored as the "Legacy Champion" in the Community Impact Awards by the San Jose Business Journal.
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was renamed for Rod Diridon in 1994 at the time of his retirement from the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.
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In 1973, Diridon was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in America, by the US Junior Chamber of Commerce.
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Diridon was first elected as the youngest-ever member of the Saratoga City Council in 1973. He was elected to the
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The papers from Diridon's 24 years in public office are archived at San Jose's Martin Luther King, Jr. Library.
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In 2014, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers.
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Longtime San Jose transportation leader Rod Diridon Sr. leaves high speed rail authority board
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Diridon is the immediate past chair of the Santa Clara County League of Conservation Voters.
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In 2014, he received the Hall of Fame Award from the American Public Transit Association.
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historic rolling stock is completed, was named the Rod Diridion Sr. Trolley Barn.
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Diridon chaired the National Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC).
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In 2000, Diridon was appointed to the California High Speed Rail Authority by
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Diridon is a Life Member of the International Green Industry Hall of Fame.
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After he chaired the successful 1976 campaign for the first half-cent
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and chaired the 1976 campaign that won voter approval of the tax.
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calls Diridon "a tireless advocate of public transport for the
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High-speed rail holds economic, environmental promise
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Chairing his neighborhood homeowners' association in
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National and international transportation leadership
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San Jose State University
Santa Clara County
Board of Supervisors
California High-Speed Rail Authority
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Dr. Gloria C. Duffy
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Santa Clara County
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Saratoga, California
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Diridon Station
Governor
Gray Davis
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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