Edward Killingsworth

He also designed numerous luxury hotels all over the world and a large part of the California State University, Long Beach campus.

During Killingsworth's years at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School, his original ambition was to become a painter, but he decided to major in something more practical at the University of Southern California.

Killingsworth earned his bachelor of architecture degree in 1940 and received the American Institute of Architects Medal for having the highest academic record in his class.

[1] The start of Killingsworth's professional career was delayed by his service in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II.

As an operations officer attached to the 654th Engineer Topographic Battalion, Killingsworth earned a Bronze Star for supervising the production of more than 8 million photo-maps in preparation for the Allied invasion of Europe.

[6] As the years passed and the honors piled up, Killingsworth's architectural projects grew in size and scale, from residential buildings in Southern California to luxury hotels in such exotic locales as Hawaii, Guam, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia.