broken, and he was given a lifetime allowance into any Santa Monica College event, if he wished to attend.
During the middle to late part of the 1950s, Stevenson became a Venice Beach lifeguard for the city of Los Angeles.
While sitting watching surfers he noticed they would skate on crude skateboards back in the parking lots at the beach.
Stevenson, while visiting Hawaii en route to Korea, during the war noticed a great surfing beach called "Makaha".
Stevenson died on March 25, 2012, from complications of pneumonia due to Parkinson's disease in his Santa Monica home.