Kevin McCarver ’73 died at home on February 2, 2017. A native of Bakersfield, Kevin was the sound technician with the all-SCU students’ band, “Oliver Sudden,” which got its start performing on campus. In the summer of 1971, the band traveled together to Europe to perform. While there, Kevin worked harvest —picking grapes in Bordeaux, France. That turned out to be his introduction into the wine world, something which became his life-long passion. Upon his return, he was hired by Intel, a job which brought him to Portland, Oregon, where, as a completely different type of technician, he helped open up Intel’s first Oregon factory. After working there 11 years, Kevin enrolled at Fresno State to study winemaking. Upon returning to Oregon, he was hired as the oenologist at the McMenamin’s Edgefield Winery in Troutdale, starting when its doors were opened in 1990, and working there 22 years. In their words, “Kevin worked tirelessly in the lab and cellar, steering the wines from harvest to bottle with a jovial, mischievous style all his own.” Kevin loved travel, music, and photography, and the outdoors. He was an avid vegetable gardener, and a talented bread baker. Those who loved him described him as compassionate, enthusiastic, and always the last to leave a party. He will be greatly missed. He is survived by his wife, Betty “JoJo” O’Connor ’69; they enjoyed to the utmost the years they had together.