His name was Joe Berland and he taught at Chabot College.
For some reason I wanted to take a class but it required you either having taken their trig class or go through some sort of trig test as a prerequisite.
I had taken a cheesy trig/intro trig type class years before in high school so I didn’t feel confident that I could pass a trig test so I decided to go ahead and take it there. The one that fit my schedule was the one he taught.
Just dumb luck on my part but he was an excellent instructor. Just about every semester the new crew at the junior college paper would re-discover that he was (or had been?) a professional musician.
http://www.miriamcutler.com/MIRarticles_fourteen.htm
(Don’t know when that was written but evidently he can play keyboards, accordion and clarinet – evidently at some point they reunited to do some sort of “play” (second paragraph from end))
It looks like 1978 or 79. It was before the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo was formed in 79 and their film Forbidden Zone in 1980, which was a follow up to that play.