Donald B. Prell has had a 66-year eclectic career, starting in WWII (1944) as a 2nd Lieutenant, Infantry in the European Theater of Operations (Bronze Star, POW Medal, and Purple Heart). He taught Statistics at the University of London; headed his own Research and Development company in the field of Molecular-Engineering; formed two venture capital firms; coined the word "DATAMATION", and with it in 1957, the first magazine devoted to the computer industry; was a senior officer and member of the management committee of two large California Banks (Union Bank and Imperial Bank); served as President of Imperial International Bank; and over the past fifty-five years has made numerous contributions to the field of Futurology.
Although his primary occupation has been as a Venture Capitalist/Futurologist, he had a long-standing scholarly interest in two diverse individuals: Edward John Trelawny and Pierre Laval. His extensive collections of books and other material by and about these two men are now housed in the Special Collections of two Universities:
The Edward John Trelawny Collection is in the Special Collections of the Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California. The Pierre Laval Collection is in Special Collections of the UCR Libraries, University of California, Riverside.
December 10, 2010
Palm Springs, California