John A. Saetti

Italian emigre John Saetti earned his Bachelor’s degree in 1954 from the University of San Francisco and continued on to obtain his master’s degree by 1957.¹ 

In 1962, while Grossmont Junior College's main campus was still under construction, then English Department Chair, Bob Danielson, gave Saetti the handshake to come aboard on full-time staff. When construction was finally completed in 1964, the English Department started taking initiatives to expand its staff and narrow its focus on literacy, writing, and literature, whereupon English, Theater, Journalism, and Humanities all became separate departments—some even in other Divisions.  Consequently, in 1965, Saetti broke ranks with the English Department and was instead tenured to the Humanities and Philosophy Department, for which he served as Department Chair until Humanities and Philosophy also divided into two separate departments within the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. 

In 2000, after a distinguished forty-year career as a popular instructor of Logic and Philosophy courses and as a Department leader, John A. Saetti retired and settled in El Cajon but kept a presence as an online educator and a member of Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and On-Line Teaching (MERLOT II). He also authored articles and book reviews related to logic and philosophy, and he is responsible for creating an on-line philosophy resource, The Logic Toolbox, a collection of applets and exercises for Introductory Logic courses that continues to be name-checked by numerous reviewers and educational resources specialists in the field.

    ¹_{While traveling with his family in China during Japan’s World War II occupation of the mainland, Saetti, still a youngster at the time, was taken with his family as a civilian prisoner of war and, after the liberation in February, 1944, remained at the British Embassy Internment Camp in Peking for the next three years until a family relative sponsored passage to San Francisco in 1947. The family settled in Mill Valley, California, and John Saetti became a U.S. citizen during his sophomore year at the University of San Francisco. 
     Around this same time, John’s sister was also gaining widespread notoriety among newspapers and journals as one of twenty-five contestants internationally chosen to study under Italian master sculptor, Manzu.}
   

• The Logic Toolbox. Open Education Consortium, copyright 2007, John Saetti.

• "College of Marin to Graduate 91 at Exercises on June 17." Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, CA) 9 June 1954: p5.
• Committee on Logic Education. "Educational Logic Software." University of Calgary (Calgary, Canada). Web.
• "59 Graduate from Tam High School at Sunday Rites." Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, CA) 24 January 1951: p1-2.
• Gabbay, Dov M., Francis Jeffry Pelletier, and John Woods. Logic: A History of its Central Concepts. Northland Holland, 2012.
• Janz, Bruce B. "Formal Reasoning Software and Tools." The Reasoning Page (University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL).Web.
• Pai Yearbook, Class of 1948. Mill Valley, CA: Tamalpais High School, 1948.
• Raifsnider, Rosemarie. "Crest." Local/Neighborhood. The Alpine Echo (Alpine, CA) 23 January 1964: p5.
• Roundup Yearbook, Class of 1947-48. San Francisco, CA: Abraham Lincoln High School, 1948.
• "Saetti." Birth announcement. Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, CA) 9 December 1959: p17.
• "Saetti, Record for Andrea." World War II Prisoners of War Data File, 12/7/1941–11/19/1946 [Electronic Record]; Records of World War II Prisoners of War, 1942–1947; Records of the Office of the Provost Marshal General, Record Group 389; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD [retrieved from the Access to Archival Databases at www.archives.gov, June 4, 2015].
• "Saetti, Andrea John Allen." Marine Lynx Passenger Manifest, July 11, 1908. Port of Departure: Shanghai, China. Port of Arrival: San Francisco. Accompanied by Geor Loehr. "California, San Francisco Passenger Lists, 1893-1953." Database with images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. Citing NARA microfilm publication M1410. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
• "Saetii, John." Migma 62: A Yearbook and Photographic Directory of the Grossmont College Staff. La Mesa, CA: Grossmont Junior College / Monte Vista High School, 1962. np.
• _____. Migma 63-64: A Yearbook and Photographic Directory of the Grossmont College Staff. La Mesa, CA: Grossmont Junior College / Monte Vista High School, 1964. p11.
• "Saetti, John A." The Gallery, 1970: A Photographic Directory of the Grossmont College Staff. El Cajon, CA: Grossmont Junior College District, 1970. p92.
• _____. The Gallery: A 25th Anniversary Photographic Directory of the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community Faculty, Administration, and Staff. El Cajon, CA: Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District, 1987. p91.
• _____. The Gallery: A 35th Anniversary Photographic Directory of the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community Faculty, Administration, and Staff. El Cajon, CA: Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District, 1996. p112.
• Scanlan, Tom and Bob Steinbach, eds. "Eleven More Retire." GCCCD Grapevine vol. 10, no. 2 (July 2000): p4.
• Speckmann, Maybell. "Young Marin Sculptor Picked to Study under Italian Master." Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, CA) 1 October 1960: p14.
• "Young Sculptor Here on Visit from Italy." Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, CA) 19 December 1962: p14.

• Jane R. Spooner 1962-1963*(*tenured to Speech Dept. 1963-1983)
• Evangelos P. Phillips 1962-1965
• John Saetti 1962-1965* (*tenured to Humanities Dept. 1965-2000)
• George Kirazian, Jr. 1962-1986 (Chair 1966-1967) 
• Barbara W. Faber 1963-1965