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# Nick Rath, at 59, has a new kidney and a refreshed outlook on life
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/051704-story-20040517-2/
- Published: 2004-05-17T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:19:56.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, Pacific Palisades, #archive-import

Nick Rath At 59, Nick Rath has a new kidney and a refreshed outlook on life. Born: Denver, Colo., in 1944\. Raised: Nebraska, Wyoming and Idaho. Moved to California for high school. Family: Married to wife Barbara with 30 children. Father was a jeweler and watchmaker. Mother was a house mom who later became a school bus driver. Residence: Home in Pacific Palisades. Background: Six months later, Rath went into the Air Force. He spent eight years in the Far East gathering intelligence and said he couldn’t provide any more details than that. Occupation: Rath teaches parenting skills through the Los Angeles Unified School District. Salary: Paid hourly. “Let’s just put it this way, I’m not in it for the money,” Rath said. Other jobs: Statistician, electronic and security systems technician, inventor for Bank of America. Said Rath: “I invented a coin-wrapping machine. There are about seven of them that I know of throughout the world. I invented one of them. It is not in common use.” Hobbies: Travel, reading, writing, volunteering for Mastery Circle of LA group.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 17, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/051704.pdf?ref=smdp.com)