Lamont Wiltsee was born in Minot, North Dakota but was dragged kicking and screaming to Southern California, after a two-year sojourn in Dallas, Texas where his father was on the staff of an orthopaedic clinic. Growing up in Long Beach, in 1968 he graduated from Northwestern University; he then “regretted” President Lyndon Johnson’s kind invitation to serve in an entry level position in the president’s Reelection Campaign (Vietnam division). Entering the School of Theology at Claremont he took degrees in religion, divinity, and ministry and was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1974.
Having served congregations in California and New Jersey, in 1987, an invitation to start a church at Stevenson School’s Erdmann Chapel was accepted. Lamont served as minister of Church in the Forest for six years enjoying almost every minute of it. In 1996, he moved from a “Carmel Charmer” to Carmel Valley, first to a home on Middle Canyon Road and then in 2017 to his current Vlliage residence that he shares with his wife, Edie Wiltsee.
Lamont brings a passion for quality of life issues to CVA’s board being concerned with population density issues such as the growing danger of Carmel Valley Road in the Village, the problem of noise pollution, and the possibility of a green burial sight in the Valley. Lamont Wiltsee accepts with pleasure the kind invitation to serve on the board of CVA.
