My dad, raised on a Colorado ranch, became a PhD chemistry professor at Virginia Tech, so my early years were in depression-era Appalachia and then WWII. Cancer took my dad and I was sent to live with an uncle in Colorado. Eventually, back in Virginia, I did a BS/MS (1951/53) at the College of William and Mary, interspersed with grad study at U Hawaii. In 1952, I married my classmate, Gerrye Harlow. We had five children. I went on to get a PhD (statistics, Va Tech) and Gerrye a fine arts degree (SDSU). Over the years, she became a renowned painter. Professionally, I worked through a series of jobs: professor, company CEO, government scientist, Navy undersea diver, naval officer in NATO Europe, and, returning to work after retirement, medical biostatistician and professor.
Throughout my life, my main diversions have been running, bicycling, ocean sailing, ocean diving (following my Navy diving training in 1970), playing music, and studying foreign languages and cultures. As I aged, the more vigorous activities waned, leaving music and languages, to which I added cooking. Now mostly retired again, I teach occasional graduate classes at SDSU and have started feeling my way into a new career as a fiction writer. We shall see if I can pull that off.
