I was born in Middletown, Ohio in Southwestern Ohio. I attended
the public schools, grades 1 to 11. My senior year of high school was completed
at The Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania where I graduated.
Then I went on to study Electrical Engineering at Purdue University in West
Lafayette, Indiana. My father was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and was a Chemical
Engineer. He met my mother while at college. She was born on a farm near Connersville,
Indiana in Southeaster Indiana. She majored in Chemistry and Dietetics.
Interesting Facts
Moved to California in 1976.
Lived in Huntington Beach since 1982.
Retired from McDonnell Douglas
Career
Summer jobs while still an undergraduate
student: Surveyor's helper, engineering trainee with Westinghouse, one summer
in Sharon, Pennsylvania, another summer in Baltimore, Maryland.
First job after obtaining Master's degree: four years
as Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill,
New Jersey.
After returning for additional graduate study, worked
as a programmer in the university's computer center and taught courses
in undergraduate mathematics and computer programming.
Was a Professor of Computer Sciences in the Department
of Mathemaics at Purdue University for four years.
Then I worked for McDonnell Douglas Corp. in St. Louis, Missouri as a systems
programmer. Later I was transferred to a special project in Denver Colorado
for a year, then was transferred to Long Beach, California. Later I was transferred
to the Huntington Beach facility to work on special microprocessor projects.
Now retired from from McDonnell-Douglas, which has since become a part
of the Boeing Corporation.
