Bio

My enlistment in the US Naval Reserve was during my senior year at Fargo Central. Active duty in the Navy followed immediately after graduation. Sea duty on a minesweeper was my next assignment. After taking the fleetwide college examination, I received orders to proceed to the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Maryland. After prep school, I received an appointment to the US Naval Academy and graduated from the Academy with the class of 1964. My duties as an Naval Ensign and Lieutenant were on destroyers in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Upon a one year national duty extension for the VietNam war, I spent the next year on the rivers of I-Corps VietNam. Upon resignation of my Navy commission, I worked for Corning Glassworks in engineering and production management positions in Oklahoma, Indiana, New York and Soviet Poland over a 13 year period. Manufactured homebuilding had always been an interest to me and I spent the next five years managing automated homebuilding factories. Due to the consistent fluctuation in the homebuilding industry, I left that field and spent the next 20 years working in the currency ink, currency printing and currency certification industries. I was a product engineer for central bank currency certification equipment in Canada, the US, Central and South America. One of my last positions was as Chief Engineer for the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC. My first retirement was spent as a partner in several custom Timberframe, Structural Insulated Panel, and energy efficient home building companies. My wife and I returned to Fargo for 5 years while our mothers were in a nursing home there. For the last 10 years, we have been living in Ann Arbor, Michigan near our youngest son and his family.