About

I somehow survived my youth and graduated from Gibraltar High School in Fish Creek, WI in 1965.

I had a glorious first year of college and was invited not to return. In order to avoid the draft and a two-year commitment to the Army, I enlisted in the Air Force for four. Luckily most of my service time was spent in Germany. Uncle Sam funded my extended European vacation.

In 1971 I left the Air Force and returned to college at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay.

This was followed rapidly by my marriage in Lynn in 1972, graduation from college in ’75 and first two years of teaching English in Kaukauna, WI. Somewhere in there I got the bug to move and Lynn and I found teaching positions in Bethel, Alaska. About 400 roadless miles west of Anchorage.

In 1978 our daughter came along and our lives have been enriched with the all the trials and tribulations of parenthood.

I spent two years at the regional boarding school and went over the University of Alaska where I worked for the next 18 years, retiring from the position of Kuskokwim Campus director in 1997.

After 20 years of living in the bush, Lynn and I sold our big home on the tundra and downsized to a modest two bedroom condo in Anchorage.

I became an active volunteer with the American Red Cross, and after a number of years flunked retirement and became the Red Cross Operations Officer for Alaska. In my free time I am a reader, cross-country skier, biker, hiker, and camper.

In 2011 I once again decided to give retirement a go and left my position with the Red Cross, still donating volunteer time to disaster training and response, writing grants and doing special projects. I still have dreams of reinventing my life once again.

I’ve traveled extensively and will continue to do so. With bears, moose, and wilderness within minutes of my home, Alaska is where I will stay for at least the forseeable future.