Hometown? Columbus, Indiana.

When did you join UMRA? 2005.

What was your very first job? Summer city park concession stand helper, age 14, earning 35 cents per hour. 

What was your occupation when you retired from FT work? Director of Counseling and Student Services in the College of Continuing Education. From 2006 to 2009, my wife, Judy, and I provided family therapy and counseling through our own practice, Northstar Counseling and Meditation Services. Judy passed away in 2011.

Where were you in 1969 when Apollo 11 landed on the moon? At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in my first year as an assistant director at the UW Counseling Center.

If you were an Olympic athlete, what would you like your sport to be? Because of an undiagnosed eye problem, I was never very good in athletics. But as an Indiana kid, I loved to watch high school and college basketball. Still do.

Do you have a favorite place on the U of M campus? The old Psychology Building and Eddy Hall, then home of the Student Counseling Bureau, where I grew up as a professional.

What is a fun fact about you we might not know? I learned to sail on Lake Mendota in Madison with the UW–Madison Hoofers club. Judy and I went to Madison in 1968 after I completed my PhD in psychology and a one-year post-doc at the University of Minnesota. We owned a small sailboat for several years. It was a family thing, enjoyed by all. 

What is something you currently enjoying doing? I love reading mysteries, doing puzzles (especially crosswords), and card games.