Hometown: Keokuk, Iowa

When did you become a member of UMRA? 
2017

What was your very first job? 
Newspaper carrier for the Keokuk Daily Gate City.

What was your occupation when you retired from FT work? 
Director of development for the School of Dentistry.

What is the name of the first record you bought? 
To Our Children's Children's Children (LP) by The Moody Blues.

If you could learn a new skill, what would you like it to be? 
Mississippi River towboat captain.

Do you have a favorite place on the U of M campus? 
Weisman Art Museum, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, and the Landscape Arboretum, where I volunteer at the Bee Center. 

What is a fun fact about you we might not know? 
In June 1973, three years after returning from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) as a Peace Corps Volunteer, I was thrown out of my hydroplane in my first race. The steering broke just past the starting line and I was tossed out, tumbling head over heels twice on the water at 55 m.p.h. I released the deadman's throttle, so the engine stopped, and the boat settled down on the water. My PFD kept me afloat. I was rescued, and my racing runabout was towed to shore where I replaced the broken part, remounted, and completed my first race. (I never told my mother.)

What is something you currently enjoy doing with your time? 
Fly tying and fishing with another U of M retiree and other friends. Also, in recent years I became a Minnesota master naturalist and a beekeeper.