After graduation, I attended Valley JC, and was working as a shipping clerk at a supplier of plastic compounds (Denny Grossman got me the job). I also bought a 1932 Ford hot rod and joined in with a great group of Burbank guys and a few girls. The hot rod thing caused too many traffic tickets, so the cars were sold, and we got into fast boats. Except, I figured plastics had a good future in 1957, so I returned to college to learn plastic chemistry. I graduated from Chapman College in Orange CA in 1962 with a BS in chemistry, and a goal of specializing in plastics.

I worked briefly in Burbank preforming solution analysis and R&D on wear resistant plastics. In those days we made a magnetic memory disk that was 3 feet in diameter, spun with a 30 HP electric motor that had less memory than a floppy disk of 5 years ago. I then went to work for Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica in the Materials and Process department working with all kinds of space age plastics in 1965. I soon was transferred to the Huntington Beach facility working on the Apollo moon project. My name is on the moon, but that is another story. When the Apollo project ended in 1970, I went to the Aircraft Division in Torrance CA where I was involved with the bonding of aircraft components. In 1980 I transferred back to Huntington Beach where I became involved with many bonding projects associated with rockets and satillites. I retired early in 1995 after 30 years in the same plastic field. I was called the Glugarue, but respected for my ability to get a design into orbit.

I bought a 1957 Thunderbird in 1963, and a Day Cruiser boat in 1967. With this bait I met a friend of my sister, and we went for a boat ride. Less than 2 months later I married Barbara Kiehle from Portland OR. We moved to Orange County, bought a home in West Garden Grove in 1968 and sold it in 1995. Mitchell was born in 1970, graduated from Cal Polly Pomona, and is a software engineer in Redwood City CA. Mathew was born in 1973, graduated from Humbolt State, and is a GIS specialist (draws maps on a computer, based upon satilite data) in San Diego. While at McDonnell Douglas I learned the Macintosh computer. Those old DOS based IBM machines were too complicated. I am now working on a year old iMac, and I just changed to a 'cable' based internet provider, and recommend the service.

In 1995 I retired and moved to Big Bear Lake, CA. I live by the golf course, play golf (mid 90's), fish, have 2 antique cars (1930 Ford hot rod and an original 1963 Studebaker Avanti R2), involved with the Kiwanis service club, and have put over 70K miles on a 1998 Caravan. We try to take a cruise every 2 years, and this September we will go by river boat from Amsterdam to Vienna. Retirement is keeping me busy.

I had a mild case of prostate cancer 2 years ago, and will gladly talk about it. ALL MALES AT OUR AGE MUST KNOW THEIR PSA VALUE. If not known, then you are looking for an early grave. If you do not know what PSA is, then send me a message.