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The year after graduating from Lyman I attended Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). I was coxswain FIT’s first Freshman crew team. Because of a combination of grades and winning the draft lottery I joined the Navy in 1971. I spent six years in the Navy as a nuclear power plant operator. This included two tours of the coast of North Viet Nam. I met my wife Laurie during a shipyard stay in Bremerton Washington six months before I got out. We were married after I got out of the Navy in 1977. I worked at the Bremerton shipyard for a few years. I then used my GI Bill to get my BA (1983) and MA (1988) in archeology at Washington State University. For 12 years I worked as an archeologist for the Forest Service in Washington and Oregon. Since 2000 I have worked as an archeologist for the US Army Corps of Engineers back in Florida. My major projects are part of the Everglades restoration.
Our daughter Ruth was born May 1979. Our son Gordy was born November 1982 with hydrocephalus. He passed away when he was 12 in 1994. Ruth went on to be the first legacy crew member (also a coxswain) at FIT. She met her husband while at college, they are living in Hawaii with our first granddaughter, River.
In addition to work as an archeologist I am active in our Church and serve as Scoutmaster of a Boy Scout Troop.
