I graduated from SIU-Carbondale in 1979. I have had a very diverse career that includes being a truck driver delivering milk to grocery stores, broadcasting sales and production, TV weather, air freight forwarder, air traffic control, and teaching public speaking at the university level.

After the Fall Semester 2019, I retired from teaching due to problems with my hearing. To fill the time I have "flipped three houses, ran a marathon down a mountain in Washington State, involved in my church and occasional mission work, and love being married to my wife of 41 years.

My favorite memory of high school was taking the bells off in the hallways to silence them during the week prior to graduation. George Reinbold, Bill Huff, and Laura Heale (now Huff,) and I took the bells off their housing after school was out one afternoon, and enjoyed watching the reaction the next day as students were walking the halls the next morning wondering when class was going to begin.