After leaving Central, I graduated from St  Olaf and the U of M School of Medicine. I interned in Sacramento,Ca and was drafted into the Navy near the end of Viet Nam and served as a general medical officer in Guam and then completed a Radiology residency at the Naval Hospital in San Diego.  After seven years in the Navy, I met my wife, Jackie, and we were married. She taught at UCLA and I practiced radiology in Ventura County California until my wife and I retired to San Diego. I have a stepson and two grandchildren , ages 7 and 4.  We keep busy with extensive travel, birdwatching, classes, and my hobby of photography.

I look back at my time at Central with great fondness.  Not so much for the education but as a place where I could meet my friends and plan the evenings and weekends social activities.

Shortly after graduating from CHS I enlisted in the Army where I served for three years in the paratroopers.     After proving the laws of gravity were still working, and not wanting to press my luck too far, I returned to civilian life.  There, I traded in my combat gear for   tee-shirt, jeans and loafers (no socks of course) ,and became a student again.   I was anxious to see if the University of St Thomas could succeed where Central had failed – that is to teach me something.  It was difficult for them as well; however after awhile I wore them down and they conferred a bachelor’s degree in business upon me, I think mostly to have me gone.  Upon entering the business world it was not long before it was clear a Masters Degree was necessary to compete successfully, so I returned to St Thomas.  Believe me they were not happy, but as before they conferred an MBA upon me in 1977.

While all of this was going on I met Molly McKasy in Tiffany’s and she swept me off my feet.  We were married in Jackson Hole Wyoming a year later.

Now comes the hard part, where did those thirty years in business go and how did I end up with two boys and four grand children and where are those boys when I need them to lift something heavy?

Finally realizing that I was a little too liberal to make a fortune in business I gave up trying and retired in 2006.   Fortunately, I had many outside interests before retirement so the transition has been almost transparent.  While some physical issues now prevent me from skiing and wade fishing my beloved western rivers, I still enjoy my photography, watercolors, tennis, gardening, reading non-fiction and international travel.  We also have a lake place in northern Minnesota which keeps us busy all summer.  

I would like to thank the reunion committee for their effort – Great Job!   

Further, a long overdue thanks’ to Assistant  Principal P. O. Carlson  for expediting the process of reinstatement when a certain band of brigands were outed  after being recognized in the St Paul paper for some volunteer work they had done to assist flood victims on the Mississippi river. How could you miss that red jeep with all those smiling faces?  Mr. Carlson was kind enough to allow a mass reinstatement, sort of like a class action reinstatement.  It saved a lot of time.  Like a consent decree; we all swore we didn’t do anything wrong and promised never to do it again.   Thanks Phil!