After graduating from MHS, I attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY graduating in 1958 with a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering. My first job was with Westinghouse in Pittsburgh and was to be the first of many interesting jobs over the years. Westinghouse provided components and serviced (at refueling) the Navy's nuclear submarine and surface ship fleet at the various shipyards. I was initially in Quality Control, then design engineering, later as supervisor of design, procurement, and installation of reactor equipment and also field support for seal welding and cutting equipment used during refueling operations. It was in June 1962 that I married my wife, Mary and that fall returned to night school at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh to earn a B.S. in Industrial Management in 1966. We soon started our family and had a daughter, Laura Anne and a son, Rob, in 1963 and 1965 respectively.

In 1972 I transferred to the Advanced Reactors Division and was involved with the design and construction of components for the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) being built in Richland, WA. We moved to Chattanooga for 14 months where I was Technical Representative coordinating the construction of the reactor vessel, its closure head and support structure. When they were completed, we moved to Richland to coordinate overall efforts for all reactor equipment being installed. We were in Richland seven years through the start-up of the facility. I participated in two US/DOE-Japanese information exchanges.

After start-up of the FFTF, we moved to Oak Ridge, TN to coordinate the design and the construction of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor. We were there three years, but this project got canceled and after 25 years with Westinghouse, a company at that time of over 100,000 employees, I left and went to work in Rockville, MD. This job was with a consulting firm of only 25 employees assisting electric utilities in the licensing, plant design and construction of a standard reactor plant design. When this job finished and five plants were built, I went to TVA in the Knoxville, TN area to manage a weld evaluation program that led to authoring a report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that was instrumental in granting the start-up of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant.

After the TVA job, I learned that Westinghouse was hiring at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, SC and rejoined Westinghouse in 1989 to manage the resolution of approximately 2,400 audit findings and issues involving the restart of the reactors. We successfully accomplished this task, but with the end of the cold war with Russia, the government chose not to restart the reactors. The reactors produced Tritium gas used in nuclear warheads to increase their effectiveness. Later, I was involved with various division-wide programs; a work Prioritization Program, Commitment Tracking, and Operational Readiness Reviews.

All of this was interesting and paid the bills, but in June 1996, I retired to do some other personal things. We bought a conversion van and traveled across the country with another couple to Washington and California and took several other long trips. One neat trip was to Albuquerque, NM to the hot air balloon festival. (I had been up once for an hour and half ride as treat from my wife on my 50th birthday.)

Since retiring I have stayed busy with volunteer efforts, mostly at our church. I am on Stewardship, Long Range Planning, and Groundskeeping committees, sing in our chancel choir, men's praise choir, and an ecumenical group of instrumentalists and vocalists comprising the National Day of Prayer group. This group performed at our church on May 3 to a community congregation of approximately 900. I attend a men's Bible Study Fellowship each week. I enjoy helping repair homes in SC through Salkehatchie Summer Service, a United Methodist sponsored program of youth and adults that help those that are not able to help themselves. It's sort of like Habitat for Humanity except we repair existing homes rather than build new ones. Mary and I square dance at our local club twice a month.

The most fun, of course, is caring for our daughter's almost three-year-old son, Mitchell. He is our only grandchild. Our daughter lives in Aiken near us. Lately, watching the computer for news of the class of '54 has become and enjoyable pastime. I look forward to exchanging email with everyone to catch up on the lives of classmates and to relive some of the fun times we have shared.