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Career wise, after graduating from Edmonds High School in 1966 I went to MIT in Massachusetts where I got a BS in Aerospace Engineering. I worked at Boeing for a while on the 747 and on Boeing’s failed bid for the Mars Lander. I then went to the UW for an MBA in Finance and stayed on for a Ph.D. in Management. My first job was as a professor at the Pennsylvania State University. After 25 years at Penn State I accepted a position as a chaired professor at Indiana University (IU) in the Kelley School of Business with joint appointments at IU’s Fairbanks School of Public Health and IU’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. I teach corporate strategy on our online MBA Program. I was the Executive Associate Dean for our Kelley Indianapolis operations for nine years and ran IU’s leadership program for eleven years.
On a personal level I met my future wife, Andra Anderson, at a fraternity mixer on September 10, 1967. That was her first day at Wellesley College. Both of Andra parents were Marines, lawyers, and pilots. They had flown her to Boston earlier that day in their Bonanza. That evening I learned that Andra had danced professionally with the Kansas City Ballet for six years, had rebuilt her TR3 that summer with her then boyfriend, had hunted elk in Colorado with her father, had spent the summer of 1966 as an AFS student in Italy, and with her sister had been ranked #1 on Missouri Valley Conference “18 and Under Class” in tennis doubles. Five years later (never accuse me of hurrying) on December 27, 1972 we got married.
Prior to getting married I got a pilot’s license and flew over most of Western Washington. While in high school and college I climbed most of the majors in the PNW (summiting Mt. Rainier, Mt. Olympus, Whitehorse, Three Sisters, Mt. Adams, Mt. Baker, Glacier
Peak, Mount Saint Helens, and Mount Shuksan), as well as a few hills that they call mountains on the East coast. I’ve downhill skied in much of North America and cross country skied in New England. I’ve rappelled into glacial crevasses and out of a Black Hawk helicopter.
After we got married my wife and I have canoed in British Columbia, kayaked in Hawaii, boated on Lake Bled, Slovenia, sailed in the Bahamas and bare boated in British Columbia. We’ve gone SCUBA diving in Maui and skin diving in the Bahamas. We’ve hiked into the crater of the Haleakalā volcano and camped there. We’ve done extensive hiking in Washington and New England. We’ve gone mountain hiking in much of the PNW. We’ve gone beach hiking - primarily on the Olympic National Park Ocean Strip. We’ve had an RV for 20 years and have RVed from Washington to Florida and California to Maine. We’ve ice skated in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. We’ve ridden tuk-tuks and elephants in Thailand. We’ve gone horseback riding in Pennsylvania and Missouri. We’ve been stalked by a bear in the Olympic Mountains (lesson: don’t carry a raw steak in your backpack while in bear country). I’ve been on safari in Eswatini and tackled by an African Lion (in Pennsylvania - but that’s a long story). We have one child, a son, who is autistic and still lives with us.
I’ve traveled to Liberia, Ghana, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Eswatini, Senegal, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Prague, Melbourne, Kingston, Costa Rica, Paris, London, Moscow, Leningrad, Berlin, Tokyo, Jakarta, Singapore, and Bangkok. I’ve taught classes in: Jamaica, Seoul, and Zagreb. I’ve delivered lectures in: Beijing, Chengdu, Dalian, Guangzhou, Moscow, Shanghai, and Suzhou.
And we’re looking forward to our 50th wedding anniversary this year.
