To start at the beginning, I was born in Easton PA - Becky in Olympia WA. I went to grades 1 & 2 at March Elementary in Easton. I was raised mostly UP ON THE FARM! In Philipsburg NJ at my grumpa's mountain top farm - click on the highlighted letters to see a photo & description of it. It was one of the greatest times of my life with Aunts Kathy, Susie, Alice, Lucille, and uncle Andy ... (the fire works king of all time!) ... and let's not forget cousin's Jerry & Susie too! Jerry and I would sneak up in the barn and smoke Gramp's cigarettes and cigars. We had our .22's set up with bean shooters strapped to the barrel's for scopes ... worked very very well actually.

I went to 7th & 8th grades in Richmond VA. Becky went to grade school in Crescent City CA. We met in Crescent City when I was 17 and she was 16 where we moved after I had finished high school .... she taught me to drive and I taught her what to do when we parked! ... At a neat spot over looking the ocean .... Watching the submarine races ... hee-hee.

I left home at 13 ... Went to a boarding school at Shenandoah Valley Academy in New Market VA , where I worked year round in the dairy, in the kitchen below the girls dorm ... umm yeah ... and as a hall monitor... All for just 37 cents an hour! ... paid my whole way though and even had to hitchhike when I wanted to go home on the holidays from New Market, VA to Takoma Park, MD.
Went to college at PUC in Angwin Ca. ... Dental school at LLU in CA.
Becky ... boarding school in Oregon at Milo Academy & College at PUC also.

At PUC I was a science major ... Chemical Research and Marine Biology was where we were headed .. lots of scuba diving for 3 years with the sheriff's rescue at Lake Berryessa near the school. Not many jobs available in my major at the time ... took a right turn into dentistry ... Best thing we ever did!
We are very proud of the fact that we did it on our own .... I worked full time 40 hrs/week , nights at Yountville Veterans Hospital as an orderly through college, slept 1 - 2 hrs/day & Becky worked the switchboard and at the hospital too. Many were thet times we had no food at all for 4 days or so till pay day. No welfare or food stamps then. We made it through college without any loans and paid as we went. We did take out loans of course through dental school. ..... But, we still worked 70 hrs/week between us then too. I made humorous trick photography color and sound movies for teaching purposes at the dental school and worked weekend nights at the hospital to pay for my motorcycles.
Becky worked the switchboard at the school and at the hospital there too.

Paid the school loans back as soon as we could .... one of our pet peeves .... those that weasel out of them!
We were stationed at Mt Home AFB were I was prosthetic officer for 2 years. I got a lot more training at San Diego Naval Hospital while there. I am not a prosthodontist, but it is the biggest part of my practice along with cosmetic dentistry.

While we were in college Becky's folks, Iris & Virgil were both killed in a small plane accident two months before our wedding in 1963. WE REALLY MISS YOU GUYS!!!!!

And now Becky's brother Bob has passed away ... Our Harley Hillclimb Page Dedicated to Bob. .... We really miss you too Bob! .. Every time I see the World of Outlaw Sprint Cars on T.V. I think of you and all the fun we had attending the events at Chico, CA.

Becky and I have lived the American Dream and we did it on our own ..... anyone can do it ... but you have to really know what you want and go for it with all you have.

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