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Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, I grew up in Kansas City Mo. where I
went
to Paseo HS
and Rockhurst College. At Rockhurst I won a National Science
Foundation scholarship and attended the University of Wisconsin as a graduate student
from
1958-63
(when it was a "hotbed" of radical student activity). There I learned to
sail through the Wisconsin Hoofers and
married Freda Vodovosoff. I was an
editor of
INSIGHT & OUTLOOK, a student political
magazine, and met a number
of
important social and economic thinkers including Russell
Kirk,
Ludwig von
Mises, Friedrich A. Hayek, William F. Buckley and Richard Weaver.
My PhD is in physical chemistry. I worked for Du Pont in New Jersey where
I developed a film that would give either a positive or a negative image depending on
the way it was processed. I quit after 2 years and returned to Madison to teach at
little
Milton
College. Besides the entire chemistry program, I taught physics,
then
geology, astronomy,
oceanography(leading to the Vi
rgin
Island trips,) various courses on issues in science, society,
and the
environment.
In 1969 I started one of the first college courses in
science
fiction, which was visited by many sf writers including
Harlan
Ellison, Ben
Bova, Frederick Pohl, Damon Knight, Norman Spinrad, August Derleth, and Katherine
McLean.
While teaching at Milton College I also worked part time and summers at the Enzyme Institute where I published a few papers and was a co-author of one that was part of the project that won the 1968 Nobel Prize for Har Gobind Khorana.
Milton College closed in the early 1980's and since then I
have lived in
Madison. I worked at Hazleton Labs for 5 years,
where I developed laboratory
procedures
to predict the environmental fate of agricultural
chemicals.
Next I was a
chemist at the
Wisconsin Occupational Health Laboratory (and technically a faculity member of the UW) for 19 years before I retired in 2006.
I live in Madison where I often attend UW classes and lectures, and write letters to the local newspapers. I continue to sail and scuba dive in the Caribbean. We also own a flat
in Haifa Israel (long story) that we often visit. We have a daughter, a US Attorney son-in-law, and two grandsons who live in Newton MA, a Boston suburb.
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