Life since IMS

After I graduated grew to 6 feet 10 inches so I enrolled at U of Iowa and got on the basketball varsity as a walk-on and proceeded to lead them to a Big Ten and NCAA championship in my Senior year, then I went on and played a few years for the Chicago Bulls and .....

You don't believe me? Well, my fantasy life is much more interesting than real life, but come to think of it, my life has actually been quite interesting.

I went to Hesston for two years, spending 2 summers driving combines between Texas and Montana, then Lois and I got married and we lived in Kansas City for a year. We both worked at Hallmark Cards, but it was soon apparent that a degree was needed to succeed there so we moved to Goshen where I graduated from GC. In January, 1966 I started working for Miles Laboratories in Elkhart. I started in Research, then got into Toxicology, then Quality Assurance, then Compliance and before I knew it I had been with the company for 38 years. Of course, it was now Bayer Corporation and the last 7 years were in Connecticut. I left Elkhart because I thought they were going to close the plant in a few years (they did) but in Dec. 2003 they closed the CT plant also! Since I was 62 two days later, I retired and Lois and I went to London and worked as volunteer hosts at the London Mennonite Center for 3 years - a great experience. And now we are back in Goshen.

Lois will write her own bio, but she worked for 10 years at GC, and in 1992 she was asked to lead two SST (Study Service Term) units in the Dominican Republic. I took a leave of absence from Miles and we lived in the DR for 8 months. We supervised the programs for two groups of 18 college students each. A unique experience!

We have 3 children, living in Goshen, Champaign and Chicago respectively, and 5 grandchildren. More about them an another posting later.

You saw our pictures on Omer's posting. I hope to see all of you on here soon. Many thanks to Omer for getting this going.