Graduated Baltimore Polytechnic High School and Lehigh University with a Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering. Served in the US Army in both Korea and Japan, Worked for US Steel in Pittsburgh Pa and Indianapolis Indiana obtaining a Professional Engineering Certificate in Indiana. After 30 years with USS became a professional crabber in the Chesapeake Bay. Hobbies include fishing, wood working and tennis. Spent his reirement years in Venice, FL.