Yes Adjunct Professor at Univ. of MD 2003-2015; High School science teacher in Macomb one year 1963

No

I was a shy student but liked Math and Science. I was in the Industrial track but I took a course from Councilor Lundeen who moved me to the academic track when I was a junior. I actually personally protested to Mr. Lundeen about his changing me to the academic track. My dad was a factory worker and I really enjoyed wood shop. Many fellow High School students back in the late1950's knew me from working at Ken's Coney Island during lunch times and weekends.

I continued my education after graduating from GHS by getting a BS from Western Illinois University in 1963, a MS in Physics from University of Maryland in 1967 and a PhD in Shock Wave Physics from Washington State University in 1976. I worked as a research physicist for Navy laboratories in Maryland for 33 years and then took a research physics group leader position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for seven years. We moved back to Maryland in 2003 to be closer to our kids. I continue to consult with the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Indian Head Maryland. I stopped teaching a graduate class that I developed on Shock Wave Physics for the University of Maryland. I published a text book for this course at UMD "Shock Wave Compression of Condensed Matter-A Primer" published by Springer in 2012. I also serve as an outside reviewer for Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Basic Research Program (LDRD) proposals in the field of shock wave physics. In December of 2014, I received the 2015 American Physical Society's George E. Duval Shock Compression of Condensed Matter Science award 6-17-15 at the Shock Compression of Condensed Matter Topical Group meeting in Tampa, FL. This is quite an honor since Duvall was a pioneer of the shockwave field and my thesis advisor at WSU. I have endowed a physics scholarship at Western Illinois University in September 2016. I attended the Scholarship banquet at WIU on November 5, 2017 and presented this physics scholarship.

I can now get to my "bucket list" and do those things such as my hobbies of tennis and fishing but am staying too busy working and cleaning up the Port Tobacco River Watershed by volunteering for the local conservancy group. Made a trip to Scotland 2016 summer to visit my kinsman at the Forbes Castle near Alford, Scotland.

I have retired and now live with wife Cynthia in Brightview Senior Living Facility in Annapolis Maryland. Still play tennis when the weather is good.