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Education: BA Eastern Michigan University, 1950; MA University of Michigan, 1951; Ph.D Wayne State University, 1962.

My education covered art, speech, special education, majoring in Speech and Language impairments.

I was raised in Trenton, Michigan and graduated from Slocum Truax High School in 1944. Served in WWII and entered my higher education program in 1946. Met and married my wife while completing my education. That event included 54+ years of happiness, four children and eleven grandchildren. My wife died in 2005 from pancreatic cancer.

My professional career began as a high school teacher in Birmingham, Michigan, then to Western Washington State University, and finally to Eastern University from which I retired in 1987.

My spiritual journey started as a Roman Catholic, from which I moved to the Episcopal church in 1949. Activities in the church included: choir, vestry, senior warden, church school teacher, convention delegate, and area council president.

My interest in the TBLG community stems from my association with members of that community and two gay nephews, one of whom died of AIDS. I represented my church at several conferences dealing with the TBLG issues and became active in promoting St. James of Dexter into an Affirming and Welcoming church. Oasis board membership began in 2008. I am currently attending St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Chelsea.