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Daddy was broadly an Aerospace Engineer, more specifically he was a Chemical, Mechanical and Materials Engineer. He matriculated from Wayne State with a BS in Chemistry in 1941. He spent an extra year at Cass Technical High School in Detroit. For you non Detroit fellows, Cass Tech was THE prepartory science and engineering HS in Detroit.

Daddy started work when he was 12 years old by selling Newspapers on the corner in Down town Detroit. While in HS during the heights of the Depression he got a job working for Packard eventually becoming a Tool and Die Maker. All this while he was going to school, he says that he put the books on the machine to study while he was working at night. During the War Daddy continued to work for Packard on the Rolls Royce Merlin aeroplane engines.

After the war Daddy left the factory floor to work for Parke Davis Pharmcueticals, Canada Dry Beverages as a Plant Manager, and as the guy who lined up the paint for the Paint By Number Company. In the mid 50's Mother ann Daddy set out for Californie thinking thats the place they ought to be. There Daddy worked for such companies as the Grand Central Rocket Co, Bermite Powder Company, Aerojet General, Douglas Aircraft and Hughs Aircraft. The most notable project that I remember his being on was the creation of an Atomic Bomb Simulator for the Army.

By the late 1960's Daddy was growing older and was tired of being kicked around from company to company as the defense contracts were completed. At that time he went into Civil Service working for the Navy with a GS 13 rating. There he developed and was awarded a patent for a Self Destruct Circuit Board. After that assignment he went up to Vandenburg AFB and monitered the launch of the Minute Man Missles from that facitlity. After that assignment he went to ROckwell and was the Materials engineer on the B1 Bomber, after that to TRW and agaiin was the Materials Engineer on the Spy Satalites finally he was out at GD as the Materials Engineer on the Stinger Missles.

The one thing Daddy always says is that the younger guys have all the theory but none of the practice of making things that work. Those years of Tool and Die making held him in good stead.