Name of spouse/partner:
Lisa Robinow: met in 1976, bought our first house in 1983, got married in 1984.

Children and Pets (number, type, names, ages):
Molly, 17
Jimmy, 13
Jinx (cat - 1)
Rudy (dog - 5)

Something memorable/highlights about your days or years at Marshall-U High:
Taking photos for the yearbook with Dave Parlin. Taking science and math classes taught by L'Herault, Walthers, Thayer (who wrote in my yearbook to 'learn to love well' or some such thing that I took to be very racy at the time), and others. Taking electronics and metal shop classes, (I wish I had taken woodworking and auto shop).

What have you been doing since then?
Attended college in Madison, WI. where my most significant accomplishments were meeting Lisa, bicycle riding (I had a bandage around my head from a fall when I met Lisa), and taking a month long back country ski trip in Wyoming. Attended the U-Illinois for one year which didn't work out academically, though I lived with a great group of people. Obtained a MS degree in geology at Eastern Washington University and proceeded to work at: sewing outdoor gear, a recycling center, and delivering pizzas in Moscow, Idaho (while Lisa finished law school); as a bicycle mechanic in Denver (while Lisa took the Bar exam), before joining a civil engineering firm in southern Colorado. Some of my projects were to subdivide large tracts of land (thousands of acres each) for vacation home properties. It was like getting paid to backpack in the mountains all day. Only once got the 4WD stuck so bad we had to spend the night out.

Our daughter was born in 1986. Moved to Ithaca, NY in 1988, and after a brief term with another private engineering firm I started work at Cornell University in the facilities office where I've been to this date. Ithaca has been referred to as Centrally Isolated. One of it's claims to fame is an annual parade that includes a Volvo ballet (Volvos adorned with tutus doing coordinated maneuvers in the street), the "he-man" chain saw marching
band, and local attorneys wearing shark fins on the backs of their pin stripe suits. Our son was born in 1990 and I obtained my license as a Professional Land Surveyor.

Other interesting things about yourself that you'd like us to know:
The first vehicle I bought was a 1955 Ford pickup: a piece of junk that managed to limp from Wisconsin to Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa, and then to Washington. Mid-life crisis resulted in building a cedar strip canoe (inspired in part by Katie Hirsch), building and flying model airplanes (I had quit after high school), and learning the sports that my kids
participate in. When playing ice hockey, Jimmy can skate faster backwards than I can forwards. I also tried and loved rowing since Molly was competing in the high school program. FYI, as a parent, crew is a worse sport for your kids to participate in than hockey. Their bus leaves just as early in the morning as hockey; then you drive two hours to a regatta to either learn that the race schedule changed and you missed your kid's race; or spend 2 minutes straining to figure out which boat your kid is in, and then 15 seconds cheering as they flash past. The teamwork and power really is beautiful though.

Has anyone been able to get used to bifocals?