Education:
high school – Farrell, Pa.
college – Youngstown University – 5 years – B.A. in physics
Work:
steel mill employee – 4 years ( college at night )
street lighting research and development engineer – 14 years
HPS lamp development and product engineering manager with global responsibilities – 6 years that introduced me to planned obsolescence and outsourcing. (Consequently I gave up engineering, studied economic history and theory for the next 10 years, and boiled it all down to a book — For a Fair America; the cure for our sick economy )
lumber yard employee – 12 years, machinist – 8 years
Personal:
born 2-23-42 in Sharon, Pa.
1st marriage – 1 year
2nd marriage – 30 years and counting – 2 stepsons
Political:
1996 run for Congress, 2014 candidate for Congress
My parents’ best advice: ” Use the mind God gave you ! “
Core religious belief: ” My kingdom is not of this world ” said Jesus; — and so Man is god on Earth, because we can make it heaven or hell.