My wife Carolyn.
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Hospitality Industry fresh out of college: for Playboy Clubs International, then onto Disney World Orlando where I worked months in advance of the park opening, as a food & beverage trainer, then to my permanent position as a food & beverage supervisor. I continued that career with Ramada and Quality Inns. Then went with a multi-dealer auto group for over a decade as fleet sales manager. Then was fortunate enough to visit Montana, buying my home the first morning I arrived. I became a realtor for eighteen years. Then we took a break and bought a home on the Big Island as a five year plan, at which time my wife continued her career there as a hotel manager, and I drove a rental car shuttle bus at the Kona International Airport, (and while doing so wrote a monthly column for a Hawaiian lifestyle magazine of all of the wonderfully interesting folks who got on and off the shuttle). Back to Montana at sixty-seven as planned, worked as a reserve police officer, then got in shape, and qualified for the Montana Law Enforcement Academy. Our town sent me, and with a little luck and some serious cardio, I became the oldest graduate from the Academy at the age of seventy, even receiving an award from a U.S Senator. I worked full time as a city police officer, and filled in at our county sheriff's office, calling it a day when I turned seventy-five. Those eight years in law enforcement were the most fulfilling and rewarding of my entire working life. I am now finishing up my local elected office, and almost finished with my second book. .........and I worked on Yellowstone season five, this past summer also as an Extra.

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My unexpected passion was being in law enforcement. Being able to protect, prevent, and assist victims in their crucial time of need. I also was able to give younger officers a broader perspective of our responsibilities and the public's expectations of us.

B.A., Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, 1969.

While in the car business, one day the receptionist paged me saying the president's wife was on the phone. I assumed it was the president's wife from our vast auto-dealer group which spanned two states. But it wasn't, it was THE President's wife, Nancy R. She asked if I would order a truck as a Christmas Surprise for her husband. I did, he was really surprised, and the truck is in his Presidential Library. He was courteous and sent me signed Presidential cuff-links. I substitute high school here, and enjoy showing them to my government and history students.

Also unexpectedly meeting someone through business who was the casting director for 'CHEERS'. He put me on as an Extra, which I did on and off for five years at Universal Studios.

After graduation, there were maybe seven cars of our class who drove to a remote location, where we continued to celebrate. In the pitch of the late night came headlights. It was the Scott Township police. Knowing what I know now, he was the consummate professional. I do not recall if there was a curfew at that time, but if so he didn't mention it. Once he determined there was no impairment or even possession of alcohol, he told us to be careful, not be too late, and he left. A young person's first encounter with law can make a lifetime impression. That officer could not have done it better.