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Edited from spoken interviews, written as the subject's own remembered life.
A Word to My Grandchildren
I recorded this history for the people I hoped would know me long after the stories stopped coming up around the dinner table.
Two Pounds, Twelve Ounces
My life began with my twin brother George, a doubtful prognosis, and two improvised incubators made from orange crates and light bulbs.
Between City and Farm
Denver made us city children, but Idaho gave us horses, cousins, grandparents, and a living connection to the family that came before us.
Denver During the War
Childhood in Denver meant stable homes, wartime rationing, troop trains, and learning that nothing useful was casually thrown away.
Making Do and Moving Up
My parents improved our circumstances through ingenuity, long hours, and one improbable business involving rabbit brains.
Bring On the Adventure
At fifteen, I left Denver with my family for Australia, crossed the Pacific in first class, and entered a world larger than any of us had known.
The Snowy Mountains
Australia placed our family beside one of the century's great engineering projects and showed me what experienced people could build together.
Learning Another World
Australian school, music, rugby, politics, and friendship required me to listen closely and adapt quickly.
Around the World at Seventeen
The journey home became an odyssey through a dock strike, the Indian Ocean, Suez, Europe, and the Atlantic.
Working for an Education
Returning home meant sugar-company shifts, university tuition, and the discipline of earning an education without a straight path.
Two Years of Faith
Missionary service returned me to Australia with a different purpose and deepened the beliefs that guided the rest of my life.
Orchestra, Senate, and History
At the University of Denver I tried to make room for business, public life, music, and the past all at once.
Degrees and Detours
IBM, retail, real estate, graduate business school, and an eliminated position taught me that a career can emerge through failed fits.
A Career in Trust
An unexpected opening in municipal bonds became more than thirty years of responsibility for banks, communities, and other people's money.
March 8, 1973
I met Judy on a very long first date, lost the timing, found her again years later, and began the life I had been waiting for.
The Call That Made Us Parents
A Friday-afternoon phone call gave us ninety minutes to reach a baby boy and changed the meaning of every room in our home.
A House Full of Family
Homes, church service, neighborhood tradition, married children, and grandchildren made the later years rich beyond measure.
The Best Is Yet to Come
Looking back, I found the meaning of the story in family, faith, useful work, gratitude, and confidence in what future generations could build.