Candidate for
Board Member; Millbrae School District

I was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where I attended public schools. I enlisted in the Army Air Corps and served in the "Army of Occupation" in Japan and the Philippines. Shortly after I returned home I met my wife, Shirley. We were married in September of 1949.

We moved to San Francisco in 1950 where I attended and graduated from San Francisco State University. I then took graduate studies at Stanford.

We moved to San Bruno in the `50's where our two sons, Bob and Jeff, were born. In 1963 we bought our home in Millbrae. We chose Millbrae because of the quality of the schools that our sons were about to attend. They attended Glen Oaks, Taylor and Capuchino where they benefitted from a fine school system. Shirley and I were active members of the PTA and I served as president of Cap's PTO, the Cap People. Shirley was a nurse. She was head nurse at Peninsula Hospital's delivery room until our first son was born. Later, she worked as a nurse, and then Director of Nurses at one of Millbrae's convalescent hospitals. I lost my wife of nearly 48 years to a stroke in 1997.

I owned and operated a successful real business in the north peninsula for 38 years. During the last 10 years I specialized in commercial investment property and real estate consultation. I was president of the North San Mateo County Board of Realtors and regional vice president of the California Association of Realtors (CAR) for San Mateo County. I founded or co-founded and chaired several State-wide committees of CAR, including the Board Legal Affairs Committee, the Legal Action Committee and the Realtor's Legal Hot Line. I chaired the CAR Ethics and Arbitration Committee and often served on arbitration or mediation panels. I retired from real estate in 1990.

I now own and operate a commercial fishing boat at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. I have been President of the San Francisco Crab Boat Owner's Association (the Bay Area's commercial fisherman's organization) for the last 6 years and serve as treasurer of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations.

I have enjoyed serving our Millbrae community in a number of ways over the years. I served on the Millbrae School District's Financial Advisory Committee in 1992/93 and the Strategic Planning Committee in 1996 and 2001. I was an active member of our recently successful Committee for a New Millbrae Library and am now part of the Millbrae Community Outreach Committee as well as the Mayor's Civic Coordinating Council. I was a co-founder and am now Vice President of the Board of Directors of Millbrae Crime Stoppers, Inc.. Four years ago the people of Millbrae elected me to the Board of Trustees of the Millbrae School District. I have worked hard to assure that the children of Millbrae receive the best possible educational opportunity that can be provided to them - - and I have loved every minute of it. I would like to continue to make a difference and to build on the experience I have gained and the projects that I have begun.