I am a recent graduate of Colorado’s Early Childhood Service Corps (ECSC) Program. I greatly enjoyed being a dad and participating in raising my two daughters (now 29 and 27), particularly cherishing the time when they were very young. I signed up to be a part of the program to again have the pleasure and joy of being around young children. After visiting several child care centers in the course of my ECSC training, I found Explore and Discover to be the kind of environment and community I wanted to be a part of. I was born and raised in Rochester, NY (roughly 100 miles east of Niagara Falls, and distant from New York City!). I graduated from Bucknell University in Central Pennsylvania with a degree in civil engineering in 1977. After living briefly in the Philadelphia area, and then in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, I came to the Denver area in 1980 and have lived in Lakewood or Golden ever since. I retired from work as a civil engineer in 2021. My oldest daughter, Kristine, is married, works in the tech field, and lives in Arvada. Laura, my younger daughter, currently is in law school at Boston College. My travel for business and pleasure has taken me to 49 states (missing Alabama), and to over 30 foreign countries. At this point, travel is a big priority for me, so if you don’t see me for a couple weeks . . . Since retirement, I have done a lot of volunteer work for We Don’t Waste, a Denver nonprofit that seeks to intercept perfectly suitable and edible food that would otherwise end up in a landfill, and get it to people in need. In my younger days, I played a lot of sports, most notably soccer and basketball. I have climbed all 54 of the 14,000-foot mountains in Colorado. Currently, I mostly do biking and more modest hiking, and a little skiing and ice skating.