Curriculum Vitae


My birth, June 16,1919, was the start of my educational process. I was not an unusual baby except that I was born with two inguinal hernias and an umbilical hernia. My mother’s neighbors also expressed concern about the size of my head at birth. At one year of age one of my inguinal hernias was repaired along with the umbilical hernia. I started school at six and rode to school in a buggy drawn by a horse. The second hernia required me to wear a trust with a protrusion on it to keep my innards from dropping down. As soon as I could read I accepted Albert Einstein as my idol to look up to. I remembered reading about him in the Pathfinder, a newspaper, which we subscribed to. His trip to the U.S. on a ship was one of the highlights because he was greeted by an enthusiastic crowd when he came ashore in the U.S. and was not respected in his native country of Germany.

Upon finishing high school in 1937 I tried farming and found out that was not what I wanted so I joined the Navy as an apprentice seaman. While in the navy I took a correspondence course in Algebra and this prepared me for the University which I later attended. In 1949 I began my college career with a wife and a young daughter to support. I graduated in 1952 with a degree in Electron Physics and found employment with the National Bureau of Standards. While there I was credited with two patents which were classified and the rights were assigned to the government. At Christmas in 1954 my wife expressed the desire to return to Louisiana to live thus I resigned my position there and sought employment in Lake Charles, Louisiana. After four years in this employment I was asked to take a teaching position with the McNeese State University which I accepted and remained there for twenty years. During this time I built a model of the earth’s reversing magnetic field. A copyright was obtained and the paper was delivered to the American Geophysical Union in the fall of 1979. The copyright number is A-736-562 and was issued in 1976.

During my tenure at McNeese State University I would spend the summers at various other Universities taking courses. The following list are the names of the Universities that I attended for summer credit.

Southwestern State University (Lafayette, LA)

Louisiana State University (two different summers)

University of Oklahoma

University of Kansas

Texas A and M University

After retiring from the teaching profession I sought and found employment with the Department of Defense working with the division of Gravity and Magnetics. This included sea travel yearly taking sea data in both gravity and magnetism. I presented papers to Sigma Xi and to my department on magnetism of the earth and also lectures to various high schools in the area. On January 1, 1992 I retired from the government and since that time I have devoted my time to writing and working on my computer.