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Professionally, I am a
mathematician, statistician, and college professor, but I'm not going to tell you much about that
here. The point of this page is to tell you a bit about who I am and
what I do when I'm not teaching or doing mathematics.
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First and foremost, I am a husband and a father.
Most of my free time is spent with my wife Beth and our six kids,
Rebecca, Mariah, Julia, Suzanna, Thomas, and Zachary. Beth and I met while we
were undergraduates at Truman
State University in Kirksville, Missouri, where we were both members
of the Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega,
a national service fraternity. Beth is a registered nurse who
now teaches part time at Olympic College in
Bremerton. She is also a CPR and first aid instructor (see
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We live just outside of Bremerton, Washington,
which is on the opposite side of Puget Sound from Seattle.
Since I work in Seattle, I commute daily by ferry across the sound. My favorite pastimes include backpacking,
hiking, canoeing, and camping. Perhaps my favorite activity of
all is backpacking. By the time I graduated from college, I
had already done more than 3,000 miles of backpacking, and I had
spent four summers living out of a tent. Beth and I got engaged on
the trail at Zion National Park in Utah (see photo at left).
Since we began having children, I have not been go on nearly as many
long backpacking
trips, but I still camp and hike as often as possible. Our family trips have ranged from numerous short weekend outings to
month long trips across the country. For some
additional pictures from one of my trips, look
here. The kids
really enjoy and look forward to these trips.
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Over the past several years, I have started to
introduce my three oldest daughters to backpacking. Our trips have
included Glacier Basin and Spray Park in Mount Rainier National Park as
well as Deer Lake, Mink Lake, the Grand Valley, Cape Alava, Lake
Angeles, and Flapjack
Lakes in the Olympics.
I am also Roman Catholic. We are members
of
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church, a wonderful parish in
Bremerton, Washington. I am very involved with adult education
programs at my parish, including serving as the leader of a weekly Bible
study program. At Sunday masses, I serve regularly as a lector.
Some
of my other interests include woodworking, gardening, and reading, but I
don't get nearly as much time to do these things as I would like.
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