Born Darby PA Dec 24, 1946. Graduated Monsignor Bonner HS, Drexel Hill PA 1964. BS in secondary education (geography) from West Chester State, 1968. U.S. Army service, 1968-1993, retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Author of "Fort Clark and Brackettville Land of Heroes," , three feature articles for ON POINT: The Journal of Army History (Bullis's Medal of Honor Fight at the Pecos River, a Brief Unit History of the Seminole Scouts, and Gallant Company "Q") and an innovative analysis of two photographs taken at Fort Davis, Texas in 1887, published in The Journal of Big Bend Studies. Life member of the National Rifle Association, a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow, and an active member of the Berlin U.S. Veterans Asso., the 82d Airborne Division Asso., the Sons of the American Revolution and the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.

Born Darby PA Dec 24, 1946. Graduated Monsignor Bonner HS, Drexel Hill PA 1964. BS in secondary education (geography) from West Chester State, 1968. U.S. Army service, 1968-1993, retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Author of "Fort Clark and Brackettville Land of Heroes," , three feature articles for ON POINT: The Journal of Army History (Bullis's Medal of Honor Fight at the Pecos River, a Brief Unit History of the Seminole Scouts, and Gallant Company "Q") and an innovative analysis of two photographs taken at Fort Davis, Texas in 1887, published in The Journal of Big Bend Studies. Life member of the National Rifle Association, a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow, and an active member of the Berlin U.S. Veterans Asso., the 82d Airborne Division Asso., the Sons of the American Revolution and the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.