You’ll note there will be no consistency in font or pics, just whatever moves me at the time. I don’t really remember why this was put together. I think that during one of the three separate times I joined Facebook (Yep, count ‘em. One time I met a young woman in a wheelchair who I was so taken with I rejoined to learn something about her!) someone said you need to write a personal history to tell people about yourself. So in getting this site going I thought this piece, as odd as it is, and not so mature from this vantage as I might write now, would perhaps give a kind of bird’s eye view of the overall story.

• Florida Science Talent Search Third Place, & Semi-Finalist, Westinghouse National Science Talent Search, 1966 for research on “Gross Morphological Mutations in Drosophila Melanogaster Induced by Organophosphate Pesticides”
• Research assistant, VA Hospital, 1965-66( Digestive disorders; “Steattorrhea in Spanish American War Veterans” (yes it was just as lovely as it sounds!) Thank you, Dr. Arvey Rogers and Anita!
• Undergraduate fellowship, an unnamed Southern University
• Research assistant, US Geological Survey, Dept. Interior, 1967-69, Everglades ecology and other investigations; lead author three annotated bibliographies on literature searches (tremendous thanks to Murph, Aaron, Ben, Tony and Fred for breaking in the city kid)
• Wrestled my first alligator thanks to Erwin Winte, Park Ranger, since gone on to his reward; experienced what the African Queen portrayed when ) came out of the water covered with leeches during one expedition)
• Credited by Patricia Caldwell, Photographer along with Fred, in “The Everglades” published by the Sierra Club, Peter Mathiesson, author (we ferried her around the River of Grass to take pictures)
• Publisher/Editor, The PaPer,1969, Coconut Grove, Florida (Miami’s longest lasting underground publication, which was not very underground and which did not last long enough)
• Helped organize battles against the Everglades Jetport and a BASF aniline dye plant near Hilton Head Island in South Carolina; and participated in exposing other environmental threats in South Florida 1969-70 (enough said!) (Hi, Joe!)
• Instructor and Course Developer, Miami Dade Community College, Community Education Department, 1969-70, “Man and His Environment”
• (One of my greatest successes)
• Co – founder with December Duke, Environment!, 1969, a national network of student environmental activists
• Mentioned in chapter on December about our group in “The Sierra Club’s Guide to Environmental Activism” sometime about then
• Organizer, Earth Day Celebration, April,1970, St Stephens Church, Coconut Grove, FL
• Member, 1970, Environmental Research Advisory Council, City of Miami There was a bunch more environmental activism going on during this time that I have either forgotten,
  should not relay or would make this even more ridiculously lengthy than it already is!!!
• BA Anthropology, 1973, Florida State University, Honors Thesis: “South City: An agricultural and ecological history and social analysis of a southern farming community”, original field research 1972 was a summer when being in anthropology and archaeology class was not going to work ( a bad draw on 2 of 3 professors that summer).
• Through the good offices of Stan Olsen, the third professor, a zooarchaeologist, whose class I sincerely regretted leaving, he got me a position with Calvin Jones, the state archaeologist, later famous for the DeSoto campsite workup in Tallahassee. And so began another one of those fortunate coincidences in my life which led to so many adventures. In addition to salvage archaeology along the new 1-10 and at other sites, we excavated the Spanish missions from the 1700s across North Florida, camping out in the pine woods and corn fields for a week at a time. I had my three dogs with me for the summer as well: Trieste, Daisy and Lady. Some fun stories about their antics on site. Excellent memories.
• Associate Editor, The Embryo, 1972, Florida State University, consisting of one edition, an ill-fated attempt at establishing a literary magazine on campus, so named because the administration aborted the ” ‘lil student publication”. You should see the editorial cartoon we published!!!
• Co – founder, The Down Under, 1972, when it was still “down under”, Florida State University, I booked the performers.
• Instructor, Center for Participant Education, Florida State University, 1971-73, “Edible Wild Plants”, “Woodlore”, “Lewis Mumford”
• Financial Independence Week, organizer, 1988, Tallahasse, FL, public education panels at the Florida State University Turnbull Conference Center
• Editor, Financial Independence Week consumer supplement, Tallahassee Democrat, Sunday Supplement, “Your Right to Financial Independence”, October 18, 1987, Tallahasse, FL.
• President, Tallahassee Regional Estate Planning Council, 1987-88 & 1991-92
• Associate Editor (but Thomas Norman, CFRE, should get 99% of the credit for this project, I just helped), “The Big Bend Guide to Charitable Gifts and Bequests:1989-91 Directory of Philanthropically Supported Organizations in Tallahassee, FL”; published by the Tallahassee Regional Estate Planning Council
• President, 1985-87; Secretary-Treasurer, 1983-85, Tallahassee Chapter, Society of Financial Service Professionals, Bryn Mawr, PA
• Regional Vice-President,1992-93, Director,1990-92, Society of Financial Service Professionals, Bryn Mawr, PA
• Juror, Journal Authors Award Program, 1990-2000, Journal of the Society of Financial Service Professionals, Bryn Mawr, PA
• Board Representaive, Continuing Education Committe, 1990-91; Publications Committe, 1991-93; Society of Financial Service Professionals, Bryn Mawr, PA
• Member, National Liason Committee, 1987-94, Society of Financial Service Professionals, Biyn Mawr, PA
• Founding Treasurer, Apalachee Federation of Jewish Charities, 1983-85, Tallahassee, FL