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Gender	Male
Industry	Engineering
Occupation	Retired
Location	Yorba Linda, California, United States
Introduction	I was born in Stow, Ohio (just north of Akron); raised in Cleveland Heights Ohio. I married my loving wife, Bonnie, in 1972. We have two daughters, Amber and Heather, who are both grown and married. Our primary companions these days are a Chinese shar pei dog, Jazzbeau, and an English springer spaniel, Apollo. I earned a bacheor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1962. I served five years in the U.S. Navy. Then I was an electrical engineer in the aerospace industry until 2004. I taught maritime history part time at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, CA, until 2013, and I am now retired.
Interests	Music, history, science presidential campaign badges, photography
Favorite movies	Dr. Zhivago, La Strada, The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring
Favorite music	Mozart--Kegelstatt Trio-K498, Schubert--Songs for Male voices and German Mass, Brahms--Symphony #3, Bach--The Art of the Fugue, Pete Seeger, Roy Orbison, Amalia Rodriques, Taj Majal, Simon and Garfunkel, the Robert Shaw Chorale, The Norman Luboff Choir, Paul Whiteman.
Favorite books	Moby Dick, Masefield--Salt Water Poems

Which is more important to you and why: flexibility or expandability?

Flexibility, because the only thing that is constant is change--To survive we must adapt to change.