After graduation from Wichita Falls Senior High School on May 31, 1963, I matriculated at Texas A&M University along with seven of my WFSH classmates. I subsequently received my Bachelor's, Master's and Doctor's Degrees in engineering from A&M. I also spent approximately five years in the Air Force and incredibly was actually stationed at Sheppard AFB for a portion of that time. I moved to the Houston area in 1976 and through several companies I own I have been working in the engineering and land development field since.

I married a S. H. Rider High School graduate( Class of '64 ) and we have three children and three grand children and counting.