Our original plan was to print the class Directory Bio's here on the web site. Our current plans call for them to be printed only in the class Directory. This will eliminate any problems with privacy of potentially confidential information. We leave in Jon's here so you can see the format for the Bio section of the Directory.

Who was your favorite teacher at Punahou and why? There were so many excellent teachers at Punahou that it is very difficult (and maybe impossible) to pick the best one. Miss Lacey - 3rd grade Home Room, Peter Powlison - 7th grade Social Studies, Miss Annis - 7th grade Math, Monsieur Ramler and Mme. Burkett - 9-12th grades French, Miss Dunston - 9th grade English, Mr. Humphries - 11th grade Chemistry, and Mrs. Townsend - 12th grade Physics were all wonderful teachers. I dearly loved and respected them all and do to this day. They all obviously loved the subjects they were teaching, they were tough and demanding but very fair, and they motivated me to work hard and to want to excel in the classroom. But if I have to choose just one, I think my favorite was Chaplain Rewick. He was warm, he was so enthusiastic about life, he always had a smile on his face, he always gave great sermons in Chapel talking right at our level, he was a family man, he always made himself available when you wanted to talk, he was fearless in matters of The Spirit, he was a Fisherman (of fish and souls), and he loved life. What a wonderful role model he is for all of us.

What are your best memories at Punahou? I was one of a fortunate group of 53 of us who started in kindergarten in 1946 and finished together in 1959. We '59 Punahou Alumni are uniquely and truly blessed. We shared our youth together. We grew up in the '50's together. We grew up in Hawaii together. And we shared the Punahou experience together. The combination of all four of these makes me a most fortunate and unique human being with an infinitely grateful and thankful view of the unlimited goodness in the world and all of its people.

Family profile: In 1965 I had the good fortune and sense to meet and marry Karen Brown from Rochester, New York who I met in Hawaii after graduating from Yale. She is a wonderful friend and partner and a student of life much brighter than I. She has taught me most everything I know about love, faith, hope, forgiveness, charity, loyalty and human kindness, not to mention bridge, the opera, the symphony, gourmet cooking, the home arts, and woman. There never was a father prouder of his son nor a son who brought greater happiness and fulfillment to his father than our son Derek. He graduated Stanford this summer with his Masters and married a wonderful young woman Hien who is planning her PhD in school administration. They will both continue their careers teaching at the grade school, high school and college levels. I keep an eye on my two wonderful sisters, Helen who graduated with us in 1959 and Gail, Punahou '62. We have a big Newfoundland Molly who keeps us all young. After traveling around the U.S. and the world with IBM for many years designing, selling and installing large corporate mainframe computer systems, our family settled in Tiburon, California just north of San Francisco in 1975 and here we have maintained our home ever since.

What do you plan on doing now that retirement is (almost) here? Continue to play hard and enjoy life's finer rewards while running a consulting practice on the side. I traveled around the U.S. and the world installing complex computer systems for IBM until I retired several years ago. Mid-career I left IBM for 8 years to found and manage MEDICOM Corporation which computerizes medical practices and links them to the outside medical world of insurance companies, hospitals and physician groups over telecommunications lines. I am currently a consultant designing complex convergence (cyber-fiber) telecommunications based computer systems for industry. But my real love is people and organizational development. I plan to start a consulting practice as soon as I can which assists individuals to develop a Systems Architecture view and plan of themselves and their lives to provide stability amongst the rapid changes the new millennium is going to thrust on all of us.

    "The time has come to begin to sow the seeds of a true peace grounded in the inexhaustible depth of the sacred. Thousands of people representing all of the world's faith traditions have begun working together in big and small interfaith groups throughout the world. URI is sponsoring an unprecedented act of inter-religious global cooperation - 72 hours of interfaith peace-building at the turn of the millennium as a living pledge to a new and more hopeful future for all people. This hope will be expressed in a Charter document accepted by the world faith traditions. As part of my personal commitment I am working to convert the former U.S. 6th Army Chapel in the Presidio of San Francisco into a model Interfaith Center following the "Swords to Plowshares" theme. Along with my Pacific Islander friends I carved a 2 ton 30 foot long Interfaith Healing Pole from a 1,000 year old log recovered from a US Navy base in the Bay Area which was gifted to the URI at Stanford University in 1997 at the first global URI convocation. Come join me and thousands of others. The world will not truly be at peace until the world's major faith traditions can truly find mutual honor, respect, compassion, acceptance and love between each other based on the essential elements common to ALL faith traditions. Beneath the faith doctrines and the collective life experiences are the common needs and hopes of all of us. May this be one of our greatest accomplishments in the new century and millennium.

For anyone visiting San Francisco, we have a big old house in Tiburon with extra rooms, beds and great views of San Francisco Bay. Please call us anytime (ahead of time) and stop by and stay over for awhile so we can talk story. I would love to see you.