1944 - Born in Holden Hospital, Carbondale, Illinois
Father - CPA in Carbondale, Mother - Full time Mom,
Two Brothers, Age 12 and Age 2
June 1944 - Moved to Buffalo, NY
Where Father, now a LTJG, SC, USNR, was a contracts officer
June 1945, Eldest brother Graduated from 8th Grade
June 1945 - Moved back to Carbondale IL
Father assigned to DC
Father released from Active Duty, June 1946
Father admitted to Univ. of Illinois Law School September 1946
November 1946 - Moved to Student Housing Urbana IL.
Father attended U of Ill. Law School
First memories are of life are there, tonsillectomy, getting into trouble, ...
Eldest brother graduated from University High School, Urbana, IL
Maternal Grandmother dies in Illinois, liver cancer May 1949
June 1949 - Moved to Pinknyville, IL
Lived with Maternal Grandfather
Father took Illinois bar exam
September 1949 - Moved to Carbondale, IL
Lived in house on Beverage St, with family, including Maternal Grandfather,
Eldest brother, attended Southern Illinois University
19 February 1950 - Younger brother born in Belleville, IL
April 1950 - Maternal Grandfather dies, heart attack
October 1951 - Eldest brother, called to active duty, USNR, in Memphis TN
Upon Release, he graduates from Univ. of Illinois. Champagne-Urbana
He is then admitted to UI School of Veterinary Medicine; DVM 1957
Fall 1964 - Moved to Lake Bluff IL with elder brother
Eldest brother facilitated our finding jobs at Abbott Labs
1964-66 - Worked for Abbott Laboratories as Engineering Technician extracting antibiotics
Abbott Labs initiated, requested and received a draft deferral (II-B, Necessary for War Production)
Resigned at end of 1966 and went back to Colo Spgs to Enlist
Considered all four services; only Marines guaranteed I would go to Vietnam
I did not want to sit out war in a state-side billet
Special Radio Operator (2571: Morse), Cryptologic Linguist (2574: Viet, Hanoi dialect).
Duty Stations: MCRD California, NCTC Florida, DLI-EC Wash. DC,
I Corps - Vietnam (Apr'69-Apr'70:Phu Bai, Con Thien, & Dong Ha),
Camp Geiger North Carolina, 7th RRFS Ramasun & Udorn Thailand, Geiger again,
Fall 1968 - Met at language school in DC and began courting future wife
Her family lived in Takoma Park MD, just over DC line;
She earned BA, French, Univ of Maryland, '68
Fall 1968 - Younger Brother admitted to Duke Univ.
He went to Duke as NROTC Midshipman
Concentrated on Computer Science; BSEE in '73,
Commissioned as Ensign, USN, assigned to NucPower School.
He served 12 year in Submarines, including early promotion to LCDR,
but left Navy to pursue PhD at UNC Chapel Hill,
advisee of Fred Brooks, awarded PhD in CS, '90
April 1971 - DMD Released from Active Duty
Honorable separation, eligible for re-enlistment
Summer 1971 - Worked at Abbott Laboratories as Engineering Technician
in Environmental Engineering Department - Reducing industrial pollution
14 August 1971 - Married Wife, Takoma Park MD
1971-1973 - Attended University of Colorado, Boulder CO
2001-02 - Director of Contracts and Finance, Maui High Performance Computing Center, Kihei, HI
2002 - Retired as Commander, USNR, Cryptologic Specialty
Duty Stations as Reserve Officer - US: Pensacola FL, Monterey CA, Washington DC, Alexandria VA,
Ft Meade MD, & San Diego CA. Overseas: Misawa Japan, Naples Italy & London United Kingdom
(did duty at some stations for three or four of the two-week tours over the course of my career)
2002 - 2011 - Director JESPP Project, Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina del Rey CA
June 2003 - Mother dies in Colorado, multiple organ failure and pneumonia
March 2003 - Diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
dd> Treatment: chemo and radiation therapy
2003 - Daughter Number Two marries a Colorado Boy
She earns BA, University of California at Davis, then MA University of Chicago
He has BA - Univ of Colo, MS - Colo Tech University, & JD - George Washington University
2004 - 2006 Lived in apartment in Marina del Rey
Wife lived in small house in Silver Lake
June 2004 - Wife earns Masters degree at USC in Communications Management
March 2005 - Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma did not reappear, indications of complete remission
November 2005 - Gall bladder removed (laparoscopic cholecystectomy) in Pasadena CA, due to gall stone
Fall 2006 - Wife and I moved to house in Culver City CA
2011- Grandson born in Arlington Virginia
2011-Present - Independent Consultant to ISI/USC and member of SAIC's proposal team for MHPCC contract
August 2012 - On winning team to administer the Maui High Performance Computing Center, later cancelled
September 2012 - Moved to Long Beach CA
2012 - Granddaughter Number One born in Arlington Virginia
2013 - Both older Brothers test DNA positive for FSHD
FSHD: FacioScaplioHumeralDystrophy - a slow-acting genetic muscular dystrophy
2014 - Granddaughter Number Two born in Fairfax Virginia
25 June 2022 Sister-in-Law Dr. Diane Holditch-Davis dies in Charlotte, North Carolina
Small Cell Lung Cancer, pneumonia, sepsis and cardiac arrest, age 70 years 10 months.
She was survived by and had been married to Younger Brother for ~50 years
She had retired and previously was the Associate Dean for Research Affairs
Duke University School of Nursing and was a Professor Emerita there.