Jerry Boone (DeSales class of ’64) and I married in 1971. (Boone is a journalist and car nut.) I also completed my BA in history at UB that year. Our son, Jared, 33, married a wonderful young lady named Jennifer Marx last September. He is a software engineer in a company developing Internet telephone hardware. He is also a licensed pilot and loves to cook. Our daughter, Janne (Jan), 30, works for the State of Oregon as an analyst in Health Policy, but has been accepted for the Nutritional Epidemiology doctoral program at the University of North Carolina for the fall of 2005. She enjoys distance running and rock and mountain climbing. She hates to cook.

Boone started racing sports cars at 30. Most of our friends are racers. Car racing permeates our lives. Even my job of 22 years came through racing. I work part-time for what is now the finest independent auto repair shop in the Northwest as bookkeeper, human resources department, and ad and photography staff. For ten years I did a weekly column called "Portland in Years Past," in The Oregonian newspaper, (for which Boone is a columnist), and currently do freelance photography for Stock Car Racing magazine. Boone is a freelance writer for Stock Car and sometimes ESPN.com and also shoots.

Working part-time has allowed me to volunteer over the years at such diverse things as hauling tons of food for a food bank, serving on the Solid Waste Advisory Committee for the City of Portland (talking trash!), and teaching Art Literacy in local elementary schools. Currently, I'm serving on the Advisory Board for the Automotive Service and Repair Technology Program at Portland Community College and as a SMART (Start Making a Reader Today) volunteer at Aloha Park Elementary School. I’m also an Oregon State University Certified Master Recycler. Hobbies include reading, traveling, photography, and kayaking.