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My superb education as an undergraduate (BS) and graduate student (PhD) and the wise guidance of my major professors at Penn State have helped me to live a happy and productive life full of useful and challenging activities. After serving in the Marine Corps in World War II and starting with helping my father on his poultry farm, I have had a varied and interesting career working in the food industry, in military, and space feeding, the FDA, teaching and advising students, research, and public service. One of my public service projects was with the USDA grant, testing the health status of elementary school children in a RI public school which did not serve school lunch. Based partly on my team's report, school lunch was mandated in all RI public schools. Some of my research pertained to such diverse topics as synthetic food sources, microflora, mega-nutrition, fish protein concentrate, fish oil aquaculture, reduced moisture foods, paralytic shellfish poisoning and irradicated food. On retirement, I have kept busy as an ombudsman in nursing homes. When I found out that so many of the elderly were unhappy and wished they were "home", I changed my mission to teach the elderly to keep out of nursing homes with a healthy diet and lifestyle. My wife Jamina and I have a close relationship with our four daughters and three grandchildren. We try to spend quality time with them.