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My Grandparents.
Fern Woodworth, my Grandmother, was born Fern Mints.
Her father was a circuit preacher in the Missouri Territory, and a
homesteader. Shortly after they finishe their 7th year, and got title
to the land, he dissappeared. One story has it that he ran off with
the organist. More likely, he was killed by the Railroad men.
Her mother, called Bama Lawrence, went on to homestead with her sister
Gussy, in Montana, and were able to sell their land for a tidy profit.
She later opened a laundry and bath house in cripple creek. Since Miners
were notoriously dirty. and they wanted to spend their few hours
above ground with one of the few women in town, baths were extremely
profitable.
Fern's Brother, Lloyd Mints, taught school in cripple
creek, and eventually moved on to Chigago where he became a professor of
economics, using the illustration of his mother's Laundry as an extreme
example of supply and demand. He was eventually invited to help rebuild
the post-depression economy under the Roosevelt administration, including
the creation of the Federal Reserve the FDIC, and the FSLIC. Lloyd
continued to assist subsequent presidents well past his 100th birthday,
even helping to organize and structure the stabilization of the savings
and loans at 102.
My Grandfather, Earnest Fenwick Woodworth, was born in the Indian
Territory which would eventually become the Oklahoma Territory.
His father help set up the Oklahoma Land rush, and settled in a town
called Minco Oklahoma, where he owned the General store, post-office,
and a bank. During the Dust Bowl, he guaranteed the Mortgages of the
local farms, in exchange for mineral rights. Several years later,
they discovered Oil on these farms. He paid generously for the right
to build roads to the wells and pumps. He was also very generous with
the wildcatters, which meant that he was able drill more easily and made
life better for everyone in the area. Even today, the Woodworth general
store continues as a fixture of Minco, a quiet little town of good
Christian people.
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Freshly hatched, two days after Christmas. The picture taken at
the hospital |
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At less than a year old, I was already trying to talk. Of course,
no one understood what I was saying, but that didn't seem to matter
to me. |
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Just learning to walk, but I was fascinated with how things work.
In this case, I was curious as to what made the bubbles come up. |
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Here I am at 2 years old. Mom looks so much like Judy Garland,
it's no surprise that dad fell in love with her. Mom had quite a bit
in common with Judy. |
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The shape of things to come. I wonder if mom and dad knew that I
would eventually grow up to spend most of my work on the phone and the
computer, communicating to people all over the world. |
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Even at a very young age, I had this little drinking problem.
Even today, I drink way too much soda pop. |
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Here I am with my best friend, Alan Clark. We were best friends
for almost 20 years. |
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This "guitar" had a winding music box. I never did learn to play
the guitar very well, but I did take apart the guitar to learn how the
music box worked. |
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Here I am at 4 years old. I have my dad's huge ears. I also had
my dad's astma, and was hospitalized several times a year, for the next
7 years. |
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I'm at Grandma and Grandpa's, when we were there, we dressed for
church. My grandpa used to read bible stories to me, while I sat on
his lap. By the time I was 7, we'd just about read the entire bible
together. I didn't believe in Santa Clause, but God was a real good
friend, I knew he was around. |
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This was KindergartenTeller Elementry School, my ears were so big
they nicknamed me "Dumbo". The crew cut made them look even bigger.
I had already learned how to read a little, and how to write the alphabet
and numbers. I even knew a little about addition and subtraction. |
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First Grade - I spent the first part of the year at
Teller, then moved to Glencoe Street. I liked the girls, but had a hard
time getting used to the higher level of brutality among the boys. I got
my library card and quickly became an avid reader. I especially liked
non-fiction books and was quickly reading at high school level because
I wanted the extra detail. My teacher was Mrs Cody, the grand-niece of
Buffalo Bill Cody. |
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Second grade - My teacher was Mrs Kerr. I was still "girl crazy",
and really preferred to play with the girls. Eventually the parents
began to get concerned, so I focused most of my attention into books.
I would read 3-4 books per week, checking out the limit at both the
Denver Public Library, and the School Library. I was already reading
young adult books, oriented toward 7th through 12th grade. I was very
interested in Reptiles (I had pet Iguanas), and Dinosaurs. |
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This was Easter of that year. My first 3-Piece sood. Who knew that
"Crazy Eddie" would eventually make this style so undesirable. |
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Third grade. Mrs Ornstein was my teacher. I spend a lot of time in
the hospital, recovering from asthma, and did a create deal of reading
and studying while in the hospital bed. I also had a chemistry set,
and had learned how to make a number of interesting mixtures, including
certain explosives. |
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Third grade. Mrs Ornstein's classroom. Many of these kids would
be friends for several years. I'm still in my Buzz cut. I had started
hanging out with the boys, playing GI Joe instead of Barbie, but I still
liked the girls better most of the time.
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Fourth grade. Mrs Johnston was the teacher. I ended up going to
CARIH, Childrens Asthmatic Research Institute and Hospital as a research
subject. They were testing for the correlation between emotional state
and attack severity. I also got into remote controlled model airplanes
and gliders. |
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Fifth grade. Mrs Tyler's Class. I really enjoyed her class. In
addition, the work from CARIH was beginning to pay off. My attacks where
less severe, and fewer trips to the hospital. |
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Fifth grade. Mrs Tyler's Class. Some very special people in this
class. Melanie Witheral, most of the boys called her "it" because
she was very rough and tough. We were clase friends, and continued
to be friends until we parted for Junior High. Thor Hanson and Cookie
Gilchrisst, Cathy Halva, Alan Klemper, Alex Chu, Kurt
Becktold. Chuck Morrison, Danny Bell, Cheryl Wheeler.
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Sixth grade. Mr O'Donnel was my teacher, it was my first male
teacher. My first day of school, I came down with chigella and almost
died in the hospital. I didn't go back to the hospital again for the rest
of the year. CARIH used me as a textbook example of their theory. |
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Sixth grade. Mr O'Donnel's class. I was going through puberty a
bit early, and in the worst possible way. In this picture, I was so
fucused on one of the girls, that I completely forgot about the picture.
Ican't remember which one I had the crush on that week, but it's pretty
obvious which side of the picture she's in. Fortunately, I was too
bashful to do anything about it, other than just be their friends.
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Seventh grade. I was 11 years old when I qualified for my Novice
class amateur radio license. I also got involved in rocketry and was
creating bugging devices and a "biological lock". |
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In eighth grade, I qualified for my General Class license at 12 years
old. I had also built my own transmitters and receivers. I would create
them by getting old radios and converting them into transmitters and
receivers. I also managed to save up enough in lunch money to purchase a
higher power transmitter. My mother insisted that I start spending more
time with "regular people", in fact, I couldn't work with my ham radio
equipment until I went out and played with the kids in the neighborhood. I
started going to church with my friend Paul Shumpert. I had a crush on
his little sister, but before anything materialized I was excommunicated
and declared "anathama" for challenging the youth preacher on the finer
points of the Bible, and winning. I got mixed up with the "wrong crowd"
for a while, and also became very politically active. |
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This was at the very end of the summer. I had been working as a
dishwasher all summer, and had even been pulling double shifts. At the
end of the summer, I took a few weeks for vacation before school. We went
to the YMCA camp, where I met Lois Day. She was my first girl-friend.
I was too bashful to kiss her, but we held hands and hugged alot. |
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This is Lois Day, actually, about a year later. We wrote letters
back and forth for almost a year. Eventually, she met a new boyfriend,
and we went our seperate ways. For that year though, our letters were an
expression of love. I didn't even think about dating through most of 9th
grade. Unfortunately, she lived in Minneapolis Minnasota, and it looked
like she wasn't going to be coming back to Colorado again. |
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1969, I was in 8th grade. This was in the summer. I was a bit of a
"freak", complete with the tie died shirt. Dad is next to me. This was
just before he really starte to losen up and look at the whole world a
bit differently. I think he even voted for Nixon. He was a very good
accountant for a utility company, and we often spend hours talking about
everything from his job to Vietnam and Religeon. I got really good at
looking stoned, even when I wasn't. |
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In 9th grade, I started making friends in choir. I also started
writing editorials and commentary for the school paper. 4 of my articles
actually included suggestions and reccomendations which where adopted,
in some cases city-wide. This included split session scheduling (which
enabled my high school to handle the excessive load of baby boomers
without having to build extra schools), a student's bill of rights
(which created due process for disciplinary action), ending of corporal
punishment, allowing women to wear pants instead of just skirts to school,
and open enrollment programs which would encourage kids to volunteer
to go to schools which focused on their interests. I also got very
interested in performing, performing in School Choir, All School Choir,
Church Choir, and All City Choir.
In All City Choir, I met Cathy Stark. She was a big, beautiful woman,
and the first girl I ever kissed. She was absolutely wonderful, as a
friend, as a girl friend, and as someone I loved. She had a laughter
that brought joy to everyone in the room, and she had a sense of fashion
that was exquisite. Eventually, she got involved with ROTC and decided
that a "peacenic freak" wouldn't be good for her military career.
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This is my 16th birthday. I was a bit bummed out because I wasn't
going to be able to drive. It seems that some recreational drugs had
given me temporary epilepsy, and even though I quit the drugs, I wasn't
going to be able to drive for another 18 months. I had also been taking
ground school and was learing to fly, but the Epilepsy killed that too.
I ended up studying some books on Aerodynamics and designing a rigid
wing hang gliders. I got one flight in, before my friend stalled it
and broke it.
I had a talent for getting mildly intoxicated and using psychic
abilities to match up everybody at the party. I would usually save
the one I wanted for last, but she assumed that she was the "leftover".
I usually spent the rest of the night meditating in the corner somewhere,
until my friends were ready to take me home. Fortunately, I got cast in
the School Musical, Hello Dolly, and started hanging with a better crowd.
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Brian Lafferty, the friend with whom I built the Airplan, started fixing
me up with his girlfriend's friends. After 2 or 3 dates, girls from
Hinkley were asking Brian's girlfriend for a chance to go out with me.
Eventually I met Christy, and that was it. I dated Christy, who went
to school at Hinkley High school. No one even knew I liked girls until
she came to the all school show show at George Washington. Christy took
me to her Senior Prom as shown in this picture. She was 2 years older
than me). She always loved that no matter how much fun she was having,
I always behaved like a gentleman. Eventually, we broke up because I
was doing summer theater in the morning, then going to work all ofternoon
and usually well into the evening. I commuted nearly 20 miles each day
by bicycle.
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My Junior year, I grew a beard for my role in Our Town. I was
playing the father, and wanted to look a bit older. Eventually I cut
back to just the sideburns. At this point, I had also been ordained as
a Deacon and an Elder in the Presbyterian church, as well as singing in
the church choir, writing the liturgies with my mom, and even writing
prayers and sermons. Since many of my classmates in school were Jewish,
I began integrating Hebrew traditions, culture, and celebrations into our
services. In addition, I was serving on the Ruling Council as an Elder,
which meant dealing with all of the issues of reviewing and managing a
budget, and identifying new outreach programs. |
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Like a coin, I had two sides. In addition to being this religous
leader, most of my closest friends were gay, jewish, or theater people.
I really enjoyed the freedom of their lifestyle. Of course, I got to
be such good friends with the women that they began to assume that I
was gay. After all, I could spend days with the most beautiful women,
without making a pass. In some cases, women were making passes at me,
but I just didn't realize it. Meanwhile, most of the gay men in school
were making passes at me, so I fixed them up with each other. |
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The summer of 1971,
I came back from Ghost Ranch to do the All City Summer Theater
production of Camelot. I would do summer theater in the morning, work
as a Janitor in the church in the afternoons and evenings, and by the
end of the year, had put away quite a bit for college. Dad borrowed it
to pay bills, then used it to buy a camper trailer.
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in tee-pees. I had been to Ghost Ranch several times before, and had
studied Native American Cultures for two of those trips. This was more
of just a "retreat". I went with my parents and family. |
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Of course, part of the attraction of the trip was Sheena Devine
(yes that was her real name). Sheena was a skotch girl who was about 2
years older than me, and taught me a bit about how to please her. I was
far to inexperienced to expect reciprocation. She was more interested
in another boy my age called Ian, who was more appropriate to her long
term interests. I help set them up. |
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Here is the Production of Our Town. I'm with Jan Monday, and
Linda Ingram. I had a serious crush on Linda, but she was into "Hunks",
and whatever that was, I wasn't. Still, we became very close friends,
along with Karen Morris, Larry Knott, Houston Hill, Doug Yetter, and
several other close friends. Our favorite game was "truth", which was
truth or dare, but the dares were so outrageous that no one dared to
take a dare. |
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All Cleaned up, and ready for the next phase. I took on the role
of assistant director in the production of My Three Angels. I also
understudied Bruce Godsman for the lead role. I found that I really
liked working behind the scenes to make things happen, to bring out the
best in others, and to cause others to produce extraordinary results.
It was subtle magic, and I quickly learned to really enjoy directing.
The director invited me to block a few scenes, to run rehearsals,
to drill those who hadn't learned their lines, and to coach them in
their characterization. It was a bit like playing god, but without all
the responsibility. |
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This was the first time my picture appeared in the paper. We, the
Presbyterian community, had arranged to share our building with a Roman
Catholic community, the joint service caught some media attention. Also,
since I was the only single male who was ordained to serve communion, I
was made a "priest" for the perposes of presiding over the Joint Services.
The second time was at Kit's Cabaret theater. We spend the whole
summer doing Pre-show, The Unsinkable Molly Brown (very popular with the
tourists), and then an Aftershow. After the show, we would entertain
the guests and VIPs.
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Loretto Heights, freshman year. I was getting very involved in
theater and had enrolled in the theater program at LHC. What made this
school and environment particularly unusual was that I was one of only
25 male students. Furthermore, only about 10 of the men, including
myself, were streight. There were only 2 of us who were unattached.
I just became "one of the girls". I just didn't have sex with anyone.
I was 19 years old, still a virgin, and not in any big hurry. |
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Sophomore year, there were a lot more men, especially on the
stage crew. This the second time I had my picture in the paper.
I had a knack for clown style comedy and became known as "Crazy Rex".
My style was like a cross between Jim Carey and Robin Williams, very
crazy, very clownish. I was also very involved in directing.
I also met a really wonderful girl named Panzy Miler. We started
to hit it off very well, until her fiancee (who I didn't know about)
showed up and pointed a shotgun at my belly. Pansy really liked what
I did for her, so she didn't want to give me up, but her boyfriend
threatened to kill us if she had sexual intercourse with me. Eventually,
he left and joined the navy, but she decided to "save me". I became her
"slave". She'd let me know her wildest fantasies, and I'd fulfill them.
But she didn't reciprocate. It really taught me to be unselfish with
women. We really loved each other, and remained very close friends for
over 3 years. |
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This is me as Chiaphas, in Jesus Christ Superstar. I had a very
low bass voice. In fact, I was one of the few men at LHC who had the
range to sing the role. Unfortunately, I was still recovering from
vocal chord damage wile singing at a Kit's cabaret. I recovered after
two years. I was also taking a senior level course in Performing Arts
Management, which required nearly 30 hours/week of homework even without
other courses. I eventually got to the point, where he was working
over 120 hours/week. Sometimes I'd only sleep for 3 hours/night, to
meet all the deadlines. I also had dance and voice, which required
a 10 pound shift every week. We also had performance recitals, and I
was directing. |
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I used to call this my "Rasputin" outfit. A great red coat, with a
vest that had a tapestry pattern. I was working as the stage manager,
and was part of the stage crew as well. I worked through the summer
and we put on "Moon River Anthology". It was a very interesting show
for a stage manager.
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This was Junior Year at Loretto Heights. I was living on campus,
and had expanded into media. The local media center had some video
tape equipment which we converted into a portable video production lab.
We began using both flim techniques and 3-camera video techniques.
The equipment was pretty basic, black and white, but it was a great
way to learn many of the basics of video production. I was also taking
computer programming. This was my first formal course, but I had already
built my own 8080 based computer over the summer. The school computer was
a North Star Horizon with Basic and CP/M. I very much enjoyed it.
Unfortunately, I had to leave Loretto Heights for a few semesters,
because my father drank my tuition money. |
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I actually did occaisionally smoke cigars, however, this was a bit
of my personality as I moved from performing to directing and producing
both live and videotape productions. On the one hand, I enjoyed "playing
God", but even more exciting was to watch talent that I had spent months
developing, coaching, and encouraging, turn into some of the leading
talent at Loretto Heights.
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This is my Room mate, Bruce Rux. He was one of my best friends
in college, someone I had come to trust with all of the details of
my life. Of course, he was always amused with my "Love of the Week".
I would constantly fall in love with some new woman at LHC (there were
800 of them on campus, and only about 100 men. Of course, I was still
a virgin - yes, a 21 year old virgin in 1976-1977, and ended up becoming
incredibly close friends with all of these women, but never really even
trying to have sex with any of them.
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When I dropped out of Loretto Heights college, due to lack of funds,
I had to leave Loretto Heights college, so I went to Arapahoe Community College to take a
bunch of business courses that weren't offered at Loretto Heights College.
I had a real fashion sense. In fact, I made the suit I'm wearing in this photo.
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The woman in this double exposure is Connie Moore.
At Arapahoe Community College, I was cast in the lead role in the school
show, and met Connie, who was playing the young girl. She was the first
woman to try and please me. I told her I was a virgin (from the waist
down), and she made sure our first time was wonderful. I eventually
fell seriously in love with her, and even proposed, with the intention of
marrying her when I graduated from college. Unfortunately, she reached
the point where she couldn't wait to get married. She was pregnant,
but I didn't find out until nearly 2 years later. She told me she had
met a man who could buy here a brand new corvette, with no waiting.
I really grieved, slipping into alcohol and drug abuse, and even going
in for outpatient therapy. It took me about 4 years to get over her.
I very stubidly destroyed all the other pictures.
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This is a still from our performance of the Cave Dwellers. I played an
old retired actor, who lived in the back of a theater with an old actress.
connie plays a young girl who is lost and wants to get out of the cold.
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This is a close-up of Connie, I had to really dig to find this one.
It's no wonder I fell in love with her. She was so beautiful, so gentle,
so sweed, and so sexy, all at the same time. She could look beautiful
in a baggy old rag-coat, and look sweet and innocent in an outfit from
Fredricks.
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prophetic picture of me. But it also again brings out Connie's ability
to beautiful even under the most uncomplimentory circumstances. In fact,
my father and I were both having trouble with legal drugs and alcohol,
and before the year was out, we would both be getting treated for mental
illness caused by the drugs.
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Fortuntately, Connie had a much better future ahead of her. She did
some modelling, met and merried a very handsome, gentle, loving man,
and eventually had a son. The last time I saw a picture of her, taken
in 1981, was with her 4 year old son. Her brother told me that she was
very happy, and really loved her son. It would take me nearly 20 years
to recover from her.
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Here I am at Olde Town Dinner Theater in Colorado Springs, Colorado,
playing Marcus Lycus. It was a really fun role, and I was really happy
to get back into Professional theater. Between tips and daily stipends,
I was one of the most highly paid actors in Colorado. I also got 100%
clean, including getting off the Tegretol I had been taking for Epilepsy.
The withdrawal was hell, often causing severe headaches that often lasted
all night long. After 3 months of this agony, the pain left, and I was
tested for epilepsy. Everything came up completel normal. It seems
that the original diagnosis had been based on symptoms of withdrawal
from recreational drugs and alcohol taken 72 hours before my EEG in 1970.
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We also did South Pacific on alternating nights. I got tips and a
per-dium for this as well. We had all kinds of fun with that production.
I had a minor crush on Robyn Bonnet, who was playing Nellie, and had
directed Forum. But I didn't tell her how I felt until the end of the
run. I wrote her a letter, telling her how I felt. She was flattered,
and mentioned it to her boyfriend, who proposed within a few days of
hearing about it. We were still friends, and I was really happy to see
her, and Kevin, on several subsequent occaisions.
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After graduating from Loretto Height College, I took a job managing
movie theaters. I dressed and acted much more conservativesly. I also
stopped getting interested in any of my coworkers or staff. I actually
enjoyed managing the Continental Theater for almost a year, until I got
robbed at gunpoint and they transferred me to a drive-in movie theater.
My manager wanted me to hit the customers with a pool stick, and I
just didn't find that I needed to use that style. I reported some
irregularities in accounting to the City manager, and decided to resign.
One year later, I was testifying for the Prosecution, putting the robber
away, and the company had discovered that the manager I had reported had
stashed over $8,000 in embezzled funds. The found it in a bag marked
"Frank's Bag".
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I finally met Leslie Dugan, in October of 1980. I started dating
her, as a blind date. We hit it off, and she admired me because I was
willing to wait until she was ready. We continued dating for about 3
months, and eventually moved in together in December. By March, I had
proposed, and we set the wedding date for July 3rd. |
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Partly out of my relationship with Leslie, and partly because I was
tired of beeing a poor starving actor/director, I looked at my other
talents, and quickly decided to explore my interest in computers. I had
been selling Atari 800 computers, and quickly got the ability to handle
business and accounting progrems. Before long, programming for Data Law.
I designed GUI interfaces, including drop-down menus, text boxes, and
many of the common controls, using ANSII and BASIC. We also programmed
in FORTH and C. |
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This is Leslie as the Blushing Bride. She wore pink because this
was her second wedding. It was a very simple affair, with close family
and friends. It was a little bit tricky because Mom & Dad were divorced
and didn't spend much time together. |
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This is Leslie as the bride again. She almost looks like an angel.
She wasn't used to wearing make-up, and this was one of the few times
during our whole relationship that she wore a dress. Still, we had a
very close and intimate relationship that lasted for almost 10 years.
Even today, thanks to Landmark, we have a wonderful relationship. |
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Here I am as the groom. I was a bit skinny. I think I weighed a
whopping 155 lbs. But it was a big day for me. |
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This is me with my brother, Walt. I used to be so jealous of his
dimples. He was the cute one, I got the brains. Walt was my best man. |
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Walt, Rex, Leslie, and Debbie, the Maid of Honor. Debbie and her
boyfriend, Robin"Sparky" Kepetsky, were the ones responsible for fixing
us up. |
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This is the first indication of how the wedding was going to go.
I fed her very carefully, to make sure she didn't mess up her make-up.
She just shoved the whole piece of cake in one mash. It was a little
"streak", I was aware of, but didn't expect to be the recipient. Still,
we had a lot of fun. |
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This is my little sister, Diane. She was a real babe, and literally
had to keep the men at bay. |
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Mom ended up helping out with the wedding, and was really looking
beautiful. |
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After being divorced for 4 years, mom and dad started dating again,
and eventually got remarried. Dad was a wonderful husband rught up to my
mom's last breath. He was totally devoted to her, and truly loved her.
She was silly, funny, and cute. She just created fun, almost every
time she opened her mouth. Even when she was on oxygen, unable to walk,
she could still keep dad laughing. |
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Husband and Father. This is one of the few family pictures of the
three of us together. We really had a good time during this period.
I worked pretty insane hours, but from Friday evening to Sunday night, I
would take Nick, and give Leslie a much needed break. We'd go shopping,
go to meetings, go pretty much everywhere, together. I'd also videotape
the saturday cartoons, and watch them with Nicky. Nicky was a big fan
of MTV at this age. Although our marriage had become platonic (she was
physically unable to have sex for several years), we were still very
affectionate and intimate. We'd cuddle all night, often with Nicky in
the bed with us, and we'd talk, sometimes well into the night. We had a
rule that we didn't fight or argue in bed, and we'd just listen, and share
whatever our concerns were. We worked out our finances this way. |
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Leslie met Jerry in 1988. They met in the Lock-up Unit of a
psychiatric ward. Jerry had just had a nervous breakdown, and Leslie
was afraid she might kill the kids. Their affair continued for over
a year, and Leslie decided to marry Jerry. Unfortunately, the Judge
didn't want to give us a divorce, until Leslie explained that she was
getting married in 2 weeks, and really needed to get this finalized.
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I met Michelle in June of 1980. My divorce had just been finalized.
Since I'd been celebate for almost 2 years, I was very receptive to
Michelle's flirtation and kinky conversation. Michelle was one of the
most fun women I'd ever known. She would flirt, tease and just have fun.
She had originally figured me for a one-night-stand, but I turned out to
be so easy to live with, that she introduced me to her son, and before
long we were living together. Michelle was about 6 months pregnant when
we met, and I coached her labor. She invited some of her girl-friends
to live with us and help provide day-care for the kids. We all worked,
but I made sure that each of us had time for 12 Step meetings, education
and training, and other self-develpment activities. At one point I
had 3 mothers and 2 babies living with me in a 3-bedroom Town-house.
We all got along, and made sure that no one got "neglected".
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This was what I loved most about Michelle. She could be absolutely
crazy, goofy, and loving, all at the same time. When she laughed, it
was like the whole roome came to life. She was also kinky, and that
was especially fun. We never knew who was going to tie who up. |
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This was Michelle, with both of her boys. This was just before
she left. She met a really great man named Richard, who had known her
for years, and was really madly in love with her. Michelle was glowing
in the dark after a few months with me, and when Richard saw her, he
pledged everything he had, and marriage. Eventually, she moved back
with her parents. I relocated to Kingston, but by the time I got there,
she had decided that I just wasn't the right man for her. |
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Doctor Who? This was me after a day at the office. I was an
architect at Great West Life, and working to set IT Architecture standards
for 6 divisions. I loved the job, and the company. When I was ready
to go home, Michelle and Mary were usually there to pick me up. |
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Mary was one of Michelle's girlfriends, and eventually moved in
with us. Mary was very sexy and loved to flirt. She also enjoyed being
a "pet", that's my chain around her neck. Just before Michelle left to
move in with Richard, she made sure that Mary was gone, by fixing Mary
up with Michelle's ex husband. I seriously considered marriage with Mary,
but she lost interest when she found out that I had had a vasectomy. |
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In the Landmark Education Introduction to the Forum Leadership
Program, I registered 100 people into the Landmark Forum (10 times the
minimum requirement). I also enrolled 8000 publishers into publishing
on the newly commercialized Internet in 1993-94. |
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In Landmark Education's Team Management & Leadership Program, I left
Princeton to work in New York City. I worked at McGraw-Hill's Standard &
Poors as director of Electronic Distribution, and lead the transformation
of the Financial Services industry by helping them convert from 9600
BSC/3270 communications links to TCP/IP and Internet technology. I
mentored several of the 167 McGraw-Hill units via e-mail and telephone
conferences to help them get established on the internet. This low-profile
management style made it possible to get much more accomplished and
stronger buy-in from other managers.
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In 1995, I had a chance to get to Denver Colorado as part of the
TMLP program. I scheduled an extra week in Colorado Springs to see
my kids. The rather puzzled look was quite common as I hadn't actually
seen either Nick or Amanda, in almost 7 years. Even the pictures were
about 4 years old. Of course, when I saw Amanda, unstead of her being
this cute little girl with a goofy smile and a little dress, she was a
full grown 12-year old, and was quite mature. Nick had also grown up,
and insisted that I stop calling him Nicky. I had talked to them on the
phone several times every month, but it was still a shock to see these
full grown, responsible, mature young-adults. It took them a while to
get used to me, but before long, they were getting silly and crazy right
along with me. |
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I met Sierra in 1992, and we had an off-and-on relationship for
nearly 4 years. She'd spend the summer in Provincetown, spend the fall
and Christmas season in Kingston, get together with me 1-2 times/month
from October to May. We didn't see each other often, but when we did,
we made it as magical as possible. Here's Sierra in her "Party Duds"
just before we went to New York. |
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Another Picture of sierra. What can I say, it was my favorite of
her outfits. |
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In 1996, I had been working with McGraw-Hill to get all 167
publications onto the Web, and had converted nearly 40 major financial
institutions to TCP/IP for the purposes of receiving financial content
via what's now known as extranet, or virtual private network. I had also
helped 8000 publishers put their content on the web, and those who used
my reccomended technology and business model were so profitable that they
either never went public, or never spun-off from their parent company.
Some of my clients included Yahoo, Infoseek, ZDNet, Lycos, Dow Jones, and
Conde Naste. In some cases, technologies such as virtual 3-D modelling of
fashions on models that fit your measurements would hae to wait another 7
years, for Windows to become fast enough, big enough, and stable enough
to support the client (Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover). Essentially,
I had had a major role in a $200 Billion undustry. Ironically, I had
given most of it away, but I still had a modest income, and was renting
a room in a huge 5 bedroom farm-house by the River. My landlady/housemate
started using drugs, so I had to move out very quickly. But I'd
lived a really great life, and seeing her in her addiction made me glad
I hadn't been tempted with huge wads of cash and lots of cute looking
drug addict girlfriends. |
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At Prudential Securities, I took on the Integration of the entire
enterprise by establishing a set of Open Standards base technologies
including MQSeries, HTTP, CORBA, Java/RMI, and XML which could be used
to integrate systems across the enterprize. I also became a poster
child for Career Mozaic because I had used it to find a job within
7 days of posting my resume. I had received 21 qualified requests,
and had narrowed the choice to 3 offers before choosing Prudential. I
also became one of the leading Linux advocates, effectively becoming
the marketing department for Linux and Open starting in 1997. In the
Landmark Education Wisdom Course Program, I took on a project to make
Linux enabled computers available to third world countries, starting with
Mexico, and eventually to all UN member countries, In the first year,
10 million computers were distributed. |
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Here I am with Sierra at the Ending Hunger Gala. Sierra and I have
now celebrated 10 years since our first meeting in October of 1992.
When this picture was taken we were barely seeing each other 1-2 times
a month, and even then, it was only for a few hours. |
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In 1999, I left Prudential to Join IBM Global Services where I
became an international IT Architect. I was very involved in e-business
Integration, Enterprize Application Integration, and Business to Business
integration at clients including AT&T, Prudential, Blue Cross Blue Shield,
Alaska Communications Services, Amica Insurance, and even IBM. I even
helped design solution for the organization in Mexico. I also continued
to be one of the Leading Linux Advocates and Open Source advocates,
eventually posting nearly 8000 pages of original content ranging from
market survey information to technical comparisons between Windows NT
or Windows 2000 and Linux
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In 2002, I had come up with a number of techniques to perform
administration and support of production systems via remote access
technologies. It got to the point where we did entire life-cycle
development, roll-out, and support from my home. Just for grins, I
started growing a beard. I eventually shaved it off. |
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I eventually shaved off the beard. Here I am, doing the "Hugh Hefner Silk
Bathrobe". I sit back in my recliner couche, pull the laptop into my lap,
and work for 12-16 hours, often only getting up for biology breaks. I
volunteered to travel to the production sight, but they didn't want to
lower my productivity. I could only be in one meeting at a time. |
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In 2003, I'm still kicking. I'm still cazy enough to take on
Microsoft in support of the Linux community. In addition to becoming
one of the leading Linux advocates, I have been pushing to get Linux on
the Desktop to be as successful as Linux Servers. |