I received my BS from Case-Western Reserve and my Doctorate at the Univ. of Wyoming where I studied alpine glaciation in the Medicine Bow Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming, and I taught geology at Eastern Washington Univ. for 34 years. My Cheney home is located on a pendant bar in the midst of the Cheney-Palouse Scabland Tract.
I attended the early formative meetings of the IAFI in Spokane with a number of geologists and representatives from various agencies and organizations that recognized that the Ice Age Floods story should be more broadly known by the general public. From these meetings a non-profit group called the Ice Age Floods Institute (IAFI) was established to encourage support for the National Park Service to take the major role in telling the story of the Ice Age floods.
I joined the fledgling organization in the early years and have served on its Board for many years. With the assistance of the President of EWU Steve Jordan, and especially his wife Ruth, the establishment of the Cheney-Palouse Chapter, which later became the Cheney-Spokane Chapter, was formed.
I now spend most of my time living in Anacortes where the Puget Ice Lobe smothered the west side of the state. I return several times a year to my Cheney house on the pendant bar. Ironically, the chaotic conditions that formed the pendant bar have now led to a place of tranquility.