I was born and raised on the West side of Detroit, Michigan. My parents immigrated to the U.S. about 1908 from Poland. During World War I, my father enlisted in the U.S. army and was gassed at Verdun, France, at which time he was sent home with lung problems. He died at age 38 of lung failure. I was two years old. My mother raised me and my older brother by working on the assembly line at the General Motors factories and was a lifetime member of UAW-CIO United Automakers Union until retirement.
 
My brother served in the army in WWII and became a teacher and later a firefighter after the war. Also during WWII, as many others did at the time, I forged my birth certificate to get factory jobs to help the war effort, as well as my mother. I too was a member of the UAW-CIO under its founder, the legendary Walter Reuther. After high school I took a job as a warehouseman at Kroger Corporation and became a member of Jimmy Hoffa's own local 299 Teamsters Union (another legend).
 
I enlisted in the army at age 18. After that stretch, I enrolled in Central Michigan University. As a reservist, I was pulled out of school to do my part in Korea. I was wounded and spent 5-1/2 months in a hospital in Japan. Upon my recovery, I was sent back to Korea for three weeks, behind the lines this time, and then returned to the hospital in Japan, where I received a medical discharge. During my hitch in Korea, I was awarded the Purple Heart and my personal favorite, the CIB-Combat Infantryman's Badge. 
 
Upon returning home, the V.A. put me through Wayne State University via Public Act 16 where I received my Bachelors and Masters degrees. I attended Michigan State University where I worked toward my Ph.D. but did not quite finish, but instead took a position as Director of Research and Specialized Pupil Service with the Grand Blanc (MI) Public Schools.
 
I went on to become a Research Professor of Neuro-Audiology at the State University of NY at Albany and later served on faculties of California State University at Fresno and my Alma Mater, Wayne State University in Detroit. I worked on Neuro-Audiological research, as a research fellow with Dr. Mary Rose Costello of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. At the same time I was Director of Curriculum Planning and Research at the Oak Park, Michigan School District.  For several years I was Research and Program Development Consultant to many school districts around the country, primarily in the Washington, D.C. area.
 
In 1990, I and my wife of 55 years, moved to Las Vegas, where we currently reside, to be near our two sons and three grandchildren.