My family gave me the best in education.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

My family gave me the best in education.