• North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA. Spring 1991 and Spring 1990. Completed course in Medical Terminology in former quarter. In latter quarter, helped other students in the computer labs use DOS or learn Wordperfect, Word, Lotus, and dBASE while learning them myself. Wrote macros and/or programs for each. GPA was 3.78 (A=4.0).

• Completed 2 years at the University of Puget Sound (now Seattle University) School of Law, Tacoma (now Seattle), WA. 1984-1986. First year courses included year-long Legal (Technical Documentation) Writing course and Contracts. Second year courses included Constitutional Law, Admiralty, Evidence, UCC (all articles including international trade), Immigration, Family and Domestic Relations, Professional Responsibility, Corporations (including export control and basic securities rules), and Intellectual Properties (Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks). Nominated to be the graduation speaker. I choose not to continue because I did not like what I was evolving into.

• University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Graduate work in Public Affairs, 1979-1980. Earned Bachelor's degree (12/77) with concentrations in English, Economics, and Classics. Completed academic portion of 4 year Army ROTC program. On Dean's List. Served on university committees for security, student senate, board of trustees for daily student newspaper, and community boards.

• West High School, Class of 1973, Iowa City, Iowa. Told by many teachers that I didn't have what was needed mentally to go to college. Went anyway. Told by one teacher, Ben Van Zante that it would be difficult if not impossible to publish a high school newspaper on my own like the school newspaper, the West Side Story which only relied on advertising dollars to pay for itself. Published one (31 Flavours {spelled correctly})anyway, made a profit from the advertising, won 5 Sigma Delta Chi (now The Society of Professional Journalists) awards, and established new school and school district standard for self-sufficiently (i.e. publications expected to fund at least 50% of expenses from advertising) which is being followed to this day. Previously attended University High School in Iowa City, Iowa.

• Graduate, Voyageur (Minnesota) Outward Bound (Survival) School, 1972.