From the Great Depression to the New Millennium and Beyond

He was in the diesel engine business, a landlord, runner, builder of homes, entrepreneur, and a heart attack survivor who arrested heart disease. He finally found time to take up golf at age 64. He is a product of the Great Depression. He was on the tail-end of the World War II generation, which according to author Tom Brokaw, is "the greatest generation." This is the story of one man's colorful and adventurous life, interwoven with our nation's history, and extending over a large part of the 20th Century.