I am a curious Missouri farm boy with German roots - all my ancestral lines having immigrated to the USA from Germany, I used the Electrical Engineering degree I earned from the University of Missouri-Columbia in my 40+ year career at John Deere’s tractor engineering center in Waterloo, Iowa. Retired now, I keep busy with genealogy, a small wooded acreage, my grandchildren and as an adult leader with a local scout troop.