David Hibdon:  

ough to recognize a keeper when I met Mary. She has skills, attitudes and strengths that seem uniquely capable of making my life as complete as it has been. Of course I also give myself credit for being smart enough to seduce her into marriage, and staying focussed enough to keep her interested for our forty-four years so far. Family wise, I am proud of my children. Karen stayed at home raising kids for twelve years, and recently went back to work part time as a software project manager for a lobbying group. Martin is a software architect working somewhere south of San Francisco -- maybe Silicon Valley. Susan is a High School Teacher in Prince Georges County Maryland. Ellen is overcoming some mental health problems while attending Weber State University in Ogden Utah. I consider myself self-educated. But I also got a degree at Berkeley. In the old days, Berkeley gave honors for a 3.0 average, and I got a 3.01 cumulative by breaking the 3.0 mark for the first time with a 3.4 in my final semester. The highlight of my professional career is the thirteen weeks I spent in Moldova, in 2001. I went there to teach some employees of the National Bank of Moldova to be better examiners and regulators of information technology risks. It was maybe better for me than for them. They already knew a lot about IT risks. And l learned from them how fear of political risk can trump any lessons we may teach while assuming a free society.