You didn't arrive at this web site to learn about me. On the other hand, my surfing of the net has indicated that an "about me" section seems to be an accepted ritual. Perhaps that suggests that you, the readers, expect some extra verbiage to enhance the credibility of information elsewhere in the site.

My brother, two sisters, and I were born in western Pennsylvania. I attended elementary school in the Monongahela Valley within eighteen miles of the area pioneered by my GGGG grandparents, John and Margaret Fife in 1766 and within twelve miles of the Elizabeth, Pennsylvania farm where my GG grandparents, Andrew and Sarah Robinson Fife, established residence in 1808. Both my Great grandfather, Dr. Samuel Robinson Fife, and my grandfather, Dr. George Lee Fife, practiced medicine in the Elizabeth-Clairton area where the steel industry established its roots in the early part of the twentieth century.

Since my college days, I have lived in a number of different states plus several years in foreign countries. I returned to Pennsylvania in 1991 where I resided in the eastern side of the state in Chester County, eighteen miles from Valley Forge National Historical Park. In 1999, I moved and I've settled on Florida's Gulf Coast.

I am a product of "The Fifties", a decade when I was graduated from Beaver (PA) High School, Penn State, and The American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Arizona. Within that same ten-year period, I completed a two-year tour with the US Army in France, and was married in San Francisco.

My working years were marketing management-oriented within the metal industries: steel, aluminum, forgings and foundry products.

I am a widower with an adult son. My daughter passed away in 2001 at the age of 37 years. This has been a tragic loss of one who was a precious part of my llife. While included photography is mostly in support of the text, I have included some few pictures of my immediate family - - with a few extra pictures of Robyn who remains in my heart and memories.

In the development of any computer savvy, I often rely on my son's guidance when I'm troubled by nuances like the technology involved with the construction of a web site. I am a devoted Macintosh aficionado and I hope to stay that way.

Since placing my roots in Florida, I've tried to leave the business world behind me. I still do lots of traveling, but these days the focus is leisure. I enjoy boating, fishing, and volunteer work and, on autumn weekends, I'm never far from a TV screen where I can watch the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Steelers. Of course, I try to get back to PSU's "Happy Valley" for at least one home game each autumn.