From NH House Member Profiles:

My background is steeped in working hard, public service, a commitment to public education, and a belief that we must never forget our veterans. Those veterans who have passed and those who remain. These lessons were learned in a family where everyone had a duty [a requirement to help if you will] to keep the family afloat. My dad, a strong union voice who worked at a local newspaper and always had a second job of some sort. A strong man who always found time to help those in need and to give back to the community. My mom was an RN who worked the night shift and a small family of three children who shared the household chores.

This is the background that served as the incubator for my work ethic and commitment to public service and education. As an Army veteran whose college education was abruptly ended due to the draft and ongoing war, that commitment to the country was fostered. After concluding my Army service, I returned to college and completed my bachelor’s degree. Over the ensuing years, I matriculated with a Master of Science and a CAGS in Educational Leadership while serving in multiple roles beginning as a substitute teacher and concluding as a high school principal. During that period of educational experience, I also served twelve years as a college department chair, teaching member of the faculty, and twenty years on my hometown school board. I supplemented this work with over twenty-five years of high school and college coaching and officiating.