Category: Civic Engagement

I met Dan as a freshman at Wheaton Community High School in Wheaton, IL in the Fall off 1957.  My family had moved in June, 1957 from Minneapolis, MN and we were starting high school.  Dan and I, together with John Pfund and Hugh Handley, remained best of friends through high school and college for…

Going through my father’s files I found this letter he wrote to his representatives in Congress opposing a proposed nuclear weapon project that was then referred to as the MX missile. The MX missile system was deployed in 1985, renamed with some irony as the Peacekeeper. Of course none were ever used, and the last…