One gets a sense of what type of person Jack is, when he tells you that on the day he was married back in 1967, he told his wife Gloria, that he planned to be one of the first Martian colonists. His dream is to return reanimated in a 20 year old rejuvenated body, and go to the planets and stars, to start new civilizations, and to become a "New World Star System Colonist."

This apparently didn't turn his bride off, because he's still married to the same woman! Jack was born in Akron, Ohio in 1942. He attended Ohio State and got a MS degree in Electrical Engineering.

The family moved to Arizona in 1986, and Jack got a job (and is still employed) with the Army as an Energy Consultant on Energy Conservation. He loves the Arizona climate, "even the hot summers." He describes the winters as "fantastic," with temperatures in the 70s.

He has a multitude of interests to take up his spare time. He has a private pilot's license, and has owned his own plane for almost ten years. (He taught his son to fly when he was 8 years old, (who's now a commercial airline pilot.) He's a stamp collector, plays tennis, walks a few miles a day, and loves to travel, especially crossing the border into Mexico, visiting the sea resorts on the Sea of Cortez, and practicing his Spanish. He's a gun collector, and loves target shooting.

His family has mixed feelings about his desire to be suspended. His son supports him, but while his wife and two daughters previously accepted his cryonics wish, they have now formed deeper religious convictions, and oppose it. They feel that cryonics is playing god by advocating reanimation of an individual. He's explained to them that all major religions accept the cryonics concept, but has been unable to sway them. His wife however, has legally approved of his wish, and signed off on it.

His first exposure to cryonics was the movie "A Space Odyssey 2001" in which there were astronauts in suspended animation. Around the same time he read about the first Cryonics Conference being held in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1969. He attended, met Robert Ettinger and became Cryonics Coordinator for West Virginia, where he was living at the time. The following year he moved back to Ohio and became Cryonics Coordinator for Ohio.

He became disillusioned with the Cryonics movement around 1975 when he read of a Los Angeles cryonics organization that had allowed their bodies to thaw out in a cemetery. That disillusionment lasted for 27 years, until a friend, surfing the web, found the CI web site. He contacted Robert Ettinger, who remembered him from the early days. He was impressed by the strides Cl has made, became a member in 2000, and now has a contract in force. As a new board member, he's looking forward to making a positive contribution to the cryonics movement.