Barbara and I have been married since August 1974 and we have two children.  Jennifer is currently living in Seattle WA, working for ESPN marketing all of their dot com sites.  My son Joe lives in San Jose CA working for Apple Computer as a software engineer.  If you have seen the program iBooks he wrote all of the user interface for that program.  Joe and his wife gave us our first grand child in November of last year.  No fun having them in California.

My other interest is and has been sports officiating.  In the past I have worked as an official in baseball, slow pitch softball, and volleyball.  I still am officiating football, basketball, and fast pitch softball.  Most of the work has been at the high school level but I have also worked at the college level in some sports.  I am currently an Executive Board member of the Washington Officials Association.  This organization is responsible for all of the school sports officials, for all sports, in Washington.

After graduation, I served in the United States Navy for five years and am a Vietnam veteran.  I graduated from the University of Idaho in 1980 with a Bachelors degree in Science and Agri/Business, received a Bachelors degree in Education from Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) in 1989, and a Masters degree in Administration and Principalship in 1997 from NNU.  I was a teacher in the Vallivue School District for 10 years.  During that time, he owned and operated two businesses, Roller Magic and Water Magic.  I taught 2nd grade at the elementary level and science at the middle school and high school levels.  I received the secondary Teacher of the Year award for Vallivue School District while teaching physical and life sciences in 1997 and was an administrator in Vallivue for two years.  Since coming to the Nampa School District in 1998, I have worked as the assistant principal for South Middle School for two years and am currently the Lead Building Administrator for Nampa High School since 2000.

I married my high school sweetheart, Kristine Goering, in 1975.  We have three sons, Daniel, Matthew, and Alexander, all who live in the Nampa area.  I am the president of the Southern Idaho Conference of Principals (SIC) and serve on the board of the Nampa Church of the Brethren.  I am also active on the Board for PAL (Police Activities League) and have served for over thirty years on the board of my church's intergenerational summer camp in Meadows, Idaho.