Owner, Builder, Marketer, Janitor, Bookkeeper, sole employee, Barcroft Human Power Vehicles. Made high-end recumbent bicycles, including the Barcroft Virginia, Barcroft Virginia Titanium, Barcroft Dakota, Barcroft Columbia Tandem, and various specials including the Barcroft Oregon front-wheel-drive titanium low racer, the Barcroft California, a back-to-back racing tandem, and a touring tricycle.

Wrote stories about science and space exploration, and business stories about energy, telecommunications, transportation, including several cover stories in each area.

Correspondent, covered civil rights in the American South, 1963-65, including the Selma March and Freedom Summer in Mississippi, 1964. Covered military action in the Viet Nam war,1965-66.Covered the U.S.west coast from San Francisco, 1966-77, including campus violence, oil development in Alaska, Gov. Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley. In Washington covered energy, environment, technology development. As deputy bureau chief 1984-86, helped supervise news coverage of 20-person bureau.

Air defense. Ground radar officer who directed attacks by fighter-interceptors. In Japan, senior director on duty at radar station with 30-person crew, had scramble authority for fighters at Misawa air base. Ran interceptions of Soviet surveillance aircraft. In Maine, directed supersonic air defense fighters using brand-new digital SAGE system.

Operated machine that put one end on number 10 cans for food packing industry.