IWAS BORN in Danbury, Connecticut and raised in New Fairfield, Connecticut, the next town north of Danbury.  My father was a teacher in various New Fairfield Schools, but mostly at New Fairfield High School, from 1961 until his retirement in 1999.

After graduating from NFHS in 1984, I went off to Cornell University in pursuit of a degree in computer science.  In this, I was a little optimistic as I had a less-than-good relationship with the Computer Science Department.  (My relationship with the Mathematics Department was much better.)  I graduated in 1988 with just enough computer knowledge to be a decent programmer.


My two sons Daniel (age 11) and Thomas (age 8).


One thing that's lasted from my Cornell years has been an association with a strange group of people known as the Boston Physics Society (BPS).  The BPS is renowned the world over for performing physics tests on soccer balls in the Cascadilla Gorge, taking classes with the late Carl Sagan (RIP), and currently, dumbing down the gene pool of humanity by marrying and reproducing (more on that in a minute).


Rob's brush with greatness:  with "close personal friend" Alex Trebek on the Jeopardy! set, November, 2003.


After Cornell, I chucked the computer science and kept the math, and I enrolled in the masters' program at Western Connecticut State University. In this I was fortunate because I not only became a good student again, but I also met my future wife while attending.  The masters' program was new, and thus an evenings-only program.  So it took me four-and-a-half years (Jan. 1990 - May 1994) to complete my masters.

This left me enough time to work a full-time job.  While I was at Cornell, I wrote a few music reviews for their daily student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun.  I was encouraged by this experience, so after graduation, I worked briefly at the Citizen News, a weekly newspaper in New Fairfield.  I then moved on to The News-Times, Danbury, Connecticut's daily newspaper.  For four years (April 1990 - August 1994), I worked as a music/entertainment writer and all-around computer guy.  During three of those years, I wrote a weekly column called "On That Note" about the area music goings-on.


June's brush with greatness:  With Jay Leno at Universal Studios Hollywood in November, 2003. (No ... she was too smart to get picked to play "Jaywalking.")


With all this, I did a lot of community theater work.  My closest association was with the Sherman Players, where I directed Is There Life After High School? in 1992, and Tom Foolery, a revue of Tom Lehrer songs, in 1993. (My musical director was Rusty "Sam" Judd -- check out his web page The Ongoing Adventures of Mary Pady...)  I also co-produced a version of Biloxi Blues for Sherman in '93 and worked the light and sound boards for countless productions in Sherman, Brookfield, and Richter Park in Danbury.

While working on a show for the Country Players of Brookfield in 1991, I met June Marie Nolan, as she was known then.  She must have liked me a little because we were married in Bethel, CT on August 13, 1994.  June is a super dancer and teacher, and she teaches jazz and tap dance at Movement Center in Essex Junction, VT.  She bought Movement Center in 1997 and is as busy as could be being a dancer, teacher, and entrepeneur.  (She expanded Movement Center to three locations in 2005!)


Rob and June in October 2004.  Move the mouse over them to see how they looked 13 years previous.

June hardly slowed down to give birth to our sons Daniel Robert (6/24/1997) and Thomas Michael (8/20/2000), but she's as happy as could be.  Daniel is a big goofy 10-year-old who is in grade this year.  Dan wants to be the next Mike Piazza (but with better defensive skills, we hope).    Thomas runs around and laughs a lot.  He's 8 years old and just started 3rd grade.

After June and I married in 1994, we moved to Colchester, VT so I could work on my Ph.D. at the University of Vermont.  I worked with Mike Wilson on weighted two-parameter Littlewood-Paley theory, and I successfully defended my dissertation in March, 1999.  I got a job as an assistant professor at Norwich University in Northfield, VT and we bought a house in Williston, VT in July, 1999.  In May, 2005, I was granted tenure at Norwich and promoted to associate professor.  I was fortunate enough to win the 2005 Homer L. Dodge Award for Excellence in Teaching at Norwich.  Life is good!!