I've found that much of my community involvement has been a natural outgrowth of being a parent. I've coached baseball and served on the Babe Ruth Baseball board as well as the Fargo North High School Baseball Board. Several years ago I started and coached an elementary chess team. In my third year we took the state championship. The team at the school continued to win state championships after I left and I believe they have won the last six or seven in a row.

My wife and I also enjoy working with the high school tennis team and developing an end of the year slide show with music for them.

I am the proud copyright holder for the phrase The Record is Still 61. As a fervent baseball fan, I was outraged when facts seemed to indicate that ballplayers who had hit more than 61 homeruns in a single season were implicated in one way or another in the use of steroids or other illegal performance enhancing drugs. The last legitimate holder of the single season homerun record would therefore be Roger Maris, who of course grew up here in Fargo. Like many baseball purists and many Fargoans, we no longer think Roger's record was broken, but rather stolen.

If you happen to attend a baseball game at beautiful Newman Outdoor Field here in Fargo, to watch the local minor league team Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks, chances are you'll see a few folks wearing The Record is Still 61 t-shirts and caps.