In "the sticks"  of the Bronx, New York, under the rattle of the' el' shuttling in and out of the storage yards at the end of the line, thirty three years ago, I joined the millions that make up GOTHAM.  Today I reside with my Canadian wife of four years and our firstborn, Sharon (2 1/2 months) in the center of the air and space industries on the Southwest side of Los Angeles. The 'el' for me is the jets for Sharon.  About 40% of the time we are joined in our private home by my Irish mother-in-law. Study facilities are excellent except for Sharon's fussy-time which runs some four hours each evening.

I was educated in parochial grade and high schools except for my last year of high which was spent at Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut. 1My father was a grocer and we lived where he worked or we attended boarding school after the premature death of my mother in 1941. I have one brother, three years younger, who is at present president of Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. and who is a candidate for the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics at NYU, lacking only the final thesis. My own work at the college level consists of three years at MIT, Cambridge, Mass. where I studied Electrical Engineering. Now some ten years later, I have switched horses and intend to attain as high a degree as possible in Math. Last semester I took Speech I at LACC and this semester Philosophy I. I have found myself lacking in the Humanities and feel that I will profit from each course regardless of any degrees I may obtain.

In my youth and early working years I have worked in a variety of positions in several fields due to looking for something I liked and some rather serious illnesses. I was run over by an auto when I was twelve and had major operations  through the following twelve years. Fortunately I now have no physical handicaps but a good portion of my insides and I have parted company. The climate  of the West was the predominant attraction,  and although I have left the Foy clan on the East Coast I have no regrets.  In California I have worked for North American Aviation ('52 to '53) and Hughes Aircraft Co.  '53 to pre sent). Presently I report to Dr. Alan Rowe in Industrial Dynamics Research, a department that studies the overall operation of the firm and how it may be improved. Our principal point of view is from a mathematical standpoint and we are looking from five to ten years in the future. I am the only man in the department without a doctoral degree. I find the work very interesting, stimulating and challenging. Due to the nature of the work and its value to competitive firms we are not allowed to discuss individual projects. It is my intention to continue in this field. We make heavy use of the large scale computers. It is my knowledge of these that opened the doors into this department.

My preferences in the Fine Arts, as in most things, tend to the norm.  I like Gilbert and Sullivan,  Broadway Plays (accent on musicals ) and light opera.  I detest acute morbidity in the entertainment world. Too much of it seems to be for the purpose of being morbid, shocking, or different. It is seldom well done.

I have done a bit of traveling and have always enjoyed it.  In the USMC I spent the better part of a year in China, principally  in Peiping, Tientsin and some smaller towns along Northern coast.    We sailed thru Panama and returned via California. Since then I have visited about 35 states and several points in Western Canada and Baja  California.  For my honeymoon Hawaii was the setting.  Last October my wife and I visited the head of  our Church, Pope John XXIII, in Rome and toured several countries there including my ancestral home in Ireland where my father's brother still resides. My work involves about two trips a year, generally within the limits of the United States. Recently I left for work at 7 am , jetted to Seattle for a 10 am conference,  left there at 5:30 PM and slept in my own bed that night.  Some of the trips are fortunately of longer duration.

I like most sports but not as an onlooker.  I have rowed crew and played cricket for several years at Griffith Park.  Currently I play tennis about once a week.  Despite my height (6'6") I am not very good at basketball.  At photography I am an amateur but enjoy my collection of c9olor slides.

I believe that I have responsibilities to my family to provide the necessities of life, to maintain for them a standard of living at which I myself am pleased to live provided this is within my powers.  I have rights and duties within that society. I think too many people claim the rights and shirk the duties. I believe the Communist society as it exists today, is a very real threat\ to the existence of our society. (I am building a fallout shelter  in my back yard). I do not know of a panacea for this situation. I advocate the United Nations. By definition I do not think that we possess the weapons to combat Mr. K and his kind.  Resource to tactics that might control the situation seem alien to our way of life.  And so I put my trust in God and do the best I can in the meantime.

 While I may seem to wax solemn, I do not let this dominate my life.  I try to enjoy it as it goes along.

Shakespeare and Socrates are not dead.