Vaughn Davis Bornet. Long retired as CDR, USNR, he was 95 when he began work on this very personal book project. His Ph. D. in History is from Stanford University (1951), he has two degrees from Emory University, and has a graduate year at University of Georgia, Athens. Long a professor and division chairman, he wrote serious books on social welfare, trade unions, political parties, and presidents Hoover and Johnson, while helping scholars by editing their unfinished book projects. Among his employers were foundations, Commonwealth Club of California, Encyclopaedia Britannica, RAND, and Southern Oregon College. He has been in the Marquis Who’s Who in America volumes for over half a century. He has been termed "Distinguished" in national awards from the American Heart Association, the Freedom Foundation, and a university. Author of innumerable articles, he writes often for History News Network of George Mason University, and supports a very large website, clioistics.com, which offers hundreds of pages of Bornet writings. Beth W. Bornet. Author of over 70 of the letters that make this book charming and winsome, she grew up in mountainous Susanville, California. Listed in the academic Who’s Who for women, and president of any number of organizations, she was honored by Ashland (Oregon) Community Hospital and president of the State Hospital Volunteers. She was an enthusiastic Girl Scout leader and trained many other troop leaders. She was the beloved mother of two children, and was married to Vaughn 68 years in all.