Dr. Rock was educated: a) in study at Christian schools through college (Oakwood) in Huntsville, Alabama, and at the University of Detroit, (MA Sociology) and Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Ten. (D.min. and Ph.D.) both in Religious Ethics b) by twenty years of pastoral experience in the states of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, and his native New York city and c) by fourteen years as college president at Oakwood, and sixteen years as a vice president of the world church (General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and d) very meaningfully, by sixty one years as husband and father. He and his wife Clara now have reside in Las Vegas, Nevada.