Born in 1942, of French-Canadian immigrant parents, in a small mill town in central New Hampshire, I spent the first 23 years of my life there. After getting a BS in Mathematics at the University of New Hampshire, I taught for a year at Franklin High School, my alma mater. Then, I joined the Peace Corps and spent 2 years teaching math in Spanish to secondary teachers in Bogota, Colombia. I also taught a math class in the experimental high school affiliated with the Department of Education at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Upon returning to the U.S. in the fall of 1967, I spent a year doing graduate work in Cross-cultural Communication at the University Graduate School in Pomona, CA. I returned to the East Coast in the Fall of 1968. During the period between 1968 and 1980, I worked in a variety of educational settings: I taught in a public junior high school, a reform school, and an alternative high school. I was director of a short term residential program for juvenile offenders and served for a time as a youth program development specialist in a government agency. In 1977, I received a Master of Arts degree from Goddard College Graduate School, Plainfield, VT, where I developed an innovative youth leadership development program for minority and disadvantaged youth.

In 1980, I moved to San Francisco, CA, and left the education field for 6 years. During this time I did accounting for a small manufacturer. In 1987, I travelled to Darmstadt, Germany where I briefly taught basic skills to U. S. Army recruits before travelling to Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, where I taught math and English for 2 years at the Laiser Hill Academy in Ongata Rongai. After returning to the U.S. in 1989, I worked temporarily for Exxon Mobile Singapore, in Cambridge MA.

In 1992, I was accepted into the Teachers for Africa program of the International Foundation for Education and Self-help. I spent 2 years teaching math and English at the Lycee Houphouet-Boigny, a government-run secondary school, in Korhogo in northern Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa.

In 1994, I returned to New Hampshire and worked temporarily for an educational testing company, before accepting a position with the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. I have been teaching English to Speakers of Others Languages (ESOL) part-time since 2000 at Operation Bootstrap, Inc.  in Lynn, MA. I retired from state service in June 2007, and have been devoting my time exclusivley to ESOL teaching.

I am interested in developing distance learning programs for new English learners using the internet and other technologies.