After Vietnam-era service as a Marine Aviator, JIM SCHMALZ earned his Bachelors in Me-chanical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon and began his engineering career in St. Louis. With his PE and a Masters in Biotechnology, he formed his own Pharmaceutical Engineering Consult-ing practice. He taught Technical Writing for 13 years at Washington University in St. Louis until 2003. Now retired, he and his wife Su live in Virginia’s Northern Neck, where he gardens, sails, keeps his bees, helps his friend Farmer Billy harvest his crops, and writes the occasional book.