What would we be surprised to know about you?
I served in the Peace Corps from 1962-1964 in the rural Philippines as a public school teacher in English, math and science and have stayed supportive of that school and the top graduates for over 60 years, sending many of them to high school and college.
I've lived in Huntington Woods since 1976 and was an elected City Commissioner (1999-2023). My wife of 35 years, Nati Lim Jenks, died in 2006, due to complications from cancer. It was diagnosed in December 2005 and she died in August 2006. No kids. Nati worked for Governor Jim Blanchard for 8 years and then ran the Asian American Center for Justice for 15 years. We traveled all over the world.
In 2013 I married Eleonor "Lenlen".
At the age of 68 I won a Taubman Fellowship to Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government where I completed a program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government, which I use daily.
I've been selling travel since 1978 and opened my own agency, TRAVEL IS FUN, in 1988. I've traveled all over Asia, and the Caribbean - two areas that I specialize in.