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 56 years, sending many of them to high school and college.
I've lived in Huntington Woods since 1976 and have been an elected City Commissioner since 1999. I was re-elected in 2019 to another 4 year term ending in 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.