Okay. I did start my tax career with Weyerhaeuser, the state and local tax department, when it was on 11th and in downtown Tacoma. And I did that between the summers of my junior and senior year, and then the summer between my senior year and first year of law school. That was a great experience, and I observed that if you wanted to be a success at Weyerhaeuser, it was easier to go back out and then come back in at a higher level than working your way up through the ranks. And so I purposely chose Arthur Andersen as my CPA firm because they were the CPA firm for Weyerhaeuser Company. And, I thought that's what I would do. But then I after the Army, and I graduating from law school, when I was in law school, I got interviewed by the IRS, and they told me, if you go with the IRS, you'll get to go up against such great opposition as Lassard and Patton, which was a local CPA firm. And I ended up checking, excuse me, a local law firm. And the reason I checked that out, and the former dean of the law school said, you know, I know, the little firm. Let me make a phone call. And the next day, I had an appointment there, and I was immediately hired. And I ended my career with Lassard and Patton for over 47 years. It was a great experience. My practice was probably the broadest of the attorneys in the firm, but it was a heavy concentration of tax, particularly tax. Controversial work. I became a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, and I was president of the tax section of the Washington State Bar Association from 1993 to 94. I was also actively involved in some community organizations. I was involved with the Hillel Foundation out at the University of Washington for many years, and in the late 1980s, when I was president of Hillel, Rabbi Jacobovitz from the Hillel Foundation was going to retire, and we had to decide on the new executive director of Hillel. And that was a very tough decision, because we had two individuals who, on a scale of 1 to 10, the board thought both were tens. And so we had to decide. And, fortunately, we did hire Danny Bridge. And, he successfully led Hillel for the next 18 years, I believe. And, they were able to rebuild the facility, and I was always very proud of that decision. I later became president of the tax section of the Washington State Bar Association. Between '93 and '94, I was president of Temple de Hirsch Sinai. In the year '97 to '98. I was on the temple board for 14 years before I was president. I was treasurer for six years. And, we had been discussing for years how to get an elevator in the Seattle sanctuary at Temple de Hirsch, and how to expand from the existing Bellevue location, which resulted from a merger of Temple Sinai into Temple de Hirsch, which was on 124th in Bellevue. And we had been discussing it for years. When I became president, I decided we were going to do something, and so I got congregational approval to buy the property of the current facility, which is now the current facility in Bellevue for the temple. And, we also while I was Mr. President, we bought the land. We have got the approval from the congregation to have the fundraising drive, which did prove to be successful. And, we were able to build on the raw land that we bought in Bellevue. And that was completed after my term was over, but always very proud of my accomplishments while I was at Temple, and particularly that the elevator finally got installed, in the Seattle facility connecting the sanctuary level with the Jaffe room down below. My family has been the key to everything. I met my wife, Nina, in 1960 as I was entering Garfield, and she was going to enter the ninth grade at Meany Junior High. We dated in high school, but we also dated others in high school. We were sweatshirts and lavaliers, pinned, and finally engaged, and on her 21st birthday, and got married after my first year in law school. We got an apartment on Beacon Hill, and in 1971, we moved to Bellevue. And we've had three sons, Brett Walbaum, Chad Walbaum, and Erich Walbaum, all of whom became Eagle Scouts. I've always been proud of that. And they all ended up being very successful and live independently, have their own homes. And, we have four grandchildren. Brett and Hallie Brodeur-Walbaum have two daughters who are now turning 16 and 13. And Chad and Oreet have two children, a boy, who is five, and a daughter who is three. And Eric is fabulous. And, he's still looking for the right gal. As far as interests, I'm very interested, besides professional things, I'm interested in bridge and family. We're doing a certain amount of family genealogy. We love to travel. We've skied, we've played racquetball. We lived for over 30 years in Clyde Hill, and it was wonderful. I loved having Father's Day at our house for my extended family, which, whenever we would have an event, a major event, we had over a hundred people in the family. Before I could invite my first friend. But even the Father's Day, we would have 35, 45 people. And, the yard lent itself to that. And then, 14 years ago, in 2007, we downsized to a condominium in Kirkland, Washington, which we absolutely love.
