During college and medical school, he was an accomplished trombonist and played in nightclubs with some of the most well-known big band performers in the country.
[2] He joined the U.S. Navy in 1943 and became a naval medical officer during World War II[1] assigned to Landing Ship, Tanks and saw battle on seven occasions.
He initiated a psychiatric residency program at Oregon State Hospital which gained accreditation after only two years.
An outdoors program[1] successfully integrated staff with patients in hiking and mountaineering trips.
He was deeply involved in community and church activities locally by founding the Willamette Valley Hospice and developing the Salem Pops Orchestra.