He grew up in Jamaica Plain, a historic neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, and he graduated from Roxbury Latin School.
[5] In an exhibition game played against Phillips Exeter Academy, Woodman successfully kicked 20 field goals.
[4] Woodman also played on Harvard's crew team alongside Charles Francis Adams III, the Secretary of the Navy during the Hoover Presidential Administration.
[4] Following graduation from college, Woodman joined the publishing firm Longmans, Green, & Co. (now an imprint of Pearson PLC).
At the time, Muller served as the head of the Art Department at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.