After World War II, the GI Bill and his work for the Texas Highway Department, as an economic planner for the Jicarilla Apache Tribe in New Mexico, and as an attendant in a psychiatric hospital, helped to support his education.

[3][4][5] He was the first researcher to point out methodological flaws in studies reporting menstrual synchrony among women.

[6] He was politically active as a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

[1] He was involved early on in civil rights issues in Missouri, land use conservation, and in the conception of Katy Trail State Park.

On August 24, 1957, he married Betty K. Wilson, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.