>From: "Harry L. Emerson" <72440.261@compuserve.com>
>Date: 13 Jul 95 21:50:17 EDT

Turned 70 in March. Born and raised in N. Illinois. Into Navy in 
1943, out in 1946, never having been in any danger. BS from a 
small liberal arts college, major in mathematics. Today it sounds 
laughable, but that was good enough to get me a 'Mathematician' 
job with the U.S. Navy Department in Washington. 

Left Washington to get advanced degree. Failed. Returned to 
Washington to continue courtship begun earlier which led to 
marriage and subsequently to three children. Managed to get a job 
with another agency (not as mathematician), and worked there for 
30 years before retiring. Took up 'consulting', working sort-of 
part-time with one of the many technical services providers to 
the government for about 13 years before giving it up. In the 
last 20 or so years of my working life I was most interested in 
the problems of large software development projects, of managing 
them and of contracting for them.

I don't know how I came to _Science and Sanity_. But when I first 
read it (15 - 20 years ago, maybe more) a chord was struck, and 
some unarticulated thoughts about 'knowing,''meaning' and 'non-
sense,' etc seemed validated. At that time I couldn't follow up, 
but I never forgot. A few years ago I read and re-read _Science 
and Sanity_ (well, maybe not every word), joined the Institute 
and the Society and have been digging in. I was very pleased to 
find out about gs@lumina, and I look forward to learning more 
and, perhaps, helping others to learn.

It's my impression that, roughly, those interested in general 
semantics fall into two categories: predominantly interested in 
personal development or predominantly interested in better 
communication and cooperation among people. (I am not the first 
to make this observation.) I put myself in the latter group.