A person of many talents, John Glude dedicated the first part of his productive professional career, as a field research biologist, to improving the fisheries of commercial bivalves. His academic training, a Bachelor of Science in fisheries, some engineering courses, and a Masters Degree in business administration, completed in 1939 at the University of Washington, prepared him well for this endeavor. But success, as so often happens to talented professionals, ironically promoted him ...