PERSONALITIES AND PENCHANTS

1. BOYHOOD FRIENDS I KNEW AND REMEMBER MOST!

In the order I knew them I pick these ten!

• John Rohrer, Brother and Friend (Deceased)
• Tom Marinovich, Parsippany Kindergarten (No Longer in Contact)
• Dick Eggert, Towaco Grade School (No Longer in Contact)
• John Borinski, Towaco Grade School (Deceased)
• Blain Trexler, Towaco neighbor (Deceased)
• Frank Weaver, Towaco gun dealer (Deceased)
• Maurie Mader, Mountain Lakes High School (Deceased)
• Tony Bacon, Mountain Lakes (Deceased)
• Pete Daily, Mountain Lakes and USMC (Deceased)
• Pete Kettle, Mountain Lakes High School and USMC (No Longer in Contact)

2. LATER FRIENDS I KNEW AND REMEMBER MOST!

In the order I knew them I pick these ten!

• Steve Niebur, USMC (Current Contact)
• Mick Putterbaugh, USMC (Current Contact)
• Herman Solomon, USMC (No Longer in Contact)
• Jack Malone, Aircraft Radio and Harley-Davidson (Unknown)
• Paul Hansen, Professional photographer in California (Unknown)
• Dick Terry, Harley-Davidson (Deceased)
• John Ellison, Harley-Davidson (Current Contact)
• Phil Boydston, Harley-Davidson (No Longer in Contact)
• Tom Platz, Harley-Davidson (No Longer in Contact)
• Brian Follas, Eaton TISD (Current Contact)

3. MEN WHO MOST IMPACTED MY LIFE!

In the order I knew them I pick these ten!

• George H. Rohrer, Father (Deceased)
• John N. Brown, Uncle (Deceased)
• Arthur N. Granzen, Best family friend (Deceased)
• John G. Easton, Fraternity Counselor (Deceased)
• Vincent J. Dipano, Senior Drill Instructor USMC (Deceased)
• Alfred Loreth, Rocket Section Leader USMC (Deceased)
• Ed Karnes, VP Sales, Aircraft Radio Corporation (Deceased)
• John Mollema, Sales Manager, RCA Avionics (Deceased)
• Elgin Lee Davis, Advertising Executive (Deceased)
• William G. Mennen, The Mennen Company (Deceased)

4. MEN WHO ALSO IMPACTED MY LIFE!

In the order I knew them I pick these ten!

• Tony Gallie, Senior Vice President, N. W. Ayer (Deceased)
• Van Jacobsen, President, Ayer West Coast (Deceased)
• Ray Tritten, President/CEO, AMF (Deceased)
• Gus Davis, President, AMF Harley-Davidson (Unknown)
• Tom Cardile, Senior Vice President, Ryder System (Deceased)
• Fred Reichelt, President, Verex Assurance (Unknown)
• Jim McCormack, Retired Investment Banker (Deceased)
• Gopal Sing, General Manger, Eaton TISD (Unknown)
• Major Frank Stolz USMC (Ret) (Deceased)
• Colonel Wayne Morris USMC (Ret) (Current Contact)

5. WOMEN WHO MOST IMPACTED MY LIFE!

In the order I knew them I pick these ten!

• Marion Rohrer, Mother (Deceased)
• Ella Francis Edwards, Grandmother (Deceased)
• Norma Brown Ayers, Aunt (Deceased)
• Alice Granzen, Best family friend (Deceased)
• Sandy Robinson, First love (Deceased)
• Hiroko Yoshimoto**, First intimate experience (Unknown)
• Carolyn Smith Rohrer, First wife (Current Contact)
• Jessica Salamancas, Aviation publishing executive (No Longer in Contact)
• Laura A. Fisher, Financial services sales executive (No Longer in Contact)
• Jonnie Rohrer, Wife and my most special person! (Of Course Contact)

6. PEOPLE WHO MOST IMPRESSED ME!

In order of importance to me I pick these ten!

• Sigmund Freud
• Immanuel Velikovsky
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Otto Rank
• Carl Jung
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Theodor Reik
• Ernest Becker
• Carlos Castaneda
• Lou Andreas Salome

7. MAJOR BOOKS I RESPECT THE MOST!

Of the thousands in my library I pick these ten!

• Worlds in Collision, Velikovsky
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche
• The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer
• Totem and Taboo, Freud
• Beyond the Pleasure Principal, Freud
• The Future of an Illusion, Freud
• Civilization and its Discontents, Freud
• Symbols of Transformation, Jung
• Denial of Death, Becker
• In the Shadow of Moloch, Bergman

8. MUSIC I HAVE LOVED THE MOST!

Of the Hundreds in my library I pick these ten plus one!

• Greatest rock bands - Beatles, Rolling Stones and Supertramp
• Greatest rock performance -The Wall, Pink Floyd
• Greatest contemporary rock band - U2
• The group that changed me the most -The Who
• Favorite albums - "Wish You Were Here", Pink Floyd; Now "Earth Mover", Cosmic Gate
• Most amazing - Wagner, The Ring, saw complete at the NY Met, 1990; Et al
• Favorite classical composer - Rachmaninoff
• Most Dramatic - Les Preludes, Liszt
• Most Touching -The Resurrection Symphony No. 2, Mahler
• Most Beautiful - Die Moldau, Smetanta
• Most listened to music now - Trance, House, EDM, Techno, and Chill Out!

9. CONCERTS I HAVE ENJOYED THE MOST!

Of the more than one hundred I have attended I pick these ten!

• Van Cliburn, World Tour, San Diego, 1960
• Elton John, Yellow Brick Road, LA Dodger Stadium, 1973
• ELO, Los Angeles Forum, 1974
• Pink Floyd, Animals, Anaheim Stadium, CA 1977
• Bee Gee's, Los Angeles, Madison and Chicago, 1977
• Eagles, Hotel California, Milwaukee, 1978
• Fleetwood Mack, Alpine Valley, WI 1978
• Supertramp, Breakfast in America Tour, Alpine Valley and Milwaukee, 1979
• Mahler Second Symphony, Carnegie Hall, NYC, 1990
• Pink Floyd, Delicate Sound of Thunder, Oakland, CA, Madison, WI and Dallas, TX 1990,'91

10. MOVIES I ENJOYED THE MOST!

In a lifetime of viewing I pick these ten!

• Ben Hur
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• The Wall, Pink Floyd
• Rattle and Hum, U2
• Brave Heart
• Legends of the Fall
• Pulp Fiction
• Heat
• Fargo
• Mulholland Drive

11. THINGS I LOVED THE MOST!

In a lifetime of experiences I pick these ten!

• Above all my wife Jonnie
• My sons Steven and Jaron
• My homes in NJ, CA, WI, TN, TX and now NC
• Playing golf with my sons Steven and Jaron
• California in the 1960's and 1970's
• Flying airplanes
• Racing motorcycles
• Rock and Roll Music
• Reading
• All our Dogs: Past Buffy, Kippie, KC, Nicki, Dixie; and current Daisy & Maggie

12. THINGS I HATED THE MOST!

In a lifetime of experiences I pick these ten!

• My father dying when I was just 13
• My own weaknesses
• Being skinny
• Bullies and assholes
• Dropping out of High School
• Stupidity
• Distracting Noise
• Barking Dogs
• Bright lights
• Unemployment

13. LOCATIONS I LOVED THE MOST!

Of all the places I have been I pick these ten!

• Yokohama, Tokyo and Okinawa, Japan*
• Sils Maria - Chaste, Switzerland
• Grand Canyon, AZ
• Crater Lake, OR
• Beijing, China
• Berlin, Germany
• Coast Highway, Nepenthe, CA
• Maui, Hawaii
• Yellowstone Park, WY
• Glacier Park, MT
• **My young heart will always remember Hiroko Yoshimoto at 2-21-Takasago-cho, Minamiku, Yokohama-City, Japan;
  and my many months at Camp Bishagawa, Okinawa. Both were of profound special significance for me!

14. ACCOMPLISHMENTS I AM MOST PROUD!

Of all the things I have accomplished I pick these ten!

• Six years of USMCR and USMC Service & Qualifying Expert with both the .45 ACP and M-1
• Passing the exam for my commercial pilots license
• Graduating from University of Southern California, BS 1975
• Selected for advanced study at Harvard Business School by both RCA, 1971 and AMF, 1981
• Competing well in amateur expert motocross and desert racing, 1972 - 1977
• Achieving Vice President in a Fortune 100 company at 39, 1978
• Traveling extensively in all 50 States, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia, beginning in 1958
• "Scotoma" my forthcoming book (Interrupted by my WWII project)
• Raising two college educated sons -- Both successful, married, and each with a daughter
• And most of all, married to Jonnie since 1975!

15. SOME FUTURE OBJECTIVES…

Of all the things I still want to do I pick these ten!

• Finish my WWII book project
• Finish my first book: Scotoma
• Continue to play golf
• Stay as healthy as possible
• Remain in our Bermuda Run, NC home
• Hopefully live to celebrate a 50^th Wedding Anniversary with Jonnie
• Sustain our financial viability
• Remain Committed to America and our Constitution
• Resist Communism and Sharia, and maintain my FREEDOM!
• Fight to the death any Assault, Revolution or attempted Incarceration