Kolilis, Duane

Duane Kolilis grew up in Tacoma, Washington. Currently, he and his wife, Marlene Tynan, live in Black Mountain, North Carolina. His background includes a degree in Russian from the Army Language School in Monterey, California, during the Korean War. He served as a Russian linguist in Korea and Japan, and flew in numerous B-29 missions off the coast of Vladivostok. After the Air Force, he obtained a PhD in psychology and has worked as a licensed clinical psychologist in Oregon and North Carolina.