An autobiography of Gerald Paul Kooyers. Children, grandchildren and others have at times requested Kooyers to write of his interesting life lived in the United States of America in the golden age of the nation from about 1940 to 2010. He writes of life growing up in Wisconsin and California, education at San Jose State University, University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford University leading to a career in scientific research, self employment, business ventures, computer programming, computer models of devices, electron device research, commodity trading adviser, white water river...