It Took a Village

TESTIMONIALS What do my Mayo Clinic doctors say about me? My Primary Care Doctor at Mayo Clinic: How are you? I wanted to let you know that your stool tests were normal, with no significant abnormalities. Nephrology & Hypertension, Cheungpasitporn, MD, Mayo Clinic: Mr. Maegerlein is a very pleasant 80-year-old gentleman from Rochester, Minnesota, referred by Dr. Melissa Lyle for evaluation and management for elevated creatinine. Finally: Bob Maegerlein: Retired from an amazing work career encompassing shoe salesman, golf caddie, package and shipping clerk, gopher, high school teacher of mathematics, chemistry and physics, Fired from two teaching assignments. Honeywell 200 computer programmer for American Motors, Kelvinator Division, developer of an online loan processing system, IBM Systems Engineer on several customer locations. Systems design in IBM Italy. Retired from IBM Rochester, MN. Masters work in mathematics completed. Unpublished Thesis: From Piano's Postulates to the Complex Numbers: Step by Step. All from a guy who had only geometry and general science in high school, who flunked trigonometry and got a D in algebra first time he took it. School Board, Area Council PTSA. Married 46 years. Four children, six grandchildren. Two were born the same week. He has versions of this book going back to 2013. Every year, during vacation, he'd add a little more. He decided to finish it during his 80th year on earth. He has begun a memoir of his high school years. Respectfully Submitted, Robert C. Maegerlein