Bill Fritz lived in a rough log homesteaders’ cabin on the banks of the Yaak River in the remote Yaak Valley on the western Montana-Canadian border before a sudden move to rural western Puerto Rico as part of a Seventh-day Adventist missionary hospital community. Bill received his high school diploma from Colegio Antilleano, a BS & MS in Biology from Walla Walla College, and a PhD in Geology from the University of Montana. Bill is accomplished in geology, academia, cooking, diving, aviation, farming, and construction and has dabbled in radio since grade school. He is a licensed Amateur Extra ham operator, originally WP4DFU and now KQ4CAD. Many of these pursuits he shares with his son and grandchildren. In addition to sustenance farming on a cattle ranch in Montana, serving as dive master on a research vessel in the Caribbean, working his way through college in construction, flying his plane throughout North America from Puerto Rico to Fairbanks, Alaska as a commercial rated pilot, and working as a cattle breeder to preserve the Pineywoods, an endangered landrace heritage breed. Bill is an internationally renowned field geologist and university administrator, who served as provost and then president of the College of Staten Island in The City University of New York. Previously, he served for many years at Georgia State University both as a professor of geology and as a senior administrator overseeing enrollment management and academic programs with a focus student success.