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He was employed by NCR for fourteen years, where he met his wife (he didn't realize that his start date of February 14, 1977 was significant), and retired from SC Department of Health and Environmental Control after fourteen years. In between, he worked for a few banks, an insurance software company (that was fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission for booking revenue on December 32nd), a telecom company, MCI, as a contractor (in Tornado Alley of Cedar Rapids, Iowa), and a few DOT-BOMBs (DOT-COM business failures).
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## Interests
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### NASA
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Ralph was only four years older than NASA and followed NASA exploration in space beginning with manned spaceflight, Mercury through Apollo, the Space Shuttle and International Space Station, and unmanned space probes and instruments. He has witnessed two final spaceflights in person,
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the U.S. half of the Apollo/Soyuz Test Project in July 1975 and the final Space Shuttle launch in July 2011 with Atlantis; he also got to witness the final landing near the Control Tower for the Shuttle Landing ramp, just 200 yards away from touchdown and final wheel stop.
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Ralph was only four years older than NASA and followed NASA exploration in space beginning with manned spaceflight, Mercury through Apollo, the Space Shuttle and International Space Station, and unmanned space probes and instruments. He checked off a thirty year old bucket list item when he watched the final Space Shuttle launch on July 8, 2011. On July 21, he also got to witness the final landing next the Control Tower for the Shuttle Landing ramp, just 200 yards away from touchdown and final wheel stop. That was the second final space launch that he saw. The first was the U.S. half of the Apollo/Soyuz Test Project in July 1975.
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### Water Skiing
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Ralph enjoyed water skiing, initially learning on Lake Greenwood. He also skied on two other South Carolina lakes, Clark Hill Lake *(don’t correct it to Lake Thurmond)* and many times on Lake Murray. While he was in Cedar Rapids, IA, he skied on the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids and the Mississippi River between the Quad Cities (Bettendorf and Davenport, IA and Rock Island and Moline, IL).
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### Photography
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Ralph got interested in photography using his parent’s Polaroid Land Camera. After marriage, he bought a Canon A-1 and added a few accessories along the way. One of his projects was "Y2K12: The Year Exclusively in B&W" where he used B&W film exclusively. He added one of his bucket list cameras, a used Canon F-1N, with the AE Finder FN and the AE Motor Drive FN in July 2013.
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Ralph got interested in photography using his parent’s Polaroid Land Camera. After marriage, he bought a Canon A-1 and added a few accessories along the way. One of his projects was "Y2K12: The Year Exclusively in B&W" where he used B&W film exclusively, shooting fifty-six rolls of B&W film for the year 2012; he rediscovered the classic look of B&W film when he used it for the final space shuttle landing. He added one of his "bucket list" cameras, a used Canon F-1N, with the AE Finder FN and the AE Motor Drive FN in July 2013.
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Paula had been encouraging him to go digital and finally bought him a Canon EOS 5D III for Christmas 2013. Paula and he attended the Wednesday 2015 practice round of The Masters when cameras are allowed.
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### Beagles
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Ralph and Paula have adopted and bred Beagles as members of the family with some competing in obedience; they each have put Companion Dog titles on four dogs. They have also competed in AKC confirmation putting Championship titles on a few.
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