FAMILY

My wife and I both grew up in suburban Detroit. We met at a dance when I was a Hope student and she was attending the University of Michigan. My sister introduced us. We dated for about a year and a half while we were undergraduates. We ended up going separate ways for graduate school but four years later we were back together again. We married in 1988. She received her J.D. degree from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

We have two boys, Alex and Benjamin. Both love sports and a great students. My sister Cheryl is a school consultant and holds a PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle. She is interested in the philosophy of education and works with students who are disadvantaged. My other sister, Tracy, is a registered nurse in Florida. She recently completed her B.S. in nursing. My parents retired in 1986 (my father worked for General Motors and my mother for Hudson's department store). They quickly moved to Florida to escape the snow and the long winters and now live in Punta Gorda, Florida. If you have a high-speed connection, you can view some family photos from vacations and Bryan's trips around the world.

Additionally, I like to listen to opera and like nearly all of the popular Italian operas. My favorite is Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni. I've seen it performed several times, once by the Chicago Opera Theater in Hyde Park on a nice warm, starry night.