Note: Jack acquired a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from California Institute of Technology, and subsequently served as lieutenant in the US Navy during World War II. He worked for a number of years as an electrical engineer in the aerospace industry, in this context developing several patented inventions that were used in defense systems. He traveled extensively, visiting Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, and Tahiti. He was also well read, with interests embracing Austrian economics; civil liberties and limited government; health finance and investments; computer science; and psychology. In his later years he developed an interest in personal computers and proceeded to master several programming languages, including BASIC and the Z80 Assembly, and was learning the "C" language when death intervened. Starting from scratch, he elaborated a relatively complex graphics program for market forecasting, which he however never refined to the level of commercial viability. Jack was also something of a nonconformist, wearing old clothes and seldom shoes, driving an old car, and remaining completely unconcerned about fitting in with conventions-in short, an eccentric on the order of the "mad scientist." He was one of the first surfboard enthusiasts, having started in the 1930s when surfboards weighed more than 100 pounds. After retirement in 1974 he became a full-time and passionate surfer, and indeed death came while surfing, (see above). When stricken he slipped off his board into rough water, from which fellow surfers quickly rescued him, but subsequent efforts at cardiopulmonary resuscitation were unsuccessful. His body was cremated and his ashes fittingly scattered on the ocean he loved.
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Note: Roughly 2 weeks after his father's death
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Note: While riding a surfboard in Spanish Bay
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