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How about a thumbnail history? Mark was born, a long time ago, in southern California. He lived in Hollywood til age two and then in Arcadia from age five til he went to college at UC Santa Barbara. While he was in high school, Mark spent way too much time at Santa Anita Racetrack. His mom was afraid he was going to become a professional gambler. Well, that's how moms are, you know. Now Mark and Eileen go to the Del Mar track -- "where the turf meets the surf" -- at least once every summer.
After Santa Barbara, Mark went away to graduate school in economics, at Purdue. After that, he was on the faculty at Northwestern University and at the University of Toronto, and then he moved to Stony Brook, where he spent 15 years as a member of Stony Brook's Economics Department. He moved here to Tucson and the U of A's Economics Department in 1990.
While living in Stony Brook, on Long Island, Mark would always attend the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadow every year. Also while in Stony Brook, Mark wrote and sold one of the early software programs for doing mathematical word processing on a PC. It was called TechPrint, and his company was called Stony Brook Microsystems. Here's the company logo:
Mark's daughter, Lisa, graduated from Amherst in 1993 and spent the next year living in Russia, first as an English teacher at the Institute of Applied Physics in Nizhny Novgorod, then as a journalist at a newspaper in St. Petersburg. Then she worked for two years at the Social Science Research Council in New York. Then she "retired" from the SSRC to go to Berkeley, where she earned a Ph.D. in Russian history in 2003. She was a post-doc at the National Institutes of Health until recently. Now she's married to Dan and has a daughter of her own, Anya, the cutest one-year-old in Vladivostok, where they're now living -- temporarily, thank goodness! (Yes, this makes me a grandfather, hard as that is to believe -- most of all for me.)
Mark and Eileen have their own website.
