Born on July 20, 1931, in Albany, NY, he prepared for college at Albany Academy and became a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he attended in 1950-51. During the Korean conflict he served for two years in the U. S. Army. In 1967, he passed his bar exams in California and, by 1971, he was a lawyer with the Stanford Research Institute in Washington, DC, and was living in Arlington, VA. By 1991, he was a division counsel with Dalmo Victor, Inc., in Belmont, CA. Surviving is his wife, Sandy Dibbell-Hope.