TOG Board Members

Carl is a lifelong resident of the Greater Seattle area. Now retired, he graduated from the University of Washington and was an electrical engineer for the Boeing Company on commercial airplane programs for 37 years; responsible for design, development, and research of electrical systems and installations. His hobbies are boating and personal computers. He built his first boat in 1961, a 17-foot plywood cuddy cabin outboard runabout and boated Puget Sound and the the San Juan Islands. Later, upgrading to inboard powered cruisers, he boated the British Columbia Gulf Islands, Desolation Sound, and the inside passages of Vancouver Island.

Bob is a 1949 University of Toronto graduate Aeronautical Engineer and worked in the aircraft gas turbine (jet engine) business in Toronto, Canada for 10 years and then on space rocket projects at Aerojet General in Azusa, California for 13 years. In 1971 he moved to Tacoma with Aerojet to build and test an air cushion high speed (90 Knot) ship. He spent several years as Project manager of several Navy ship and submarine related refurbishment programs. In 1982 he was one of the original members of the Tacoma Osborne Group which became the Tacoma Open Group for Micro computers.

Tom Stepanek was born and raised in Chicago, and moved to Washington with his wife and three sons in 1975. He has a Master's Degree in Rehabilitation Administration, and has worked in non-profit agencies providing vocational services to people with disabilities. Tom retired last year and has been perfecting many couch potato activities. He enjoys camping, digital photography and computer graphics. He has served as the shareware librarian for the Toggle Computer club for the past 8 years.

Bob was born in Fargo, ND. In 1947 he graduated from Acalanes HS just east of Oakland, CA. He graduated in 1953 from the U of W with a BA in math. In 1973 he received an MA degree in the teaching of math from WSU. For 32 years he taught in the public school system. For 8 years he taught an evening class for Pierce College at McChord. He recently has started doing substitute teaching at the secondary level in the Puyallup School District.