I'm originally from Nashville, Tennessee, but I moved to San Diego, California, shortly after WWII. I grew up in La Mesa and went through high school there, then on to college at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) in east Los Angeles County.

Entering the Army after graduation in 1959, I emerged in late 1963 as a captain in the US Army Ordnance Corps. I began my career in the commercial real estate industry in the San Diego office of Coldwell Banker Commercial (Now CB Richard Ellis). In 1972, I started a property development firm and developed condominium properties in San Diego, Dallas, Texas, and Jensen Beach, Florida.

I founded COMPS InfoSystems in San Diego in December 1981 and led that company through its first 10 years. We published confirmed market data on retail, office, industrial, apartment and commercial acreage sales, soon expanding through the western United States. My good friend, Chris Crane, then came in as CEO and took COMPS nationwide, and in 1999, COMPS became a public company. Meanwhile, I was able to attend Westminster Seminary in California near my home, where I graduated in 1997. I then served as a ruling elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in the late 1990s.

But when COMPS sold to another commercial real estate database publishing company (CoStar) in 2000, Amy and I retired and moved to the mountains of North Carolina, a place I had always admired. Since then, after teaching and serving for 12 years as a ruling elder in my home PCA church in Asheville, we moved to Hartville, Ohio, in 2013 to help Amy's ill mother and father. Although they have since died, we remain in Hartville.

In 2008 I began teaching at the RITE Seminary in Donets'k, Ukraine. I usually went twice a year for a two-week term. Unfortunately, in 2014, the war in eastern Ukraine made it unsafe to hold classes in Donets'k, so in 2015, we found a new venue near Kyiv, out of the then-war zone. Of course, as the Russians moved eastward in February 2022, RITE was forced to hold classes on Zoom, which continues today. We hope the war with Russia will end soon so we can conduct classes in Kyiv.

Amy and I have three daughters and six grandchildren, all of whom live in the southern United States.

About Me

With a few of our students at the RITE seminary in Donets'k in 2014, just before being evicted by the Russians. If still alive or unharmed, these students serve as pastors and teachers in their country. In the striped shirt, Fedor finished his master's degree at Westminster Seminary in California and his ThM degree at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. He is currently professor of Old Testament and Dean of Academics at Evangelical Reformed Seminary Ukraine (ERSU) in Kyiv. ERSU was begun by Mission to the World (MTW), a ministry of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and the Dutch Reformed Church. ERSU is now fully staffed and operated by Ukrainians.