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Inducted 1975   Growing
up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Mike attended Green Bay West High School where
he participated in football, basketball and track. After graduation
he attended the University of Michigan where he played football.
He then entered the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942 and served as First Lieutenant
in the South Pacific during World War II.
He entered Lake Forest in 1946 and earned two varsity letters in football and one in basketball. His junior year, he was selected Most Valuable Player and named to the All-Conference football team [and was elected captain of the team his senior year]. Voted "Typical Boy" and "King of the Commons" his senior year, he was also a member of Phi Delta Theta and was selected for Who's Who in American Colleges. Graduating with a degree in biology, Mike worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation until 1951. He earned his Master's degree in education, biology, guidance counseling and physical education from Northwestern University in 1951. He then started out a long teaching career first at Elgin High School in Illinois. Before working at West High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin where he served as a guidance counselor for 29 years. Late in his career he developed an avocation for tree farming. Mike spends his retirement raising one million trees in northeastern Wisconsin.
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