American Humanist Association
2003 Chapter of the Year
HSNM Organization
Officers
President - Fred March 
He learned more by working: truck farming through high school and college in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and jackhammering in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. He served as student pastor at the Presbyterian Church, Hamburg, New Jersey for four years while in seminary. In 1958 he and his wife and three children moved to New Mexico, where he served as bi-lingual missionary pastor, in Bernalillo, Alameda, and Placitas for eight years. He served as Permanent Clerk of the Presbytery of Rio Grande, Chairman of Enlistments and Candidates, Chairman of the Commission on Race, and Moderator of the Presbytery. In 1966 he left the church, in sorrow and anger, mostly over the Vietnam War. He taught school for ten years, at the Albuquerque Academy and at Sandia Preparatory School. Since 1976 he has been self-employed and building a body of work as a writer. He has assisted in his wife's business, Draperies by Adela, as bookkeeper, estimator and installer, and has managed several businesses of his own, including worm ranching, organic gardening, conducting dream workshops, raising rabbits, selling fireplace inserts and caning chairs. His interests include: cosmology, philosophy, psychology, mythology, death, anthropology, literature, biography, drama, film, dreams, Spanish, Mind Games, Tarot, piano, basketry, caning, gardening, bees, ecology, travel, his marriage to Adela Amador, five grown children and step-children, and seven grandchildren. He is editor-in-chief of Amador Publishers, an independent press with a total of twenty-three titles, including two prize-winners.
John and his wife, Karin, enjoy traveling and have traveled extensively in Europe and South America. They are both involved in Special Olympics and a special handicapped Boy Scout troop. They have had three foreign exchange students through American Field Service (AFS). John organized a business study tour for German young people through AFS and the German government in 1999. Since retirement John has been a substitute teacher, a Big Brother/Big Sister volunteer, a tutor for the Alameda Literacy Program, a tutor for special education students at Del Norte high school, and an OASIS tutor in elementary schools. He has also been a regional judge for the New Mexico Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
With 5 decades in information systems, aerospace sciences, and operations research, Ed has learned and forgotten many cutting-edge technologies and programming languages. Starting as an undergraduate in the 1950's, his work in scientific computing includes analysis, programming, architectural design, mathematical modeling, maintenance, and building computers from components.
Ed is currently the principal software developer (volunteer) and a sustainable earth visionary supporting a worldwide environmental data rescue group headquartered in Deale, MD.
His hobbies include lap swimming, bicycling, jazz composition and listening, computer building with open-source software and operating systems, mysticism, philosophy, and experimental ham radio.
Against almost impossible odds, Ed survived lung cancer-14 years of not counting too closely and living in short sequential time slices to avoid thinking about the future. He is active in peer-managed support for Asperger's syndrome. His first 20 years of chasing cows and growing crops among the Douglas fir and snow-capped mountains of Oregon inspire his late-life earth-science volunteering.
Ron is from Las Vegas, NM, where he earned a BS in physics and math from New Mexico Highlands University with minors in earth science and music. He completed a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering at UNM in 1981 and a Master in Business from UNM in May of 2006. He has worked as a product development engineer designing positioning systems and alternate energy systems. Ron now has his own small company called Engineering Ideas. He has been the primary author of many technical reports and plans, newsletters, and articles on humanism.
Ron grew up in a Catholic family, then was a Baha'i for a while, and later attended the Unitarian and Religious Science Churches in Albuquerque. He was president of the Music, Musings, and Meditation Fellowship in the late 1990s. Ron has two grown children, whom he raised alone, after their mother was killed by a drunk driver. He supports a variety of environmental, social, and civil rights organizations.
Currently Jeff is a captain stationed at Kirtland AFB. He is the deputy branch chief for the Satellite Assessment Center. He is married to Betsy and they have two boys, ages 4 and 6. He coaches youth soccer for the Rio Rancho Soccer Club and occasionally finds the time to play some soccer himself. His interests include anything related to the space program, soccer, and cooking.
HSNM Authors and Artists
Fred March is a writer who focuses on religion, its philosophy, psychology, and history. The Bible Through the Eyes of its Authors was his first book, published in 2006. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and retired from a career in worldwide economic development, which provided the diversity of exposure to religious cultures that motivated his writing career.
Vice President - Harry Willson
Harry Willson's formal schooling include a B.A. in chemistry and math at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1953, and a Master of Divinity in ancient mid-east language and literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. He also became bilingual, through one year of Spanish Studies at the University of Madrid, and he has since studied Spanish, literature, philosophy, mythology, and theatre arts at the University of New Mexico. He has the Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera from the University of Salamanca.
Secretary - John Waldrop
John received his BSEE from Auburn University in 1962 and worked as an engineer for NASA, Sperry Flight Systems and Honeywell until his retirement in 1998. He is married and has two sons, one in Albuquerque, and the other in Redwood City, California.
Treasurer - Ed Root
Ed holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of New Mexico, and a BS Physics and a BS Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University. He has been active in music composition and performance at Pima College in Arizona and the University of New Mexico.
Newsletter Editor - Randy Wall
Randy was born and raised in Artesia, New Mexico. In 1986, he earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology at New Mexico State University. He has worked in a healthcare setting since and is currently employed by Presbyterian Healthcare Services as an Administrative Secretary. His interests include the martial arts, science, popular culture and of course, Humanism.
Membership Chairperson - vacant
Director of Public Relations - vacant
Director of Classes - Ron Herman
Ron was the Special Projects Director for the Humanist Society of New Mexico for two years. In that office, he led the Advertising and Humanism School Subcommittees, and he helped start the Humanist Society at The University of New Mexico. He is now Director of Classes on the History of Science and Religion.
Head of HSNM Family Co-op - Jeff Cornelius
Jeff graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a BS in Aerospace Engineering. While at Embry-Riddle, Jeff was a cadet in the Air Force ROTC detachment and upon graduation he received his commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Force. His first assignment was at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH. He then went to the Air Force Institute of Technology to pursue a master's degree in Astronautical Engineering.
Webmaster - Phil Smith
Phil Smith is a space industry analyst and freelance artist. As an employee of companies like SAIC and Futron Corporation, he has supported the space activities of civil organizations, private industry, and military agencies, providing detailed analyses related to the commercialization of space, including existing and emerging markets (such as personal space transportation, or space tourism), trend analysis using historical data, characterization of the nation's space architecture, international space activity, potential economic impacts of loss of space services, and space technology policy. He also served eight years in the United States Air Force, both as a nuclear cruise missile specialist and a bioenvironmental engineering technician. Phil also ran for public office in 1997, making an unsuccessful bid for a seat on the Omaha City Council. Phil lives in the Denver, Colorado area.
Fred March
Phil Smith
Harry Willson