Biography
Born in Milwaukee in 1933, he contracted polio at the age of 17. The disease left him quadriplegic, forcing him to abandon a football scholarship to Harvard. He earned a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, then went on to earn a master’s of business administration in security analysis from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a doctorate in urban land economics and risk management from the University of Wisconsin. He began teaching real estate at the University of Wisconsin in 1964 and continued until his death in 1988 at the age of 54. His devotion to students and intellectual oratory earned him legions of loyal student followers.
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