Bill grew up in New Jersey, attended the University of Delaware, the University of Pennsylvania for dental school and an MS in Physical Anthropology, and the University of Washington for his orthodontic residency. After several years in the United States Army in Germany, Bill returned to Seattle, assumed a half-time orthodontic faculty position, and established practices in Laurelhurst and Kirkland…and later, after a decade serving as locum tenens for multiple colleagues, practiced in Bothell and Mercer Island.
Bill was active in organized orthodontics, culminating in his Presidency of the Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists. He was a prolific author and lecturer, and in collaboration with oral surgeons Jim Hooley and Roger West, inaugurated the interdisciplinary orthognathic surgery program in the late 1960s. He had the great distinction of being promoted to the rank of Professor on a less-than-full-time academic appointment. Bill interspersed these professional activities with two decades of environmental advocacy, extensive offshore solo sailing, and cycling the world over.
