Ben was involved in World War II from the very beginning, having been at Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack. His service in the Navy included tours of duty in the Pacific. His years in the service are, no doubt, where his appreciation of the subtleties of The Word began. Now long retired from Fibreboard Corporation's Creative Packaging Design Center on the San Francisco waterfront, Ben lives among the secluded hills of Marin County, California. He sums up his 94 years with: "Occasionally I exhibited a trace of maturity.
