For the first few years of his academic life Brett rigorously studied sports and girls. He scraped by and received a B.A. in mathematics from "the Harvard of the midwest" and was fortunate to get a teaching assistantship at Utah State University where he received an M.A. in mathematics in 1963. He served two years in the Army where again he was fortunate to get in on the ground floor of computers. He programmed Bendix G15 computers (not a washing machine) at the US Army, Artillery and Missile School in Fort Lawton, Okla. After the service he joined the Boeing Company as a software engineer and retired from Boeing in 1995. He went back into industry working as a software engineer and just before 9-11, the company he was working for in Seattle decided to move to California. Jobs in Seattle dried up and he decided to try volunteering at Ballard High School teaching C++ and Linux. He enjoyed it so much that he applied for a permanent job at Ingraham High School where he now teaches and sponsors the Ingraham Robotics Club and is the faculty racquetball champion. His other interests are creating Web sites, collecting American Flyer electric trains, sailing, gardening, camping, yelling at the neighbors to keep their cats out of the Schormann's backyard and restoring their hundred year old house with his wife Connie.
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