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Walter Benesch

After undergraduate degree the author returned to the city of his birth where he was a cab drive, a youth service worker serving in many rolls in Harlem and the South Bronx, while becoming the live-in caretaker to Nim Chimpsky, the sign language chimpanzee at Columbia University after completing his first master's degree in anthropology. Then off to Boston University for an additional master's degree which led to his career in Washington, D.C. The author retired from the Department of Homeland Security as a senior program manager and program professional instructor. This after a career in the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he headed many significant efforts including the being the initial compiler of the DoD Y2K Management Plan which lead to briefing many DoD components, professional groups and a NATO subcommittee on the challenges Y2K presented.

He served on a Human Factors Technical Advisory Group which included DoD, the Federal Aviation Administration, and NASA where he served on the board and head of the Human Computer Interface subgroup. He has been a Mason for over 50 years, active in both York and Scottish Rites. He continues to be an active member of various Masonic bodies in the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia. He has done numerous articles and presentations including for Sapere Aude which has posted many of his talks on YouTube including a talk on who he feels is the most unsung hero of the last century, Josephine Baker. He currently lives in Maryland with his second wife Charlene.