Flo is currently retired from R&M Consultants, Inc. a closely held multidiscipline engineering firm created by her husband and several partners in l969. Flo became an employee of R&M in 1972 and worked on marketing, personnel matters, and legal issues after she and her husband opened the Anchorage Office for the firm in 1972. Flo is a graduate of Wayne State University in Literature, with minors in History, French and Russian (1962). She initiated education courses at UAF in l966 and again in l969 while living in Fairbanks, and was a student teaching class shy of an MAT degree from the University of Iowa before returning once more to Alaska in l969. The opportunity that occasioned subsequent relocation to Alaska was the Alyeska Pipeline Project which led ultimately to the creation of R&M Consultants. The firm's subsequent selection as geotechnical consultant on the Northwest Gas Pipeline Project required a move to Irvine, California. Flo studied law at Western State University in Fullerton, California and is a member (now inactive) of the California Bar. Flo and Jim have two married daughters and five grandsons all of Anchorage. She has been an active member of World Affairs for approximately 20 years. She sits on this Board as well as those of the Anchorage Opera and Cyranos Off Center Theatre. She previously served on the Alaska Worker's Compensation Board for 8 years and was a member of the Valdez Theatre Conference Advisory Board for four years.