After previous attempts at retirement Jim remains active as relapse
counselor/president of the Center for Relapse Prevention. He formally
served as Executive Director of CADAS, Administrator of Focus
Health Care, Tennessee and Clinical Director of Lighthouse A/D
Treatment centers in Tennessee and Georgia. Prior to 1990, Jim
retired from twenty-seven years in Industrial Management with
Roper Corporation/GE and Allen Group Illinois, Ohio, Michigan,
Tennessee, and Georgia, including Canada and England.
Jim has served on several educational and mental health-boards
in Illinois, Ohio and Tennessee. In the early seventies he was
selected for an Ad Hoc board by the Governor of Ohio to design
the First Federally Funded Alcohol and Drug Treatment Model
in Akron and seven surrounding Ohio counties. He has also served
as Charter Board President of the Aim Center of Chattanooga.
He is presently Board President, English Mountain Recovery,
Tennessee.
Years after attending Iowa State Northwestern University and
Wayne State University he accepted his degree in Psychology
at UT Chattanooga while his granddaughters waved from the balcony.
Jim likes to tell about playing football at Wayne State against
the University of Louisville quarterbacked by a then unknown
quarterback named Johnny Unitas. Coincidently in that same game
in the Kentucky Colonel’s Stadium (1952) Jim played against
the first black player in the southern conferences, fourteen
years before the ban on black players was lifted. Wayne State
lost, but two weeks later the University of Chattanooga beat
this same Unitas team in Chattanooga.
Jim and his wife, Cynthia LCSW a former lifestyle writer for
the Chattanooga Free Press are blessed with three daughters,
two granddaughters, two grandsons in law, two great granddaughters,
a great grandson and a son, deceased. Jim is a Korean veteran
(1953-55).
Over the years Jim has been published numerous times on the
subject of chemical dependency in health-related periodicals
and newspapers including Chattanooga News-Free Press,
Women’s Way and local periodicals. He has also
appeared on television, radio and health care forums. In industry
Jim was published in the University of Illinois Technical
Journal and Harvard Business Review. Jim’s
first book (in progress) is Sober-In Spite of Myself.
His non-fiction short story, Rock, was awarded second place
and published in the 2004 Chattanooga Writers Guild Contest.
He enjoys attending CWG non-fiction and poetry writing groups;
writing poetry, short stories and his book; playing tennis,
running and yoga; as well as participating in dream, meditation
and spiritual growth groups.
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