Born in Barre, VT, Bill moved to Arlington, VA when his father was appointed director of the International Cooperative Development Program during the Kennedy administration in 1962. He completed high school in Arlington at Yorkstown High in 1966, where most of his classmates were either military or congressional children. Bill went on to attend Utah State University and studied landscape architecture. He completed his degree at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he was cheerleader during his senior year (the same year that Dr. J (Julius Irving) was a sophomore at the university).
Bill and his wife decided not to raise kids in D.C. so in 1979 they packed up and moved back to VT to work for Topsham Telephone Co., which had been Bill’s father's business before their original move to D.C. Bill only worked for the company 6 months before he decided he really wanted to be a builder and get back in the business. He has since built more than 150 homes and completed thousands of remodels. In the early 90’s Bill decided to get his real estate license so he could sell his own spec houses.
Bill's passion has always been his career--even though he has been in the professional world for years he claims he still loves getting up and working on his projects. He presently oversees five full-time carpenters and 20 or more real estate agents in three offices in the Upper Valley. In addition to his work at Century 21, Bill is very active in serving his community. He played an instrumental role in starting the Grafton County Drug Diversion Program, a program to place convicted addicts into counseling and educational programs as an alternative to prison. Bill and Peggy also own a home in El Salvador that they use as a retreat center for volunteers in the country (more information at WWW.VRBO.COM/151247). He devotes much of his time to other non profits for fund raising opportunities.
