I am a native of Beaufort, South Carolina, and, in my mind, of Wilmington, North Carolina, where my parents grew up, I was born, and I spent summers on nearby Wrightsville Beach during the first 21 years of my life.

I attended the public schools of Beaufort through the ninth grade; boarding school for three years at Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Virginia; Davidson College (BA in History and Economics); University of Vienna, Austria, through the Institute of European Studies; Harvard Law School (JD), and Harvard Business School (Smaller Company Management Program).

I served in the United States Army Intelligence Corps as a counterintelligence officer in Washington, DC, and as a staff member in Washington of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.

I practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia, as a corporate and tax lawyer in what are now two of the largest law firms in the United States: King & Spalding and Alston & Bird. During this time I became involved in a number of small businesses in my hometown of Beaufort. They eventually demanded all of my time as owner/operator including First Carolina Bank, Beaufort Broadcasting Company (WBEU and WBEU-FM), Best Western Sea Island Inn, Rose Supply Company, Coastal Villages Press, Distant Island Company, and The Beaufort Tribune online newspaper.

In addition to my residence in Beaufort, SC, I have a summer home in Stonington on Deer Isle on the coast of Maine.

Now I am writing books for myself, publishing books for others, traveling, and hosting seminars in Vienna, Austria.

Educational degrees: Beaufort County Public Schools, Beaufort, SC, 1946-55; Episcopal High School, Alexandria, VA, 1955-58, diploma 1958; Davidson College, Davidson, NC, 1958-62, BA 1962; Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 1964-67, LLB 1967 later changed by the university to JD degree)

Military service: Officer in US Army Intelligence Corps 1962-64; trained at Fort Benning, GA, and Fort Holabird, MD; assigned to 902d Intelligence Corps Group, Washington, DC, serving as South American desk officer in the Pentagon for U.S. Army Intelligence; resided in Georgetown, DC; at work when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, and attended his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery.

Married: Constance Claire Bowen of St. Louis, MO, July 2, 1966. She died of a rare form of cancer (neuroendocrine carcinoma) after a long illness on 21 August 2011.

By: George Graham Trask December 29, 2018

I am a native of Beaufort, South Carolina, and, in my mind, of Wilmington, North Carolina, where my parents grew up, I was born, and I spent summers on nearby Wrightsville Beach during the first 21 years of my life.

I attended the public schools of Beaufort through the ninth grade; boarding school for three years at Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Virginia; Davidson College (BA in History and Economics); University of Vienna, Austria, through the Institute of European Studies; Harvard Law School (JD), and Harvard Business School (Smaller Company Management Program).

I served in the United States Army Intelligence Corps as a counterintelligence officer in Washington, DC, and as a staff member in Washington of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.

I practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia, as a corporate and tax lawyer in what are now two of the largest law firms in the United States: King & Spalding and Alston & Bird. During this time I became involved in a number of small businesses in my hometown of Beaufort. They eventually demanded all of my time as owner/operator including First Carolina Bank, Beaufort Broadcasting Company (WBEU and WBEU-FM), Best Western Sea Island Inn, Rose Supply Company, Coastal Villages Press, Distant Island Company, and The Beaufort Tribune online newspaper.

In addition to my residence in Beaufort, SC, I have a summer home in Stonington on Deer Isle on the coast of Maine.

Now I am writing books for myself, publishing books for others, traveling, and hosting seminars in Vienna, Austria.

Educational degrees: Beaufort County Public Schools, Beaufort, SC, 1946-55; Episcopal High School, Alexandria, VA, 1955-58, diploma 1958; Davidson College, Davidson, NC, 1958-62, BA 1962; Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 1964-67, LLB 1967 later changed by the university to JD degree)

Military service: Officer in US Army Intelligence Corps 1962-64; trained at Fort Benning, GA, and Fort Holabird, MD; assigned to 902d Intelligence Corps Group, Washington, DC, serving as South American desk officer in the Pentagon for U.S. Army Intelligence; resided in Georgetown, DC; at work when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, and attended his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery.

Married: Constance Claire Bowen of St. Louis, MO, July 2, 1966. She died of a rare form of cancer (neuroendocrine carcinoma) after a long illness on 21 August 2011.

By: George Graham Trask December 29, 2018