Frank Fuerst

Frank Fuerst was born and raised in St. Louis, where he graduated from Washington University. He flew for three years in the Air Force, during which time he and his wife, June, had two of their three children. Then he spent a career in marketing and education until he took an early retirement from IBM. When June was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he cared for her at home until she died seventeen years later. Afterwards, he worked full-time to prevent development of the headwaters of a Potomac River tributary. He is now a prize-winning writer and poet and lives in the mid-Atlantic area near three of his five grandchildren, one of whom he home-schooled for two years.

In 2013, the White House announced that he was receiving a Gold level President's Volunteer Service Award for his volunteerism.