Hello there. My name is John P. Rohner.

    In My life I have been a father, scientist, programmer, teacher, Manager of people, solver of problems and, even better, the designer of many new products that are in use daily, even now.

    In my schooling, and College work, I was never told that I could not do anything I wished, if I wished.  So, I have spent my life doing just that, anything I wished.  Sometimes WAY out of the Box. I have many "FIRSTS" to my name and am very proud of these and even just helping a new product get going. As Many design engineers will tell you every time you "start" a project it is like a woman starting a pregnancy and when done it is no less a "BIRTH".  
    I was successful at anything I did, well my marriages were a mess, but no one is perfect.  I was not a good chooser as I chose women that wished to have the money more than happiness. BUT, I did finally get that right it just it took a very special lady who wanted "Happiness".
    I do not equate "Happiness" to money. There is an old Texas Saying "There are two things you can but. They are Happiness and TIME. So squander neither". It fits my life thinking to a tee. All money ever did for me was make for more "friends" and bills. Both of which were drags on you. My farmish life as a kid probably made me that way.  

    I started life like anyone who grew up in a Midwestern town of 1400.
    My favorite answer to "where are you from" is "my mother". Where else? It is the only real answer to that question.
    I spent my youth picking berries, milking cows, swimming in the creek and our towns BIG swimming pool and keeping my younger brother Bob out of trouble, which he reveled in.
    Our town was lucky to have spawned a man named Kimberly that was very generous to the town he grew up in. Thus we had a bigger pool than the County seat. We also had a Fairgrounds, which was the County Fair.  It even had a horse racing track, Surrey and horse when I was a Kid and later it switched to sport "jalopy" car racing, still is but..

    My dad was in the Army in WW2 and came back as a Captain. He then commanded of the local US Army Reserve group, before retiring as a Major. He was also the Mayor for a while and even once owned the Ford agency.  Our beds and rooms every Saturday morning had to be dustless and our beds could bounce a quarter, or we did not get to go to the Movies downtown. He was "spit and polish", in opposition to my mom, and about everyone else.
    When he returned from WWII he started Rohner Machine Works, with a loan from my mothers father. Grandpa was a mail sorter on the Rock Island Rail Road. The Rock Island was steam in those days and had a round house here as the town was the junction westbound and southbound and overnight stop from Chicago. The various Rock Island Rocket trains, would come in and we would race over to where the engineer, behind our house, would  put the "steam" into them and we could get covered. My grandfather stood About 6 ft 4 and 300 lbs and Grandma was 4 ft 8 and maybe 90 lbs, smile.

    As kids my grandmother gave each of us boys a Baby goose to care for. She taught the geese the limits of the Yard so they would make all kinds of noise if we set foot outside our yard. This did not defer Bob and one day he was in the middle of Hi way 6 and nearly run over by a Greyhound Bus.  Bob was rather rock headed then too.

    I was a terrible student in Grade school, always dreaming and drawing, but I made my tests so my grades were not bad.
My dad was very ambitious and luckily for me decided to send me to a private school.
    I did very well and spent my spare time studying and passing courses.