Jerome V. Scholle’s life journey has been an undoing of the childhood emotional abandonment incurred growing up as the pre-World II oldest of five children in rural southern Indiana. His parents married at mid-life for the first time and were ostracized from their families for a time because of their mixed religion marriage. They were workaholics with little association with families having children of his own age; thus, not having playmates of his age through high school. This set the stage for intellectual pursuits as an individualist doing things on his own.