Born in Bellingham, WA 1934.  Graduate Bellingham HS 1951.  Sports editor, associate editor and columnist, UW Daily, 1953-5.  Doble scholarship as “most helpful and inspirational” J-School student.  Columbia U. Grad School of Journalism, 1955-6, and reporter Long Island Press.  United Press, Seattle, 1956.  Seattle Times, 1956-7.  US Army intelligence analyst, active and Reserve, 1956-62.  Assistant to Sen./VP Humphrey, 1964-8.  VP, Columbia University, 1968-9.  President, Van Dyk Associates Inc., DC, 1970-6, 1985-1987.  Assistant Secy of State, 1976-8.  VP, Weyerhaeuser Co., Federal Way, WA 1978-81.  Policy director, presidential campaigns of Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy and Paul Tsongas, 1968-92.  President, Center for National Policy, DC, 1981-5.  Exec. VP, Milken Institute, Santa Monica, 1997-2000.  Visiting professor, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research and Claremont Graduate University School of Politics and Economics, 2000-2001.  Editorial=page columnist, Seattle P-I, 2001-2007.  Guest columnist, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Wash Post and other national publications, 1970-2024.  Who’s Who in America and in the World, 1974-2015.  Author, “Heroes, Hacks and Fools,” U. Of Washington Press, 2007.  Presently retired in hometown of Bellingham.