GERMAN-BORN KLAUS KIRCHHOFF immigrated to the United States in 1964 and settled in the Los Angeles area. There he met and married Brigitte, his wife for fifty-four years. Klaus brought a degree in Architectural Engineering from Germany and obtained a Professional – Civil – Engineers in California. But he spent most of his professional career in Project Controls management on some major international engineering/construction projects in many countries around the world, among them Iran and Saudi Arabia. In 1998, he retired and he and his wife moved to Carlsbad near San Diego where he still resides after his wife passed away recently. He enjoys good music, traveling, creative writing and hours of companionship with friends, sharing his great sense of humor by telling jokes and funny stories.