Joe Vitovec came to this country from Czechoslovakia in 1950 after escaping from the communist regime in 1948 and spending two years in various refugee camps in Germany, France, and Italy. He spent the last forty years as an art director and developer of training programs and training simulators for the Air Force. He is a graduate in history and art from the Texas Christian University, urban studies at the University of Texas, and was an instructor in political science at the Tarrant Community College in Fort Worth, Texas. He and his wife Ruth live in Anacortes, Washington.