Here is a little tribute that Regan and I wrote about my dad to go inside of our gift to him. If he ever gets published, I imagine this could be his "about the author" blurb:
Gregory Lee Romans, the pride of Arnold Nebraska, has had a life-long love for books— especially action-thriller novels, children’s books, or books that hold contraband. Always a voracious reader, Greg claims that in his youth he read every book in the Arnold Library.
Before moving on to bigger cities, with bigger libraries, Greg attended Arnold High, where he excelled on the football field as both a star running back and lead trumpet player in the marching band—often during the same game. He graduated first in his class (of 29, but who’s counting).
Greg later attended Brigham Young University and served an LDS mission in the then-Eastern States Mission, serving throughout Pennsylvania and Virginia. After graduating from BYU with a degree in Political Science, he met his wife Suzanne “Whitefish” Romans, an original valley girl tamed in the wild mid-west. Greg later received an MBA from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Greg has lived all over the United States: Nebraska, Utah, Illinois, Alabama, and he currently resides in Richmond, Virginia. No matter where he roams, one thing remains the same: Greg is the reddest of Republicans (and Corn Husker fans).
Greg is the father of five wonderful children, none of which have seen him without a mustache, to this day. He enjoys foreign films, solitaire, meatloaf, political cartoons, and playing the stock market. A man of many talents, Greg has a knack for building and inventing, piano playing, and crossword puzzling. But perhaps he is most famous for his mastery of the sourdough pancake.
The original bargainist, Greg, never settled for less when it came to kindness or creativity. For that, he is loved and admired by all, but none more than his wife, children, and grandchildren.
