We were married December 14, 1995. Shortly after our marriage I found out that Alma was interested in working with me on the revisions to Statistically Speaking that were suggested by the publisher nearly a year earlier. Alma had an uncanny ability to locate a quotation that lay hidden between the covers of a book. So, her contributions to the first book and all of the following books was to verify the attributes and insure that the quotations were quoted correctly.

Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither was born on 6 January, 1955 in San Juan, Texas. She went to school at Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High school and graduated in 1974. After high school Alma went into the US Navy and was stationed in San Diego, California. She went to Pan American University in Edinburgh, Texas for a while in 1978. Later she attended Central Texas College where she obtained an AA degree in Telecommunications. In 1998 she returned to Central Texas College where she entered into the college transfer program. She graduated in December 2000 from the University of Mary Hardin Baylor where she has a major in Spanish and minor in Art. She has worked previously in quality control, material control, and as a bilingual data collector. She presently consideres herself a freelance writer. Also, she is a Petty Officer First Class in the US Navy Reserve where she drills out of Waco, Texas. Currently she is working on books eight, nine and ten of a series of science quotation books. These books should be published in late 2001 and early 2002. In May 1999 she went to Italy and spent two weeks in Naples. While she was there she got to spend the weekend in Rome. In July 2000 she spent five weeks in Saltillo, Mexico. Early June 2001 Alma left for the Far East. During her 60 day trip she visited Singapore, Thailand, Korea, Japan and Hawaii. She returned home in early August. However, that trip must have gotten her started because now she will be going on another 60 day cruise. This time she will leave in mid-September and go to South America.

Carl C. Gaither was born on 3 June 1944 in San Antonio, Texas. He attended LaGrange Senior High School in Lake Charles, Louisiana. In 1961 he quit high school after spending three years in the ninth grade to join the US Navy. He was an Aviation Anti-Submarine Warfare Technician Petty Officer Second Class when he got out of the Navy in 1966. While in the Navy he was stationed in NAS Memphis, Tennessee, NAS San Diego, California, NAS Barbers Point, Hawaii, MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, and NAS Adak, Alaska. He graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1972 where he received his BA in Psychology with a minor in Mathematics and Physics. He has graduate degrees in Pscyhology (McNeese State University), Criminal Justice Research (Northeast Louisiana University), and Mathematical Statistics (University of Southwest Louisiana). He has also completed the Command and General Staff College, Leavenworth, Kansas. He has worked as an Operations Research Analyst, taught mathematics at Troy State University(Dothan)and various statistics and mathematics courses at McNeese State University. Currently he considers himself a freelance writer and is working on three books with his wife.