I received my BS and PH.D. in physics from CalTech in 1962 and Columbia in 1968, respectively. My introduction to the fascinating enigma of core collapse supernovae was occasioned during my postdocing at New Mexico Tech with Stirling Colgate. He, together with White, had recently completed a pioneering study of core collapse supernovae in which the role of neutrinos was emphasized. I have been at Florida Atlantic University since 1970 and watched it expand by a factor of five. (I only wish my supernova simulations resulted in similar core expansions.) I worked mostly alone for 20 years after which time I started collaboration with Tony Mezzacappa which has now blossomed into the multi-university, multi-disciplinary TSI project. The core collapse supernova problem has proved immensely rich in physics and computation, never boring, and after 40 years of effort still eludes solution.