Ewin D. Gaby was born in Austin, Texas, late in 1931. Because of his father's occupation, he lived in 145 towns, in five states, during the next ten years.When the Second World War Began, he moved to New Orleans for the duration of the war. After the Second World War, Ewin's family moved to Jackson Mississippi, where Ewin graduated from high school and then college with a Bachelor of Science degree. He worked two years in Trinidad with a geophysical company, and then entered graduate school at The University of Texas, in the Physics Department. He received a MS in Physics. Years later Ewin signed into The Penn State PhD program in "Learning-Systems Technology" where he got an ABD (all but dissertation). He then started a business in Indianapolis called Training & Communications, with which he and his second wife worked for some 15 years. Finally, he married a lady from Cincinnati, and moved there to be with her family. He retired from Anderson Consulting in 1996. His wife died in 2004 and he has been a widowed single since that time.