This is the story of the author’s life and career. The author, Billy Price Glass, was born in Memphis, TN, on Sept. 9, 1940, but he grew up in East Tennessee. Bill lived in Oak Ridge from the time he was three until halfway through his freshman year in high school, when his family moved to Norris, TN. He graduated from Norris High School in 1958 and attended the University of Tennessee. He graduated from UT in 1963 with a degree in geology and minors in physics and math. While at UT, he went through ROTC and received a commission in the Army Corps of Engineers. The Army gave him a deferment to go to graduate school at Columbia University where he studied submarine geology. He did his PhD research at Lamont Geological Observatory, which is part of Columbia. He and another graduate student demonstrated that reversals of the Earth’s magnetic field could be identified in deep-sea sediments and used to determine the age of the sediments. He discovered glass beads, which he named microtektites, in some deep-sea sediment cores. They are microscopic versions of larger glass bodies found on land, called tektites. The tektites/microtektites were formed by asteroid impacts. While at Lamont, he met and married Judith Ann Niggl and they had a son, Jeffrey Alan, a year later. Bill obtained his PhD in 1968, and started his 2 years of active duty in the Army. However, while at Lamont he was introduced to Dr. John A. O’Keefe, who was assistant chief of the Theoretical Division at Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. O’Keefe had worked for the Corps of Engineers and was able to have Bill assigned to Goddard, where he continued the research he was doing at Lamont. While at Goddard his daughter, Kelly Lynn, was born and the Apollo astronauts returned the first samples from the Moon; he was able to study part of one. After his 2 years active duty, Bill took a teaching/research position in the Geology Department at the University of Delaware in 1970. He was promoted to associate professor in 1975 and professor in 1983. He was Department Chair between 1986 and 1996. He was a Principal Investigator for NASA and was able to study samples from all the Apollo Missions and two Russian Missions to the Moon. After studying the Moon samples, he continued his study of microtektites and other ejecta from large impacts. Bill and one of his graduate students, Shaobin Liu, discovered a new mineral that they named reidite. In 1978, he went to Antarctica to search for meteorites as part of a team consisting of 2 Americans and 2 Japanese. They found about 300 meteorites. While at UD, Bill attended and gave talks at about 80 meeting/conferences, mostly in the lower 48 states, but 12 were overseas (France, Switzerland, South Africa, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Australia, Hawaii, Hungary, and Brazil). Bill was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2004 and was still undergoing treatments in 2025. His wife (Judy) was a sign language interpreter. She retired in 2001. Bill retired in 2005, but continued to do some research, publish, and review papers for several science journals. Judy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March 2012 and passed on March 29, 2014. After her death, Bill continued to do some research and publishing in various science journals. But most of his time for over a decade involved organizing, cataloging, and packing his large collection of distal impact ejecta for transport to the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria. During his career he was author or co-author of about 130 papers published in various science journals. He was author of two books: Introduction to Planetary Geology (1982) and Distal Impact Ejecta Layers (2014) , with Bruce Simonson. Bill interacted with several researchers that played a role in two major geological revolutions of the 20th Century: 1) the concept that asteroid impacts are an important geological process shaping the surface of the Moon and Earth and 2) the concept of plate tectonics.