David Boals earned a PhD in Library and Information Management in an innovative program at the University of Southern California that was formed with the goal of developing a social science of information.  While enrolled in this program, he met Elliott Jacques in 1980 and completed a dissertation that duplicated Jacques' basic research on the relation between time span and felt-fair pay.  Boals became an original member of the Social Analytic Learning Society (SALS).  After graduation in 1985, Boals went to work as a Civil Servant with the U.S. Army in 1988 doing Organization Development, with a majority of that time spent working for the Army Corps of Engineers in Los Angeles.  During his time with the Army, Boals applied Stratified Systems Theory within an extremely broad range of projects and methodologies, to include organization planning, Action Research, Total Quality Management, the Malcolm Baldrige Award, conference facilitation and design, survey design and administration, customer information, leadership training, Lean Six Sigma, design of organization structures, and while working as a line manager.  Boals retired in December 2015, and now lives in Santa Rosa, California.