Ronald W. Collins

Ronald Wayne Collins (b. August 15, 1949), author, historian and genealogist, is the son of Winfred Allen Collins and Leona Matilda Leppard Collins.

He was born in Glens Falls, New York. A graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a degree in Mathematics in 1972, Collins went on to SUNY-Albany in a dual-track Masters program in Physics and Ph.D. program in Philosophy of Science, 1973-75. His education has also included the Georgia State University School of Business Administration's Advanced Program in Management and Program Management (1978); Northeastern University's course in Operations Research and Computer Science Management (1982); and the University of California at Berkeley's Executive Development Program, 1985. He was elected to the Philosophy of Science Association in 1972 and was listed with honors by the National Science Foundation 1975.

Following a successful career in business where he held positions as Divisional Vice President and European Managing Director for the Polaroid Corporation, and following that as President and CEO of Convergent Energy and Convergent Manufacturing Systems, Collins authored over eight books of genealogy and history. He married Phyllis Jean Matteson on July 12, 1969, and divorced on January 27, 1999. By Matteson he had one son, Christopher, born February 14, 1970. On September 2, 2001 he married Janice Dodd; they now reside in Hebron, New Hampshire.

References

*Collins, Ronald Wayne. "The ancestral history of William M. Bronk : containing genealogies of the Bronk, Bronck, van Hoesen, Halenbek, and Funston families." [New York] : North East Genealogy Research : Collins Publishing, 1997.
*Collins, Ronald Wayne. "The Collins family history : the ancestral history of Winfred Allen Collins" Collins Pub. Co., 1994.
*Collins, Ronald Wayne. "A genealogy primer and sources listing." [Ashland, MA] : Collins Publishing, [1994] .
*Collins, Ronald Wayne. "The Collins family history : the genealogical history of the Collins family of Washington County, New York." 4th ed. Ashland, MA : Collins Pub., 1997.