For a biography in the Exakta Directory, should we consider one of the following options? Perhaps:
"Lou was born a little before coated lenses. After youthful follies overseas, he wasted most of his life as a bureaucrat. He hopes to retire soon, rusticate in Wyoming, raise bison, and assemble his Exaktas and his Packard automobiles in one place."
Well, perhaps that's too irreverent. How about:
"Lou Mahoney is a Medical Director in the US Public Health Service. His connection with Exaktas dates to that day during the Second Great War when he dropped and broke his father's Night Exakta. He has survived greater perils since, but he has always treated his Exaktas better." Or perhaps, ......