Jim was a rabid researcher even in Kindergarten, where if he was quiet, they would let him sit and read the encyclopedia. By the Second Grade Jim had read the entire encyclopedia and was already putting his mind to work solving problems. Ruth Ann's job in those early years was to wait at the corner to collect her brother as he cam home from school. You see his little five year old brain would be so depth in thought sometimes he would miss the turn at the corner and be late coming home.

As he progressed through school his teachers keep wanting him to skip grades, but his mother wouldn't hear of it. She to was made to skip grades and from her experience thought it would be best he didn't. Since he knew material so well his teachers would send him around to the different classrooms with a globe to teacher Geography.

Ruth Ann was just one year younger than Jim. This posed a problem since she would get his teachers the next year and they would say: "Are you as smart as your brother?"

Jim was in the Guinness Book of World Records twice in high school. Once for being the youngest State Technology Champion and again for being the youngest Grand Master Bridge Champion. In his Junior year, Jim was hired by Boeing to solve math problems because he could do the work faster than the computer of that time (the 50's).

In college Callis was given a security clearance so he could do design work for Boeing while still in school. His sister used to ask him "how's school going" and he would say "got another 8 hours of A".

Jim Callis was hired by Hughes Aircraft where he worked for 15 years as a Senior Staff Engineer in the Systems Engineering Department of the Electro-Optical Division. When Ruthie would ask him about work he'd answer: "It it hadn't been done before then it would take about 6 months for him to figure it out. If it was absolutely impossible to do then it would take about a year or a little over." Jim also created several geometric theorems with proofs to help accomplish his work projects.

Jim was with the Reform Party from the beginning and always a policy hack. He worked on the Immigration and Trade issues, but Immigration was his passion. He believed the findings in the Jordan Report and was rigid in the belief that anything stronger would be too extreme and impractical based on his study. And study he did. He read and evaluated every immigration report he could get his hands on and therefore was an incredible resource on that issue.

Jim Callis wrote many white papers for the Reform Party on Immigration, Trade and Banking. You can find them here on the web site and they are as usefully now as they were when they were first written.