~ Craig Stephen Hieber was born into the midst of the urban-industrial wasteland in East Orange, New Jersey in 1951. After his formative years in Westfield NJ, and throughly saturated with New York City radio and television, the Union Drive-In, the Blue Star Lanes, and Robert Hall clothing, he moved at age 14 to pastoral Chester, in northern NJ, where he attended West Morris High School.

 ~ After graduation in 1969, he started on an ill-fated 2 yr. course of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Virginia. That was a bust. Two years later, after driving feed trucks for a grain mill, he moved back down to Salem in sweet Virginia in 1973, to attend the Biology Department at Roanoke College. He received his B.S. in Biology in 1975. He then moved to Vermont, where there were no jobs, but the scenery was beautiful. In Vermont, he applied his recent "liberal arts" education to washing dishes, painting barn roofs, and stone masonry. He also met his future wife Sherry, although he didn't know it at the time.

 ~ From Vermont, he moved to Grand Forks in 1976, to attend the Department of Biology at the University of North Dakota. A period of furious letter writing then commenced.Sherry joined him out on the northern "Great Plains" in 1977 after a Senior semester sojourn in Mexico. Soon after they jointly acquired the now famous dog "Merle". At North Dakota, he worked on spider web orientation to wind and light for his M.S. in Biology/ Statistics, which he received in 1979.

 ~ After three years of -20 degree winters and some stellar cross-country skiing, he (with Sherry, Merle, and some large furniture) moved to Gainesville to attend the Departmentof Zoology at theUniversity of Florida. He and Sherry returned briefly to Vermont in 1980 when they were married on a dairy farm on Flag Day. At Florida, he co-founded the Ultraviolet Police with Dr. Jim Cohen, and helped institute the widely aclaimed UV Police Ball. He worked on spider egg-sac architecture for his Ph.D. in Zoology, which he received in 1984.

 ~ He (with the above mentioned players, more stuff, and now, large appliances) moved from Florida to New Hampshire in 1986 when he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Saint Anselm College. Along the way he gained a son, Eddie (1987); was promoted (1990); tenured (1992);lost Merle to age but gained a daughter, Jana (1992); and was promoted again (1995)... all the while doing research in Mexico each summer on colonial spiders with Dr. George W. Uetz. Whew!! He later became a Full Professor in the Department of Biology.

 ~ When he wasn't teaching Ecology, Invertebrate Zoology, Biostatistics, or studying the behavioral orphysiological ecology of spiders and insects, he devoted most of his time to being a husband and dad, was an avid cyclist, skiier , gardener (flowers; vegetables; orchard), generaltool user, and restored machinery, furniture, in addition to his 200 yr. old house/barn.