Lawrence Crowley has been an avid falconer since his youth. He is a member of the Falconry Club of America, the North American Falconers Association, and the British Falconers Club. He was a founding member and first president of the Colorado Hawking Club, and for ten years was a member of the Deutscher Falkenorden in Germany, which he joined when he was serving in the US Army in Germany in the early sixties. After his release from the army in early 1963, he embarked on his 15-month falconer's journey throughout Europe and Africa, at which time he became friends with falconry luminary Jack Mavrogordato and met many other well-known individuals in the falconry world. In mid 1964, he returned to the United States where he taught science to junior and high school students in Colorado for 29 years. Lawrence Crowley is now retired and living in Colorado and works as a semi professional magician. He is also the author of Letters Home - The Sixties: The Army Days, self-published in 2005.