Dallas Damon was raised in Atlanta, Ga., the son of an electrical engineer working on a missile program for Lockheed-Martin. Now the ripe old age of 24 and just having ventured out from the South, he decided to move to Indianapolis after graduating from Emory University with a B.S. in Biomechanics. He took a position in the research department of IU at the medical center on the campus of IUPUI.