Editing Hayes Noel (section)

== Timeline ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Event
|-
| 1941
| Born
|-
| 1970s
| Works as a stockbroker and develops a friendship with Charles Gaines
|-
| Late 1970s
| Debates survival skills with Gaines
|-
| Summer 1980
| Continues discussions with Gaines on Martha's Vineyard
|-
| 1980–1981
| Participates in early experiments with paint-firing marking pistols
|-
| 27 June 1981
| Helps organise and participates in the first widely documented paintball game
|-
| 1981–1982
| Participates in the establishment and early development of National Survival Game
|-
| 1980s
| National Survival Game expands its equipment and field-licensing operations
|-
| Early 1990s
| Withdraws from active involvement in the paintball industry following NSG's decline
|-
| October 1998
| Delivers keynote address at the International Masters in Nashville
|-
| July 2018
| Interviewed for WBUR's investigation into the first paintball game
|-
| 2024
| Featured in Charles Gaines's retrospective account of paintball's origins
|}