 He also had a penchant for tinkering with everything from go-karts to model airplanes and was always building or designing.A top student and a member of the varsity basketball team, he graduated from Ottawa Hills High School in 1965.Before his musical career, Scholz received both a bachelor's degree (1969) and a master's degree (1970) in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for Polaroid Corporation as a senior product design engineer.