Trivia

Walt is an inventor, with 16 patents in the fields of optical electronic instrumentation and electronic commerce.

In addition be being an actor, Walt is also a writer. His screenplay, a religious thriller titled "The Salus Imperative", was awarded Best Screenplay at the 2011 Naperville Independent Film Festival.

Walt is married to Esther Gutiérrez-Sloan, the creator of SALSArobics®, who was inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame in 2010 as the pioneer in introducing authentic Latin rhythms and dance steps into the aerobics industry.

Since 2001, Walt has been singing bass/baritone for The Buckthorns, an eleven-member mixed a cappella group, popular in the Chicago area, that has released three CDs since 2003.

Walt is a published author in the Journal of Addictive Diseases for "Hypothesis for Temporal Displacement of Metabolic and Neuronal Accommodation in Smoking Addiction" (1999), and in Color Research & Application for "Correction of single-beam sample absorption error in a generalized spectrophotometer cavity" (2013).

Walt is a former United States Amateur Roller Skating Association national champion, having won five gold medals for artistic skating from 1967 - 1970.