Class of 1966 Bios and Update

From Georgetown I went to the University of Minnesota to study English with the intention of becoming a college professor. My field was Medieval Literature, and for my doctoral dissertation I translated the "Architrenius" of Johannes de Hauville, an endless (4500 lines), abstruse Medieval Latin complaint satire. That was probably the hardest thing I've ever done (aside from rooming senior year with Fred King, Dan McEvily, and Art Charles, and listening to Art's endlessly playing his Byrd's album).

So I got a PhD in English for translating a Latin poem written by a Frenchman. My field was narrowly specialized, and when I graduated jobs were few and far between, and my wife said that if I really wanted to go to Moscow, Idaho, we needed to rethink some things, so I came east and joined Northwestern Mutual where I remain.

Still working; still married to wife, Ruth, a decorative painter; one son, Bill, and two grandchildren, Christopher and Charlotte.

I graduated from Georgetown in 1966 with a degree in Business Administration. I had a great time there where I grew up physically, mentally, and even socially. Aside from the academics, where I learned a great deal about business principles and practices, I became a fairly accomplished athlete. Freshman year found me on the sailing team where we were pretty awesome……but sailing just didn’t do it for me, so I joined the rowing team…The Georgetown Crew….in the Fall of my sophomore year. At the time Georgetown was an ascending power. Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years found us continuing those accomplishments. Just to stay out of trouble in the Fall of Junior and Senior year, while involved in serious training with the Crew, I played Rugby with the Washington Rugby Club with several of my crew mates…….. This was before Rugby gained a foothold on college campuses……my team was a bunch of older guys some from the U. S. but many more from the diplomatic corps…where they learned the subtleties of the sport….like NOT knocking the snot out of everybody and everything on the field……the parties were pretty awesome…..the alcohol consumption legal age in the District of Columbia was 18 yrs…..(but only in the Fall when we were not in training.)

While in college, I also attended U. S. Navy Reserve meetings each Monday night. After graduation, I spent two years on active duty on a really great amphibious assault ship out of Norfolk, Virginia. I was in a very interesting personal situation. I was a 22-24 year old enlisted man with a college degree from Georgetown on a huge and technically sophisticated hunk of metal, the USS LaSalle, which could and did withstand some serious challenges from the sea. I also had a top secret security clearance…….many doors were opened to me where I could be a cog in this warship…..which never really went to war except with an Israeli freighter in the North Atlantic, a significant sandbar in the Chesapeake Bay, a huge gale in Newport, Rhode Island……..you get the picture…..nothing more serious than some serious problems….none closely approaching what was going on in Southeast Asia.

I was honorably discharged in 1968 where I married the love of my life Carter. We met in college….that is another couple of stories….I rowed with her brother Bert Mason on the Georgetown Crew. We got to know each other seriously while I was able to regularly visit Washington, where she was attending Dunbarton College, and I was on weekend liberty from the Navy.

Carter went into education where she is currently a kindergarten teacher. I went into the development and construction business because I didn’t want to work in an office. After our wedding we lived in Richmond for a year, back in Columbus for three years, then two in Memphis, then again Columbus until 1985 when we moved back to the Washington/Baltimore area in 1985………locating in Annapolis…….where we still are located……same house since 1988……..I guess we like it here.

We have three great sons, great daughters-in-law, and six and a half awesome grandchildren. Oldest son, Mike (41), a physician specializing in soft-tissue transplants in Louisville (KY), has a son Finnegan (Finn) age 8 and a daughter Regan age 6. Middle son Ryan (36), a self-employed financial planner/advisor/mortgage broker, lives in Annapolis with wife Carrie and three daughters….Caroline 6, Caitlyn 4, and Lexi 2 months. (Carrie is a stay-at-home mom with a masters and doctorate in physical therapy). Next son is Conor, an IT software/hardware after-marketeer living in Dana Point, CA with wife Lara and son Hendrix (1) and the other half is due in October.

Never a dull moment.

Dear GU Rowing Friends:

The remarks below are a first person revision of a bio put together on the website at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Florida where I have been teaching English and Humanities since 1976 and serving as the Associate Dean of the Biscayne College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences the last two years. I’m afraid it might over-emphasize the professional and give far too little acknowledgment to such significant elements as our life-long friendships that have endured over the years. But here goes…

Born and raised in Chicago, I attended Hardey Preparatory School and Loyola Academy before enrolling at Georgetown – always following in the footsteps of my older brother Dean who had gone off to GU in 1960 (two years before I started) and distinguished himself as an oarsman and as one of two geography majors! At GU I majored in English, rowed on the crew (usually three-oar or bow), spent Junior Year Abroad with the Gonzaga-in-Florence (Italy) Program, and graduated in 1966. I often tell people I majored in rowing, and certainly what was learned from Remuzzi and Reynolds and Cadle and fellow “oars” in terms of commitment and teamwork complemented and in important ways exceeded the rest of the education on the hilltop! After Georgetown I studied at the Italian School of Middlebury College (MA, 1968) and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where I specialized in epic and romance poetry and the Renaissance, receiving the Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature in 1974.

From 1971-74 I taught at Gonzaga-in-Florence, among other delights joining the Societá Canoettiere to paddle a gig up and down the Arno! In 1974 I moved to the Philadelphia area and taught part-time at Montgomery County Community College and at Villanova University. In 1976 I joined the English and Humanities faculty at Biscayne College (re-named St. Thomas University in 1984), serving as the Chairperson of the Faculty Forum in 1978-79, winning the Thomas Sessa Award for Institutional Service in 1979 and receiving the Teacher-of-the-Year Award in 1980. I helped start the Biscayne College Honors Program in 1981-82, edited the SACS Self-Study for Re-Accreditation in 1982-83, and became Honors Program Director in 1984-85.

As an English professor I mostly teach first-year composition classes but have had the chance to deliver several papers at professional conferences, including the Modern Language Association annual meeting (1981) and much more recently at a Beijing Conference on Asian American Literature and East-West Studies (2006). I have published articles on “Petrarch and St. Augustine” (1983) and “Tasso and Milton” (1988) and translated a collection of essays by the Italian epic poet Torquato Tasso (1983) while also participating in Summer Institutes sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities at Princeton (1980), the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA, 1983), UCLA (1989), and Northwestern (1990).

From 1992-2004 I served as Chairperson of Communication Arts, English and Humanities. Study abroad experiences continued with the St. Thomas Summer in Spain Program in 1992 and the Study Abroad for the Earth Program in Assisi in 1995; I directed Study Abroad for the Earth from 1999-2002. In 2002 I joined the Board of Directors for Delta Epsilon Sigma, the Scholastic Honors Society for Catholic Colleges and Universities, and was National President (2004-6).

Two grown children and five gorgeous grandchildren top the list of what to share with you! Jimbo, the oldest offspring, studied engineering at Georgia Tech, earned a Masters in Structural Engineering at the University of California San Diego, and now lives and works in San Diego with his wife and their twin four-year-old boys. Danielle was born at Mt. Sinai hospital (Miami Beach), attended Pace High School, graduated as a Communication Arts major from St. Thomas in 1999, and landed a dream job with a publishing placement firm in New York City, adapting the skills developed as part of her St. Thomas University Communications major; she is now married and living outside New York with her NYPD husband and their three children, ages six, four, and two!

I love teaching, passionately believe in education extending “beyond the classroom,” and as a product of Catholic schools, recognize the enormous importance of campus ministry in the life of the university. What a gift it’s all been – and what a delight to soon be together with all of you again!

Never Row… Jim Conley

EDUCATION

• Georgetown University, B.S. B.A., 1966

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), 1973

• National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (CVA), 2003

FAMILY INFORMATION

• Wife, Rosemary (Dunbarton) – married 44 years

• Children – Son, James R. Hanna, III and his wife, Michelle

3 grandchildren – Bella, Josh and Jacob

• Son, Jeffrey Hanna and his wife, Claire

1 grandchild – Vivienne Faith

• Daughter, Patricia Hanna Winton and her husband Jon Winton

• Daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hanna

HIGHLIGHTS OF LIFE AND CAREER

Played high school football and wrestled. Played the French horn in the high school orchestra and marching band and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. Graduated from Georgetown University in 1966, having received a Jesuit education. Elected Captain of the Boats of the Georgetown Crew in senior year. Member, Washington, DC international rugby team. Obtained a private pilot’s license in connection with Georgetown R.O.T.C. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army upon graduation from Georgetown. Married Rosemary Horan, (Dunbarton 1968) in 1969. Served 3 years as a Chinook helicopter maintenance test pilot culminating in combat in Vietnam (1969-1970). Retired in the rank of Captain in 1970. Transitioned from affluent upbringing to a working professional. Licensed as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in 1973 and as a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) in 2003. In 1975, founded Hanna, McGlone & Co. P.C., a public accounting firm which has grown to a 4 Partner, 20 person firm. Served on PICPA Council (statewide governing body for Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“PICPA”), PICPA Estate Planning Committee, Management of an Accounting Practice Committee, past Chair of the Federal Tax Conference. Served for 38 years as a member, past Conference Chair and past Committee Chairman of the Local Government Committee for PICPA. Annual guest speaker appearances to address individual and corporate issues on Money Matters. Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Trustee for 11 years. Co-founded Shipley School crew. Facilitated 1989 trip to England for son, Jeff, to row in Royal Henley Regatta on the Thames. Served as Assistant Scoutmaster, Devon Troop 50. President of Dad Vail Regatta Organizing Committee (DVROC) from 1990 to present.

HOBBIES, ACTIVITIES, COMMUNITY SERVICE AND TRAVEL

Frequent New York City visits; 1969, Hong Kong; 1970, Thailand; 1976, Grand Cayman; 1980, Bavaria; 1989, trip to Royal Henley on Thames; 1990, '92,' 94, Bermuda; 1995, Alaska cruise; 1996, Tuscany (Roma, Firenze, Venezia); 2001, France; 2002, '05, '08, St. Croix; 2004, Firenze again; 2006, Turkey and Greece; family weekends at vacation home; sailing in Stone Harbor, New Jersey; rowing a single shell; golfing with oldest son, Jim; tuna fishing with second child, son, Jeff; hang gliding with oldest daughter, Patricia; scuba diving with youngest child, daughter, Mary Beth; Member of Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania; Member of the Union League of Philadelphia; Kiwanis Club of the Main Line, former Treasurer, Secretary and President; Managing Partner of Hanna, McGlone & Co. P.C. accounting practice specializing in tax savings for high net worth individuals; pledge to give back to the community with special arrangements for non-profit organizations; Commitment of Firm – stage an annual firm-wide service day and encourage professionals to give back to their community. Closet activist.

I’m originally from Cleveland and have been living here again since 1973. After graduating from Georgetown, I went to Columbia for my MBA and after graduating took an interim position as a financial analyst with Celanese Corporation until I reported for Navy OCS in April ’68. Entered the Supply Corps and then assigned duty at NAS, Agana, Guam. As the sign at air station said, “Guam is Good”, and I thoroughly enjoyed my tour there. Also provided me the opportunity for R&R in Hong Kong, Japan, and Kapingamarangi.

After leaving the Navy in 1970, I joined Don Cadle at Chase Manhattan Bank in NYC, where I was part of the Financial Controls Group. Great experience working for Don and the opportunity to keep in touch with Inge and Caron; but for me, one needs to be born in NY. Never quite grew accustomed to the commute and headed back to Cleveland in 1970.

I joined Union Commerce Corp. and held a variety of positions in corporate development, marketing, credit policy, and commercial lending and ultimately became Senior Vice President of Corporate Banking. Unfortunately, Union Commerce was acquired by Huntington Bancshares in 1982; and I was a casualty of the merger.

I then joined a small, boutique investment banking firm, BankCapital Corp, formed by former senior officers of Union Commerce, and spent the next several years arranging financing for cable TV partnerships and doing troubled debt restructures. Somewhere along the way, a would-be entrepreneur came looking for financing to start a sailing magazine called Great Lakes Sailor. My plan was not to be involved day-to-day, but our original publisher decided to move on; and I was the only member of the investor group who knew anything about sailing. I thus became Publisher. In 1989, we added a second magazine, Avenues, which was produced as a member benefit for our local PBS affiliate.

In 2005, I joined City Visitor, Inc. as Publisher and continue to work there. We publish Cleveland-Akron-Canton Visitor Magazine, which is distributed to hotels in Northeast Ohio, and Getaway Guides for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Carowinds, and Kings Dominion. (The latter two are amusement parks owned by Cedar Fair in Charlotte and Richmond.) We also develop and maintain online room/ticket package programs on behalf of their hotel partners.

Married to Janice Swecker, a counseling psychologist, who maintains a private practice. Two children: Rob, Executive Chef at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, and Julie, Senior Consultant at Root Cause in Boston, a consulting and research firm serving non-profits. Three grandchildren.

On graduation day 1966 I received my Army commission and went on active duty in August, stationed at Ft Leonard Wood,MO (no place to row around there). In December I married Suzy Coleman (Visitation Junior College '64 and Trinity '66). The next July I was sent to Korea and sat on a mountain top between Seoul and the DMZ in command of an air defense missile battery just in time for the Pueblo to be captured. After thirteen months They let me go home where I met my ten month old daughter Kathleen for the first time. Then followed a year at Ft Bliss, TX (no place to row there either; the Rio Grand is about a foot wide there). That lasted a year, then off to Viet Nam for a year. Back to Bliss, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, off to DC for language school, then to Germany. Got out of the Army in '75.

After looking for honest work, I got a job at the Defense Intelligence Agency where I worked Soviet area, Latin America, Korea, but mostly Middle East. I got to do some travel, but was mostly desk bound. It was terrifically interesting work, interrupted by stints in the bowels of the Pentagon every time there was a crisis (think Desert Storm, 911, Afghanistan, Iraq and a few others I have forgotten). I also joined the Maryland National Guard. Our mission took us to the Netherlands once or twice a year (it was a dirty job, but someone had to do it).

Suzy and I have three children, Kathleen and Pamela, both of whom live in the area, and Jim who's out in San Fransisco. Kath and her husband have given us two grandsons; they're more fun than rowing. In retirement Suzy and I enjoy travel (love to cruise), working out in the neighborhood gym and the grandkids, and I spend my spare time reading history and collecting antique guns.

I look back on my time on the crew with great enjoyment and satisfaction We shared something special. We did it ourselves, with little help from the University. And the sunrises on the Potomac . . . anyone who is still in bed after 6:00 AM should be ashamed of himself!

Prior to Georgetown University, I attended and graduated from Georgetown Prep in 1962. I remember visiting GU’s campus, hanging at Teehan’s and such, and hearing conversations and reading in The Hoya about Georgetown’s 1962 Dad Vail rowing victory. Having played soccer at Prep, when I came to GU in the fall of 62’ I played for the freshman soccer team. My coach was none other than Jack Galloway, who urged me to come out for crew. The rest is history. Fifty years later, I’m still rowing.

I was an English major. I maintained literary aspirations, in spite of such criticism as one critic who wrote that one of my poems "appeared to have been plagiarized from William Carlos Williams' wastebasket." (And I hadn't even read any William Carlos Williams, yet.) I later came to cultivate an interest in the imagist poets. I thought I might write for a living.

I worked at the Georgetown Hospital & Medical School, O'Donnell's Bookstore, and later at the Cellar Door. I was dishwasher, then cook, then bartender, then waiter. They retired my vest in 1967. I studied Tae Kwan Do with Jhoon Doo Rhee. I began my rugby career (together with Dan McEvily) my sophomore year with the Washington Rugby Football Club.

I spent my summers in DC throughout college to continue and improve my rowing. I bought in completely to Don Cadle’s philosophy that one could accomplish anything to which he set his mind. When we set our sights on the Olympic Trials, in spite of my youth and inexperience, I was happy to train with and serve as a sparring partner or alternate (at best) for the first boat, who were gods among men. On a day that summer when a time trial was scheduled, Fred Volbrecht was sick, and I was asked the fill the seat for the trial. I never felt a boat go that fast. They told us we set a new record. I realized then, if I hadn’t before, that I was hooked. The summers GU did not maintain a program, and the summer after I graduated and the summer of ’67, I rowed with Potomac Boat Club, together with Bob Lovas, Don Loomis, and others. We raced at the National Championships, Schuykill Navy Regattas, Independence Day Regattas, NAAO Regatta, Canadian Henley, and other regattas I cannot recall.

After I graduated from Georgetown, I went to law school at Tulane. Although I returned to DC to row the summer after my first year, I was having rowing withdrawal. I couldn’t find rowing in New Orleans, and my efforts to start a crew were thwarted by site problems. I turned to other athletic pursuits. Since graduate students could play club sports, I played soccer, becoming player-coach within the year. I coached the men's teams for ten years, when I tried to retire. At that time the ladies began a team, and asked me to come out of retirement and coach them. I could never say no to the ladies, so I coached the ladies' teams for ten years. Tulane’s soccer teams had more than 400 victories in those twenty years. I coached the Louisiana Women’s Select Soccer Team for several years. I also played for decades in the New Orleans City Soccer League, a primarily-Latino league. I played with teams called “Nicaragua,” “Costa Rica,” “Hellenic Glory” (a Greek team) and the “New Orleans Blues.” I had the humbling experience of competing against a professional team in Costa Rica, and I played masters soccer until my fifties.

I was one of the founders of the Tulane Rugby Football Club in '66-'67, and played for decades with both Tulane and the New Orleans Rugby Football Club. We competed from Canada to the Bahamas and most points in-between. I last played last April, at age 67, surviving a match with each of those two clubs. Our teams have never lost a party.

I did soon discover rowing in the Crescent City, and continued my rowing career with the New Orleans Rowing Club, which I have served as president for decades. I have raced all over the US, from Boston to Austin, at the Canadian Henley, in an eight with the Northern Ireland Rowing Club in Amsterdam, and with Vesper at a coastal rowing race in Monaco. I rowed in a master’s coxed four for years which was known as “The Moaners,” which consisted of three former Hoyas (Steve Mawn ‘69, Rob Spangenberg ’68, and myself) and a former IRA champion from Syracuse. I race in the Marathon Rowing Championships (26.2 miles) practically every year, even though every year I swear I’ll never do it again. I’ve won seven golds, five silvers, and a bronze. I coach for the New Orleans Rowing Club and I assist with the Tulane University Crew. In 1993, I began rowing the Irish currachs, a traditional, flat-benched Irish boat. I race against the Irish national champions practically every year, and I have raced in Ireland on several occasions, including rowing in the boat for Inis Mor, in the Aran Islands inter-island race. I have donated a currach to the Louisiana Celtic Nations Foundation, which I christened by racing the Irish national marathon-rowing champion in a one-man 26-mile race across Lake Pontchartrain (when he was 26 and I was 58). That boat is named "Archbishop John Carroll," in honor of Georgetown's founder, whom I discovered to be my ancestor only after my first race in Ireland. (It's a bloody good thing I didn't know this when I was at Prep or GU, or I probably would have been cursed with some sense of entitlement!) That boat can now be found at the Irish House Restaurant on St. Charles Avenue.

Halfway through law school, in 1968, I ate bad raw oysters and got hepatitis. My athletic life was interrupted. I dropped out of law school, went to bed for six weeks, and then took a job as a wrangler in Wyoming. The combination of the Wyoming winter setting in and the exhortations of an old criminal law professor to return to law school brought me back to Tulane, and I completed law shool and was admitted to the bar in 1970. Until a recent association with a brilliant young lady attorney (who was a former law clerk), I have been a sole practitioner, specializing in criminal defense. In addition to my private practice, I have also been the student attorney for Tulane since 1973, representing students, faculty and staff, and teaching law students. (I think I last had a full night's sleep in 1972.)

When I returned by bus from Wyoming, my luggage was stolen, which contained ten years of my literary attempts. Interestingly, I then became a serious photographer, making actual images instead of writing imagist poetry. I specialized in nature and sports photography, and for years was the president of the New Orleans Photographic Society and photographer for the New Orleans Ballet.

After two previous unsuccessful marriages, on 11/11/11, I married my sweetheart of sixteen years, Margaret "Peggy" Nead, an artist. She is my pride and joy.

I have been rowing since September of 1962. I believe I now fully understand our motto, which, at a time, I felt was somewhat obscure. That’s why I have a Vespoli single named “Never Row.”

After graduation in 1966, I was awarded a fellowship for doctoral studies at Georgetown. I coached the frosh lights at GU for three years, with my 1967 boat finishing fourth at the Sprints. I realized in my second year of grad school that I wasn’t going to be a scholar so I started teaching French in Fairfax County (VA) Schools.

I married Mollie Quealy, and had two kids while teaching full-time at high school, part-time at UVA, and coaching crew. I served for three years as head coach at GWU. In my spare time, I managed to write my dissertation and was awarded a doctorate in 1975.

With family in tow, in 1976 I set off for India to teach at the American Embassy School in New Delhi and became the Secondary Principal. I returned to US to work as administrator in two boarding schools in Connecticut (Pomfret and Salisbury). In 1987, I became Headmaster of The American School in Switzerland, located in the beautiful Swiss village of Lugano and moved there with family.

After three years in Switzerland, I returned to our house in Brooklin, Maine sans wife, and spent the next year raising my 17-year-old son, earning $100 a week as a French teacher at the local elementary school, and looking for a job.

I landed a one-year position at Norfolk Academy and moved to Virginia Beach with my girlfriend, Sandy, to whom I’d been introduced by her Norwalk Rowing Club colleagues, Phil Negus and Nick Carlucci. In the summer of 1992, Sandy and I married and moved to Ecuador where I worked for two years as Secondary Principal before taking the job of President of the American College of Sofia. Sandy and I spent three years there running a school on $1500 per student, but had the pleasure of working with the best and hungriest students in the world. We returned to Brooklin, Maine in the summer of 1997 on another self-financed sabbatical. I then spent three years as Assistant Head/ Dean of Faculty at Berkshire School in Massachusetts, during which time I bicycled solo across the country from Seattle to Brooklin (3800 miles in 7 weeks).

In the summer of 2011, I became President of International College in Beirut, a large (3500 student), PK-grade 12 school on the shores of the Mediterranean, arriving two weeks before 9/11 and leaving ten days before the Israelis bombed the bejesus out of the country in the summer of 2006.

Retirement didn’t last long. Sandy and I walked the Camino de Santiago in late spring of 2007 and I took another long solo bike ride from Seattle to Los Angeles. Since January 2008 I’ve been a managing associate at Carney, Sandoe, looking for senior administrators for international schools.

Sandy and I have four lovely grandkids, two in nearby Washington, CT and two in Granada, Spain.

I’m planning one more transcontinental ride this coming September, starting in Rhode Island. Let me know if you’re interested.

After my introduction to rowing at Georgetown in 1963 on the freshman crew, I transferred to and graduated from East Carolina University. I served in the military as a jet fighter pilot, flying F-100s and F-105s. I continued my love of flying as an airline pilot for Eastern Airlines and Evergreen Airlines for 21 years. I married a flight attendant in 1975 and we had 3 children during our 18 year marriage.

I have spent the last 10 years in semi-retirement working for the government at Dulles International Airport as a Supervisor for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). There is a T-33 jet fighter on display at the Dulles Smithsonian Museum that I flew when we were based at Andrews Air Force Base in 1968 (boy does that make me feel old). Also, there is an F-105 on display and an F-100 is being restored at the museum and is scheduled to be on the display floor in the Spring of 2013.

For the past month I have been visiting my good friend Walter Mess who is 100 years old and spending his last days in a nursing home. He was very instrumental in promoting high school rowing in Northern Virginia in his 40 years with the Northern Virginia Park Authority, and we talk about rowing and our time together in the great outdoors hunting and fishing. Observing wildlife was vital to our health and well being.

I thoroughly enjoyed the reunion in April, 2013, visiting with fellow crew members, most of whom I hadn’t seen in 50 years!

As Walter and I discovered in our conversations in the nursing home, it’s not the years that count; it’s the quality of time spent with friends and loved ones that count in the end. I hope all of you have good memories to reflect on, and I surely hope all of us have many more years to spend time with our loved ones, and to attend nice reunions with nice people like all of you.

Attended Princeton until asked to leave to give myself a chance to mature. Finished at Georgetown after spending 7 years as a USMC infantry officer. Unfortunately, never matured but as a Princeton alumnus still receive pleas for more money. Maybe I still owe them tuition.

Decided my life was too risky and became an intelligence officer more along the lines of my father who was in the OSS and other agencies after WWII. In the 70’s I became a corporate citizen in support of US Government agencies and soon ended up in Brussels as one of the corporate managers of ITT in Europe and an adviser to NATO on their air defense systems and telecommunications apparatus. My wife of then 18 years, by the Grace of God and new medical science, became pregnant with our one and only son and delivered him onto the Belgium soil.

Left Europe to return to Washington, DC and became involved with a company supporting the “hotline” between the USSR and US. Spent a great deal of time and money on a project to turn a Russian military satellite system used for the control of their ICBM’s into a commercial communications satellite with such characters as Paul Nitze (arms control negotiator) and Edward Teller (H-bomb). Was present in Moscow during some major events like the Baklanov Coup that attempted to overthrow Yeltsin and was holding Gorbachov prisoner in Sochi.

Later became involved with my own small telephone company which provided services to NATO and US Forces in Bosnia among other things. Am now acting as a consultant to a company that provides scientific and engineering technical assistance to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA. Still living in Wash., DC near the river on the way to Mt. Vernon. Still married to the same woman who is now approaching sainthood. Living vicariously through my good-looking 23 year old son who is currently living on the Italian side of Switzerland as a grad student in architecture.