Class Note 1966
Issue
May - Jun 2018
Marty Adler, reports that he is “sliding through my 70s with more than a modicum of health, love, joy and prosperity.” I hope we all are similarly blessed. Of course, Marty is doing his sliding on Maui, Hawaii, where he swims daily at 5:30 a.m., takes 20-mile bike rides and mountain hikes, plays piano, takes singing and Chinese lessons and works, on occasion, as an English-Portuguese translator.
Marty is also a dedicated Red Cross volunteer. He spent three weeks in Puerto Rico unloading trucks and distributing basic supplies to needy folks in both rural and urban areas. The experience, he says, was “challenging and joyful.”
Dr. Steve Abram is continuing his lifetime of doing good. For more than 40 years he practiced anesthesiology and pain medicine in Milwaukee. Now Steve, wife Pam, daughter Eden ’94 and her husband have established Another Chance Ranch, a nonprofit in St. Augustine, Florida, to care for needy animals—from dogs and cats to donkeys and sheep. Flo and Steve Zeller have visited twice. Have a look at anotherchance ranch.org.
Lance Roberts “took the road less traveled” and has been living on a mountaintop in West Virginia. After 35 years in the retirement business, he recently founded CIF Marketplace in Charleston, West Virginia, which markets investment management services to retirement plans. Wife Jackie is the consumer advocate director for West Virginia public utilities. Lance thoroughly enjoys their six children and eight grandkids and rescuing Dalmatians (about 20 through the years).
After retiring from Massachusetts Coastal Railroad, John Pearson’s world turned to salt—specifically the Saltine Warrior company he founded in 2015 to supply highway road salt to municipal and commercial customers in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Last December, when 55,000 tons of salt (that’s 110 million pounds) arrived at John’s facilities in the deep-water port of Fall River, Massachusetts, it was headline news. The next time you are driving in wintry conditions on the Cape, that may well be John’s salt on the roadway keeping you on track.
Doug Greenwood retired from his English and American literature teaching post at Georgetown, but has not left the world of letters. He’s hard at work on a book about his late dad’s experiences as a young Marine pilot flying unarmed small observation planes in the battles of Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Wife Lisa runs a major food and nutrition program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Good news from Neal Zimmerman, whose battle with lung cancer forced him to miss our 50th. “I am still here and breathing regularly,” Neal happily reports from Atlanta, where he and Sherrie enjoy the mild weather. Mostly retired, Neal still handles a few tax returns, plays some golf and keeps track of his children and grandkids in the New York area.
This issue’s 50th wedding anniversary couple is Jeannette and Oliver “Tripp” Miller, who celebrated their 50th in December with a 15-day tour of Rajasthan, India. The couple, who both began their careers working for Swiss corporations in Basel, have tried to take at least two overseas trips every year.
When’s your next celebration? Let us know.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com
Marty is also a dedicated Red Cross volunteer. He spent three weeks in Puerto Rico unloading trucks and distributing basic supplies to needy folks in both rural and urban areas. The experience, he says, was “challenging and joyful.”
Dr. Steve Abram is continuing his lifetime of doing good. For more than 40 years he practiced anesthesiology and pain medicine in Milwaukee. Now Steve, wife Pam, daughter Eden ’94 and her husband have established Another Chance Ranch, a nonprofit in St. Augustine, Florida, to care for needy animals—from dogs and cats to donkeys and sheep. Flo and Steve Zeller have visited twice. Have a look at anotherchance ranch.org.
Lance Roberts “took the road less traveled” and has been living on a mountaintop in West Virginia. After 35 years in the retirement business, he recently founded CIF Marketplace in Charleston, West Virginia, which markets investment management services to retirement plans. Wife Jackie is the consumer advocate director for West Virginia public utilities. Lance thoroughly enjoys their six children and eight grandkids and rescuing Dalmatians (about 20 through the years).
After retiring from Massachusetts Coastal Railroad, John Pearson’s world turned to salt—specifically the Saltine Warrior company he founded in 2015 to supply highway road salt to municipal and commercial customers in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Last December, when 55,000 tons of salt (that’s 110 million pounds) arrived at John’s facilities in the deep-water port of Fall River, Massachusetts, it was headline news. The next time you are driving in wintry conditions on the Cape, that may well be John’s salt on the roadway keeping you on track.
Doug Greenwood retired from his English and American literature teaching post at Georgetown, but has not left the world of letters. He’s hard at work on a book about his late dad’s experiences as a young Marine pilot flying unarmed small observation planes in the battles of Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Wife Lisa runs a major food and nutrition program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Good news from Neal Zimmerman, whose battle with lung cancer forced him to miss our 50th. “I am still here and breathing regularly,” Neal happily reports from Atlanta, where he and Sherrie enjoy the mild weather. Mostly retired, Neal still handles a few tax returns, plays some golf and keeps track of his children and grandkids in the New York area.
This issue’s 50th wedding anniversary couple is Jeannette and Oliver “Tripp” Miller, who celebrated their 50th in December with a 15-day tour of Rajasthan, India. The couple, who both began their careers working for Swiss corporations in Basel, have tried to take at least two overseas trips every year.
When’s your next celebration? Let us know.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com