Warren Daniell advises, “Everything is okay here, if you can call being 95 and 93 okay. We are both using walkers when out of our two-room ‘suite,’ canes while in it. The atmosphere in Newbury Court is great, despite the fact that a healthy majority of the 80 or so male residents claim degrees from either Harvard or MIT. We’re here, of course, because it’s only three miles from our Concord, Massachusetts, home of 50 years and we still enjoy many local contacts. Like many others, moving in involved a healthy down payment, but with 90 percent to be returned upon departure.”

Foster J. DeGiacomo, a longtime Concord, New Hampshire, resident died February 16. Fos enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in March 1943, did his boot camp training on Parris Island, and went to an advanced aviation radio school and then to an officer training program at the University of Rochester. Discharged in 1946, he earned his degree at Dartmouth and took advanced work at Boston University College of Engineering, concentrating on aerospace. He spent the next 25 years with Raytheon in the Boston area designing and building missiles before moving to California with North American Aviation to work on the Apollo space program. Fos then returned to the Boston area to work with Raytheon and then the U.S. Air Force at Hanscom, Massachusetts, for 18 years with the Army-Airforce joint stars airborne ground surveillance program. He was an instructor at Northeastern University for many years and a long-term member of the Concord Rod and Gun Club and the Hanscom Aero Club. His wife, Nancy, died in 2016. He is survived by his second wife, Christine, and several children and grandchildren.

—Dave Kurr, 603 Mountain Ave., Apt. 331, New Providence, NJ 07974; (791) 801-6716; djkurr@verizon.net