I had a great letter from Bob Feller! He tells how he “stumbled” into his life’s work, which was doing research to restore art works in museums. His Ph.D. in chemistry qualified him to do this work, which was sponsored by National Gallery of Art, and he worked at the Mellon Institute. Bob did research from 1955 to 1988 on varnishes and other factors that cause fading in art objects. If you do a Google search on Bob Feller and ignore all the references to the Cleveland baseball player of the same name, there is much more data on our classmate’s career. I knew nothing on this topic. It is fascinating! Bob was nationally recognized for his lifetime of achievement in 2011.


Edward McMillan passed away peacefully on April 12 at the age of 95. He was a World War II B17 pilot, prisoner of war for 27 months and the last surviving partner of the original Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith partnership. For the last 15 years of his career he was a professor of business administration at Bunker Hill Community College. He is survived by his four children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Ed’s outstanding life experiences will be continued in the next issue.


Dum vivimus vivamus!


—Jane Hanks, 2630 Kings Crown, Shell Point, Fort Myers, FL 33908; jhanks1@gmail.com