A quick bio. for those of you not on our email list-i'll keep it short. upon graduation from our wonderful party school in '61, i went to colgate(another party school), married barb in 1964, had daughter, lisa in '65, graduated political science major, got "F" in economics and went to a bank in buffalo and ended up in the trust dept. had son, rob jr., in '69 and left for merrill lynch in nyc in '71. moved to bergen cty., nj, commuted to wall st. for 18 yrs. had a wonderful institutional equity sales experience at merrill(except for a few "crashes" along the way, and left to go it alone in '89. we've lived in florida(jupiter-close to palm beach, on east coast) since '89 for about 7 mos. a year and remainder in nj. fla. residents(no income tax) and love the living in our gated golf&tennis club-jonathan's landing.

i share office space both in nj & fla. with wall st. veterans. we're all singing the blues these days-will our stocks ever go up again? YES!

a challenge to the class- we have 4 grand daughters, 3 from lisa,1 from rob, and a grandson due in oct. (rob) and an "unknown" due in late oct. from lisa. that will make six! anyone close? what a treat it's been for us to experience all of this at such a young? age. needless to say, we spend plenty of time in denver(rob) and lisa is 20 minutes away in nj.

for those of you who don't know, our high school was torn down and is now an assisted living facility, where barb's mom resides. it's really weird to visit it!

Here I am, and to think, it's only been a couple of days! Anyway, things have been great. Dabbled with college; worked for Reichhold Chemcials in NWhite Plains for 23+ years and was downsized before it became a word.

Jim and I married in 1981 (just had to wait for the right guy!!) and we moved from White Plains to Teaneck NJ in 1985. We have two grandchildren, courtesy of Jim's daughter. (Can't keep up, sorry!!)

After I left Reichhold, I worked for a small family business until I watched them run it out of business. Then I saw an ad for a church! I've been there now for 10-1-2 years!

We have our lovely home in Teaneck, and also a lovely home in Bonita Springs FL. (Sorry Bob and Barb, but the beaches are alot better on the west coast of FL. Actually, my brother in law lives not too far from you; when we are in residence, he comes over to the gulf because the beach is better ;-).

I had a nasty bout with ovarian cancer in 1998. Went through a kind of tough operation and courses of chemo. When my hair started to fall out, I said to Jim, well, "'That's it, shave it," and he did and I was fine with that. Had a couple of pretty good looking wigs, actually. Now my hair is as God intended. Certainly not chestnut brown. I'm fine.

Jim is a diabetic and also a marathon person. He has run 4 at this point and will run Baltimore in October. He is 61 and trains all the time. We were n San Diego at the beginning of June for the Suzuki RocknRoll Marathon and it was great.

Always being the collector, I am a hugh Beatles fan, collect dolls from the 50's era, vintage clothing, and anything I think could further clutter up the house(s). But I am still always happy.

We are presently owned by two cats, Rocky Raccoon Hogan, a silver Maine Coon, and C-Moon, a cookie-jar shaped calico. We also have two of the horniest parakeets, Rock'n'Roll and Fabulous, who take great pleasure into doing the dirty deed and then destroy the eggs. We have an assortment of fish in the tank. I feed every critter in the backyard, but we did relocate about 6 groundhogs this year before our garden was totally gone.

Well I'm here in Las Vegas because all 3 of my children live here too.

I lived here back in the 1970's, then Dallas for about 5 yrs. & then Phoenix up until 4yrs. ago. Each of them moved here, one by one, so finally I did too. One, big, happy, family!!!!!

My wife and I are both retired music teachers and have been bumming for 2 years. Hope to have more.

We come back to Woodstock, IL and do a summer youth musical theatre thing and will head out end of June. We were on the cape 2 years back.

I have 2 kids both are married but only one grand daughter so far. Our son is in Michigan and our daughter is in Schenectady and has our grandchild. We are headed that way in Aug. and Sep to harass them.

On graduation from Marietta College, I landed the best job I ever had as a reporter for the Marietta Daily Times. Sadly, that bit the dust at the convience of the government in '66 when I enlisted in a Marine reserve unit (no illusions of great valor, just the closest unit to where I lived) to beat the draft. The unit closed down 6 months after my arrival and I was transfered to the next closest unit 297 miles away. They met weekly which meant a 600 mile mid week drive for 6 years. I volunteered for active duty, went to OCS, and the rest as they say...

My wife Jan and I were married in June of '66 at Quantico, VA.(It has lasted 35 years now so I guess she's a keeper, or one of us is) In Jan, '67 I left her barefoot and pregnant in Carlsbad, CA for a fun filled 13 months running through the VN weeds as an infantry platoon commander. Our eldest, Geoffrey was born in July of '67. We met briefly in Hawaii in Oct. He was 6 mos old when I got home.

Since 1969 the year that happily marked my departure from USMC, we have been 'hole up' in South Chatham, MA on the elbow of Cape Cod. For twenty some odd years I was an "upper" management goof in a couple of small building material chains here on the Cape. Both careers went down in flames as the result of some untimely remarks to some upper "upper" managers.

During our first "tweener " stint, Rebecca now 24 and living in Sacramento, and Michael 22 and still on the Cape, joined our happy club much to the dismay of their then 10 year old brother (and their parents for that matter).

During the second tweener I did some substitute teaching to pay the bills, liked it and went back to graduate school and got my masters in special ed. (What a kick, I was at 50 the oldest person in the classroom)

For the past 8 years I've been working with special needs students locked up in the juvenile unit in the Plymouth jail. The state took all the juvenile murders and put them in a max setting, the island of lost boys, and they are now my peeps. An interesting bunch of lads.

In the down time, Jan and I started a miniature/doll house building business which lasted for about 18 years until after suffering through yet one more unhappy Christmas of trying to meet deadlines we called it quits.

For the past 11 years we've been operating an ice cream parlor during the summer.

Geoffrey is a computer guy and lives with his wife Becky and our two grand sons (who we graciously allow him to house and call his) Evyn -6 (pronounced evan) and Ryley-4. He and I amuse ourselves in local road races as 'sandwich-team' runners; he runs way up in front and I run way at the back. I did a lot of running (2 Cape Cod marathons, 1 Boston and 4 Marine Corps) but now I fear my knees are shot and my M days are over - I'm content to struggle through a 10k. I've set the bar low - finish under my own steam in some position other than last. So far I've been able to meet that goal.

The only BMHS grad I've stayed in touch with until now is John Maret. He and I went to college together and now that his mom lives on the Cape we get together 2 or 3 times a year. We do a little running (again he's way in front and I'm way in back) and we ran one of the MC marathons together. He and his wife, Lucy, live in N.Y. and have two grown children, John and Russell (sp?)

So many years have passed and so much has happened...Mostly good things.

I married Bob McDonald from Hawthorne in May of '67 - Our daughter Ellyn was born in '68 and daughter Suzanne was born in '72.

In '73 we moved to Waterbury, CT - Dream come true - House, cars, kids, dogs - You know!

Ellyn became a nurse and is married with two children. Trent is 4 1/2 and Katherine is 18 months. Ellyn and her husband Larry live in Hamden, CT.
Our daughter Suzanne graduated from Louisiana State University - She has been married for 4 yrs. She and her husband Michael live in Guilford, CT and are expecting their first child in March.

Bob will be retiring from SNET in February. He is also retiring from his Business Agent position with CT Union of Telephone Workers.

I will be retiring in 15 months - I have been working at Adult Education for the City of Waterbury for 18 yrs.

Bob and I discovered the wonderful world of the Mississippi River about 10 yrs ago. We have been on 8 trips on the Delta Queen Steamboat. We have "done" the entire Mississippi, the Intracoastal, the TN River, the Arkansas River, The Red River, The Ohio River and on and on... We would love to relocated to TN in a few yrs. We actually did go to TN last summer to start searching.

I just returned from FL - There is no grass growing under my feet. Good thing I married Bob. He loves to travel as much as I do.

I have been retired for a year from IBM. After 35 years I decided to hang it up. I may end up going back to work again just so I can runaway from the HONEY DO LIST.