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Chip Drant
Pammie and I have been married for 35 years.
John O’Dell set me up on a blind date in November 1965, the luckiest day of my life. We have 2 children, J’Aimee
is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and employed by BCBS here in Columbia. Our son Court is also graduate of
USC and employed by INTEL Corporation as an electrical engineer in Sacramento, California. Pammie also works for BCBS in Sales,
so when she wins sales contests we get to go on some very nice vacations. (Rome, Scottsdale, Nevis etc.)
We have lived
in Columbia S. C since my transfer here in 1983. Bob Breither may remember running into me in Huntington, Indiana before
the transfer to South Carolina. I’ve spent 31 years working for Square D Company in Human Resources. Work has been great,
but in 4 years I’m outa -of –here.
Pammie and I spend our time working out and working in the yard. I play
a lot of golf, which gives me a chance to brag. I’ve had 3 holes in one, but the last one was the best, number 17 at
the TPC Sawgrass in Jacksonville, Fla. It’s the most photographed hole in golf, the “Island green”. I also
do a lot of woodworking and working on my 1966 Austin Healey 3000 MKII, which is fun.
After college I spent 4 years
in the Navy, played a lot of softball before I got sent to sea duty aboard the USS John F Kennedy, CVA-67. Nothing glamorous,
but I did see a Bob Hope Show, my helicopter flew the band aboard. Got to meet Ursula Andres and Lola Falona, they were great.
Life
has been a blessing, made even better by being able to communicate with you guys after all these years this is a dream come
true. Hope to see you in Las Vegas and if your ever in South Carolina and need a place to stay the door is always open.
Jack
Mershon's Bio: Graduated 10/66 with degree in Bus.Admin. Went directly into the Navy in Jan.67. Spent 35 mo. aboard the
USS America Aircraft Carrier - 18 of those in the Tonkin Gulf, Viet Nam. Received Presidential & Navy Unit Citation and 4
V.N. campaign ribbons. Got married to 1st wife 8/67 (went AWOL to do it). Out of service, went to work in Banking for a
total of 17 years. Also, managed an answering service in Asheville, NC as well as just outside of San Francisco for a total
of 18 years. Have 2 children, Ken is Major in Special Forces for Air Force, Danielle is senior at East Carolina U. Have
2 granddaughters and 1 step grandson. Married Donna 9/13/03 after 2 unsuccessful marriages. Am retired and live in Waynesville
NC (actually Clyde) in a much to big a house. Plan on living another 35 years to 95.
Bio for Bill Bangham
The
best highlights of my life are marrying Dianne Bryan in September1968. (Brother Peter Callihan was best man.) Our daughter,
Sherianne, came along in 1970, her sister, Shannon, in 1971. Friends teased us about having twins the hard way; it felt like
we were in diapers forever.
Both girls live in Memphis, Tenn. Sherianne is a student (again) at the University of Memphis
after working in restaurant management, working on a degree in education, and is planning to marry after her fiancé graduates
from law school next year. Shannon, a city planner working with the Memphis Arts Council, is the mother of our only grandchild,
three-year-old Max. They live six houses apart on the same street, which Max thinks is great. He is always caging someone
into walking him down to “Auntie’s house.”
As for early work history, I was a biologist with George
Washington University in Washington, D.C. I was in charge of the teaching labs and did research on the Chesapeake Bay. My
area of interest was energy flow through salt marsh ecosystems. I was a founder of the Center for Environmental Education
and Research.
I also spent two years in Washington as an editor. My clients included; The U.S. Congress, The Nature
Conservancy, Smithsonian Institute, National Education Association and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. I also
published two books during that time and collaborated on two others; none are currently in print.
I thought I was going
to make my living writing books, but began doing some freelance and got seduced by journalism. At first it was writing, then
I added photography. While I was getting started in this new career, I worked as a carpenter in my hometown -- Annapolis,
Md. -- and as vice president for a design and construction firm that did everything from renovation of 18th and 19th Century
structures to new construction.
Over the past 23 years, photojournalism has taken me to Memphis, Atlanta and Richmond
as an editor for three magazines. My magazines won international awards, including second place for Best Use of Photography
by a Magazine behind National Geographic in 2001, and third place behind Sports Illustrated and Time in 2003.
I have
worked in 48 states, most of our territories, and 60-some countries. I covered the Panama invasion, civil unrest in the Philippines,
Central and South America, and the conflicts in the Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. I’ve covered relief and development on
four continents. But my abiding interest is in the stories behind the stories and the role of religion is contemporary society.
I couldn’t tell you how many places my stories have appeared. One series alone appeared in over 100 publications in the
U.S. and Europe. My work has been recognized with awards in photography, writing and design. I just returned from my latest
assignment, which was in Iraq.
But perhaps the assignment that has given me the most satisfaction is coverage of children
exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. I’m still working on it. Fourteen years ago along
with two others, I founded a non-profit to work with these kids. The American Belarussian Relief Organization currently assists
800 children a year who live in the contaminated zones of Belarus. Six hundred come to the U.S. each summer for medical evaluation,
treatment and respite.
The magazine I worked with in Richmond suspended publication last year. I am now director of
photography and handle media relations for the Interntional Mission Board. Life seems to cycle. Beyond working with the IMB,
I’m once again concentrating on book projects.
Frank Schmidt
I graduated from Parsons College in 1963.
Although I was living in Yonkers,
N.Y. while attending Parsons I moved to Massachusetts after graduation and
have lived
here for the past forty one years.
This October I will have been married to my wife Gerry for forty years and
together
we raised three sons.
Our sons are now married and live in Florida, Connecticut, and North
Carolina and they have
blessed Gerry and me with eight grandchildren.
I have been business partners with my brother John for many years
and we
are still working in the liquor retail field.
I have kept in close contact over the years with two close
friends from
Parsons, Hank Trenkle and Mickey Taliaferro.
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Bill Canfield
Well for starters, I've been married
to my wife Susan for either 38 years or 83 years. I always have had a problem with transposing numbers. Seriously we have
four grow children and five grandchildren as of this moment. A fine mixture of tree boys who live with their parents in Wisconsin,
and two lovely grand daughters, who are here in the Houston area, and their parents are too, so it works well for all.
I've had a enjoyable career over the past thirty years in the telecommunications industry. Our products were radios and
radio systems used by public safety and business and industrial applications.
I was fortunate in rising through the corporate
jungle to national management reasonability, and a smattering of international sales as well. I've served on industry advisory
committees working directly with the FCC, and other Federal Government branches. Over the course of my career I interfaced
with customers at all levels, from end users, and a dealer network of over 600 locations, as well as local and state governments,
and large industrial customers. I've met some wonderful people as well as true charters of life through this process. In 1989,
I hosted some forty dinner meetings for our customers and dealer base, that started in Boston on Jan 2, and ended in Fargo
on Feb 25. During this process I learned the fun that one could have speaking to large groups, while making your point and
expanding the knowledge of a customer base as to our products and services.
That year I was also recognized by the
Joliet YMCA as their man of the year, for managing a youth sports program.
I've been disabled since 10/99 from kidney
failure and multilevel disc degeneration in my neck and lower spine. In 10/03 I received a kidney transplant which is doing
well or than the occasional character builders common during the first year of a transplant. the experience of receiving a
transplant is very inspiring and humbling at the same time. while your going through a period of elation, you're reminded
of the donors family who is going through a time of loss and morning.
My casual time has been spent in youth sports
programs with my children and the raising and training of field dogs for hunting purposes. While I'm no longer able to hunt,
I still dabble with dog training and skeet shooting when able.
The time spent and support that we've received working
on the reunion has been a most rewarding experience, the response from the members has been fantastic, I'm am so impressed
by the commitment and excitement that so many of you have expressed, the members are the ones that are making this reunion
happen! You are my heroes.
Autobiography Of Wayne Price
When I graduated from Parsons at the end of May, 1969
I moved back home temporarily with my parents to Scranton, Pa. I say temporarily, because I did not have any desire to live
or work there, but almost immediately upon graduation, I received my draft notice. So, for a couple of months I lived the
life of Riley, working during the day, and being a denizen of Scranton's considerable beer emporiums at night.
Being
classified 1-A in 1969 was tantamount to being unemployable, so my father got me a summer job at his company's tractor trailer
repair facility. There, in the company of some mighty fine mechanics, was myself, and one Paul Trible, Jr., a scion of another
management type at the company. Paul and I were the only college graduates in the bunch, and consequently, took a lot of
grief, and drew all of the dirty, grunt work, since neither of us were mechanics. It turned out to be a precursor for what
the Army had in store--the Army didn't have much use of college graduates either! Some years later I ran into Paul once again--on
the floor of the US Senate. He had moved from Scranton to Kilmarnock, Va. and run successfully both as a congressman, then
senator.
Arriving at Ft. Dix, NJ, in early September, 1969 I quickly discovered that college graduates mostly ended
up in the infantry. I decided that if that was going to be my fate, I had better get some damn good training beforehand (and
besides, maybe in the meantime the war would end) so I volunteered for Airborne, and I also volunteered as a musician. The
sergeant explained that he could not guarantee that I would be assigned to his band, but when I got to Viet Nam, they would
put me in a band there. When I received my orders, I was assigned to Headquarters, First US Army Band, Ft. Meade, Maryland.
This was either a total Army screw-up or Divine intervention. I could write volumes on this period, as the antics and occurrences
at FUSAB made the TV show, M*A*S*H tame by comparison.
Following the service, I remained in the Washington,
DC. area where I had been living in Laurel, Md. The apartment was nicely situated with respect to transportation, shopping,
parks, and had an abundance of single and divorced women. Everything a single guy needed. Since I had a two bedroom apartment,
I took in a roommate on two occassions, one of whom was Skip Blankenship, who was in the process of becoming a former New
Yorker.
The 1970's just seemed to fly by, as I worked a number of jobs in different aspects of sales--office products,
publishing, wine, and insurance. Life was good, although not entirely prosperous; in fact it started to look like a bad rut
after a while. In 1983 I left Laurel, having purchased a home in Annapolis, about 40 minutes away. Vocationally, I continued
my practice of wearing different hats, alternating back and forth between self-employment and sales management. It could
be pointed out that it took all of those years to realize that not only is it true that the grass is greener, but that the
most satisfying work is self-employment.
Since 1998 I have been working full time in my own home remodeling business.
I never married, but have been living with the same woman, Edda, since 1990. For fun, over the years I raced bicycles in
my mid twenties, I worked out at the gym until I was 45, backpacked along the Appalachian Trail, but now I enjoy more sedentary
pursuits, such as sailing, and performing historic research. I also enjoy cooking and listening to classical music.
In June of 2004, I was privileged to travel to England, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany with about 100 WW
II veterans of the 82nd Airborne and 101st Airborne Divisions for the 60th Anniversary Of D Day. We also visited sites of
Operation Market Garden, and The Ardennes (Battle Of The Bulge). It was such a monumental experience that I plan to return
again this year as well.
WILLIAM F. HAYES
William F. Hayes, born the ninth of January 1946 to William
and Evelyn Hayes. This is a name that appears on 3 marriage licenses,4 birth certificates on the line marked father and on
2 divorce decrees. It has appeared on 3 election ballots for public office, numerous traffic citations thru out the midwest,
but only on one Alpha Chi Rho membership card.
After leaving the Crows Nest for the world of reality,I worked
for General Foods Corp. for ten years performing the following managerial functions; Credit Manager, Accounts Payable Manager,
Traffic Manager, Inventory Control Manager and Sales Forcaster. That was when they let me use a dart board and a large crystal
ball.
I left the world of Fortune 500 and took a job with Northern Industrial Warehouse Corp. where I eventually
became Corporate General Manager operating over a million sq ft. of food grade storage space. I left this firm when the owners
sold the buildings out from under the business, not so different from the Fortune 500 group.
I bought a small
farm in Wisconsin, bid farewell to the Chicago land area. I started farming on a small scale, found I enjoyed the work, but
was starving doing it. At that time I took a job teaching in a private High School, I taught Algebra, History. Geography,
all Business courses as well as Spanish. I was also certified by the State of Wisconsin to teach at Western Wisconsin Technical
College. I taught Sales. Marketing, and Labor Relations.
The three times my name appeared on election ballots
I won and served three terms as Township
Clerk for the Township of Germantown, Juneau County, Wisconsin.
In 1990 I became an employee of the State of Wisconsin working with the developmentally disabled and profoundly mentally retarded.
My years living with many of you prepared me for working with this population. My darling wife Sandy convinced me to run
for office with the Wisconsin State Employees Union. I have been a Local President for the past six years. I also have the
dubious honor of being a member of a team of 30 Union Represenatives charged with negotiating Labor contracts for 35,000
employees. 2001-2003 contract is in the books, 2003-2005 still is hanging fire, and I have been elected to serve on the
2005-2007 Contract. I don't have any stress in my world!
I was pleased to have been found, even though I did
not know I had been lost. I did know that I had missed many of you over the years. Life is strange, we gravitate to the
present, we spend an enormous amount of time wondering about the future, and fail to cling tightly to that which we know best
THE PAST. If possible don't let me be lost again.
Fraternally
William F. Hayes
Frank
Olsson
Alpha Chi Ro
Parsons College 1963-1966
While at Parson’s
I was active in Alpha Chi Ro for the first couple of years. Then I met a young lady in one of my classes, by name of Ashley
(nickname Jody, then) O’Hern, and she became my main interest. Ashley and I married in October of 1966 after I finished
up my last semester. Brother, Craig Davidson was my best man. I hope he has been located.
After graduating,
Ashley and I moved to Oklahoma City, where her family was living. I started a new job with NCR Corp. but within six months
I received an invitation from Uncle Sam to join his army. So, I did the right thing and enlisted, went to basic training at
scenic Fort Leonard Wood, Mo, continuing on at Fort Sill, Oklahoma while learning the finer points of blasting artillery.
I stayed on at Fort Sill luxuriating my way through officer’s candidate school and, eventually, received a commission
as a second lieutenet in the Field Artillery, so that I could be a forward observer. This was not to be as the Army decided
rather than send me to Viet Nam, I was to report to Fort Bliss, Texas and forget everything about field artillery and learn
everything about Hawk missiles.
The Army finally caught up with me and decided I should go to South Korea,
and whatever they decide, you do. Upon returning from Korea in 1970, and to Fort Bliss, I enrolled at the University of Texas
at El Paso. I thought I might get an advanced degree but after a semester I got the itch to make my mark in the world.
Ashley and I decided to move to Phoenix, where upon I found a job with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, bought
a house, and we had our first child, Aleta. In 1973, my employer transferred me to the Seattle branch, and we spent three
years in the beautiful Northwest. In 1976, The Fund promoted and transferred me to Walnut Creek, California. Ashley and
I had our son, Arik, born to us in 1978. In 1979, an opportunity arose to join an insurance brokerage in Walnut Creek. I
joined the firm and have spent the years as a commercial property and casualty broker. Also, I have served as the president
of R.C. Fischer & Company for the past ten years. We have no grandchildren, but that’s probably a good thing since neither
Arik or Aleta, are married.
Other than work and career, I play tennis on a regular basis. I love to play
golf, but it’s a one way love affair, and I like living in the Bay Area where the weather is beautiful and we can do
these outside activities year round.
I’m looking forward to seeing everyone renewing old acquaintance
in Las Vegas this coming April.
Raymond E. Martin-Bio
3807 Foxwood Road
Duluth, GA 30096
770-448-0983
rmartin1@bellsouth.net
1966
- Graduated and went to work for Certified Blood Donors in Syosset, NY as a laboratory technician. Was drafted and went into
the US Army and on to Engineering Officer Candidate School. After being commissioned, held MOS in fixed bridging and demolition.
Finally realized the Corp of Engineers was out in front of the infantry building bridges for them to cross. Since I didn’t
want to be in the infantry and the front line (if ever there was one) it appeared sort of nonsensical to be in front of them.
Transferred to the Ordnance Corp as a Nuclear Weapons Missile Officer. After receiving training in Sandia Base and White
Plains, NM, went to Missile Center in Huntsville, AL. First real assignment was liaison officer to Israel, International
Logistics office. Had all types of “fun” with their wars since we supplied HAWK missiles to their Air Defense Batteries.
(Don’t wish to be political, but this Middle East stuff has not changed in 40 years. Just the players have. This is serious
SH…)
1969 – Married Jacklyn Ann Kelly and 90 days later received my next assignment to Korea where I worked as
a Logistics Officer in I Corp and eventually became a General’s Aid (Gopher). Also took some small jaunts to Nam, but
never had to serve a full tour there.
1971 - Returned to Huntsville, AL where I took command of the 227 Ordnance Detachment.
1972
- Became Battalion Operations Officer.
- First Daughter- Jennifer Lynn was born
1973 - Obtained rank of Major
and requested release from active duty.
Went to work as a liquor salesman for Star Industries in Syosset, NY.
1974
-Obtained job as Sales Engineer for Johns-Manville Filtration and Minerals Division.
1978 – Second Daughter –
Stephanie Leigh was born.
Obtained position as Senior Sales Engineer Johns-Manville Filtration and Minerals
Division.
Completed MBA Degree from Long Island University.
Served on New York State Senate
Advisory Committee
1981 – Son – Scott Kristian was born.
Obtained position as Southern District
Sales Manager of Johns-Manville Filtration and Minerals Division and moved to Atlanta, GA.
1983 - Obtained position as
Eastern Regional Manager of Johns-Manville Filtration and Minerals Division.
Served on and chaired various
committees at church over next 8 years; Youth, Long Range Planning, Stewardship, Staffing, Property as well as served on
council. Helped with actual construction of two expansions.
Worked with Habitat for Humanity, member of
the Tornado and the Emergency Flood relief teams through church affiliation.
1988 - Obtained position of Manager, New
Product Development of Johns-Manville Filtration and Minerals Division.
1990 - First daughter entered University of Georgia
and I became an avid Bulldog fan. Yes I bleed Red and Black and so did my wallet while she was there.
1992 - Left Johns-Manville
(now World Minerals – Celite Corporation, after being sold to Allegany Corporation) and began my own company, Filtration
Sales & Services, Inc.
1996 - Second daughter entered Emory University (and I thought UGA was expensive – contemplated
having BANK tattooed to my forehead)!
2000 – Son Scott takes pity on me after Emory and entered the Citadel on a Naval
Scholarship. Another Bulldog – but the colors are wrong. Charleston, SC is a wonderful place however.
Second daughter graduated from Emory University as a Psychologist.
2002 – Wife finds old college flame in Arizona,
takes Jaguar, leather furniture and cats, (among other things) and moves across country. Hell I got to keep the mortgage and
one of the lake properties; guess that’s something.
2003 – Sold majority interest in Filtration Sales & Services.
Inc. but remained on as Vice President Sales & Marketing at least through April 2007.
2004 – Married Barbara Lynn
Henley, close friend known all the way back to Army days on February 14th. Family increases to five children and two grandchildren.
Lorrie Lynn Humphries (Henley) now becomes the oldest by one year. Brian Donald Henley slips in between Jennifer and Stephanie.
Grandchildren Aubrey Lynn and William Ray Humphries, ages 7 and 3.
Son Scott graduated from Citadel and was
commissioned in the US Navy in May. Plans on going to Law School and making the military a career.
We are
in the midst of planning a wedding for Stephanie who will marry in 2005. (Kids do not grow up and leave home – they
just get bigger and bring with them more expensive problems.)
Starting to make retirement plans and, tentatively,
have hopes of moving to Melbourne Beach, FL if it is still there after this hurricane season.
Hobbies include Scuba
Diving (advanced diver) with family who are all certified, woodworking, fishing and golf. However, even though I have had
the opportunity to visit the Masters in Augusta over a half dozen times as well as work with Jack Nickalus when he was a sponsor
for Johns-Manville Corporation, I still play Star Trek Golf. I go where no man has gone before! I do get my money’s
worth out of the game, however. I get to see the WHOLE course!
Eric M. Marshall
Iota Phi - 1962/1966
Hi Brother! Thanks for taking the time to read about my life! I attended
Parsons College
from 1962 until graduation in 1966 and was a member of the
infamous pledge class of O62-¹63! While at Parsons I served
as Ritual
Officer of the Iota Phi Chapter for 1964 & O65. I also was the chapel
organist in 1965 & O66.
The first Sunday I was in Fairfield I attended the Presbyterian Church
in town and walked back to the campus behind two
delightful looking girls.
One of them had exceptionally good looking legs. Nancy Suydam and I were
married on March
12, 1966 in the First Presbyterian Church in Galesburg,
Ill. She was Salutatorian of the Class of 1966. I was holding
down the
other end. She still has good looking legs!
March 12th., our wedding day, was one not to be forgotten.
While
Brother Jesse James, my best man, and I were at the church, Ray Martin and
many other brothers divided the town
into four search sectors and were
cruising Galesburg looking for my Plymouth Barracuda which I had stashed in
the State
Mental Hospital¹s parking lot hoping that it wouldn¹t be located.
How WRONG I was. The ever resourceful AXP
brethren located the vehicle and
did some terrible things to it. After a few adjustments my father-in-law
and I got
it going and all was well.
Nancy and I took an accelerated program and graduated in February,
1966. We both
then worked as tutors at the college until I left for Naval
Officer¹s Candidate School in Newport, RI in June. That
started a naval
reserve career that lasted until my retirement in 1991 as a Captain. I
served in various ships during
those years and had a total of six commands.
It was a rewarding experience and I was fortunate to receive many accolades
over
the years. Since retirement I have earned a tonnage license through
the Coast Guard and have served as the captain aboard
a local dinner cruise
boat in Erie. Excellent scenery and good food!
My first ship was USS Keppler (DD-765),
homeported in Newport, RI,
which was the first Atlantic Fleet ship to take a hit in Vietnam. We had
six guys pretty
banged up but no deaths. I was Damage Control Officer and
that¹s a day I won¹t ever forget!
In 1969
Nancy and I moved to State College, PA where I commenced
working on my doctorate in history which, for several reasons,
I never
obtained. We were there until 1972 when we moved back to Erie County, PA to
live on my family farm. I went
into business for a while and then in 1978
entered the field of education as a teacher on the secondary level. Both
Nancy
and I have found teaching a very rewarding occupation. She retired in
2002 after nearly thirty years as a biology teacher.
I¹m still in harness
but will retire in June of O05.
Our greatest accomplishments are our two daughters.
Deborah Lynn, born
in 1968 has graced our family with two sons, Josef and Taylor and they live
very close to us. Laura
Anne, born in 1971 has given us the son we never
had when she married Chris, a local physician. Laura and Chris have
refurbished
the old family homestead where I was raised as a boy and are
just next door to where Nancy and I live.
Overlook,
our 132 acre farm is devoted to the growing of grapes for
wine, juice and jelly. Nancy and I enjoy our ³little slice
of heaven² every
time we walk in our woods or have a picnic on the hill overlooking Lake
Erie. The farm has been
in the family since 1830 and we hope to keep it
that way in the future, passing it on through our grandsons. Because of
my
interest in grape growing I have served as the secretary/treasurer of the
Pennsylvania Grape Growers for the past
five years, a state wide
organization which promotes both wine and juice grape growing.
Music continues to
be important in my life as I have completed over
forty years of church work as an organist and choirmaster. It is more
than
just a hobby - it is a passion that continues to give me an extreme amount
of pleasure. Nancy and I are very active
in our church and enjoy teaching
Sunday School and filling various positions.
Sailing has been part of my life
since high school. I have owned four
sailboats; was engaged as a sailing instructor while stationed at Newport
while
in the Navy and directed the sailing program at our yacht club (about
240 students) for four years and enjoy both racing
and cruising. One
summer tradition is to sail across Lake Erie to Port Dover, Ontario -
sometimes more than once.
The grandsons look forward to that trip!
For twenty five years I have served as President of the John More
Association.
John was the first settler of Roxbury, Delaware County, NY and
his descendants have kept track of each other since 1840.
There are now
over 12,000 of us and we gather every five years at the State University of
New York in Delhi, NY for
a reunion. It is a lot of fun to see these
³cousins² from our extended family and many lasting friendships have
been
formed over the years.
In 1986 and 1987 I worked as the media spokesman for the ³Better Homes
and
Gardens Family Network.² I traveled all over the USA, appearing on TV
and radio, telling people how to plan a successful
family reunion. While I
was employed by Better Homes and Gardens I wrote a reunion guide entitled
³Gathering the
Generations² which they published with over two million
distributed through the Family Network.
Nancy
and I are both involved in many community activities that are too
numerous to mention in detail but mine include leadership
positions in the
Navy League, Erie County Council, American Legion, VFW, YMCA and the
American Guild of Organists.
Nancy and I have maintained reasonably good health over the years. In
1994 I was diagnosed with cancer which was caught
early and successfully
removed by surgery. I have been cancer free ever since.
Nancy and I both look back
with a great deal of fondness on our years
at Parsons. Our time there was well spent and I personally enjoyed my
relationship
with my brothers in Iota Phi. Some of us have stayed in touch
with one another and both Nancy and I appreciate hearing
from you. The love
of fraternity has continued in my life as I recently celebrated twenty five
years as a member of
the Masonic fraternity and several appendant bodies.
It is gratifying to know that, as ³brothers in the bond²
we continue to
communicate and enjoy that relationship under the labarum. XP
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