Chorus 10, 11, 12; Student Patrol 12; Intramural Sports 10; Football 11, 12; Baseball 10, 11, 12; Bowling 10, 11, 12; Varsity Club 12; Jr. Prom Committee

Lanny and Linda in Paris, 2002 Post-CV, I attended Hartwick College, graduating in 1966. On 6/6/66, I started what I assumed was a temporary job at Broome County’s Probation Department (desperately needing funds, a September wedding loomed-Linda and I met at Hartwick; 35 years later we’re still an item!). I quickly saw merit in sticking at Probation for at least a year, as it led to a draft deferment. As the war worsened, I enlisted in the Naval Reserves. Until early 1969, I stuck around, enjoying probation work and attending USNR meetings. I was on active duty from February 1969-May 1971, serving in Naples, Italy-first on a ship and later at the NATO base. Linda and I lived (in poverty!) in Naples; in September 1970 our son Greg was born there in the Naval Hospital. We managed to travel widely, and have wonderful memories of numerous escapades. During one trip to Sweden, I was inspired to begin running for exercise—I’m still at it. In late May 1971, after driving around Europe (toting Greg in a backpack) spending all the money we had left in the world, we headed home and I started working again in probation. In 1973, we came to Albany--two years later I graduated from SUNY with a Master’s Degree in Social Welfare. Since then, I’ve worked in the area, first as a clinical social worker/supervisor in a local agency, eventually becoming an agency administrator. In 1986, I took a position at SUNY Albany as an educational contract specialist; today I’m Associate Direct or of Continuing Education at Rockefeller College’s Professional Development Program. Linda works at the Health Department, has her Ph.D. in Bacterial Genetics, and currently is Associate Director of NYS’ TB labs (she recently volunteered to do DNA work on anthrax specimens!). In 1982 we adopted Alissa Jun from Korea; she’s 19, and a sophomore at Ithaca College’s Roy Park School of Communication majoring in Radio/TV Management. Greg’s 31 and a CPA. He’s Director of Corporate Accounting at Sirius Satellite Radio in Manhattan. He and his wife Jeanne, also a CPA, live in Berkeley Heights, NJ. No grandchildren, but there’s Floyd, a great dog who thinks he’s human. With “retail” tuition bills retirement isn’t an option (we aren’t ready anyway). FYI--Mother (Avis) died in November 2000, she was 89. She had a debilitating brain aneurysm 5 years before and was in nursing care at Good Shepherd Home in Binghamton. As a former CV music teacher of some, ah-renown, I believe she appeared at our 25th Reunion-she loved events like that. Until her illness, she was as feisty as ever and still quite active, putting on some rather hilarious musical events with a “younger” brother (he was around 80!). She also directed a “harmonica band,” starring several 75 to 90+ year-old residents of Good Shepherd. They did gigs in local churches and nursing homes-can you believe it? The web site’s a great idea. God willing, we’ll see ya at the reunion. 7-2-12Update We now live on Lake Keowee (the "upcountry" of South Carolina; 210 Still Water Bay Drive, Salem, SC 29676/864 944 5811). The region offers densely forested rolling hills and mountains (southern Blue Ridge/NC are about half and hour away), dotted with rivers, waterfalls and a number of medium-large lakes. We live on the water and love it. Moving and retiring here was serendipitous. Right after Linda retired from the health dept, she received an unexpected job offer from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to work in their Global AIDS Program. She had just the skill set/Ph.D. they were seeking and had impressed some CDC folks she met while on a scientific mission in Cote d'Ivoire several years before. As the offer was too good to pass up, she accepted and moved to Atlanta in 2004. As I was not ready to leave SUNY or retire, I stayed in Albany for almost 2 years and we "commuted" regularly to see each other. This was challenging as Linda routinely traveled to sub-Saharan African countries to collaborate with medical/scientific staff to strengthen their HIV and TB diagnostic/treatment laboratories. I retired in 2006 and moved to Atlanta where I found a job and continued to work for another couple of years before finally "retiring" in August 2008. In the meantime, we lived in 3 different apartments in Atlanta, while buying our home on Lake Keowee in 2007, where we commuted most weekends to relax (when Linda was in the country). I moved to Lake Keowee in August 2008, and Linda finally moved in March 2010, right after she left CDC ("retired" again). Our son Greg-almost 42, and his wife Jeanne live in New Windsor NY, near Newburgh. They have 2 lovely kids-Noelle age 9 and Nathaniel, age 5. Greg is now VP for Finance at Sirius/XM Satellite Radio in Manhattan, and Jeanne, although a CPA too, has chosen to stay home with the kids for now. Once Nate's in school, she may return to the workforce. Alissa Jun, our beautiful 30 year-old daughter, has married Sean O'Sullivan, and they have daughter, McKenna Jun, born in May 2011. They live in Scotia, NY, where Alissa works as a recruiter for GE engirneers, and Sean services a large sales territory for Unifirst. We love seeing our "kids" and grand kids whenever we can, either during trips back to NYS, or when they come to see us at the lake. Linda keeps active in science, working as an independent consultant, specializing in strategic planning in countries that want to strengthen their HIV and TB diagnosis/treatment systems. Lately her work has been in Barbados, Trinidad, Jamaica and the Bahamas (rough, but someone had to do it). She's a talented creator of stained glass pieces and can often be found in her workshop here at home. She's active in the local art community, attends life long learning programs at Clemson University (20 minutes from us), and serves as Adjunct Faculty at Clemson in their graduate Biology Department. I have house projects, maintain our boat, continue to jog daily, take hikes, serve on Clemson's life long learning program's Board and Chair a committee, volunteer in a local soup kitchen, play a round of golf now and then and swim as often as I can. We travel too, including making trips to see our kids and grand children. We love retirement and are thankful every day that we have arrived at this stage in our lives still together and happy, and in reasonably good health.