Mike and Anne at the 45th reunion.

JAN 2014

Hi Bob...your retirement seems full of enjoyable activities and you and your son are very talented woodworkers and machinists. Pictures of the roofing project were funny...

I retired in August 2012 after 35 years of a variety public service jobs both in New York and Boston, the most rewarding of which was the clean-up of Boston Harbor and construction of a water treatment plant and conveyance tunnel from the reservoir which supplies the Boston area.

Now living in Westport, Ma on the Westport, River which flows into Buzzards Bay with my friend Anne enjoying and maintaining a fleet of boats. All in all busier than ever with home improvement projects, volunteer activity, family events and travel.

My daughter Sarah is currently living and working as a jewelry designer in Brooklyn. She is going to Germany for several months to study.

Enjoyed the 45th reunion at the Rising farm and seeing everyone, but it sure was different from the good old days. I guess we are all older and wiser.

I would expect a good turn-out for the 50th...keep beating the drum...
Brownie

DECEMBER 1, 2007

One day last summer, an e-mail appeared in my in-box from Mike Brown. I had looked for him on several occasions, but in the end, he found us with a Google search. It was sort of "Hi... I'm in Boston, ... How are you?... be in touch later"

I called and left a messsage or two, but the activities of the summer took over, and it seems both of us put things on hold. He spends most of his free time on his sailboat, and part of the freedom of the winds apparently freedom from cell- phones too.

Tonight he called me though, apparently on dry land long enough to sit in front of a Celtics game. We talked for half an hour, but like most of the long- lost conversations among all of us, we likely could have talked all night. It was good to hear from him.

Pending more definitive word... and a few pictures(?)... from Mike, he said he went to NYU after Colgate, and that he administers part of a public environment al agency. His primary focus has has been Boston Harbor; his involvement with it started at time that it was smeared as the "Harbor of Shame" back in the 1980s.