Whereas I was uncertain what I’d do after I retired in 1999, my first project was to complete a graduate level book I’d been working on prior to retirement: Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers. I was also a Councilor for CVS section until 2016, serving on various ACS committees before and since. In 2003 I got out my clarinet and played for Ill. St. Univ. Homecoming Parade, which led to an invitation to the Senior Concert Band of Western MA, the Melha Shrine Military Band (of which I’m currently Secretary and Treasurer), two community bands, and Taps at Boca Grande, FL each January. I’m also a vocal soloist for annual Shrine Memorial Service and for the past 50 years I have sung in my Lutheran church choir. My wife died in 2004 while I was president of the UMass Amherst Retired Faculty Association, but in 2005 I found a significant other in the local Rotary club. We’ve traveled extensively in the US, in western & central Europe, Russia, Israel, Egypt, and the Caribbean, and two months each winter in Florida until she had a serious stroke in 2013, which has made me a caregiver about 17 hour/day when I’m not traveling. I’ve done evangelism with several Lutheran and Epsicopal churches under partnership with John Vaught and have tabulated collections at my church for the past 25 years. After my wife died I joined a support group with seven women, each of whom had lost her spouse, too. I became a Mason in order to become a Shriner, but stayed active in both. Obviously I enjoy being busy or I wouldn’t do all these things. I still find time to attend most family activities my four children and five grandchildren throw at me!

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