"Good humor makes all things possible ." (Riley) |
Bill . . . easy to get along with . . . Pat, Pat, Pat . . . crazy little Nashes
. . . oh, that hi-fi . . . when he hears dance music! |
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| Bill is currently living in New Bern, North Carolina |
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| RHS Class Couple - 50 yrs later and just as happy. (See Pat's page for more) Click on photo to enlarge |
As it said in the year book “Pat, Pat, Pat..” Well that’s the way it still is. Pat and I married in ’59 and now we are on 47 years and going strong.
Our life has been full. My son is in Raleigh, NC with 2 grandkids and my daughter is in Greenville, NC with 2 grandsons. Keeps us on the road going between the houses.
We retired on Jan 1st, 1998 to our home on the water near Oriental, NC. I had worked with GE in Manhattan my whole career except for two years in the Army and an attempt at my own business for a year. At first I was a project engineer on overseas systems such as steel mills and wire mills but around 1969 I got into automation and changed career paths into Systems Design. Being the Export Information Systems Mgr was a good part of my life at GE.
Outside of work and raising kids, we got much of our pleasure in boating. In 1984 we bought our first sailboat, a 30 ft Tartan. Besides local racing, I competed in the Around LI Regatta about 6 times. In 1993 a friend and I co-captained his 39 ft Pearson in the Marion, Mass to Bermuda race. Pat sailed back with us. I got my 36 ft Sabre that same year and have done several Manhasset Bay Regattas. After that we did the Annapolis - Newport race in my boat before relocating to NC.
In 1991 we sailed to the Bahamas. That trip took almost 3 months after which Pat said that she had enough of sailing. Sold her (the boat, not Pat) 3 years ago and now get my kicks racing a small one-design boat.
September 2006 |
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