He is retired and enjoying life. After four years in the Navy during WWII, Russ returned to New York and rejoined Otis Elevator until an accident forced him to spend some time recuperating in Newark, N.Y., where his sister lived. Liked what he saw and made it his home, where he entered the nursery business. He married and raised a family of three children and is about to be a grandfather again. They are already starting to make plans for our 60th Reunion in 1999.
Kids still come for the holidays.
We visit them in summer. John has two new knees, is taller, keeps in shape by swimming and walking. I spent some time in the hospital this fall with low blood platelets. We are coping. Received a Vermont weather stick, plucked off a tree on Burke Mountain, from Maxine Askey Wolston .