Shaken the hand of a U.S. President (JFK)
Seen prehistoric cave drawings in France
Viewed Paris from atop the Eiffel Tower
Ate Souvlaki wrap from street vendor’s cart in Athens
Had dinner at Hotel atop Rock of Gibraltar
Toured the Casbah in Tangiers, Morocco
Surfed at Waikiki Beach
Sat next to Eddie Albert at Eartha Kitt’s show in Hawaii
Saw Bob Cousy and the Celtics play at Boston Garden
Attended NFL preseason game in Chicago starring Jim Brown
Visited home of Columbus in Genoa, Italy
Toured the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey
Saw the floating city in Hong Kong, China
Watched the King Family Singers show at Md. Post Pavilion
Attended nighttime water ballet show at Jones Beach with Esther Williams, accompanied by Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra
Was a guest for a week at Grossinger’s Resort in Catskills
While in the US Navy (1957 – 1960)
- Spent 60 days in mountains on coast of Turkey monitoring radio and electronic navigation equipment
- Attended Bobby Darrin’s stage show at Waikiki Shell
- Had dinner at Hotel Odessa in Ukraine
- Transited the deepest known site in the world’s oceans
- Interviewed by world press corps during visit to Odessa
- Transited the Panama Canal from Atlantic to Pacific
- Watched dredging of Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand
- Experienced 100 ft swells during north Atlantic crossing
- Earned at most, $89/month
- Spent 3 yrs, 1 mo, 16 days, 12 hrs, 10 min in uniform and never saw a shot fired by anyone in anger
Rolled a jeep at age 15, three days after licensing
First paying job ($1.50/hr) delivering propane to homes
Plowed driveways for 35 regular customers with 1943 Jeep
Played snare drum in HS marching band
Served homemade chocolate donuts by #1 grandmother (best ever)
Saw Carl Yastrzemski hit home run in Fenway Park
Spent summer as limousine driver on Maine coast and chauffeured Shirley Booth (Hazel the Maid)
Spent two summers as swim instructor/lifeguard at Bar Harbor Club (6 yr old Lisa Pulitzer was a student)
Taught how to be a retail clerk in grandfather’s general store (Gerry Company) as pre-teen
Met famous “Chicago Eight” defendants in Washington, DC
Subpoenaed by HUAC as witness in political activist hearing
Observed artillery fire in Cuba in Castro’s takeover war
Witnessed Sputnik orbital transit
Saw Andre the Giant at Baltimore airport
First ever plane ride was from Hawaii to California
Witnessed a complete embalming by father (funeral director)
Toured home of Einstein at Princeton University
Helped deliver oversize Holstein calf using rope/pulley
Once scored 14 pts in first quarter of JV basketball game
While at the University of Maine:
- Experienced 10 ft high snowdrifts delay start of spring semester
- Elected as Freshman Class President
- Elected President of Senior Skull Honor Society
While at George Washington University:
- Witnessed The US Marshall end building takeover by antiwar protestors
- Sat in on GWU Board meeting with J Edgar Hoover (FBI), Katherine Grahm (Wash Post), and John Hughes (Mellon Foundation)
Witnessed an appendectomy/fallopian tube removal by MD uncle
Spent a week trapped in Boston during 1978 blizzard
Attended a reception for Barry Goldwater’s return to Senate
Saw diving bell Trieste in dry dock at Pearl Harbor, one week after dive in Marianas Trench to 37,500 ft.
Visited Basílica de Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona, Spain
Saw funeral parade for Eisenhower in DC with Charles de Gaulle and Haile Selassie marching
Met Patrick Ewing in Georgetown bookstore
Saw blank building foundations after cyclone hit Guam
Drove across Golden Gate Bridge
Touched General Sherman, largest Sequoia tree in the world
Visited Mt. Rushmore
Enjoyed Bananas Royale in New Orleans
Designed over 200 college and university campus stores in US, Canada, and Guam
Worked 4 yrs for the US Marine Corps starting at age 70
Made an eagle on par 5 on Cape Cod to win hole for team
Drove ambulance while 5 yr old drowning victim recovered from ice-covered river
Came within a day of crossing equator on Pacific cruise
Owned 3 motorcycles including a Honda Goldwing
First new car was a ’64 Dodge Dart, cost $1,800
Watched the sun rise atop Mt. Cadillac in Acadia National Park
Served custard pudding by #2 grandmother (best ever)
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