I wasn't ready for college right after graduation - read "immature" - and worked for
a year in a machine shop. I soon thought better of that and enrolled at Hofstra the
following fall. The year I spent between high school and college was priceless. The
lessons learned that year and in the susequent four years of full and part-time work
in the shop served me well in my subsequent career.

Judy Taft '57, my HS sweetheart, and I married in June 1959. With the two of us
working, together with help from our parents, I graduated in 1961 with a BA in math.
I started at MetLife as an "actuarial student". I became a Fellow of the Society of
Actuaries and worked in a variety of assignments, mostly administrative, until 1991
when I took an incentive to retire at age 52.

Judy and I have three daughters - no grandchildren yet. I keep busy accomplishing
very little. I play golf once a week or so, go to the Y two days a week, run two or
three days a week, read the papers and do crossword puzzles, fool around (a lot!)
with the computer and do a little puttering around the house. We still live in
Huntington - on Fairmont Street since 1963. We have a home in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea
in Florida where we spend part of the winter.

I can truthfully say that I have not been bored a day since I retired and that one
of my recurring bad dreams is that I am back at work!

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