60 To begin, it has been wonderfull to have spent quality time with many of you in 2006 at Bing's Landing in Palm Coast. Sorry to have missed you all last year due to conflicting schedules. The 50th reunion was a blast, thanks to the Reunion Committee, all came off really smoothly and we all had a great time to re-bond.

Without the benefit of a college education, I went to work for some local printers in the Bergenfield area. Later on I attended Manhattan School of Printing to get enough traning to enter the lithographic industry. Then it was one of the highest paying jobs in the late 50's.

This career was to continue until retirement working in NJ and the NY Metro area. Having been a litho journeyman pressman, I'd had the opportunity to serve as Pressroom Foreman working for 24 years with one of the formost plants in NJ . The litho industry succumbed to newer forms of publishing and began to fade. I retired in 1993, at 55 and ready to start a new avocation in farming.

We built our first home on new land in Sussex County, NJ. It was a post and beam solar heated design. We've been here since 1981, and have operated a certified organic farm till present., doing all the work and management till present. Interest in organic has blossomed recently to create a strong demand on our on farm market.

Seems like years ago that I was first mate on my friends sailboat cruising and racing on Long Island Sound. Night and day races, we took many trophys. Later I crewed with him in the Virgins, British and American and Culebra off the coast of Puerto Rico, we sailed into Viequez , also, an active US bombing range, so sad. The Morgan Yacht was a comfortable home for us, an Out Island 46' yawl. My friend had sailed the Newport to Bermuda race on off years when the multimillionaires were not racing. I missed being his crew, then, but they took First Place 2 out of 4 years in succession.

We're finally tiring of all the work needed to run the farm, we hope to reduce our crops to garlic and christmas trees and start to get away more on motorcycle trips during the next season. I just bought a 2007 Triumph Tiger and ready to explore the northeast !