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5/22/2000
Hi, As promised here are the last forty years in synopsis. Lets see, where to start. I guess I will start from today and work back.
As you all know I am now living in Ohio my address is 5616 Bent Oak Road, Sylvania Ohio 43560, 419-885 8715.
I have had the same wife Kathy, for the last 37 years. We have three sons all married, and as of last week (May 19, 2000) five grandchildren. Two sons live nearby in the Toledo area and the third lives in Cleveland. I have been at this address for about four years out of the last twenty spent in the Toledo area (Sylvania is a suburb of Toledo).
Before moving to Toledo we lived in Syracuse N.Y. where we settled after I finished architectural school at Cornell University in Ithaca. While at Cornell I met my wife Kathy who was a student at Cortland State Teachers college (or what ever the State of New York is calling it these days). We both finished college at the same time in late 62 and were married a short time after that. After we were married we settled in Syracuse. The kids were all born during the Syracuse years, the youngest of which will be thirty in a couple of months, (my how time flies!). While the children were small we made a couple of trips back to Caracas. The last of those trips was about 1973. My Mom and Dad stayed in Venezuela until my Dad retired in 1976 when they moved to Florida, which ended any further trips to Venezuela. My folks lived in Florida until a couple of months ago when they finally moved up north and now live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor is just forty miles or so up the road from Sylvania. My sister (who also graduated from Colegio Americano in about 1968) lives just north of Ann Arbor so we now all get to see each other on a regular basis. I'm still not sure just how or why it happened but we are after forty years all within a few miles of each other.
Kathy and I lived in Syracuse until 1979 when we moved to Toledo. I had worked for a couple of architectural firms while in Syracuse the last of which was involved in doing projects that were design build. I liked that type of work and came to Toledo to work for a firm that did that type of work exclusively. Of the twenty years that I have been in Toledo about 15 of those years I had my own architectural practice that for the most part was a one-man show. A couple of years ago I went to work for SSOE Inc. the firm that I'm currently with. I imagine that I will stay with them for a few more years when I hope to be able to retire (which probably means going back into business for myself).
That's pretty much the whole thing from then till now in a nutshell. Fred asked if I still had our yearbook, which I do if that is of interest to anyone.
Lets hear from each of you on where you are and what you have been doing!
Till then,
Pat