1952

Cold-turkey retirement has been a success for Roy T. Abbott, our first classmate alphabetically and one of the tallest. He and his wife, Lee, miss their New Jersey friends but love Stuart, Fla. He does not miss the frantic world of high finance—buying and selling small companies, and mergers and acquisitions—which has been his life since 1966. In 1976 he went with Drexel, Burnam, Lambert and finished his career with Rodman & Renshaw of Chicago. About Milken, Roy says, "He is really smart—smart off the charts. He should be working for the government, trying to solve that mess instead of being locked away." Their daughter Ann in Bozeman, Mont., is in business with her husband making decorative fish heads of special wood from the rainforests of New Guinea. These gadgets are handy as hangers, and they are selling at $25 as fast as they are made. Bill, their son, is a New York City banker. Both children are married, and Roy has two grandchildren. A few weeks back he advised us from his pool to stay liquid and keep "foreign currency offsets" and some gold. He sees the country's fiscal problems getting worse. "It's all the fault of air conditioning," he confides, splashing around. If Washington had stayed die hot, uncomfortable place it was, Congress would not be hanging around in the summer trying to legislate prosperity. "It can't be done," he says.

Deke Dory describes his life with General Electric for 31 years, and army counter-intelligence beforehand, as entailing a number of moves taking him farther and farther away from Hanover, which he has not seen since 1957. Marblehead to Hanover to Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, California, and back to Texas. Deke, who was president of Glee Club and a WDBS star, retired from G.E. at age 56 as manager of government relations in Sacramento, Calif. He has no regrets and little idle time. He and Mickey moved back to Texas; first to Corpus Christi to do some sailing, and then back to Tyler and many friends. He spends his time on golf three to four times a week, traveling everywhere, house design, volunteer work, and wood carving. He does not sing on an organized basis these days. There are three sons and a daughter, three in Texas and one in California, with two grandchildren, 15 and 13. (Some of us still have children that age.) Deke had some lower abdominal surgery which required him to redesign his golf swing, but he still shoots in the low 80s. His prescription for happiness is to take every day as it comes and enjoy it.

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