1951

Question: Why do the folks at U.S. Airways love SamSparhawk? Answer: Because he commutes to work in Philadelphia from home in Colchester, Vt., every week, and has for more than the last 20 years. Seems that Sam valued his work, in investments, but really missed his roots in the Burlington area of the Green Mountain State. So he and Wilma moved their "home" on up to Vermont, and he's been shuttling back there for the weekends ever since. While so many of us now are retired, or about to be, Sam is rolling merrily along, amassing frequent flier miles, with no plans to change all that anytime soon. "I've really got the best of both worlds," he says. "I've got great clients, and I really care about them. And then we've got this house right on the water (Lake Champlain) and an Irwin 33 sailboat...So as long as I can take Fridays off through the six months of summer, I think I'll keep the system going." No problem about getting Fridays off, given that he's co-owner of the business, Radnor Capital Management in Radnor, Pa.

It was a long, interesting scientific career for John Rheinstein, who was with MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for 30 years. That included a fascinating four-year hitch for John and family in the early 1970s at a Lincoln installation on Kwajalein Atoll, which afforded a lot of touring in the exotic realm of Micronesia. Back in the U.S., he was an expert on ballistic missile defense for Lincoln in Lexington, Mass., and he and Betty are still living in Lexington since he fully retired in 1995.

"The main things for us now are reading, traveling and—well—dogs," says John. The travel has included three separate vacation trips out to Indonesia. The most recent, last August, involved an organized tour to Bali, and a cruise aboard a 100-foot sailboat through some of the outer islands. "Dogs" used to mean miniature dachshunds, until a son gave up trying to train a golden retriever named Beau and slyly gave him to Dad last Christmas. "I've about got him shaped up now, and he keeps me in shape too," puffs John. "We walk four to eight miles a day."

Being that I'm an avid angler, there will be occasional '51 fishing reports. My own expeditions in quest of Atlantic salmon in Quebec and Newfoundland last summer were great in scenery and ambiance and miserable so far as catching anything. Fortunately, other abler—and/or luckierfishermen rose to uphold the honor of the class. Herb Knight got tarpon in Florida in June, big northern pike in Manitoba in mid-summer, and a 32-pound king salmon in the Pacific, off Nootka Island, British Columbia, in August. My call to check with Joe Caldwell found him away attending his 50th Deerfield reunion, but his son Jay reported they had fabulous fishing in Alaska, catching 5 0 silver salmon and plenty of arctic char and rainbow trout.

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