1960

Moves, or the consequences of recent moves, as we turn 60, continue. Most of us are still working, but often we are following new pursuits. Sometimes, there are new marriages. Retirement, if not yet here, may not be far off.

Nick Muller remains "technically" in Wisconsin, but is living halftime in Scottsdale, Ariz. About 1-1/2 years ago, he resigned as director of the Wisconsin Historical Society to head the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

It's a big job. The Wright School of Architecture has campuses in both states. The foundation owns Taliesen Architects, operating in 25 states and several foreign countries. There is a worldwide exhibition program, a huge library, and 23,000 Wright drawings valued at billions of dollars.

For Ed Johanson, it's pure retirementin Sarasota, Fla., in the winter and Estes Park, Colo., in the summer. "I did not want to stay in New York," after leaving General Motors, he declares.

"We've been taking it very easy, traveling, and getting ourselves settled. Sarasota we find very special...It's a wonderful arts community, has its own opera and ballet, a good theatre group. It's very affordable."

Loren "Jake" Jacobson, who retired from the air force in 1982, is getting close to a second retirement in Santa Fe, N.M. A metallurgist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he married Linda five years ago.

"I'm beginning to explore the prospects of doing work at the New Mexico Academy for Science and Mathematics," he remarked. "When you reach this age, you'd better have fun with what you're doing."

Mike Daley remarried four years ago, to Faye, and moved 50 miles within Maine from Yarmouth to Bridgton. He's still, in the insurance business, but he's also into poetry.

In a recent poem, Mike began: "The aisles in churches are built with care, by top notch craftsmen, and yet I dare suspect that something's 'out of whack, 'for why else would churchgoers always sit in the back?"

Mike helped talk Lloyd Lawrence into moving to Maine from New Jersey, and Lloyd purchased a bed and breakfast in Freeport.

Tony Roisman moved from Washington, D.C., to Lyme, N.H., three years ago, continuing to practice law but in a pastoral setting. He and his wife, Lois, are glad.

"We don't have the Kennedy Center or the restaurants," he observes. "But we enjoy a better pace and a lack of congestion."

In Washington, he recalled, "I would start thinking long in advance when we went somewhere about where we would park, and worrying about the safety of the parking place, and how much time to leave for traffic. There could be no snap decisions...

"Up here, everybody is relaxed.. .It's far exceeded anything we anticipated."

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