1959

Classmates with careers in the field of architecture/design/construction all seem to say one thing, "It was fun!" Mac Burns is living with wife Nancy on the water in Chestertown on Maryland's Eastern Shore. His construction experience was a real specialty, scaffolding, especially that used in petroleum refineries. Mac took over his fathers small scaffolding company in 1962, went to night school to learn engineering and built the firm into the fourth largest in the country before selling out and retiring seven years ago. "We went from what amounted to a bunch of wild Indians to a very sophisticated operation but it was always fun," he says. Now Mac is happily retired, golfing, boating, watching bald eagles nesting nearby and enjoying six grandchildren.

Bill Steck in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, relates, "If you name it, I did it—designed and built hospitals, churches, funeral homes, residences, factories, highways, bridges and so on. East Coast, West Coast, Florida, Ohio—all over. I'm semiretired with no interest in golf or anything like that but am doing a few jobs just because it's fun."

Bill remembers working on a Maine development of 14 homes long ago with Harvard Design School classmate Bill Truex. I could not reach Truex for this article but John Ferries tells me: "Bill and his wife are on a great trip, a retirement odyssey on their 42-foot motorized boat. He is a lifetime boater. I think they went to Canada, then the Great Lakes, the Ohio River, the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. They are in Clearwater, Florida, now and will soon journey up the Inland Waterway to Lake Champlain and on to Burlington, where they plan to live.

Dave Rebar, for whom architecture is "great fun," says years ago he and a partner were among the first to design and build continuing care retirement communities. "It was a real struggle to get that business up and running and we sold it," he says. Dave later was university architect at the University of Rochester and Vanderbilt. He now practices in Franklin, Tennessee, still designing homes "because it is fun." Hobbies include collecting antique cars, competing in Sports Car Club of America races and golf. Dave recently invented and now manufacturers in China a special "memory glove" for golfers that went on sale in February. Declares Dave, "It enables golfers to grip the club with half the pressure and drive farther."

Norm Blair of Marshfield, Massachusetts, had his own residential remodeling and home improvement business, a field he entered after years in the steel and oil industries. Now retired, Norm still finds himself remodeling but only "around the house." Other activities include working out and travel with wife Cecilia.

Others whom I did not reach by deadline time but believe made careers in this field include "Tippy" Blake, Harry Gooch, Geoff Hands, Bob Helsell, Gerry Huth, Art Knight, John Orcutt, Dave Spenser, Mai Swenson and Jeffrey Wenger. I hope they all had fun, too.

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