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Relationship

Married

Hometown

Boston, MA

Places I've been

PLACES I'VE BEEN All over America-from sea to shining sea. I love the south particularly South Carolina and Georgia, Memphis, Savannah. Texas, Austin and San Antonio California is OK to visit ... Florida is OK to visit Europe-particularly Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, Florence. Asia-Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Australia, Thailand. Central America-Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico South America-Cartagena, Columbia Middle East-Israel, Sinai (Egypt) High School Name (City, State) English High School (Boston) Hull High School (1963) College Name Masachusetts College of Pharmacy, Harvard University College Graduation Year Massachusetts College of Pharmacy (1968) Harvard University (2001) College Graduation Major/Concentration Pharmacy-(Registered since 1968) (Harvard)-Museum Studies with interest in Museum Education Occupation(s) Community Pharmacy Field Hospital/US Army (Vietnam Vet 69-70) Pharmaceutical Sales Rep/Eli Lilly and Co (25 years) Museum teacher/faculty UMass-Lowell

More about me

City kid, liberal democrat, did it my way, very happy in my 35 year marriage, I have accomplished more in my life than I ever thought.

Activities

Anything with cars-building, restoration, road racing, drag racing, auto art, automobilia in general. American History, information technology, health care delivery and reform, educating kids, movies, TV, non fiction,

Favorite Charities

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Harvard University, Boston University, Tsongas Industrial History Center, Salem State College(MA), Museums (Boston Museum of Science, MIT Museum, The Fogg Museum of Fine Arts at Harvard U, Boston Museum of Fine Art, American Textile Museum, Larz Anderson Antique Auto Museum, all the National Parks

Favorite Music

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis, Tommy James, Dion and the Belmonts, the Eagles, Steeley Dan, Grover Washington Jr, Tom Petty

Favorite TV Shows

Weeds, The Unit, Stargate Atlantis, Heroes, CSI, 24, Without a Trace

Favorite Movies

It's a mad, mad, mad world, Apocalypse Now (redux), Sahara (Humphry Bogart), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, To Have and Have Not, anything by Stanley Kubrick, Sam Peckinpah, Oliver Stone, Steven Spielberg

Favorite Books

Bread and Roses, Big Cotton, The Peoples Tycoon, The Wizard of Menlo Park, The Source, Andrew Carnegie, Meet You in Hell

Favorite Quotes

Statistics are no substitute for judgement. (Andrew Clay) The Top of Mount McKinley was thrilling but there is nothing on earth more exciting than than the eyes of a youngster at the instant of discovery. (Bradford Washburn) Station in life is meaningless, a janitor can leave a bigger hole than a CEO. The loss is not defined by acievement but generosity of spirit (unknown)

Favorite People

My wife Karen, Thomas Jefferson, my friend Richard Cohen, Francis Cabot Lowell, my brother Peter, James B. Francis

Favorite Places

anywhere in New England, the Carribean, Central America, Florence, Eilat, Israel. Nha Trang Vietnam, Melbourne, Australia, Scotland

Favorite Animals

Birds

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