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Rather than provide a narrative style summary, which I have found fascinating reading of your lives, I will simply list chronologically what I have been up to since leaving NCHS for Emory-at-Oxford after my sophomore year, and then going on from there.
1960-1962:Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL
1962: transferred to and graduated received B.A. from University of Chicago (Philosophy)
1966-68: Editorial Staff, PLAYBOY magazine. Engaged in a number of editorial duties, including befriending Miss July, 1969, late dear friend who died suddenly in March, 2009, in Los Angeles.
1968-1972 US Air Force: (England and Spain), served as broadcast newscaster with American Forces Radio and Television Service.
1972-1974. Architectural Researcher, New York City. Donnelly Library, West 53rd Street.
April 10, 1974, Married Mara Fisler, in a monastery outside Madrid, Spain. We had met when I was stationed in Madrid, and she was working as an American civilian.
1974-1977, Civilian News Broadcaster, American Forces Radio and Television Service, Frankfurt, Germany. Anchored newscasts. Mara worked as civilian employee for the US government. We lived in a romantic attic apartment overlooking Frankfurt, and travelled extensively.
1977: We returned to USA,first to Chicago, then Providence Rhode Island. I taught at the Universty of Rhode Island; Mara worked for Outlet Broadcast Corp., a nationwide owner of tv and radio stations, which were eventually sold to other conglomerates, including NBC.
1989, sold house in Rhode Island we had designed, and moved to Florida where we built another home to another of our designs. I joined the faculty at Florida Southern College, taught communication and architectural representation (from photos to virtual reality) and other broadcast courses;
2006: Whle still teaching,I became interested in documentary filmmaking. I produced a thirty minute film on two architectural structures in Berlin, Germany that try to move on from the Holocaust without either dismissing or forgetting it. I completed production, which is for educational purposes only, in 2008, the year I became professor emeritus at Florida Southern. I plan to do more documentaries, one already in preparation on the arcades of Paris. I am also working with Mara on remodeling our house, and trying to keep up with our son and his generation, whatever it is called.
NOTE: Many of you have been among the most interesting and talented people I have had the pleasure of knowing. I think, even dream, of you, often. You'd be surprised. With all we have done, whatever it has been, we were without question the essence of mid-1950's American youth culture, as it has been portrayed in film and in the various other media. Don't you agree?
