The Penn State Alumni AssociationWhat’s been happening: I retired in 2003 after being a newsman and editor more than 40 years. After graduating in 1961, I married Eleanor Jacobs (initially PSU class of '62, but actually graduated in '61-BA, English major). I had newspaper jobs in Williamsport, PA, then the Miami (FL) Herald, then became an aerospace reporter for the Associated Press at Cape Canaveral, where I covered all space flights from the first two-man Gemini program through the second Apollo moon-landing, plus a couple hundred unmanned launches (weather and communications satellites, moon-and sun-orbiters, many military and submarine missile launches). That got me interested in technology, and the remainder of my years was largely spent covering the growth of the computer industry, serving as editor for several computer business magazines, plus a 7-year stint doing press relations for IBM. Wife Eleanor, who passed away in 2005, was a local reporter for two NY newspapers and had a distinguished 13-year career with Con Edison, New York City's power utility, retiring as Director of Communications Services. In retirement, Eleanor was an American Red Cross volunteer, serving on its National Disaster Team, which responds to tornados, hurricanes, floods, fires and other disasters. |