Burgess Morse:
CLASS OF 1965
Earlville High SchoolClass of 1965
Earlville, NY
Suffolk University - LawClass of 1976
Boston, MA
Utica College of Syracuse UniversityClass of 1969
Utica, NY
University of MiamiClass of 1969
Coral gables, FL
The Manlius SchoolClass of 1965
Manlius, NY
Burgess's Story
After graduating from the Manlius School in 1965 I attended the University of Miami, FLA then Utica College and finally graduated from Syracuse University in 1969. I spent the next four years in the military including a 13 month tour of Southeast Asia and Vietnam. I then attended and graduated from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts, passed the bar and started my legal career as an assistant District Attorney. In the interim I was married and thanks to my wife, produced two wonderful sons. In 1980 I took the job of Chief of Investigation for the new Massachusetts Office of Inspector General. I left there in 1984 and entered into private practice with my best friend, Harry G. Lent, and we opened our firm in Boston, Lent and Morse. I did all the criminal work and Harry did the civil. We had a number of associates and staff and I believe we were reasonably successful. In 2000, Harry contracted cancer as a product of Agent Orange and he passed away in January of 2001.
Over the years since my sojourn at the University of Miami, I developed a deep and abiding love for the islands of the Caribbean. I spent many happy days there with my wife and with my business partner. After my partner passed I kept the office open for a couple more years but then found I was working harder, making less and not enjoying it at all. So I walked away from the practice of law and mostly from my life as I had known it. I purchased a fairly large sailing...Expand for more
vessel in the British Virgin Islands and did a bit of chartering for a few years. Now I split my time between Boston, upstate NY and my boat in the Caribbean. I have not chartered in several years now and am able to just live in the sun and sail when and where I want. I find I am not a big fan of snow and cold and I can proudly say I have had endless summer for more than 10 years now.
Unfortunately, by the time I left town, I was long since divorced from my first wife, the mother of my children, and in the process of divorce from my second wife. Both my sons were educated and had lives of their own so I had very few responsibilities and could be on my way.
With the years rolling by at an ever increasing pace, I find myself looking back from time to time and I realize how blessed I have been. All the roads I have been down since Earlville, New York. All the adventures, some good, some not so good but all worth the price of admission. I have seen a lot of this world and what it has to offer but I am most thankful for all the people I have had the opportunity to meet and to get to know. From my classmates in Earlville, my college friends, my military brothers, my clients over the years to my sailing mates from all over the world and many others who do not readily fit into any category. I may not be financially wealthy but to me, the real measure of success in life is the number and quality of your friends. In that regard I believe I am a billionaire.
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