Dale Pillsbury:  

I married in 1965 (Holly Baumann, SGHS class of 1963) and have two children; Dana lives in Europe and Leif lives in far west suburbs of Chicagoland. After some false starts, I finally ended up with a PhD in Chemistry in 1973. After a post-doctorate, I worked in the petrochemical industry for 26 years. I spent my time in R&D labs and as a problem solver in manufacturing plants. I retired in a corporate downsizing in 2001. During the course of getting an education and working, we lived in a number of locations: Rochester, NY , Bozeman, MT , Columbus, OH , the far west suburbs of Chicago, Richmond, VA, Dayton, OH (our first wifely work transfer) and in 2007 Chicago (our second wifely work transfer) and upper Wisconsin. I now spend my time on a lake about 20 mile NW of Park Falls in the far northcentral part of Wisconsin. It looks a lot like the Adirondacks, but with more lakes and without the mountains. As noted above, my wife transfered to a job in the Chicago area. She comes north on most weekends (weather permitting) although it is a 6 hour drive one way. However, she really enjoys her job and is willing to do the driving so long as her work is challenging. Living in the Chicago area she now gets more chance to see our son's family. Although I always thought I was a dog person, somehow we now have 3 cats (and no dog). While I'm a pretty good house-hubby, I also do a lot of outside work including gathering 6-8 cords of firewood in what the locals call the Great North Woods. With propane prices as high as they are, we heat solely with firewood. Some day ...Expand for more