Rick Howland:  

Life Greetings to my long lost classmates at Franklin High School. While I graduated from Newton, having spent the first 10 school years at Franklin sort of left me in a no-man's land, reunion-wise. I have heard from a few of you over the years, and am grateful for that. With regard to "this is your life," I received a journalism degree from Northeastern, worked as a reporter and utimtely assistant city editor with the Patriot Ledger (Quincy). After that, I was managing editor and associate publisher of three high tech magazines. That led to becoming director of public affairs for BASF (and yes, I worked on the "We don't make the products you buy, we make the products you buy better campaign). The division I worked for some 10 years was folded, thanks to cheap labor in the Far East and Indonesia, so I started my own PR and advertising consultancy, which I still have. You'd recognize some of the brands I work for. Lately, I have been working with a partner founded an international quarterly magazine on interior design called FABULOUS FLOORS (check it out at Barnes & Noble). On the gossipy side, I am twice married, twice divorced and living with a stuning woman on a 200-year-old, 112-acre farm in upstate New York. Two kids. Daughter, Becky (named for Becky Thatcher in the Tom Sawyer novel) -- Phi Beta Kappa from UMass. Masters UColorado. Married to ex-naval intelligence compute...Expand for more