R.W. "BOB" Winter:  

Life The photo was taken April 26th 2003 as my second wife, Joyce Gina Jacobson and I walk back up the aisle. My first marriage had ended with the death of Rosanne in a traffic accident in Jan '02. Besides marrying Gina, I moved to her Minnesota hometown after just past forty years in Topeka, Kansas; a city which is neither the Hicksville that many imagine nor the New Chicago that the C.ofC. types keep trying to make it. During my Topeka years I soloed a sailplane and was, among other things, a jailer for eight years. Just short of five were as a security officer at a retirement community, which gave me a great respect for our parents' generation and a none-too-rosie view of how life ends. I am hopefully permanently retired. In the past few years I've sung with several church choirs, the North Suburban Concert Chorale of the Twin Cities, and the Minnesota [River] Valley Chorale. I expect I speak for a lot of us in saying that I wouldn't've believed a lot of what's gone on in the years since school but am, on balance, happier with the reality than with what I expected back then. At heart, though, I'll always be a Tenleytown Boy! Now, in September 2007, we are retired and living in Truman, Minnesota, a small town near the Iowa border. . From April 2009, on the pastor's sudden resignation, until December 2011 I held down the pulpit at our town's Baptisit Church and am credited with making it available to the Red Cross during the floods of September 2009, School, Summer 2012 sees me back in the skies, soaring, for the first time in thirty years, perhaps eventually logging some more time solo. I have almost no memory of Quincy Adams. Janney, Deal & Wilson were within half a mile of each other up in Tenleytown, where we moved in 1950, so I walked to/from most of the 12 years. There were kids from all over the world, as many diplom...Expand for more