RICH WIELAND:  

Living near Dover, Delaware -- after a lifetime in NJ, including 55 years in North Brunswick. Staying active playing pickleball, pool volleyball, etc., busy in various organizations, and LOVING LIFE! The 2 supposedly "dapper" photos are from events in our Spring Meadow active-adult community -- a Roaring Twenties show and a Kentucky Derby party. (Maryann likes crazy hats.) Since moving here in 2022, I've become a newsletter writer, civic affairs committee chairman and unofficial outdoor sports director. In my NBHS yearbook photo I had a crew cut, but most of the crew has abandoned ship! At 21 I was America's youngest newspaper editor (I have a degree in journalism from Rutgers/New Brunswick). Then went into advertising and PR for 2 decades, moving up from copywriter at the Boy Scouts HQ in North Brunswick to corporate manager in NYC. Next I had my own Central NJ ad agency for over a decade. I married too young and, after having 2 great kids, divorced 10 years later. Ironically as an NBHS alumnus, I was elected to the North Brunswick Board of Education and helped break away from NBHS when the township opened its own HS. I was active on many civic committees and president of the Maple Meade Estates Community Club and (when I lived in Monroe) president of the Forsgate Community Assn. I was also a landlord with rental properties in New Brunswick and Franklin/Somerset. I didn't even know her in NBHS, but at 32 I married Sharon Baker ('61)...Expand for more