Richard Hill:
CLASS OF 1964
Our Lady of Mount Carmel SchoolClass of 1964
Tenafly, NJ
Richard's Story
Life
I'll try to make this brief.
After Mt. Carmel, went to Bergen Catholic. THen to Rutgers for a BS in Ceramic Engineering. Worked for a year, didn't like it, so went back to Rutgers for a Masters in Ceramic Science. Married Betsy, have 2 children, Jeff, 29, and Jeanne, 27. Worked for Union Carbide at the Tarrytown, NY tech center til '86. Moved to Cleveland to the Union Carbide Advanced Ceramics group. Became a part owner in a buy-out, then sold out in 2003. Somewhere inbetween all this got my PhD from the University of Leoben, Austria, in Materials Science. Today I work for Laird Technologies as the Global Director of Technologies.
We bought a farm in 1997, and I decided to try growing grapes. It went better than...Expand for more
expected, but selling grapes wasn't profitable enough for the time I had to spend. So then we took that to the next level, and became a fully licensed winery. We new make about 8000 bottles a year, of chardonnay, pinot noir, cabernet franc, riesling, vignoles, and a few other varietals. You can check our website out at laleurevineyards dot com. We sell our wine primarily through the winery tasing room.
I still try to find time for backpacking, snowboarding, hiking, and other outdoor activities. On my many trips to Asia, which are not much fun any longer, I like to read novels. I'm looking forward to retiring from my day job real soon to concentrate on other interests.
Well, that's been my life so far in a nutshell.
Rich
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