Robert Crossman:  

Hello Classmates, First of all, and always most important, I hope all is well with you and yours. Since most of my longtime friends like Carl Cabral and Joe Zinni would not come here to find out things about me this is written for others that I have lost contact with. After graduating, I worked in my trade (which introduce me to programming automated drill press) for a bit to save money and put myself through college. I attended Bridgewater State College and was one of the very lucky ones to graduate with a computer science degree back in the days when most people and businesses did not use computers, and PCs didn't even exist yet. I also had the great pleasure to play football there for 4 years as a 3-year starter. After graduation I started at a small (60 employees) medical software startup company in Boston called IDX. We became the number one company in nation at medical schools (in about 75% of them nationally and number 3 in clinical office software in the country). I was very privileged to work with many people that where focused, leading edge and extremely imaginative. We were bought by GE around 2004, but some of us old timers still remained. Recently (2018) we were bought by a private hedge fund and were merged with Athenahealth (also bought by fund). I was able to retire after we got the kids through college in 2022. I met my exceptional wife there in early IDX days, and we got married in 1991 at a beautiful ceremony at Mount Holyoke College. We have three totally different children. Matthew is the oldest. He graduated from BP also. He got to state in SkillUSA (old VICA) medaling at district in Computer Networking. He won best shop student for CNT (Computer Networking) and unsung hero for football there. He graduated in 2015 from UMASS Dartmouth in Computer Engineering and graduated a year later with his master's. He was selected to present his thesis paper 'Study of Authentication with IoT (Internet of things) Testbed' at the IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (DHS/HST) conference nationally. He won best paper at this conference. He also was selected to receive the student service award for UMASS Dartmouth for 'Outstanding Service to the Department'. He is working at Fidelity investments in their network group in North Smithfield, RI. Matthew was a student ambassador with people to people and had trips to Australia, one to (England/Scotland/Ireland) then (Italy/Monaco/France) in his middle school years. Nathan, our second child graduated from BP in 2015. He was in Collision, and he then graduated in 2017 from New Engla...Expand for more