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41 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K F I N E A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z just a “blip” in fire statistical reports. And people were dying. We already augmented our own furnace with wood using a Thermograte TM in our fireplace. When we checked, sure enough, our own chimney was lined with creosote, the flammable by-product of wood heating.Already looking for a home-based business, we started a chimney sweeping company. Later we added a woodstove store and Sue became heavily involved in the wood heat industry and helped form a national trade association. Sue was voted onto their first board of direc- tors. By the time we sold our busi- ness, we had helped revive a trade that had nearly disappeared in the U.S., inspired insurance and real es- tate companies to ensure that any house with a fireplace or woodstove had a structurally safe chimney sys- tem and worked with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ex- amine problems sweeps encoun- tered with prefabricated fireplace systems. FAMILY I was attracted to my wife, Sue, for three reasons. 1) She did not laugh at my French car, a Citroën that looked somewhat like a flat- tened mushroom. She saw them when living overseas. 2) She only liked Chinese food from north- ern China (my preferred style of Chinese food). 3) She didn’t want a serious relationship. Two out of three’s not bad, right? Since we’re at 42 years and counting, I guess it worked out. Sue is a business and technol- ogy writer and has worked for sev- eral different associations in the U.S. and Europe. She’s also writing an off- planet science fiction novel, which will be wonderful if she ever stops researching (she adores research) and gets back to writing. Together, Sue and I have raised Pam, Brent, and children. Dan and Erin with new baby.