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42 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 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 F I N E two children, Pamela and Daniel, plus seven Great Pyrenees, a Benji- type dog, three cats, a multitude of fish plus one tireless snail (the aquarium was our cats’“TV”), as well as a gerbil or so, plus other assorted rodents. Pamela followed in my foot- steps and works in information technology (IT). She temporarily retired recently to concentrate on raising her son and daughter (two of our three grandchildren). She works part-time from home for an area university with a strong IT program; her husband, Brent, is working on his combined master’s/ Ph.D. there. Although she doesn’t consider it work, Pam also is ad- vancing in the leadership ranks of the area Toastmaster’s organiza- tion and has won some impressive first place trophies for speeches she’s given. In September, both their children will be in elemen- tary school. Daniel, who graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., worked for a time for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee under Patrick Leahy (D- Vt.) before entering the law school at the University of Chicago. He is now with a Chicago firm where he is working to make partner. He married his wife, Erin, a phy- sicians’ assistant in a Chicago prac- tice, in December 2013. In January 2015, she and Dan had their first child and our second granddaughter. We’re sure Dan will pursue that part- nership—and a larger residence—a bit harder, now. When they were young, we took Pam and Dan to Europe twice, and hosted students from France when their high school started an exchange program with Pam’s and Dan’s school. Consequently, Pam spent a year in an exchange program at the Sorbonne in Paris and Daniel spent a summer in Wales working for the Welsh Assembly and travel- ing in Europe. RETIRED, FOR REAL I retired for the second time in 2007. Sometime about then, I was appointed to the Antioch Science Advancement Board, just before the college shut down. I did not contrib- ute much; we never got to the point where my areas of expertise were needed—voice/text/data communi- cation,wiring, building computer in- frastructure, and et cetera. This time, I’ve stayed retired, provided you don’t count the end- less hours I spend volunteering for various nonprofit genealogy proj- ects—JewishGen, LitvakSIG (special interest group for those Jews whose ancestors came from Lithuania) and JGSGW, which is the Washington, D.C.-area Jewish genealogy group. I now know far more about my fam- ily tree than I ever expected to, al- though I still haven’t figured out how my paternal grandfather made his way from Lithuania to the U.S. around 1900. But the fact that I’m here means he obviously did, since he married my grandmother in New York. In the summer of 2013, I vis- ited Lithuania; my paternal grand- father was from Valkininkai, near Vilnius. A goal of mine was to visit the Valkininkai Jewish Cemetery, which I did. It was in sad shape; unlike many Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe, however, it hadn’t been completely destroyed. Last year I began a project to raise money to clean, catalog and translate the gravestones. Cemeteries are an im- portant resource in the genealogy world.We exceeded our fundraising goal as of January 2015, and the proj- ect is scheduled for summer 2015 and, unless it conflicts with our re- union, I may go there to observe.My grasp of Hebrew and Lithuanian is practically nonexistent, so actually participating in the cleanup is un- likely. Nonetheless, seeing the proj- ect’s completion would be very sat- isfying.