We do indeed have email -- and I'm sorry we've lost touch. I promise to follow up more later with what we've been doing over the past several years, since seeing you up here, but here are a few highlights.
Norah and I have been very fortunate in our nearly 34 years of marriage. I retired as chief of staff of the House Ways and Means Committee at the end of 1996, went downtown as a tax consultant for a number of years as a partner at Ernst & Young, and then retired for good at the end of 2005. Norah beat me into retirement by five years -- ending her own career at the Ways and Means Committee in 2000 (we worked together for a number of years, as you may recall). Now we split our time between our homes in Alexandria, Virginia and Southport, North Carolina where we built home a couple of years ago in golf and boating community. She has become a golf fanatic, winning her ladies' group championship two years in a row at Army Navy Country Club.
Norah
I'm not much of a golfer, thanks to increased double vision problems as I get older, but I am enjoying the heck out of my boat, the "Yellow Rose". Friends and I frequently go 60 miles out into the Atlantic before dawn to chase tuna, wahoo, mahi-mahi, sailfish, king mackerel, and all sorts of other fish in the beautiful blue gulf stream waters along the continental shelf. We had the 19th largest king mackerel among the more than 2,000 weighed in at this year's U.S. Open King Mackerel Tournament held there in Southport.
Phil and Clay
Our two children are doing very well, and we're awfully proud of them. Son Clay (finally stopped growing at 6'6") is on track to graduate with honors from the business school at UNC Wilmington this May (35 miles from our Southport home). It has taken a while for him to find his way, but he's now had four "straight A" semesters in a row and recently was the leader of the university's ethics debate team in a regional competition. He kicked Clemson's ass single-handedly! He's also a fine golfer, all-around athlete, and my favorite fishing buddy. Our daughter Kendall is an internal medicine physician at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Always the overachiever, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rice, went on to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston for med school where she graduated near the top of her class, then on to Hopkins for residency. Hopkins asked her to stay on for a three-year fellowship in endocrinology which she'll start this summer. I suspect she will spend the rest of her career there -- especially if she and her surgeon boyfriend get married. Sure won't get any complaints from her proud parents. Norah and I still wonder how we created these two.
Kendall and Clay
My father is still living in Universal City with his wife (my mother died in the mid-80s). Ford retired in northern Virginia, too, so we see him and Nancy frequently. Eric is living in East Texas with his family. John is in Schertz, just off of Natural Bridge Caverns Rd.
All the best to Danny and the family. It was great to see your pictures.
Phil
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