connie mcmillan (elson)
Wow -- 50 years in one paragraph. Here are the key events: got a PhD in mathematics, married twice and divorced twice. At age 44 I had my only child, Peter McMillan Evett. My son died at age 8, of unknown causes -- probably a bad gene from one or both of his older parents. After a 30-year teaching career at Ithaca College in upstate NYI, left my tenured position after Peter's death and moved to Boston where I ended up as a biostatistician on a very large and very interesting genomics study of trauma victims. I retired at age 65 and my current (10 years so far) partner Fred Fitzmeyer and I sailed away from Boston in October 2007 on our 41' cutter Tashtego. We have been living the good life cruising in the Caribbean ever since. Because there is NO INTERNETBANDWIDTH in the Caribbean, I am not posting my e-address and I do not do Facebook (sorry). I do post essays from time to time at www.sailblogs.com/member/tashtego/ and you can leave messages there that will get answered. Several years ago I promised Paula Weger I would go to the reunion with her, plus two of my sisters Deborah and Kate still live in Tucson. So I will be at the reunion and I will enjoy hearing about your lives and plans.. (2010)
At our 50th reunion I was struck by how many of my CHS classmates were returning to Tucson after retirement and now I have done the same. When Fred and I no longer felt strong enough to handle emergencies at sea we returned to living on land (sadly). Fred died of pancreatic cancer last spring and now I have moved to Tucson. I'm looking forward to getting to know Tucson as an adult and I will definitely show up for the 55th reunion. Sadly, Connie has past away. (Last Updated: Sept 2015) |