These 31 members were asked, ​“What are you doing now?”
(Photos shown are from various times.)

1 Name: Ward Schu­maker
Loca­tion: San Francisco’s Potrero Hill
Daily Inter­ests: Painting. Painting. Painting.
And I’m taking my first piano lessons: a part of a study
to see if studying music can lessen the chances of senility.
Yup, senility. http://​ward​schu​maker​.blogspot​.com/

2 Name: Gale McKee
Loca­tion: I am in Santa Rosa, CA.
I was a designer & rep for Artworks with Don. I have a hard­copy port­folio of design work (not on a website because no longer do that.) So after Artworks I was a senior designer and prototype-maker at Pottery Barn Kids. (super fun!!!) And was also doing fine art which I am doing full time after retiring. I do have a website for fine art:
www​.galesm​c​k​ee​fin​eart​.com

3 Lester Barnett
Midtown Manhattan
Approaching 30 years of retirement
20 years as a free volun­teer NYC guide
Travel to the ends of the earth, including
places off the beaten track like Syria, Iran, Ukraine and Greenland.

4 Richurd Somers (yes, with the ​“U”)
Retired in 1995
Play Bocce once a week
Play golf 4 – 6 times a month
Still meet with the last remaining Y&R folks from 1960 1 – 2 times a year
Married 60 years to Patti Live in the same home we bought in 1968 (Sleepy Hollow Annex) Hobby: Napping
Also:
1. I am in a 10-year clin­ical test, having my aortic valve replaced with an Edwards valve (not yet approved by the FED. It is made of metal and cow tissue. Going through secu­rity is inter­esting, and I tend to moo from time to time.
2. The day before Thanks­giving I had bilat­eral hernia surgery. First week, awful pain. I am pain-free now. Golf and Bocce will return in January.
3. Patti and I are off to Kauai last week in February; returning first week of April.

5 Charles S. Pyle
48 years as an illus­trator. Retired from Academy of Art Univer­sity three years back. Still painting, drawing, and doing the occa­sional illus­tra­tion gig. My illus­tra­tion reps and my GP retired this year. Time marches on. Taught an artists’ work­shop in Tuscany in 2024. https://​www​.charlespyle​.net/

6 Hans Halber­stadt
Age 80 and doing busi­ness at the same old stand.
I started working in the adver­tising photog­raphy busi­ness at the age of twelve in 1956. That was in my father Hal’s studio in San Fran­cisco. Although I have always said that I am not a profes­sional photog­ra­pher (I made movies and wrote 67 books), I own a busi­ness that makes and sells photog­raphy. Our most recent big project was for a univer­sity, the produc­tion of stock photographs for their exclu­sive use. It has been an odd and acci­dental life, entirely unplanned and unex­pected, but full of adven­ture and just enough money to pay the bills. I swore as a kid working in my father’s studio that I would never, ever, become a profes­sional photographer…but God some­times has other plans for me that included a lot of photog­raphy. I have worked with Navy SEALs, Green Berets, Marine Recon, the British army, the Russian air force — every Amer­ican mili­tary service. In the process I have flown many kinds of mili­tary aircraft, all badly, learned to drive and fire the guns on the Abrams tank.

I am a Viet Nam combat veteran — heli­copter door gunner with a bit of residual PTSD but proud and grateful to have served. Joining the Army was the smartest thing I ever did. It’s where I learned how to do every­thing else.
Your faithful scribe,
Hans Halber­stadt
https://​hanshal​ber​stadt​.photodeck​.com/

7 Laurence Bartone 
I guess I can be at least some­what attached to this group. Certainly I’m old enough. And I know of many folks here, as I’ve worked with many of them in one way or another. I bought my little brick building on Natoma Street (thanks to Ed Zak for turning me onto it) back in ​’71 and had a great run. Loved my years in SF. In ​’78 I closed my shop in SF and moved to NYC to play in a larger arena. It was a terrific thing for me to do on so many levels, but even­tu­ally I got tired of NYC and returned in ​’86, began work here again — ​‘til the quake of ​’89 bent the studio a bit too much. Forced retirement.

Since then, I devel­oped a piece of land in San Anselmo (10 years), built my house, shot a few more ads, worked at Apple in Virtual Reality, wrote for a tech maga­zine, had a massive car crash (not my fault), shot a few weddings, and decided to not do that anymore.

These days I live with my lovely wife in lovely Napa. We orig­i­nally met back in ​’76, and she even­tu­ally shared my house in Mill Valley, then she moved to LA to become a commer­cial producer, and me to NYC. We got back together in ​’12, and it’a been great. I devote much of my time to playing the tenor sax, hiking around, and enjoying life. I’m loving my iPhone camera. As they say: the best camera is the one you’ve got with you. And photog­raphy, as we knew it, is long gone.
Laurence Bartone
That’s the truth and nothing but. I may’ve left a couple of things out though.

8 Dave Sanchez
I’m approaching a 15-year retire­ment from adver­tising. I think I got out just in time. Social Media took over, and I was not inter­ested in getting into that medium. Most of my clients pulled their adver­tising budgets when the Bush II reces­sion hit, and it was becoming hard to keep Red Wagon Adver­tising & Design doors open, besides… I was then 72 years old. Time to let go. I’ve been enjoying going to museums, reading mostly non-fiction books, and relaxing in my second home , with studio, in the North Coast. I have been painting, oils, occa­sion­ally. I hope to make the time to get back to the canvas in 2025.
Backing up a few gener­a­tions: When I left Y&R in 1979 I joined Gross Pera & Rockey. That was a great move for me. I had an oppor­tu­nity to work on many different accounts including PSA Airlines, Schilling /McCormick foods, Toyota, Cruise Travel, KGO-TV, and many others…for 8 years. I left when they were closing their doors, to work at JWT. I got wind of changes at Ketchum Adver­tising and thought I’d apply there.
I got the job. I worked on many accounts including ones that were really different for me. They called it ​“Package Goods Adver­tising”. It’s mostly a style that most creative people despise. I had fun exag­ger­ating the concepts and improving the produc­tion values. On other accounts I expressed better concepts/directions and execu­tions, which kept clients and gave me rewards, both profes­sion­ally, emotion­ally, and phys­i­cally (trophies). I left Ketchum in 1988 and started my own company. I acquired clients: All the Cali­fornia race tracks, Super­soil garden prod­ucts, and the Spanish Sparkling Wines: Freix­enet and Gloria Ferrer. (Thanks to David Brown. He was a young writer at Ketchum back in 1978. We worked together for a year, he went to Spain, and when he returned to SF in 1986, he contacted me at Ketchum. He asked me to work with him on the Freix­enet account he was pitching. He got the account, but became the Freix­enet Director of Adver­tising in the US. He awarded the busi­ness to me when I left Ketchum.)
As the accounts grew, I asked my friend Mickey Lonchar to join me. As we picked up more busi­ness, I asked AE Dennis Flynn to join us. We became Sanchez, Lonchar & Flynn Adver­tising. We bought a two-story brick building on 8^th & Minna and totally rebuilt it for our agency. In the year 2000 the part­ners decided to split-up and pursue different direc­tions. I kept the accounts and opened Red Wagon. I had the agency for another 10 years. This takes my story back up to my retire­ment after 51 years in adver­tising and design. It was a great ride!
Dave Sanchez

9 Barbara Simpson
Hi Ann,
I’m Craig Simp­son’s widow.
I enjoy your site and wish to continue viewing it.
Maybe one day, I’ll pull together Craig’s works for the site.
He had many great still clients and then collab­o­rated with Jerry Collamer to open TEAM Produc­tion Co.SF-LA. He was a member of the DGA, Direc­tors Guild of America for Tele­vi­sion and Film.
Thank you for all that you do.
Barbara Simpson

10 George Hampton
Hello,
I am still ​‘working’. I have been so fortu­nate to have connected with a restau­rant group here in Austin, TX that has chosen my art to deco­rate their 8, going on 9, restau­rants. The newest one will open in early November and I am in the process of finishing the last of 22 paint­ings! Be sure to visit either a Jack Allen’s Restau­rant or a Salt Traders Coastal Cooking if you are in Austin.
George Hampton

11 T Price
Hello ,
Tim Price here, a copy­writer who filled in the ​“grey lines” for great ADs like Brian Barnes, Bernie Vangrin, Joe Kendall, Gig Gonella, Jack Jannes, Mik Kita­gawa and many more. I divide my time between Las Vegas and an old off-the-grid fish camp on the Sea of Cortez. I fill my days in Baja watching Osprey, side winders and various fish.
T Price

12 Jed Falby
Dear Ann
Your timing is impeccable!
Tomorrow, Wednesday, 11 Sept
Our East Coast (and over-Atlantic)
Old Codgers of Y&R San Fran­cisco are meeting up again in New York
to tell old stories of the long-ago 1960s Mad Men on Montgomery.
Who’s there? John Emmer­ling. (Kaiser Cookout), Mike Slos­berg (Go Go Goodyear), Alan Zwiebel (Print Ads)
And yours truly: Jed Falby ( Laguna Honda and Gallo and Kaiser Indus­tries and Go! Go! Goodyear!)

Jed is now back in the small village of Budleigh Salterton on the wild and windy English Channel coast. I help run a most successful Film Society (400+ members) and am An exhibiting Acad­e­mi­cian of the South West Academy — mostly oils. ​“Le Train de Michel” was a successful first Graphic Novel. Then there’s the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival to keep us occu­pied. At the lunch tomorrow I shall try to get a brief update for you on the other Old Geezers
Cheers !
Jed Falby
(later — — — — — — 9 – 11-24 4:17pm
Well I can add a few more:
The New York & Atlantic group of SF Old Geezers met in Fiorellos (oppo­site Lincoln Center) as we have done many times before. We talked a lot of our old comrades C/D Hanley Norins passed on Mik Kita­gawa sadly no longer here Gerry Severson, Richurd Somers, Dave Sanchez, Connie Curtis, Jan Maak­stead, And many more I’m sure. But for my four in NYC — some details: Alan Zwiebel ​“I’m 86 — and I’m dating!” Alan was the C/D Y&R West took over from Mike Slos­berg Mike just feted his Big 90^th in NYC with videos of his busy career (USAF to founder of Digitas) John Emmer­ling Ace pilot of own plane. Was the racing tire writer for Goodyear with four trips to Utah Salt Flats to watch Craig Breedlove. Hit 600 mph!. That leaves me to close:, Jed Falby, Y&R San Fran­cisco, Y&R New York., Y&R Paris,- a moving expe­ri­ence. Jed Produc­tions in Paris for 20 years (Palm d’Or Cannes 1973) Now painting quietly back in England until old ties call me back to Fiorellos in New York.
Cheers! 
Jed

13 Sarah Petrilla
Hi Richard,
Sarah Petrilla, Sarah Pennington Petrilla here.
I worked in the Sales Promo­tion Dept. of Wells Fargo for ten years from 1968 to 1978. I worked for Frank Kaiser and Marie Fox under the lead­er­ship of Dick Rosen­berg who hired me. I live in Ross where I raised two daugh­ters and am married to Ken Petrilla who also worked at Wells Fargo in the inter­na­tional Dept.
Best,
Sarah Petrilla

14 Hi. Pat Ansley here on Camano Island in far NW Wash­ington. Most of you know Frank died in March 2014. He loved this area so it has been fun to make it my home. The nephews are working on a website of some of Frank’s work so I’ll let you know when it is ready In the mean­time y’all are welcome to come up this way for a visit
Thank you, Ann and Dick for keeping up the Geezer Post!
Pat Ansley

15 Cath Wayland
Hi Annie-
I really enjoyed this. Worked with Dave Sanchez at Ketchum. And I’m familiar with the photog­ra­phers. Pat Brennan worked with Craig Simpson. And, of course, I know of Bartone. And knew Ward Schu­maker thru Pat.
You are amazing — both of you ?.
Cath Wayland

16 Tom Peacock
I was away in the Boundary Waters in Minnesota on the Cana­dian boundary with family. I started visiting the area when I was 12 years old, now 92. Not as robust as earlier in life, but still greatly enjoying this beau­tiful and exotic wilder­ness area. (Lots of loons and bald eagles) The commu­nity of Grand Marais is a delightful artist colony, and I have a cousin living on the north shore 80 feet above Lake Supe­rior in Tofty, Minn. A long way to travel but worth it. One of the great places in Grand Marais is the Betsey Bowen Studio which was orig­i­nally a church now converted to her block printing art and that of many other north country artists.
Tom Peacock

17 Bruce Hettema
Hi Ann,
Sorry I am late to this but it might be of interest to the group. As a young Geezer (71) I recently retired. As some of you know i worked for Patterson & Hall, and purchased it from Chet Patterson in the 90’s.
I had a great 30+ years as P&H Creative Group all the while researching and docu­menting the history of the firm (estab­lished in 1923). I am now in the process of passing along my huge agency archives to the Bancroft Library at Berkeley. It includes orig­inal art, photographs and tear sheets. Audio inter­views with staff artists Stan Galli, Chris Kenyon and Charlie Allen and much more.
Thanks,
Bruce Hettema

18 Paul Lessig 
Dear Dick & Ann:
We relo­cated to Sparks, NV; a commu­nity, as I erro­neously recalled, was similar to Mill Valley. Wrong! However, our home is blessed with a 1/3^rd Acre back­yard of Spruce trees and Assorted Vege­ta­tion, Arlette at 88 still holds weekly Senior ​‘French’ sessions at the Unv. of Nevada Reno, and a VA Hospital is only 5 minutes away; of which at 87 I’m required to utilize too often.

In the interim, I spend my time writing and sending ​“Polit­ical” Articles/Opinions to USA Today and the Reno Gazette Journal (some of which get printed) and reviewing my Memo­ries one of which is most timely ​“when Dick and I managed to convince the Mill Valley author­i­ties to move the Fall Art’s Festival from the center of Mill Valley to Old Mill Park; which is now in its 67^th Year!
In closing, hope you and Ann are well and enjoying yourselves.…
Paul Lessig

19 Joel Fugaz­zotto
Still in Marin.
Congrats to you and Dick on your book.
Growing older everyday. Strange how that works.
Enjoying every minute with all four grandchildren.
Joel Fugaz­zotto

I would like to add to my last post about what I am doing now. I received offi­cial permis­sion to finally reveal that I am now a fully retired senior field oper­a­tive for ​“The Agency.” I was recruited when I was in Chicago for an oper­a­tion code-named ​“Ad Hoc.” Posing as a copy­writer for numerous adver­tising agen­cies over the years, allowed me to travel to various loca­tions throughout the country under the guise of client meet­ings and commer­cial shoots, which were merely a cover for various assign­ments and oper­a­tions for ​“The Agency.” I can’t get into the complexity, nor the means used to coör­di­nate these various oper­a­tions, but suffice to say they were not as compli­cated as it might seem to make sure I was in New York or Los Angeles, back in Chicago, or wher­ever when needed. As time went by, I was moved to San Fran­cisco since most of my assign­ments revolved around people and inci­dents in the Holly­wood area, for example the visits of Prime Minister Shimon Peres and George H. Bush at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills where I swam every morning with the Prime Minister under the watchful eye of his secu­rity and the LA police. I only mention this example because it was in the news and is in public domain. Unfor­tu­nately, I cannot go into detail about with whom I met, where I went, nor my assign­ments at the time. Because of my posi­tion, I was able to recruit the assis­tance of various art direc­tors and film direc­tors over the years whose names must not come to light, nor can I reveal how I used their talents unbe­knownst to them. Some of these people you may know. My posi­tion allowed me to spend much time in the dark­ened rooms of editing houses, sound studios, and music studios. Late night dinners were the norm. Although, I offi­cially retired from ​“Ad Hoc” some 29 years ago, I have been called upon for consul­ta­tion on occa­sion. Like the Mafia, you cannot retire from ​“The Agency.” You are either erased or just fade away. But the one thing you never lose is the ability to distin­guish the good guys from the bad.
Joel Fugaz­zotto
P.S. You may print this. The photo you have of me is fine. Of course, it is a disguise.

20 Hello Ann and Dick,
Name: David Alcorn
Loca­tion: San Francisco
Inter­ests: Currently over­seeing a total reno­va­tion of our condo in the wine country.
Offi­cially retired in January of 2023.
With my partner Pamela, we enjoy trav­eling, we visited China in October 2024. What a mind-blowning expe­ri­ence In the last few years we have had the oppor­tu­nity to travel to India, Nepal, and the kingdom of Bhutan. Last year we visited Egypt. And of course we try to get to New York a couple of times a year, espe­cially at Christmas time. We feel so very fortu­nate that our heath is good enough to allow us these memo­rable adventures.

Career wise: My first job out of design school was in San Fran­cisco at Bonfigli and Hassold, package designers. I went from working with tiny type on phar­ma­ceu­tical labels to type a foot tall as design director at Scope Exhibits (mostly trade show exhibits).

A friend intro­duced me to a fellow who was just starting an alpine equip­ment busi­ness. He needed a logo and other corpo­rate visual iden­tity mate­rials. That was the begin­ning of my rela­tion­ship with The North Face. I’m proud to say that through the sale of the company and various subse­quent CEO’s that the logo has not been changed or tweaked since I designed it 56 years ago now (I’m told that it’s one of the ten most recog­nized logos around the world). That oppor­tu­nity allowed me to start my own design office. The North Face connec­tion led me to a number of sports and outdoor related clients. But the reces­sion of 1974 – 75 forced me out of busi­ness and I managed to land a job as a design director at the global brand consul­tancy of Lippin­cott and Margulies in NYC. From there I went to Sand­gren & Murtha, another NYC design firm. Most of the work there for me was finan­cially oriented corpo­rate iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. That led to me being offered the posi­tion as global director of corpo­rate design at Merrill Lynch, where I stayed for six years, riding the subway to Wall Street everyday!

I longed to be in busi­ness for myself again, and moved to La Jolla, Cali­fornia. Fortu­nately I was able to quickly pick up a number of biotech clients, two museums, and other small busi­ness accounts.

In 1990, I remar­ried and moved back to the Bay Area. I had a rough time trying to solicit new clients here. I tried to get subcon­tract work from older, estab­lished designers. A little was not enough. My limited expe­ri­ence with museum cata­logues led me to acad­emic publishers. This opened a whole new market for my design services. It allowed me to move to Graeagle, Cali­fornia where my wife and I built a home. Such a niche market and with a couple of dozen univer­sity clients, we were able to live in the moun­tains and design book covers and inte­riors. There were only two dead­lines a year, the Fall list of books, and Spring list of books.
Widowed, I have found love again and now live in San Fran­cisco once more. And that new love? Pamela was the pres­i­dent of a startup company for who I design their corpo­rate logo in 1990! We hadn’t spoken in over 25 years! Recon­nected over the internet in 2017 and have been together ever since.
It’s been a good life, and continues to be!

21 Steve Rustad
Hello -
Still trying to figure out a career.
Doing more art stuff these days.
Just completed the poster for the Grand National Rodeo at the Cow Palace.
Thanks for asking.
Steve Rustad
https://​rustad​mar​keting​.com/​c​a​t​e​g​o​r​y​/​m​a​r​k​e​t​i​n​g​-​w​i​s​d​om/

22 Name: Diana Thewlis
Loca­tion: Vancouver, WA
I’ve retired from contract illustration.
What I am doing now: drawing, painting, and the occa­sional teaching gig. I belong to and am active in three art groups. Other­wise, hanging out with family and friends, reading, doing cryp­tograms, and taking a class to stay engaged and stave off senility!
Hi Chuck and Ward!
https://​www​.swavan​couver​.com/​d​i​a​n​a​t​h​e​w​lis

23 Robert Arnold
At 80 years old I am still taking photographs. Just had a one man show at the View­point Gallery in Sacra­mento. Black and white images. Now working on a second show, black and white botan­ical. Hope all is well and you’re in good health.
Sincerely,
Robert Arnold
Now living in Nevada City CA.
http://​www​.rober​tarnold​.com/​A​b​o​u​t​.​h​tml

24 Bob Pease
Hi Ann & Richard,
Yes! Even slowing down@ 87- Enjoy hearing from old comrades…as for loca­tions, sold our 54 year stay in Alamo- now in Benicia — where the Pease clan is all together again. (Winding down my Cord Complete book- w/ only 60 left…)
Hope you & Dick are healthy and kicking ass!
Cheers,
Bob Pease
Ann & Dick, as requested this shot took place @ Our 65^th wedding anniver­sary on 12/21/23
​“Hi Ho Ho!” Cheers to all…

25 Todd Miller
Thanks for the email.
I’m still breathing (and teaching high school now and then).
May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.
Todd Miller

26 Hello Geezers and Gazers…
David Johnson here…ex JWT ACD in the time of Brian Barnes, Mik Kit, Jim Blakeley, Marlin Neufeld, Dave Sanchez et al. Started at JWT in 1967…a mad men time for sure.
Holed up here in Napa Valley giving up Mill Valley for less traffic and more room to roam. Jim Blakeley and I made wine together…I’m carrying on the tradition.
Plus juggling chain­saws, driving a tractor and planting every­thing from Oak trees to tomatoes.
Still in the Biz with a designer/art director/illustrator partner Jill Young and our company Head­wa­ters Inte­grated Marketing.
Working with a ski/lake resort in Northern Idaho marketing 2^nd homes.
Still see Neil Shakery from time to time.
Great to hear about so many people well into their 80’s+.
Keep up the good play.
David Johnson

27 John Pratt
Taken awhile for me to think of what to say. So if I start rambling just bear with me. First of all I have a couple of major health issues: heart and lungs. Replaced aortic valve in heart. Lungs are severely damaged, prob­ably from all the toxic stuff from work and my major hobby, model plane building. Sprays, lacquers, balsa dust, CA glues( the worst). So I’m pretty much unable to do anything phys­ical! On oxygen 24 seven, which is a real drag! Try to manage walking a mile a day. And going to coffee with friends here in Petaluma. Have lunch, watch TV, and take a nap in the after­noon! OK, no more complaining. Had a wonderful career with great creative people. 30 years of performing in good quality commu­nity theatre acting and singing in major rolls. Serious cycling with life long friend Stan Dann, Ron Sweet and others. And a great family including a great grandson???
Love you two, and miss you and the geezers
John Pratt
https://​geezers​gallery​.com/​j​o​h​n​-​p​r​a​tt/

28 Ross F. Heil 
Ann, thanks for your unending dedi­ca­tion to keeping us updated!
Not sure which I am, Old or Geezer — I guess both. I live in Walnut Creek and enjoy sitting by our 13,000 gallon Koi pond.
After Art Center I landed a job at a small mom and pop agency as an art director, which lasted for three months and ending up on the manage­ment side. The next twelve years were at McCann-Erickson. Then on to starting a number of house­wares compa­nies. Today I’ve been applying my art back­ground by designing theatrical sets for a private men’s club in The City.
On to new adventures.
Ross F. Heil

29 Chris Blum
I contin­u­ously find myself ducking into the woods to take a leak and looking down at my puddle ( with a satel­lite point of view ) and seeing an ocean surrounded by conti­nents yet to be explored.
Chris Blum
https://​blum​boxart​.com/

30 Jeff Leedy
I guess I should check in too. I did my share of art director stints at Y&R (NYC) for way too long, then HD&B in SFO as Ass. Creative Director- won a Clio for Straw Hat Pizza (spot great, pizza not so) over 150 MacDon­alds commercials-left to free lance as humorous illus­trator for 8 years (6 were white knuckle), then back for 2 years in Cole Weber, then over to Europe for 6 months seeing if there was a real painter in me- there was. I have been a fine art humorist since 1987 or so, Sausalito Art festi­vals (17 years), awards, lots of repro­duc­tions, 2 of our own art galleries (Art That Makes You Laugh© in Sausalito and Mendo­cino) for 10 years, over 400 art festi­vals and all the miles to get there and back- now semi retired in Star, Idaho, still married to Elaine who was the wind under my wings- in very good health, thank God, tennis 3x week, doing a lot of dog commis­sions — which I love doing- and trying to eke out the twilight years in good health and enough $$$ to get us thru. We were in Bay Area for 30 years, it was fun and good times. Dave Sanchez was in my men’s group and I recall a modest assort­ment of names your members mention I worked with or knew of. My life has been an amazing journey, I have been blessed (another word for lucky) and continue to be so.

My hellos to all who may have known me or of me. and best wishes too.
Jeff Leedy
https://​www​.artthat​makesy​oulaugh​.com/

31 Neil Shakery 
I find it hard to believe that it’s been 30 years since I resigned from my part­ner­ship in the Penta­gram San Fran­cisco office. After many years as an edito­rial art director, first in Toronto and then in New York at Look Maga­zine, Saturday Review, Psychology Today, among others I was offered a part­ner­ship by Johnson Pedersen and Hinrichs, which then became Johnson Pedersen Hinrichs & Shakery { the biggest name in graphic design according to Marty Pedersen } I worked with Marty in New York for a couple of years and then joined Kit and Linda Hinrichs in their San Fran­cisco office in 1980. In 1986 we merged with the inter­na­tional design part­ner­ship, Pentagram.

I have never worked in adver­tising, and so I don’t know most of the people on your contact list, but there are a few familiar names. The one that goes back farthest is that of Jed Falby. I knew Jed in Montréal back in the late 50’s when he was working at an adver­tising agency and I was at The National Film Board of Canada, my first job after grad­u­ating from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto.

Jed went off to Paris, I think, and I to London for a wonderful 3 years where I met Karin, who became my wife in 1964, before returning to Canada. Jed disap­peared from my life until one day a couple of years ago when, at the DeYoung Museum , I ran into Mik Kita­gawa who intro­duced me to a friend visiting from England who said he lived in Buddleigh Salterton. I remem­bered that Jed lived there so I asked him if he knew Jed Falby. He gave me a little smile and I suddenly real­ized that it was the man himself. We had both put on a lot of years and pounds and we didn’t recog­nize each other.

Another familiar name is that of our dear friend, George Hampton. who. sadly for us, picked up and moved with his wife Jacqui to Austin,Texas to join their daugh­ters several years ago. We have visited them and happily, they come back to Mill Valley occa­sion­ally to see friends and family. George keeps busy turning out paint­ings to enhance the restau­rants in an ever-growing chain of restau­rants owned by a friend in Austin.

There are a few others that we have known over the years, including the wonderful illus­trator and artist, Ward Schu­maker, who, unfor­tu­nately, we seldom see these days and the painter Bruce Lauritzen, who we have known for years and often visited at his studio in Point Reyes Station.

Three years ago my wife, Karin and I moved from our house on the hill over­looking Tamal­pais Valley which we bought when we first came to Cali­fornia in 1973, to a smaller. one- story house on the shore of Lagoon #1 in Corte Madera, just 5 miles north. The house is much more manage­able and conve­niently located than our old one which, at this stage of our lives is what we need, and has an amazing view of Mt. Tam, framed by the surrounding hills and reflected in the lagoon.

Several years ago Steve Hall, who I expect many of you knew from Patterson and Hall days and who sadly passed away earlier this year, intro­duced me to a small life drawing group which gets together every Sunday morning in Sausalito and I have been drawing with them ever since. This was the first time I had drawn for myself in over 60 years/
I also enrolled in two 4‑month drawing classes at The College of Marin and hope to take another one this coming spring.

Karin has kept her editing chops in shape by producing and editing a quar­terly maga­zine for the Sausalito Yacht Club, and is currently producing and editing an online newsletter for the Marin Rose Society.

The thing that gives me the greatest plea­sure these days is sitting in my back garden, watching the sun set behind Mount Tam.
Neil Shakery.

32 Name: Dick Moore and Ann Thompson
Loca­tion: still here
Inter­ests: Dick paints water­colors, daily.
We both took photos as the brig­an­tine, Matthew Turner,
was being built in Sausalito, CA.
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Ann

Dick Moore, here.
Just want to add: although my name is first in our email, and I often get credit for this Geezer busi­ness, I want it known I don’t do squat. Ann is the one who does EVERYTHING! She sets her own dead­lines and is upset if she doesn’t adhere to them. And I’m sure you’ve noticed, when she doesn’t have anything she’ll post her own stories.
Also much credit goes to Piet Halber­stadt in New York who keeps the blog going for us.
Bless him.