61, 62. The CLASSMATES ON THIS PAGE ARE IDENTICAL TWINS --- Daniel Kay and David Kay
61. KAY, Daniel
Dan and his wife, Kathy, are now living in Simsbury, CT (near Hartford)
PHOTOS:
1965 graduation photo from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) with degree in Metallurgical Engineering
1967 -- Dan (far right) getting his pilot's license in Muscle Shoals Aviation, Alabama, while working at his first career engineering job at Reynold's Aluminum.
1968 -- My wedding day in Connecticut. Photo taken with Kathy at our reception at "The Inn in Old Saybrook".
1979 (Fall) -- Finishing the New York City Marathon (26.3 mi) -- WOW, that was a LONG way to run !
1983 -- Welcoming my newly-adopted 1-yr-old daughter (Rebecca) home to Michigan. She arrived 2 days before Thanksgiving.
2003
LEFT photo -- Me (on the right) with twin brother, Dave (on left), just before our 60th-birthday skydive near Lincoln, Nebraska;
RIGHT two photos -- Me at 10,000 feet jumping out of a perfectly good airplane..........
2006 -- At the Chihuly Glass Art exhibit in Brooklyn Botanical Gardens,
with my son Justin, daughter Rebecca, and my wife Kathy
2008 -- At the Rose Island lighthouse in Newport Harbor, RI, where Kathy and I stayed on our 40th wedding anniversary weekend.
2008 -- Kathy and me in Scottsdale, AZ, enjoying a Segway tour of the area
2008 -- This is a REAL, un-retouched photo (NOT faked), taken by twin-brother, Dave, on the shoreline of Lake Winnipesaukie in New Hampshire. This butterfly just decided that it wanted to land on something white -- and chose my head. Dave caught the image on camera, and 5 seconds later the butterfly decided to move on. Wow. What timing.......!!
2008 -- Photo from my personal Website image, for my Brazing Consultant business.
PROFILE:
Since 1996, I run my own metallurgical brazing consulting practice, based in Connecticut. I've been involved full-time in the metallurgical brazing industry for 45+ yrs, and have taught brazing seminars around the world throughout that entire time period.
I received my Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1966, and worked for Reynolds Aluminum Company in Alabama for several years. Then moved to Michigan, and received my MBA from Michigan State University in 1982. I'm still very active with this consulting practice, love what I'm doing, and look forward to keeping it up for years to come.
My wife, Kathy, and I have two children: the oldest is son Justin, now living in California; our adopted daughter, Rebecca, is married and now living in the Boston area.
62. KAY, David
1961................... 2016
Now retired and living with his eHarmony wife, Sharon, in Pennsylvania
PHOTOS:
1965 College graduation photo at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
1972 In our home in Iowa, with my wife Judy and our 1-yr-old daughter. At this time I was finishing up my Ph.D. Dissertation in Immunology at Iowa State University.
1975 As Assistant Director of a Cancer Research Lab at the MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas. Did "post-doctoral" training there from 1972 to 1975.
1977 -- In Bethesda, Maryland, reading a "pop-out" book to my two girls.
1985 From a family photo taken while in Omaha -- beard is gone !
2003 With my twin brother, Dan (at right), just before our 60th-birthday skydive near Lincoln, Nebraska. LOVED IT !!!!
2004 Visiting with my youngest daughter in California
2006 My twin brother Dan (on left) with my big little brother Warren (a Baptist minister, center), just before the wedding ceremony for Sharon and me, right there on the porch, at her cottage in New Hampshire. See how nervous I look?
2006 Celebrating being "JUST MARRIED!", with my eHarmony sweetheart, Sharon, at her lakeside cabin in New Hampshire. My younger brother performed the ceremony, with 14 guests present, with twin brother, Dan, being "best man".
2008 At twin brother Dan's home in CT; beard has come back (temporarily)
2009 At a Bed & Breakfast with Sharon near Laguna Beach, CA, on our way up North to a Wine-Country vacation. (We also spent a couple of days with Warren Farrell and Liz Dowling just north of San Francisco).
2009 With my new grandson Julian in California.
2011 April -- Enjoying refreshments with Sharon at Robert's Grove in Placencia, Belize
Christmas, 2011, in Pennsylvania
Feb 2012 --- Dave and Sharon enjoying a moment in the sun near Laguna Beach, California
November 2015 -- Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the first time we met on a "blind date" at the Sycamore Grille Restaurant in Delaware Water Gap, PA. Same table, same thrill.
PROFILE :
After graduating MPHS, my twin brother, Dan, and I both attended college at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, just across the Hudson River from Albany.
In 1966, with a Bachelor's Degree in Biophysics in hand, I begin graduate research studies in Microbiology at Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames.
While participating in the campus Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, I met Judy, and 18 months later (1968) we were married. In 1969, I earned a Master's Degree in Microbiology, and then began a Ph.D. program within the College of Veterinary Medicine. My first daughter was born in 1971, a year before I graduated Iowa State with my Ph.D. in Immunobiology. We then moved down to Texas so I could start post-doctoral research in Cancer Immunology at the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute (part of the University of Texas system). My second daughter was born in 1975, there in Texas, shortly before we all moved to Bethesda, Maryland, where I had been appointed as Visiting Research Scientist in Immunology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), doing cancer research while living only 10 miles from our nation's capital in Washington DC. What fun it was being in the D.C. area during the nation's many Bicentennial celebrations.
In 1978 we moved yet again, this time to my first academic appointment as Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, VA. Taught medical students part-time while doing medical research "full time". Bicycled five miles up and down hills to work and back -- great exercise! A couple of centuries earlier, Charlottesville had been home to Thomas Jefferson --- so, touring Monticello (Jefferson's home) was always high on any visitor's "to-do" list.
Since my wife had been born and raised in Iowa (and since her parents were still there), we decided in late 1982 to move back to the Midwest, setting up our new home in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1983. I joined the Medical Research Staff at the University of Nebraska Medical Center where I remained on Faculty until 1996, at which time I left the world of academics to join the Research Staff of a small but growing biotech company (BioNebraska, Inc) which was developing an exciting new treatment for Type-II diabetes. Phase-1 clinical trials around the country had been amazingly successful. Unfortunately, in early 2002, this growing company lost a significant patent dispute and, as a result, was forced to close its doors. This loss of career put yet another deep crack into my already fragile marriage. Sadly, my wife and I separated, and eventually divorced.
In mid-2003, I joined another small biotech company which was developing a novel gene-based therapy for human leukemia. I moved from Omaha to Pennsylvania, to work in the company's clinical trials office located nearby in New Jersey. For two years it was 18-hr days, 7-days a week, before I decided in mid 2005 that I could and should retire.
With encouragement from both of my daughters, I very cautiously went onto a computer-dating website (eHarmony) in late 2005. One of the strangest, most-difficult things I've ever done -- and, also, one of the happiest -- because it was there that I found my wonderful Sharon. We began dating, discovered an amazing and absolutely incredible compatibility, and were married in mid-2006 in New Hampshire, on the screened-in porch of her lakeside cottage, during the height of a passing rain storm.........
Sharon and I celebrated our 12th Anniversary in 2018; with her, retirement has been fantastic. Happy. Wonderful. Amazing. We thank the Lord daily for our blessings.
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