David H. Watt \u201959 \u2014March 21, 2004 … My first grandchild, leaving Kalamazoo and retirement…2003 was a busy, eventful year for Karen and me.\u00a0Amelia Cotsen Watt was born April 11th\u00a0to my son, Drew and his wife, Sarah. Karen and I happened to be in New York City to visit my children and celebrate Karen\u2019s April 10th\u00a0birthday when Amelia decided to arrive a few weeks early. All went well and she tipped the scales over 5 lbs. Now we will go to the city in a few weeks to celebrate both birthdays again. Amelia is going to have a little sister this coming July. Boy will Drew and Sarah be busy!<\/p>\n
Also in April, Pfizer completed the purchase of Pharmacia where Karen was employed as a Clinical Trials Specialist. There was a lot of tension in Kalamazoo over the next several months and we wondered what the future had in store for us. Pfizer offered Karen a position in LaJolla, California, but as nice as it may be there, we said \u201cno thanks\u201d. Karen started applying for positions at Pfizer\u2019s Connecticut facilities and in October was hired for a position in New London\/Groton. We made a house hunting trip in November and purchased a house in Mystic (Mystic Seaport, Mystic Pizza). My new address is 1291 River Rd., Mystic, CT 06355, (860) 536-4183, dwatt99@comcast.net<\/p>\n
At the end of December I retired from my computer consultant sales position with Secant Technologies and we left Kalamazoo on the 31st\u00a0. Two cars, two Golden Retrievers, Karen & I arrived in Mystic New Years Day and got ready to close on our \u201cnew\u201d home (built in 1800) and move in the first week in January. The entire move went very smoothly and the big plus is that we are located exactly in between my two older children in NYC and my youngest daughter in Cambridge, MA. It is great to be so close and we visit back
\nand forth often.<\/p>\n
Karen loves her new position and I am enjoying retirement. As one friend said, \u201cdon\u2019t think of it as retirement, think of it as adding\u00a05 days to your weekends\u201d. It\u00a0couldn\u2019t be said better and there is\u00a0no end of things to keep me busy.\u00a0The \u201choney-do\u201d list is always full.\u00a0If any Beta Brothers are\u00a0traveling in this direction, give\u00a0me a call. We have a guest room\u00a0and bath that would welcome\u00a0visitors. Yours in \u2014kai\u2014 David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David H. Watt \u201959 \u2014March 21, 2004 … My first grandchild, leaving Kalamazoo and retirement…2003 was a busy, eventful year for Karen and me.\u00a0Amelia Cotsen Watt was born April 11th\u00a0to my son, Drew and his wife, Sarah. Karen and I happened to be in New York City to visit my children and celebrate Karen\u2019s April […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-theta-data","tag-february-2005-theta-data","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}