April 2024

And Jim wrote that during a 27th year in Switzerland, “We are now empty-nesters and we are now officially retired, but nonetheless, we are staying busy,” including a summer trip in Morocco, “tenting with camels in brutal Sahara heat and blowing sand,” and seven weeks in the United States, from the Dakotas to San Francisco, followed by an autumn trip to Spain, a couple weeks in Baltimore with Jim’s mom, watching the eclipse from Texas and writing about all of these exploits from Costa Rica.

But the variety of their projects is even more extensive, ranging from guiding a Swiss foundation focused on serving the most disadvantaged children in Kenya and a much larger Washington-based NGO focused on treating acutely malnourished children in northeastern Nigeria, to playing a smaller role in the supervision of a Swiss private boarding school.

“Our son, Mateusz, continues with his work for a French pharma firm, currently based in Boston, where he has lived since getting his graduate degrees from INSEAD and MIT. His twin brother is now starting a Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the University in Lugano. Our youngest is doing well as a SW engineer at a startup based in San Francisco,” Jim wrote, closing with, “Net: I consider myself to be one of the luckiest persons on this planet.”

reported by John Wharton '76