Shared Information (2017)

Sedley Hotchkiss Hassel

     

After TJ I went for one year to Westhampton College and then graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College as an English major. In 1962 I married the love of my life, Chris Hassel (TJ ’57). We have two sons, Bryan and Paul, who live in North Carolina and Colorado. We have six “perfect” grandchildren. I was a career elementary teacher in both public and private systems. Retirement has let me continue my love of reading, tutor in adult and refugee literacy, play tennis, docent in an art museum. Chris’s research in Oxford and his two faculty exchange years in Leeds gave us lots of time to explore England and Europe. We have also travelled the USA on long road trips. I have fond memories of TJ and look forward to seeing familiar faces.

William Decker

aka Bill Decker

aka Double Decker

 

      After graduating from TJ in the February class, I attended an electronic school and received an associate degree in electrical engineering followed by a bachelor degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech. I worked 32 years for IBM in Endicott, New York where I met Marilyn, my secretary, and we were married 18 months later. We have been married 52 years this June. In 1995 IBM asked me to transfer to Boulder, Colorado, where I worked 7 more years.  I retired from IBM in 2001. Since retirement we spend summers at our lake house on the New York finger lakes which we never sold when we moved to Colorado, and winters in Colorado.
      We have 2 daughters, Dr. Elizabeth, a chiropractor living in Sitka, Alaska, and Mary Faith, a preschool founder and operator living in central New York.
      I have always been a nerd and proud of it. Hobbies include collecting and restoring automated musical instruments, which includes reproducing pianos, pipe organs, music boxes, orchestrions, etc. In the 1980s I became interested in video photography which has led to my interest in video production. I currently teach classes in video camera, video editing, and audio recording for our local public access TV station. Here is a link to one of my documentaries which documents the 30 year construction of
"The Carousel of Happiness" located here in Colorado, or to my web page where I have links to most of my videos.