So I went to school in Princeton, New Jersey. It was a day school. I rode my bike to school through the campus actually. I got to know Princeton pretty well because we lived on one side of town and the school is the other side of town so I’d ride all the way across through the campus to the school. It was a very good school. I was fortunate with all my moving I was pretty able academically and I was a good athlete. So between being good at athletics and doing well as a student I was pretty easily able to make a place for myself because I excelled in a couple of areas which were important in school.

Anyway, so my parents continued to live in Princeton until I was a freshman in college. Then I went way to school, after ninth grade the day school ended, and I went to Exeter Academy up in New Hampshire for three years. That was tough because Exeter academically is a very big school, 1,000 boys and it’s like a junior college. For me the first year was a trial. I ended up doing well because I got the hang of English and things. The requirements were so much more rigorous than I had been experiencing even though I came from a good school. Then I enjoyed the last two years.

The first year was kind of tough. The last years I played football, and ice hockey, and lacrosse, all three. I was captain of the hockey team. I played all three sports while I was there and played on the Varsity on all three for two years. Well, hockey was all three years I was there I played on the Varsity team.

Then I graduated with high honors. I did well. I got my act together in the first year, failed a couple courses in my sophomore year at the beginning. It was quite a change.

Anyway, my parents moved when I was a freshman. I went to Princeton to college. My father had gone to Princeton, and my uncle had gone to Princeton, and I had lived in Princeton, so I was kind of brainwashed at that point and I really liked what I saw. It was a great school. In hindsight I loved it. It was for me. It was just terrific. It was not a big school, small. Everyone lived on campus. It was in a little small town not a big city and so there were a lot of friendships made there because you’re all together you’re not living in town in a big – some of my very best friends today are friends I made while in college.

I played football for three days and then I said to myself, what in the hell am I doing out here playing football? I don’t love it and I liked the other two sports better and three sports is too much so I stopped and I played hockey and lacrosse for the whole time. I was on the Varsity of all three for three years. I was first team All American for two years in lacrosse, so that was an unusual experience and I got all those honors. I’m still coaching high school lacrosse today. After retiring I’ve now got time so it’s really fun to keep my finger in it even though I’m a long way away from doing it.

Anyways, so college was a great experience for me. I made lots of good friends and I was in one of the best clubs, if not the best, a social kind of eating club and such. As I said, to this day I still have many, many very good friends that I keep up with.

Roommates. In the last two years, I roomed with the same five people. I still see all of them even though they are all scattered around. Most are back east on a regular basis, plus a lot of other friends from Princeton.