 First of all, I've got to thank Margaret Woodcroft of Schalock Central School. The images that I have were on my phone, my old phone. And if you've ever lost a phone and you haven't backed it up, you'll lose everything. So I'm so grateful that she had all the images. Kathleen Harris, but I didn't get the... But past president of the Chittenden County Historical Society. Thank you so much, Carolyn Gould, who just introduced me. Katie Woodward and Mike Hibben of the Shelburne Pearson Memorial Library. I'm very grateful. And also, I see Sue is here. She's also has filled many roles over the years. And also, the person that started this is a talk... It will not be an identical, obviously. But I gave a talk on Guy at the Schalock... For the Schalock Historical Society at the Schalock Library last November. And so I must thank Martha Stone for starting this whole thing. And then I have some family members here. A couple of cousins and a husband and a sister and a brother, a son and a daughter. So I'm very grateful for all of you that have come. Thank you. Guy. He was born... Whoops, on the wrong way. He was born in Tinseng called Zhenzhen now. And that's on the Bohei Sea, which is the northern part of the South China Sea. And it's about 100 kilometers from Beijing, which is obviously northern China. I don't know exactly when he was born because it had to do with the phases of the moon. He knows it was between April 12th and March 12th, 1912. His father was a rather prominent businessman. His mother unfortunately passed away at a very young age of 12. But their connection with Guy is certainly through the maternal side. His grandfather is Lin Chen, who was more affectionately known as Ambassador Chen. And that's C-H-E-N-G. To the right is his mother. That's his daughter. And he was educated in the mid-1800s at Philip Saxon. He became a very good baseball player and loved playing baseball. He then went to Amherst Humas College and received an undergraduate who played baseball there. There was a gentleman who you probably may know who he had been introduced because of his baseball. His name was Theodore Roosevelt. That became a president. At completion of his undergraduate studies, he then received a master's at Yale. He became Ambassador to Great Britain. And that was 1870, 1880-ish. When he presented his credentials, which an ambassador has to do, there's protocol. Protocol for a Chinese citizen was to kowtow, bow down, and literally show homage to the ruler. In this instance, Queen Victoria. He had been educated in the West and he knew that this was not a tradition. And he presented himself the way a Western person was. She was very touched by this. And he then became, soon thereafter, after becoming Ambassador to Great Britain, Sir Lin Chen. He was knighted, which is pretty amazing. And that was quite an honor. During the Roosevelt administration, he did become Ambassador to the United States. He had about five diplomatic posts. I know Belgium was one of them. I believe Columbia. I can't pull out the other one. And again, he had a lifetime appreciation and friendship with Teddy Roosevelt. And at some point, he disagreed with the ruling, the people that were ruling, which is how I have to read it down here. He had a following out with the Chinese government. And in protest, he went back to China and said, I have no longer to be an ambassador. I will now be just an ordinary citizen. And it was during this time that Guy remembers his grandfather. He had a wonderful, loving relationship with his mother. His father, it was quite difficult. His father had tremendous demands that he placed on his son, who was the oldest. And the oldest, there's a lot of expectations on that. Certainly for someone of his stature in Chinese society. And after his mother's passing in 1912, his father, excuse me, at the age of 12, I would be 24, he left the family, took some of the siblings, and went to Shanghai in southern China. Guy was still in Tsing and moved in with his uncle. His uncle was even harder on Guy to a degree where he felt that his uncle was jealous. Guy was a very good student. He was a very good athlete. He was liked by so many people. And his son, Guy's cousin, he felt that he was a threat to him. And he went and at many times he was punished with a stick. He had welts. And thankfully there was a wonderful woman that was a servant for his uncle who took him under his wing and would take care of the wounds and also would feed him. Many times he didn't get a chance to eat with the family. It was a difficult time, but he did very, very well in school. He just, he had this innate ability to laugh. And as you will see, there's been many times that that love definitely enabled him to live a wonderful and long and fulfilled life, fruitful life. It was, at some point he had, and he was very industrious, he had enough money and he bought a bike. And actually, I'm too soon, there it is. His uncle was jealous that he could not buy his son a bike so he took it from Guy and gave it to his cousin. He just said, yeah, this will pass. And around 18 things did change because he was also, he was playing a lot of tennis at the time and he was very, very good at it. He tried at some time around 18 years of age to become, he thought he was good enough to play and become part of the, what was the prestigious tennis tournament which was called the Davis Cup and he thought he could go and play in that. The coach said, you're not good enough. Well, he's out of high school now and he says, okay, I need to play. I really want to play in the Davis Cup tournament. He was friends with an army general who was, oh wait, and it was the National Party, the Quiniton Party, that was the ruler, that was Chen Gai-shek, was the head of that. He was the president that his grandfather, that went and said I can't be a diplomat anymore and disagree with your policies and under protest. So anyway, this army general had a rather vocational son and Guy knew about this and said, this isn't his industriousness that came through. He said to the army general, if you can fund me for six months, let me take your son to go to the Philippines and I will play tennis and I believe me, your son will come back a changed man. He spent six months, every tennis court he could get on, every player that he could play and his game just went to new levels. He did come back at six months, played the number two player, beat him handily, Guy is now the number two player and China is allowed two players to play on the, to represent China for the Davis Cup and the general was very grateful for it. He played in the Davis Cup, 35, I'm sure, but 36 was here in the United States. He played five matches total to the first year, 36, three in the second year, excuse me, 35 was two, 30, 60 played three. He did lose them all, but he did play a rather spirited match with the number one player from the United States. His name was Don Bunch. He lost 86, 62, 62 and all matches were our best of three five sets total. To play in the Davis Cup, to play at Wimbledon, to play at the US Open, French Open, you had to be an amateur, a professional amateur though. You had to reach a certain ability level and he certainly was there and he ended up playing 20 professional games as he was growing up. In the French Open, he lost in the first round in four sets. He did play at the US Open and this is in the 36 and he won the first match but then lost the second match against also Don Bunch. But the interesting thing is that he was really winning. He was up 2-6, 2-6, 2-5, 15-40, if that means anything to you, that means one more point and he will have beaten the number one player in the world. He looked up at the scoreboard and said, I don't stand a chance. And guess what? Don Bunch came back and won 8-6, so he won another point and then 6-4, 6-4. He played in the US Playcourt Championship and got to the third round in here. And then, oh actually that, I'm sorry, that was 1937 that he played that. And before the 37 tournament at the US Open, he played some preliminary, I'm sure it was back then, it was clay, excuse me, brass, played on a brass cork tournament and it was interesting. There was a recruiter from the University of Tulane in Louisiana that was there and saw him play and then he was at a gathering in the Hamptons in Long Island and the recruiter was there and said, I saw you play. Would you be interested in a full athletic scholarship to come to Tulane? Again, there were so many things that he did to go through adversity to understand that this too will pass and as it comes, I'll read it towards the end, he had a saying that was so apt. So he did agree to it. He played at the US Play, played at the championship and then was entered into the class of 41 for Tulane. His life at Tulane, he found out he was the only oriental on campus and he was accepted by really most of his students and the faculty and he did extremely well academically during his four year degree that he did get in business. And, oh I'm sorry, I was supposed to show you that, this is actually the picture that was taken of Guy before the program at the Davis College. Okay, so I've got to make sure I follow my numbers here. So now he's at Tulane and he is, this is in the yearbook, hard to see. He's in the middle and he went and was on the tennis team for four years and he played, he actually, his senior year, he was the doubles collegiate champion for the SEC, which is the Southeast Conference. Okay, Tulane is a school that belongs to that conference. They're really known as a football conference now, probably basketball too. But it's a, Southeast Conference is Alabama schools, Mississippi schools, Tennessee, Florida, they all have schools. This is the deep south and Guy is from China. He met some adversity, we'll say. When he did travel with his teammates to other schools, he had to sleep in different hotels. He had to eat different sections of a restaurant. He had to drink from different water funds and he needed to sit in the back of the bus. We call these Jim Crow Boss. Sometime, I think it was during his junior year his teammates said enough is enough and they went to the proprietor of the hotel and said if Guy cannot be with us we're not staying here and we will find a hotel for our teammate. He said that's fine, we'll let him stay. And from then on, he stayed with his teammates in whatever hotel it was in the deep south. I asked him, this was this was tough. This was what we read about in history. This was just rumination and he said, in my experience in the northeast of the United States I was accepted everywhere and I said, this will pass. And it's certainly what we've had quite a black market in our history when it came to this but we have a lot of books to take care of this and with a lot of work that work is still being done. And he also there's a photo when he was hiking somewhere and I have no idea but I just had this so I just wanted to throw this out. When he was at Tulane now one of the that the captains was Ernie Seidl and that was his senior year and he became very good friends with Ernie for the three years Cliff Sutter was also a very accomplished tennis player lived in the northeast. His brother visited him and they became Guy and Cliff became very good friends for many many years and Cliff was in the New York City area he was a member of the Forest Hills tennis club and the U.S. Open was held. At some point in the 60's or 70's it moved to Flushing Meadows which is where the U.S. Open is now which is also right next to where the Wolf's Fair was in 64 I believe 65 and somewhere in 85, 86, maybe 87 Mr. Cliff Sutter did invite Guy he had courtside seats if you sat in his seats you would see the player serving he was slightly off center and those were pretty good seats in the center court of the main stadium which is probably back in the Arthur Ashe stadium and so three four seats away maybe five was a gentleman named Don Bunch sitting there and he went and reintroduced himself and said oh I remember you I should have been beaten in the U.S. Open in the 37 U.S. Open I don't know how I came back that was one of the more difficult comebacks I remember I had. He did graduate as the captain of the Tulane Tennis Team in 1941 and the fall of 41 he continued his studies and graduated in 43 with an MBA from Tulane okay how did he end up in Vermont well Dina's students brought him in at some time there he is Dina's freshman sophomore junior year and said you know you really need to get a job somewhere and spend the summer and he's going oh I got a good job and he noticed a New York Times a New York Times has a huge section in there for job opportunities and he's looking and he's like what can I do I'm in a business curriculum but I really like tennis so I started looking for tennis instructor positions that might be there and guess what camp Abnachie was advertising that they gave him a camp tennis director well he said to the resume and within a week two weeks after he sent that an envelope came with a bus ticket and money to get some few things on the way up and said when you get to Burlington there will be this gentleman named Bob Attson that will be there and this is a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Attson Bob Attson and Dina he, I don't know how long he worked there but I know it went on for a few summers Bob was one of the camp counselors and had spent many a summer there growing up they became such dear friends well the connection to Chittenden County more specifically Shawad was Thomson's Point Thomson's Point is a town owned land with numerous camps that are owned the dwellings are owned by many families some here in the Burlington area but many throughout the country that do own these camps and the assets had a camp there and so he spent many summers there vacationing and enjoying the ambiance well at Thomson's Point they have a wonderful tennis facility they have a rec center with ping pong tables restrooms and things and it's very antiquated it's a very unique place here in the Chittenden County area probably all over the month that they have so many camps because there's hundreds there well there's also hundreds of kids running all over the place and he said he offered some tennis lessons and he offered tennis lessons in the 40s and 50s right up until the late 80s early 90s for all of these youth every Wednesday morning from 10 to 12 he offered tennis lessons and there's many many people that had the opportunity to develop a lifelong passion I was now he was in an untenable situation he had received a visa to go to school and now he had temporary visas to stay in the United States immigration was first and foremost on his consciousness on his mind and it seems that that is still the case today he had very very limited opportunities at becoming someone from China that could become a naturalized citizen in the United States which he deeply desired the problem was is that up until back a little bit up until 1941 there was a very very limited amount of Chinese citizens that could immigrate to the United States it was somewhere around 100 the demand was much greater prior to that from the 1860's onwards until the late 1800's early 1900's there was a tremendous demand for Chinese labor and that was primarily out of California and they built Chinese labor built the levees they built they had a lot to do with the railroads we all know about the connection of east and west and they had a tremendous amount well there was a backlash there was too many Chinese people that have come to the United States well in 1941 something was going on in December certainly for the United States and that was World War II it was at that point the Chinese had been fighting the Japanese somewhere around 37-38 and as a little side note I wish I had a picture of it but there was a cover that guy had in his office for years and years and decades of his brother that was his second his first brother who was trained by the U.S. Air Force it was a pilot and he's on a cover he ends up sending this letter to Life Magazine and stating wow it was such an honor to see my brother on the cover of Life Magazine unfortunately he didn't realize it but at that point it was shot down by the Japanese somewhere around the South China Sea so just a little side note there but the big thing was is that Chinese were allowed to now emigrate in the United States a last guy was not allowed to so he really came down to one last option that's called an act of Congress and I wish I had a picture of it I don't if you can all be careful with this please pass this around that's the actual act of Congress I did find some information that in May 10th of 1948 there was a full house and it entered this resolution it passed it then went to the Senate and it passed unanimously in the Senate and he then became is that April 24th May 24th May 24th he then became able to become a naturalized citizen of the United States the help of our senior Senator Flamper Senator Aiken cannot be undermined they did a tremendous amount of work to get him to become a naturalized citizen another side it's the act of Congress is rarely used to become a naturalized citizen the person before Guy was someone that he probably recognized and his name was Albert Einstein Guy was the next person after Albert Einstein to receive an act of Congress this was huge he had this weight was just totally lifted off his shoulders and he had a weight his youngest sibling a brother named Lot he made arrangements for Lot and his wife and this is a much later picture to be able to come and emigrate to the United States to come to the United States he had to do three things he had to put $10,000 and this is in I think I was around 1951-52 he needed to put $10,000 into escrow he needed to find housing and he needed to find him a job he put $10,000 into an escrow account he found an apartment for he and his wife and his sister-in-law Betty and he found him a job at the Burlington savings fair this job lasted through the 50s 60s, 70s, into the 80s and Lot ended up being a vice president I believe of commercial real estate and if anybody knows speak up very industrious like his brother his wife had a business a few miles from here, a couple of miles called Lady Shelbur a very successful business and they added a tremendous amount to Chittenden County also Guy is now living in Vermont and he hits another bump in the road he developed tuberculosis and he is bedridden and this is the third big challenge that Guy did not the inclusiveness of his father and uncle discrimination in the deep south and each time something good came out of this and that can't be undermined how this was able to terminate within his consciousness he said wow I don't like laying in bed all day and he started making jewelry and at the end of this what I would like to do is I've got some examples of some of his work I've had and some of the things that I've made that continue to make that he has a similar passion you can take it out take it out of the bag since you're so pleased I'm going to go each way this time this time we'll get actual work that he was working on and I'll talk about them and on this side is actually finished pieces of jewelry that he made and you can all look at it and make sure they end up in the bag thank you if you could so can you ask the character how he was going to draw at the end we'll talk about that correct this was the time to see some of his work the swirls of it it was an Egyptian swirl design and he became very proficient at it again the guy was very industrious he sent some examples to a company you might have heard of Tiffany & Company they walked and they said we'll take hundreds of thousands of them and he said we've got to make a lot of these and he sold them for many many years and I remember seeing and I wished I kept it and Tiffany always has in the New York Times it's page 3 top right corner in the advertising he went and there was an ad that was placed there of his swirl bracelets that was put in there sometime in the 50s he was healed and saying I really like this work and was looking for a place of business and this is where Shalon came in again Shalon had up until in 1988 six or seven one room school houses throughout Shalon one of them was on the border of the North Ferrisburg Shalon border right at the base of Mount Faolo on Rook's Center and it was a wonderful building he said this is it he put a closed bid on it and ended up procuring the property and he ended up expanding the old BFAR family owned the land to the east of him he ended up buying a lot of that he was able to put in an extra additions to the property along with at some point a tennis court and a swimming pool for my mom but that's getting out of things at some point I'm not sure exactly when it was sometime in the mid excuse me 50s he married his wife Jean and Jean had a daughter named Dawn who we loved very very much they were married for 10, 12 years and this was another challenge it was a very very difficult relationship and no matter how much he tried things didn't work out and he was it was very very difficult let's just put it that way so in 67 I believe they were divorced well we're getting into this is actually during his marriage with Jean his business is thriving he has a shop he's making jewelry and he has a many regional national artist with a lot of oriental themed gifts that he offered and then he had his office and right up above there is where the picture of life magazine was and I wish I could have found one many many mementos of things that he liked on the wall and one of them was the assets my sister their marriage here and oh actually what am I saying here is the picture I'm sorry I'm so blown up now I can see it if you can zero in on that it's right above and to his left is the picture of his brother I do see that now and that was in life magazine that's nice to see during this time when he had his studio which is right here and he had his gift business he had many people that he employed and I do have two that have decided to come listen to this this talk and I've even got a picture of you oh god ok and my daughter and my sister this was perfect I'm glad you came so you've got some memories here Guy just loved young people the work that he did in tennis he ended up coaching the cpu tennis team he was part of they called it the big games brought to the international games between Burma to Ontario Burma to Vermont he just he coached the UVM tennis team for a while he was very very active in the for youth and younger there were many many people that he did employ he loved them all these two he loved the most and have to say there's another one yes Nancy who is here but Chick would humble farm house girl from Chalot who's made it on the big stage now uh was employed by a guy she'd been recently divorced and there was a very very good friend of Guy's and his name was Bob Wood Sierra Woods Corporation originally of South Burma to now in Wollstone well they met and stowed on their way back from a buying trip and the rest is history they had a wonderful wonderful relationship in life and that's just one little sight goodness that came from all these people that Guy employed over the years his bench though I gotta mention this had just this wonderful expansive you can't see it but this window looked out over the Adirondacks and it was just so beautiful so peaceful for a guy and during this time he also continued to play a lot of tests he was a good friend many of the Burmintonians that were very good athletes too and then in around 59 a group of them started what became the Burminton Tennis Club or BTC and expanded his people that he played and it was just a wonderful opportunity to continue with his athletic prowess he was also again a really good athlete and he had really quick hands and I have to thank Molly King for this modeling okay and there's another image this is my mom here and Bob Lipp and Tyra yes thank you and then Guy was recruited to play with the Shalott Rockets Shalott Rockets many towns had skating links in the winter and Shalott certainly had one Bill Williams owned an Obrich store at the Web Family Mr. Moore of Chittendenbank I believe Mr. Burton was a relative of here they all were on this team and I've got some photos of Guy being the goal of the cars and the truck from the background there and this is a real wonderful photo of everybody I wish I knew everybody all these Shalott and some children residents Guy singlehandedly kept them in a lot of games well this rink became something that the we were called the Cisco Boys and that was myself, my older brother my brother Todd and we lived at the Shalott skating rink and we all brought our hockey sticks and hockey pucks and we just had a wonderful time my brother became a pretty good hockey player, Bert and actually Todd made the team as did I but Bert is the one that I'd prominently point out because he was on the hockey team from 66 to 69 and in 68 someone did some planning because my mom always went to Bert's games well Guy on the nose to him was invited to go to a games, no why not and it was because of Gene Dover whose son was also on the ZVU hockey team that they went well that just so happened, my mom was there and she got introduced to Guy everybody knew Guy and she was going oh what are you doing here and well the rest is history sparks were flowing all over the place I was in front of them and they were laughing and joking and little kids and I go oh my ears I can't take this anymore I went to the other side of the rink and I was still here that was it in the November or December of 68 and wow their relationship blossomed they dated until 1970 they would have gotten married soon but there was a Vermont I don't know how long it went on but between the divorce and becoming remarried in Vermont you had to wait a few years and sometime around the summer or late summer of 1970 they could get married I just I had this picture of that modeling ad that she sent myself that's a guy during a Christmas celebration somewhere I've knocked you over so on September 12, 1970 absolutely gorgeous beautiful day 100 people or so 75 people got together and celebrated the marriage of Guy and Barbara Chen it lasted over 30 years they were glued to hip they went everywhere they talked constantly they were constantly inviting people into their homes it was just so incredible Guy lived at Mom's house which was on Hill's Point which a lot from 1970 until 1984 when they sold and expanded their place on Route 7 and put in just an absolutely wonderful living arrangement with a wonderful master bedroom with a kitchenette this massive deck everywhere and it was full of terrariums and these beautiful flower boxes that my older brother made I'm going to take a step back Guy I said loved children boy he now had four children that he considered his own and I think he found out that he may have bitten off a little bit more than what he expected I don't think that we were that much of a challenge but from other people I heard the opposite there were times that things that were done that maybe shouldn't have been done and he was very, very good and still in though some life lessons that were very important so that was my older brother Bert, my brother Todd my sister Beth and we were all educated CVU CCS and CVU Guy also inherited moms siblings and mother and her mother was a World War I nurse just this wonderful loving woman who went to the Chihuahua congregational church every Sunday and from 1965 or so on lived with us as my mother started a career in higher education and ended up becoming an experimental psychologist and that was a degree that she received in 1970 but I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself it's Bob that's it actually my stepfather became my pop my mother, Barbara my sister, Beth and then I'm about to get into Aunt Genji who is Virginia Cocker who may have heard of her that was my mother's sister and that's what I'm getting into right now that's the wedding picture oh and this is the he took this off from and put on another jacket at some point but this was his Davis Cock Jack from 1936 now this is 1907 there's no way I could fit into something from that much time going by so he stayed very fit very much and the activities that he did certainly enabled him to keep his weight down they'll say but he just loved your daughter his mother loved and the siblings were it was Art and Betty Davis and we have a daughter Jill and a son in law Volcker there here he owned a Chevy and Cadillac dealership and Windsor something like that he had the second, third born my mother was second born was David Davis unfortunately he has too many wives to count he was down in Florida and had a hard time staying there with one mother let's put it that way but he was a criminal defense attorney and he also owned the largest limestone deposit in all of the southeast and that limestone built because it could be turned into cement could be turned built the interstate 95 and Disney World and next was Jenny as I said Virginia Carpenter and husband Mickey all four of Aunt Genji and Uncle Mickey's children made the United States Alpine ski team and they all participated in the Olympics one of them was Barbara Ann Maryland's second, first sibling she's the second born she won a gold medal at the Sepuro Olympics and then about two years ago this winter Barbara Ann's son Ryan won a silver medal at the Beijing Olympics in Super G and then the last one was Harriet Petropoulos and Mary Dino they were both cast and Harriet taught in the chemistry department at an area of Rochester High School for many, many years and her husband was a chemist at Eastman Kodak Uncle Dino and I'm sorry I did want to go through this this is Bob, Mary Lou and Aunt Genji toasty and this is a picture of the AdSit boys and the Cisco boys and sister and the last one this is now getting into some of the things that the Cisco children did and this is my sister's picture, a class picture in 69 and 70 she's at the very bottom and that's my little sister Beth and this is a picture of friends and Beth is at the top and that's something you may have heard of Ethel Atkins is that right about oh she's an icon for many, many years she ran the food services at Schalot Central School and there you go and this is grandparents day and this is Kelly Cisco, Tom's daughter and Grandpa at the Schalot elementary school so then and this is just a gathering which just happens all the time and mom they invited so many encourages to invite friends to come to the house and we'd sit around and we'd have the most heartwarming conversations just about the world and life and current events and things that were going on and this is a picture of my brother's house, Tom's house and Anne's excuse me and there's Bert, the oldest my sister Beth and then Tom, guy as I say loved us so much and I'm just so, so appreciative he actually gave us really four principles to live on and I've taken it to heart as to love life be honest hold yourself accountable our work never hurt anyone and care for your family, friends and your community and that was instilled at a very young age for us in the relationship that guy had with my mom anyway to jump forward this is something that was one of Guy's most proudest moments was my mother in 1973 received a graduate degree in experimental psychology a doctorate, a PhD I want to take a step back to go back to 65 she was in a master's program a master's in psychology and now it's time a year or so, two years later it's now time to to announce what degree she wants to get as a PhD and she said I want to be an experimental psychologist well she was told men are experimental psychologists you know she said why just men that's why it's always been this is not anymore she became the first woman from UVM to graduate with a PhD with an experimental psychology even though she had to write her dissertation three times the men had to do it once she pushed thank you mom the graduation she's receiving her doctor here I believe this is president Andrews that's presenting it with UVM at that time the word this is afterwards this, you got to focus on this this is your daughter this is his mother this is mom, I believe that's on Jinji and Guy and then picture of mom Betty um there's Betty chatting here Mom chatting here for the art and I'm trying to see others that I know that that's what I recognize but I'm glad I saw the picture of Eudora that's so dear to see her she was so proud of her daughter as we all were um at this point actually before this point we all called Guy and Pop and we all grew up on Hill's point we had our cousins come many many times we were on the lake we water skied we played football, soccer the Davises would come up the Protonpluses would come the family was so important to us all and Guy was if he wasn't at the center of it he was pretty close to it because he was so uh just so warmth of his heart how much he loved everybody he played crib-ish it's not crib-ish for hours and it was just so wonderful so he went and gave us this this structure to enable us to be able to go on and live and do the lives that we do myself I became very very much loved working in this metal in precious metals and I've had my own love affair with making jewelry and selling jewelry and talking to people about what their wishes might be and I love that very very much and I'm very very appreciative of that so much I'm just looking at the time here okay this is good so in 1984 the shop had had to move on Guy was retired now and he was actually working for me though because I had so much work it was wonderful he would work two or three days a week and help me greatly with my business that I had fixing things and doing things so I kind of gave back what he had given to me but they ended up moving to Shelton over here Greenbush Gardens excuse me, Gardenside Townhouses what was interesting is that I remember Mom sending a note to all her Shelton friends because there's a better thing between Shelton and Shelton there's a Shelton in Shelton in all these years but apparently there was this a little bit of back and forth about who was better she sent a note to all of her Shelton friends saying we're always going to be Shelters so please understand that we are not giving up our Shelton residency we're just becoming temporary Shelton fans I thought that was kind of neat when you know lived this life that was really based on love he had a simple saying that I alluded to earlier and that is don't, life is too short don't sweat the small stuff we have the capability of making small stuff big all of us do it he constantly was making big stuff small because it too will pass and it just was so important to him that he lived that way and so I was always constantly telling baby for some reason because I was making these big potters of things well life all kinds of opportunities and don't sweat the small stuff I would like to ask my brother Todd to give a reminisce about our Pop that meant something to him I've got some things from my brother Bert actually I'll just mention that my brother Bert right now then I'll get my sisters was a graduate student in master's program at the University of Vermont Education and he had a show where back then it was called Vermont ETB which is not Vermont Public and he had a taping where he was interviewing people that were continuing their education and at one time interviewed a guy and he said what is the biggest thing about how education always continues in your life and he said you know what it was he says in 1978 I married your mother Bert and I found out that my education continued and it continues to this day so I thought that was kind of neat if Todd could come up and a few little reminiscences thanks Dave thanks everyone for coming here I'm Todd David's brother in talking about Pop and stuff a few things what I want to correct something my wife's father was born in 1911 and David said it was 1912 but I want to correct him he was born in 1911 pretty soon and there were 13 years difference between my wife and her mother so I just want to correct that the other thing we always celebrated because we didn't know if it was within like a month or so of what he was born but we came up with somewhere around April 12th so we always celebrated his birthday on April 12th but didn't bring my glasses so hopefully I can read when mom and pop went back to China he was talking to me and said you know I haven't been back I don't have to speak the language and I said Pop it'll come back to you it'll be fine you won't have an issue so when Swinney got off the airplane he saw his family there and just like that he came back to the Chinese again so I was really happy for him when Pop first date of my mom I was away and my brother Burd I came back and he said what was it because I haven't met him yet he said what was he like and you remember the show Bonanza and there was a guy on the show and Pop said so my brother Burd comes in and he goes what was he like he goes just like Pop said very nice to meet you he says he's gone very nice to meet you he had the round glasses and the big pony tail down the back and of course my brother was doing the pranks at that time as he did and Pop was a very handsome prince he always went out of his way he would cook something bring something to someone and that was really really important to him with the connection of all and I think Chicky and Claire and I know my wife will attest to all of that the other thing he was really really good cook his colorated talents were exceptional and he would make egg rolls to this day and they would be able to attest to it they were excellent now my wife Ann went over and he would come up and stand up just stand up for a second come on this is my wife Ann and she I just want you to tell everyone about how you were when you went to a cooking session with them and the cooking session there was difficult because everything was measured a little bit of this and so Annie always had a hard time because she's a very good cook as well the black bean beef you remember the black bean beef and the teriyaki burgers and things like that he also was exceedingly generous to all of us siblings to his adopted family and his kindness he kind of closed within Pop and it really did and that was one of the nicest attributes he ever had was the kindness David exemplified it as his love for everyone so thank you very much everyone for coming and thank you brother David for what you did, I appreciate it I just want to mention like the youngest of the family she will always be the lady and that's my sister Beth our sister Beth and she wrote to me and said um I saw the goodness that came out of his heart because he gave me a gift he made me a little silver heart on a chain and gave it to me the first time I met him and yes my brother was he was difficult for us all let's just put it that way but he was the oldest he thought he was right and we all had this incredible relationship with this man and did show us how to love and to live and this is such an endearing picture this is that is at the garden side condo townhouse paper in hand next to his wood stove keeping warm with that beautiful warm smile and just saying yep life is good thank you all