William B. Spillman Jr. writes: “Though I wished to, I was not able to attend the graduation festivities this year. I am dealing with the vagaries of being in my latter 70s and all that entails. I have had a good life with the usual ups and downs, a wonderful wife, two great children, and two grandchildren. My career in applied physics was very rewarding, beginning in the aerospace industry and finishing up as the director of the Applied Biosciences Center and associate professor of physics at Virginia Tech. My wife Barbara and I have retired to Savannah, Georgia, where my hobbies include writing and recording songs (soundcloud.com/wspillma/albums), writing poetry (I have had seven sonnets published in The Lyric, the oldest continuously published literary journal in the U.S. for traditional verse, which published some of Emily Dickinson’s poems), and I have gotten seriously into the digital photography of wildlife, birds, and flowers. Aside from the usual aches and pains from being old, life is pretty good, and I am gratified to see the excellent job that Brown has been doing to nurture the foundations of the future via its students. I am pleased to see it continue as a shining example of what a university ought to be.”
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