Thank you Bob Bein for creating this high tech blog. I am away now but will add my data when I return. This is really kool!
Bob Friedman

Bob Bein, class of 1963

My degree in math led me to become an actuary, working in employee benefits consulting (specialty: pensions) for Johnson & Higgins, on Wall St. In 1984, I moved to Washington DC to take over their newly acquired operation. In 1988, J&H created a separate consulting business, Foster Higgins, and I was one of the senior executives in charge of what became a $100 million company with 800 employees over the US. This dream job, with all its freedom to run things the way you want (I had direct responsibility for 120 employees in 3 offices), came to an abrupt and surprising end when our parent company sold out to its arch competitor in 1997. My tenure in the merged company with its “do it my way” mentality lasted 6 months and I began my second life—as a retiree—at age 56.

For those of you who haven’t retired yet, let me tell you life can be beautiful! I spend most of my time designing and building wooden furniture in my own shop, exercising a part of my brain I never had a chance to use. When I’m not doing that, I’m training for another high altitude trek in the Himalayas or the Andes or some other exotic place. My wife, Arlene, whom I married in 1963, doesn’t do camping so she then twists my arm to spend 2 weeks in France or Italy. Rough life…

Arlene is a psychotherapist in private practice and we have 2 daughters. Deena is a lawyer living and working in Kansas City with 2 kids, ages 12 and 9. (If I had known how wonderful grandchildren could be, I would have had them first!) Deb is a sales rep for a mortgage company and lives in Long Beach, CA.