My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.
I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.