Hello Classmates,

It was great to see so many of you at the 35th reunion. I've created this personal page to link to our Yale Class of '68 in the hope of reconnecting with the members of our class that I did not get to see in person. This, then, is the short version of what I've been up to for the past three and a half decades:

A week before graduation I married my college sweetheart, Jean Palmer, at St. Thomas More Chapel. We lived in and around New Haven for the next 11 years. I spent 9 of those years as a teacher of Mathematics and English in New Haven, while Jean taught Spanish in Wallingford. During that time I received my MS in education from Southern Connecticut and Jean received hers in Spanish from Middlebury College. Also during that time I became involved in real estate, as an investor and as an agent and trainer.

I entered the real estate business full time for a few years before leaving New Haven for Southport, where we still live. Upon moving to Southport I joined a family-owned business but continued to invest in property; then in 1981 started RealData, a software company that produces applications to analyze income-producing real estate investments (cash flow projections, tax and resale projections, partnership analysis, rate of return calculations, development pro formas, etc.). We developed an active web site to market our products and where I write articles about investment and development.

I did a brief stint of six years in local politics, but had the good sense not to give up my day job.

More recently I wrote a book for McGraw-Hill (What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow...) and taught as a Guest Lecturer at Columbia.

Jean and I have a son, Keith (Boston College, BS in geology, MS in environmental science, and MBA) who lived near Boston until 2001 when he transplanted to Nanjing, China to teach business. To my lasting amazement he has become quite fluent in Chinese and, when he's not teaching, hosts a weekly talk show on Chinese television.

Our daughter, Nicole (Salve Regina University, BS in math), moved back home for a while after graduation but must have been reading my articles because she soon bought a home of her own. She works at Oxford Health Care, Trumbull, as Team Leader in the Underwriting Department and, after a gala New Year's Eve 2003 wedding is now known as Mrs. Jeffrey Manente.

We would be delighted to hear from you. You can reach us at frankgrd@yahoo.com

Best regards,

Frank Gallinelli