[Rhodes22-list] Sad news

[Scott Andrews]

Thank you Cindy. It could not have been said better. Rest in peace Stan.
Scott & Rebecca 
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> On Jun 19, 2024, at 4:28 PM, Jeffrey Camiel <forg3d at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ah dang, so sad to hear my deepest condolences to his family and all those who have followed him and his love of boats and his boating community.
> 
>> On Jun 19, 2024, at 4:20 PM, Bob Allen <rca02536 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Truly sad news. A generational talent. I am blessed to have know him. Our thoughts are with you and your family.  Bob Allen
>>>> On Jun 19, 2024, at 4:12 PM, Cindy Spitzer <cindyspitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Stanley Spitzer – the creator and relentless innovator of the Rhodes 22
>>> sailboat; the inventor of the earlier Picnic 17; the love of Rose Spitzer’s
>>> life for more than 70 years; father of Cindy, Scott, and Skip Spitzer; dear
>>> brother of Elton Spitzer (also a legend in his time); the impossibly
>>> precocious first born of Harold and Gertrude Spitzer; the Purdue University
>>> trained electrical engineer, self-taught Madison Avenue copywriter,
>>> management consultant, wire recorder salesman, and builder of mid-century
>>> homes so unconventional he had to go to court to defend his roof lines; the
>>> 98-year-old World War II Navy veteran; the perpetually young risk-taker who
>>> never saw a mountain too tall or a dream too distant; the skinny can-do kid
>>> from Brooklyn who dragged a sunken sailboat out of Sheepshead Bay and
>>> thought he would live forever – has died.
>>> 
>>> Every person is a universe.  A solar system of friends, relatives, and
>>> countless people we touch in countless way, often without fully knowing who
>>> or how much.
>>> 
>>> And every death is a universe imploding.  A world and all its stories
>>> suddenly gone.
>>> 
>>> No words can capture a person’s life.  Just know that if you are reading
>>> this right now, that means you – the full, evolving universe of you –
>>> intersected with Stan in some way and left your mark.  As he certainly left
>>> his on us.
>>> 
>>> Goodbye, daddy.
>>