[Rhodes22-list] Sad news

[Rod Ellner]

Cindy and family:

Stan (Rose & Elton)……THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES ❤️😊❤️

Rod & Mary Ellner
WI/now Colorado 
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> On Jun 19, 2024, at 5:38 PM, Frank Goldsmith <goldsmith.cf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Cindy,
> 
> What a wonderful, beautiful tribute to an extraordinary man.  I am so saddened to hear this news that we know would not be long in coming, but I admire the full and productive life Stan lived with his characteristic humor and grace.  So many of us — the solar system he created — have benefited from his life’s labors, and we all mourn with you his passing.  
> 
> May his memory be for a blessing.
> 
> Frank
> 
> Frank Goldsmith
> S/V Mary Bess (Rhodes 22 1985/2001)
> Fairview, NC
> Lake Keowee, SC
> 
> 
>> 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.
>