[Rhodes22-list] Sad news

[Tom Van Heule]

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On Thu, Jun 20, 2024, 12:58 PM Graham Stewart <gstewart.gm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rest in peace Stan. We will miss you.
>
> Graham Stewart
> gstewart.gm at gmail.com<mailto:gstewart.gm at gmail.com>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 4:13 PM Cindy Spitzer <cindyspitzer at gmail.com
> <mailto: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.
>