May 2005 The Shoreline Page 17
Meet Your Neighbor - The Hamiltons
By Marge Green
Many of us when we came south
entered into a new lifestyle. In effect
we exchanged the daily grind for a
more relaxed mode of existence. The
other day I talked with an interesting
couple who retired here but have also
managed to keep one foot, so to speak,
in their former lifestyle. They have
retained their rustic summer cottage
along a beautiful bay in Canada. Here
they can indulge their passion for
sailing a few months of the summer. I
am speaking of Charlotte and Bob
Hamilton of 129 Mimosa Boulevard.
They lived in Niagara Falls for
more than thirty years. Bob’s last job
was with Washington Mills where he
was an inorganic chemist. For the last
eight years he was vice president for
Research & Development.
Washington Mills is the fumacing
operation of the original Carborundum
Company which made the grit for
sandpaper and for sanding wheels.
They never made sandpaper, but all of
3 M’s sandpapers are covered with
their grit.
The process requires changing
bauxite, a mineral, into aluminum
oxide and then subjecting it to high
temperatures in an arc furnace. This
converts it into a material which is
finely ground into a grit. It is an
intensive job requiring a lot of cheap
electricity which the Falls at Niagara
provided. Over the years the Carborundum
Company went through many breakups and
acquisitions until today only Washington
Mills remains. I mention this in case
some of you handy men need
help with a sanding job. You
now know the local expert.
Charlotte and Bob met
while both were in college at
Lebanon Valley in
Pennsylvania. He was
originally from Pitman, N.J.
while Charlotte is from Oak
Ridge, Tennessee. She
taught high school and
college English while
doing her graduate work-'*'‘*’~?*y;
at the University of ^
Cincinnati. Her job before
coming to Pine Knoll Shores was with a
medical device company, AirSep, which
produces oxygen concentrators. She was in
their R & D department working on
evaluation procedures required by the FDA.
The documentation was very stringent,
surpassed only by the Japanese who
purchased some of their equipment. Initially
the machines were too large to be mobile.
Eventually the technology developed to
such an extent that they could be used in the
home.
The Hamiltons have three children. The
oldest, Amy, is a biochemistry professor at
Iowa State. She met her husband, who is
also a professor, there. He is from Buenos
Aires. They have two lovely children, a boy
and a girl.
Their oldest boy,
Andrew, is a mechanical
engineer. He has what
sounds to be a very
interesting job. He works
for the Monterey Bay
Aquarium Research
Institute doing deep ocean
research. He is not
married.
The youngest,
Geoffrey, is a physician
^married to another
physician. He is in
” internal medicine while
she is in family practice. When two doctors
marry they have a hard time juggling their
schedules. Somehow they do manage and
still find time to enjoy the love of their
lives, their infant daughter. They live in
Providence, R.I.
As you can see Charlotte and Bob could
not really find a place that would be close to
all their children so they decided they wanted
to retire near the coast. No more snow
shoveling for them. Their quest for the right
place took well over a year. They surveyed
the coast from St. Augustine to northern
Virginia. It seemed, though, they kept
coming back to the Ramada and this area.
They finally decided to concentrate their
search. They sold the house where they had
lived for 30 years and rented a condo on the
beach. This allowed them to concentrate on
our general area for six weeks of intensive
study. The Dutchers had just put their house
on the market and the Hamiltons, the first to
look at it, bought it on the spot.
The Hamiltons have been sailors nearly
all their lives. They sailed a lot on Lake
Ontario. Their hideaway cottage is on
Georgian Bay, Canada, which feeds into
Lake Huron. They are on the eastern side of
the bay, just north of Toronto. They keep
their boat in Canada as Bogue Sound is a
little shallow after you are used to sailing
on those great northern lakes. Bob is
building a kayak so he can at least feel the
water while he is here.
Bob and Charlotte are very happy living
in their own little forest on Mimosa
Boulevard. They love the beach and all the
friendly people they have met. Their one
negative, and many of us share it, is the lack
of a close airport since all their visits to the
children usually require flying some
distance. I am sure once you meet them you
will find they are a welcome addition to our
town.
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