Word: stan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stan and Thelma are from Brooklyn, N.Y. They met at a restaurant where Stan waited tables. "That night, we danced together," Thelma recalled. "You know how it is," Stan interjected. "You have to talk up the tip." Well, whatever he did, he got her number, and it wasn't Pennsylvania...
Marriage, and training in tooth repair and extraction at Temple University, soon followed, with Stan sitting in with this band or that to earn some money while he learned his trade. Stan plays alto sax, clarinet and flute. For a few weeks in 1939, he actually played with the Glenn Miller. And before his education was done, he had also played with Jack Teagarden and Maynard Ferguson. Then for 38 years he was a dentist and anesthesiologist in Hempstead, on Long Island. He produced two books, Amnesia-Analgesia, Techniques in Dentistry, and Pain and Anxiety Control in Dentistry, neither...
...couple of years ago, when Stan turned 65 and retired, he and Thelma and two dogs, two cars and a 32.3-ft. sloop moved to Marco Island, a clean, windswept three-mile by five-mile sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico. The surroundings were gorgeous (Marco Island, with the soft brush of its palm fronds sounding like rain in the night, is the sort of place even bona fide Floridians retire to), but full-tilt retirement didn't agree with Stan. He wasn't In the Mood...
...Stan and Thelma didn't give retirement a shot. For a while there, they practiced what Stan called senile maneuvers. In a little rubber dinghy that moved, Stan said, "like a burnt-assed bunny," they conquered islands. "We take a new island, it falls, and Thelma goes in, in steel helmet and full pack" is the way Stan described it. The act wore thin, apparently, for in that fashion Stan and Thelma Don't Get Around Much Anymore...
...Stan got up a band. Chester Triplett, an oral surgeon from nearby Naples, took over the skins. Tom Werth, a librarian, took a tenor sax, as did Bill Russell, a retired railroad dispatcher. Pam Dane, a senior in high school, threw in with the geezers on alto sax, as did Pam's chum Diana Macumber, who blows a baritone saxophone. Corbin Wyant, publisher of the Naples Daily News, contributes on trombone, along with Jim Kalvin, a marina owner, Michael Isabella, an embroidery manufacturer, and Scott Wise, a salesman. Two other salesmen, Roger Park and Steve Chamberlain, address their chops...