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Jack and Muriel Burfoot
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Jack and Muriel Burfoot
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Thank you for your several welcomes. Pat Davidson tells me "We've never had a Quaker", so I must say, for those of you who are in The States, that you would probably find me most untypical, for UK Friends are a very different animal.
I live now in Colchester, which bills itself as "the oldest recorded town in the kingdom". (It was in fact a principal centre of the Romans in the first century, and the home of the tribal king Cunobelus before that.)
I am 72, 11 years retired, three times married; how's that for a potted C.V.? After a few years in the RAF, I became an academic - a Physics professor.
In my 50s, I came across Quakers, at a time of severe trauma in my life, and have never looked back. Nowadays our three social circles, which, overlapping, fill more than 100 per cent of our time, are Quakers, ramblers, and U3A. I suspect U3A has not yet reached USA; I will expound on that one on some later occasion.
Just a little, then, about those mentions, and that will do for now. I was too late in the RAF to see anything much of the war; I was a signals officer looking after signals equipment in the old Halifax bombers.
My first two wives were both social workers specializing in children; the second was American. My present dear Muriel was a primary teacher (that is under 11 years old).
My physics research was principally in ferroelectrics, in case any of you have related disciplines; the heyday of that was in the 60s, when I was able to travel the world on research interests. That was mostly solo, not in groups; so I had V.I.P. treatment, and it was great fun, though a good deal more strenuous than I would care to undertake now. It included a year in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a year in Dijon, France. After the 60s, the money for travel was not so easy to get, and now I think I prefer my deckchair and my I.B.M. keyboard.
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