Rather than adjusting a profile I am including some information some of Fred's classmates may not have been aware of.
Fred attended the University of Virginia, fall of 1961. First year there was in the Engineering School (along with Clifton Dinneen). The second year he was admitted into the School of Architecture, where he got his undergraduate degree in June of 1967. While there he was he was in the Scarab Society, a UVa Architecture Honor Society, as well as being treasurer of his class. In 1966 Fred won a work scholarship which took us to Rome for the summer. UVa's A School recommended him for this position. Travels in Europe influenced Fred's architecture style as well as his art.
After UVa, we headed for Seattle where he had a teaching assistantship in the School of Architecture at the University of Washington. It was a one year's master's program. We loved the northwest. Had it not been for family we probably would have stayed.
We headed east in August of 1968. He got a position with Paul Quigg & Associates, Architects, in Rosslyn where he stayed until the firm folded in late '69. After that he started working with Meade Palmer, landscape architect, in Warrenton. There he met Barry Starke, and together Fred and Barry co-founded Earth Design and started out on their own. Their office was in our home until it started taking over too much of our house.
In November of 1972, after he and Barry had co-founded Earth Design, Fred was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (now called osteo sarcoma) for which there was no cure. He was a patient and the National Institutes beginning Jan. 1973. In the meantime he had already designed and built two houses, and he was already working on the design for our third house, which I still live in.
Fred was in and out of NIH from Jan. '73 until 1976. With their treatment and the surgeries he had over that period of time I'm sure he lived longer than he was expected to.
Through all of this he kept working, playing music and was active in our family and with church activities. He played the drums while he was in Charlottesville (came back home to play), played with a group in Seattle, and when he couldn't play drums anymore the started playing the bass. Having lost his left arm to the cancer, the would set up an ironing board, lay the bass on it, turn the volume up and fret it. He certainly had a will to keep on " keeping on".
We have two boys: Landon, 44, and Fielding, 41.
Landon is married to Jerrry Anne, and they have two boys, Miller, 12, and Davin, 10, who live in Amissville. Fielding is not married.
After Fred died , September 9, 1976, I remained single until August 1980, when I married Dennis Bachetti. Some of you who remained local may remember him from having worked at the A&P. Dennis quit there in 1987 and started his own woodworking business, Out of the Woods.
When Landon graduated from VCU in 1989 in Woodworking and Furniture Design, he joined Dennis in the business on South 6th Street in Warrenton. In 1991 they relocated to Calverton in the old Tolson Appliance and Feed store. Landon bought out Dennis' interest and continues the business which is Fauquier Hardwoods.
There are a lot of holes in this information, but if you'd like to know anything more, give me a call. I'd love to visit with you and share whatever you'd like to know.
Fred was a great guy! Talented, funny, loved his plants. I still have today some
bougainvilleas he started from cuttings and sprengerii (asparagus ferns), so they are probably close to 40 years old now.
What a promising young man who accomplished so much in his short life. He left all of us with wonderful memories. I, for one, remember him fondly and often. I spent many hours talking with him on the phone during his last year. He was so dynamic and added so much color to my life. I will always cherish Fred and his friendship. Thanks, Merry Robin, for taking the time to add this information to our reunion book. We are all grateful he had such a loving wife and family. Sherry Richardson Hume, classmate
Hardly a day goes by that I don't think of Fred. When we were in Grace Fletcher's class he sat behind me and finally he said my name was to long so he started calling me B. J. To this day all of my in-laws call me B. J. I remember being in a talent show with Fred while in school and what a blast we had!
Merry Robin Smith (Kines) (Bachetti, Friend)
Rather than adjusting a profile I am including some information some of Fred's classmates may not have been aware of.
Fred attended the University of Virginia, fall of 1961. First year there was in the Engineering School (along with Clifton Dinneen). The second year he was admitted into the School of Architecture, where he got his undergraduate degree in June of 1967. While there he was he was in the Scarab Society, a UVa Architecture Honor Society, as well as being treasurer of his class. In 1966 Fred won a work scholarship which took us to Rome for the summer. UVa's A School recommended him for this position. Travels in Europe influenced Fred's architecture style as well as his art.
After UVa, we headed for Seattle where he had a teaching assistantship in the School of Architecture at the University of Washington. It was a one year's master's program. We loved the northwest. Had it not been for family we probably would have stayed.
We headed east in August of 1968. He got a position with Paul Quigg & Associates, Architects, in Rosslyn where he stayed until the firm folded in late '69. After that he started working with Meade Palmer, landscape architect, in Warrenton. There he met Barry Starke, and together Fred and Barry co-founded Earth Design and started out on their own. Their office was in our home until it started taking over too much of our house.
In November of 1972, after he and Barry had co-founded Earth Design, Fred was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (now called osteo sarcoma) for which there was no cure. He was a patient and the National Institutes beginning Jan. 1973. In the meantime he had already designed and built two houses, and he was already working on the design for our third house, which I still live in.
Fred was in and out of NIH from Jan. '73 until 1976. With their treatment and the surgeries he had over that period of time I'm sure he lived longer than he was expected to.
Through all of this he kept working, playing music and was active in our family and with church activities. He played the drums while he was in Charlottesville (came back home to play), played with a group in Seattle, and when he couldn't play drums anymore the started playing the bass. Having lost his left arm to the cancer, the would set up an ironing board, lay the bass on it, turn the volume up and fret it. He certainly had a will to keep on " keeping on".
We have two boys: Landon, 44, and Fielding, 41.
Landon is married to Jerrry Anne, and they have two boys, Miller, 12, and Davin, 10, who live in Amissville. Fielding is not married.
After Fred died , September 9, 1976, I remained single until August 1980, when I married Dennis Bachetti. Some of you who remained local may remember him from having worked at the A&P. Dennis quit there in 1987 and started his own woodworking business, Out of the Woods.
When Landon graduated from VCU in 1989 in Woodworking and Furniture Design, he joined Dennis in the business on South 6th Street in Warrenton. In 1991 they relocated to Calverton in the old Tolson Appliance and Feed store. Landon bought out Dennis' interest and continues the business which is Fauquier Hardwoods.
There are a lot of holes in this information, but if you'd like to know anything more, give me a call. I'd love to visit with you and share whatever you'd like to know.
Fred was a great guy! Talented, funny, loved his plants. I still have today some
bougainvilleas he started from cuttings and sprengerii (asparagus ferns), so they are probably close to 40 years old now.
Merry Robin Smith Kines Bachetti
Sheron Eva (Sherry) Richardson (Hume) (1961)
What a promising young man who accomplished so much in his short life. He left all of us with wonderful memories. I, for one, remember him fondly and often. I spent many hours talking with him on the phone during his last year. He was so dynamic and added so much color to my life. I will always cherish Fred and his friendship. Thanks, Merry Robin, for taking the time to add this information to our reunion book. We are all grateful he had such a loving wife and family. Sherry Richardson Hume, classmate
Barbara Carole James (Mayberry) (1961)
Hardly a day goes by that I don't think of Fred. When we were in Grace Fletcher's class he sat behind me and finally he said my name was to long so he started calling me B. J. To this day all of my in-laws call me B. J. I remember being in a talent show with Fred while in school and what a blast we had!
Thank you, Merry Robin, for sharing him with us.
Barbara James Mayberry