Wednesday, May 8, 2013
I first met Dave around 1985, when I was hired by the VA to teach him computer skills. In the upstairs room at the far end of the house away from his bedroom, we worked on his Hewlett-Packard Touch-Screen computer until we had explored every possible command in Microsoft Excel, and unraveled all the mysteries of every form of the IRS 1040 Tax Form.
I soon learned that Dave was interested in automobiles, which have been my passion since I was a small child. I am now a member of the Society of Automotive Historians, and have given slide presentations on various automotive history topics.
In the early 1990's I began going to antique auto shows and taking photographs LOTS of photographs. At some point I started taking Dave to auto shows, usually once a year. We went to Glastonbury, Simsbury, and Goshen, twice each. We also went to the Greenwich Concours in 1997.
Each year, after all my photos had been printed, I would bring my most recent photos albums out to Middlebury for Dave to look at. In the past two or three years, since I got a laptop computer, I would bring the laptop out and we would look at the pictures on the screen.
I can't express how good it made me feel to give Dave a chance to get out and do something he enjoyed. Dave was a good friend, and I will miss him.
Bob Staneslow
