New Beginnings

About the Book

New Beginnings illustrates the pleasant, rewarding life that senior citizens can find in a retirement residence. It may provide both seniors and their children with a new perspective on alternative care for confronting the problems of aging. Although New Beginnings may help in that problem area, it is not only a guide book; it is a story of interesting people who led, and are leading, exciting and productive lives. The principal characters meet admirable companions with facets of character they never really appreciated before. They also witness how comforting the support of other residents can be when trouble strikes. The entirely fictional characters interact in both humorous and touching ways. The reader will come to know them, to identify with them--and to love them.

About the Author

Bud, born the son of William Arthur and Laura Whitfield Gore in 1917, grew up in Norfolk, Virginia. A 1939 Naval Academy graduate, he served in a destroyer, a cruiser, a battleship, three aircraft carriers, with several fleet and international staffs, and on the faculties of the Naval Academy and the Armed Forces Staff College. His last assignment was as chief of logistics, National Security Agency. Bud survived both a humiliating defeat in frigid Arctic waters and a thunderous victory off Guadalcanal when the South Pacific war turned in favor of the United States. Bud and Emily, his wife of sixty years, live in McLean, Virginia. They have three daughters and five grandchildren. A son, John Bryan Gore, was killed in a naval aircraft crash in 1985. One grandson died at birth.