The Verne and Onie Woods Web Page

TADA! Here we are! (September 2002)

Here's about all you'll need (or want) to know about us:

  1. We have been married 60 years; in spite of this we're still good friends.
  2. We're 81 (Verne) and 78 (Onie) years old and are retired -- sort of.
  3. We're natives of Memphis,TN.
  4. We attended the University of Iowa.
  5. We've lived in Lexington,MA, for 48 years.
  6. For decades we skied -- quite competently so.
  7. But we were (and to some extent still are) much more competent in solving crossword puzzles. Once, in 1997, we solved six straight NY Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles without a single error. Nevertheless, we're increasingly susceptible to quite stupid errors.
  8. Verne's career centered around science and technical writing and he later worked in neurobiology at Brandeis University. He still spends too much time reading science magazines.
  9. Onie was for 30 years the manager of a small construction firm.
  10. Verne, in l994, underwent heart by-pass surgery (a quadruple). Afterwards, his 50-year love affairs with cigarettes and tennis came to an end -- cigarettes because he lacked the temerity to challange a transformed national ethos and tennis because he didn't want to go out there on the tennis court and play like an old man.
  11. Onie thinks she's the best flower-gardener in all of Eastern Massachusetts; she's good, but not that good. In the winter, she plays bridge -- excessively.
  12. Verne, during WWII, was a B-17 pilot in the 8th AF's 91st Bomb Group and was shot down on his l3th mission on New Year's Eve, 1943; he finished the war at Stalag Luft I, a POW camp on the Baltic. To read about it click here
  13. Onie is (was) a pilot also but she was never shot down (or maybe she just hasn't mentioned it). She was the only female in an Aero Club started in the '50s and holds membership card No. 1 in the Club and with Verne, too.
      14. vewoods@rcn.com

      That's about it. Bye