Adrift in Memories

Deane Turner was born in Boston, grew up in New England and attended Gardner High School where he was a three-sport athlete, including a captain of the Gardner Wildcat basketball team that won the 1955 Worcester County championship. He graduated from Bowdoin with a BA in economics. He enjoyed a distinguished international business career working for Union Carbide, Kaiser Permanente, Louis Allen Associates, Enlightened Leadership, and Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH). He advanced through production, human resources, sales, and management positions eventually rising to senior vice president and general manager at LHH. His most enjoyable work was as an international management consultant working with Carbide executives and employees in Asia, India, South America, Mexico, and Canada. During his twenty years with LHH, he helped thousands of people caught by corporate restructuring find exciting new careers and jobs. When he personally flunked retirement, he reinvented himself as a boat captain, a group leader for Grand Circle Travel, a writer, a career consultant, and a teacher. Sailing and travel are two of Deane's favorite pastimes. He crewed on schooners off Camden and Marblehead as a teenager and then graduated to running his own part-time sailing charter and school in Stamford. He sailed from Bermuda to Boston among the tall ships and eventually crewed on the twelve-meter America's Cup contender American Eagle. He and his wife Gudrun have traveled together extensively in Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, China, and the Caribbean. Gudrun and Deane have lived on Cape Cod since 2000 and have five children and eight grandchildren who love to visit them on the Cape and are actively pursuing their passions all over the United States and Canada. Deane and Gudrun are active in the Mashpee Congregational Church, the Mashpee Men's Club, and the Union Carbide Retiree Club.