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Jumping aboard a ship bound for Liverpool, England, in the mid-1960s, Herb Ressing had no master plan, no blueprint for life. He only knew that he wasn\u2019t yet ready to settle down and study. So, the native of Buffalo, New York, left his Transy Class of 1966 after freshman year and found himself in the bowels of a ship churning across the Atlantic. He couldn\u2019t know that one day, after a career on Capitol Hill, he would be sailing the seas again after buying legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite\u2019s yacht.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVietnam was cooking,\u201d he recalls. When his father, long frustrated by Ressing\u2019s pattern of enjoying life and neglecting his grades, suggested he go to Vietnam in order to grow up, he looked at his modest funds saved from part-time work and replied, \u201cNo, I\u2019m going to go to Europe.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He worked as a chauffeur in Scotland, at an import\/export firm in London, a plastics factory in Paris and a BMW factory in Germany. He took the train from Vienna to Prague and on to Moscow. But after a year, he says, \u201cthe draft board was getting hungry. That was a motivator to get back to college.\u201d This time would be different, but also very much the same. As his memories reveal, more than 50 years after returning to Transy to finish his degree, Ressing could be talking about Transy in 2020. The core experience remains; it\u2019s the person who evolves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe thing that struck me about Transy,\u201d he says, \u201cthe classes were small, the relationships with professors were big; it was not just in the classroom, it was everywhere. When I think back \u2026 the intimacy of the relationship between students and faculty was very, very appealing. That\u2019s a big plus.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He singles out the guidance of professors Joe Binford (history), Tom Cutshaw (political science) and Bill Thompson (theater): their academic support, the friendships formed around the dinner table in faculty homes, opportunities identified and rules reinterpreted to ensure that his year away would not impede his progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProfessors were very helpful in guiding my thinking. I was a loose cannon,\u201d he chuckles. \u201cI would go over to Joe Binford\u2019s house and his wife would cook us dinner. We\u2019d sit around and chat about everything. That kind of relationship opened up a lot of doors that I wouldn\u2019t have been able to open had I not had it,\u201d he reflects on the confidence it built in him and his ability to succeed in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Their mentoring helped him grow and mature. \u201cIt was a good life,\u201d Ressing reminisces. By 1966 he was married and living in a rooming house at the corner of Third and Broadway, accessible by the fire escape. He\u2019s pictured in the 1966 yearbook and Rambler as a member of the debate awards team. Being on the team, he says, \u201ctaught me to think on my feet and to go off script in terms of not always having the right answers but being able to stick your foot in and give it a shot. It gave me a willingness to take some risks.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[T]he classes were small, the relationships with professors were big; it was not just in the classroom, it was everywhere. <\/p>Herb Ressing ’66

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Next came the Washington Semester program at American University in Washington, D.C., which led to an internship and interesting jobs while he earned an MBA at George Washington University. Being allowed to attend the seminar in his senior year, he says \u201copened the door for going to a senator\u2019s office and getting my foot in the door\u201d first as a volunteer and then in a part-time job. Instead of being a shy intern, he says he had the confidence to say what he\u2019d like to do and how he planned to do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked what was the most fulfilling part of his career, he pauses. \u201cIt\u2019s beating all the odds. My father, who was very realistic, said, \u2018You\u2019ll never make it in D.C. It\u2019s a cut-throat town.\u2019 Not only did I make it, but I thrived in different careers. I worked on the Hill and ran presidential campaigns. I worked for the Republican National Committee and the Federal Trade Commission.\u201d He then became a lobbyist to promote synthetic fuel. \u201cThose are five different careers packed in 15 years,\u201d he remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being able to adapt and thrive, he adds, comes in part from his liberal arts foundation. It kept him from having tunnel vision, he says. \u201cYou have an opportunity to view occupations, vocations in a broad sense of how it works. It\u2019s really a product of being exposed to several different things in terms of political science, how politics works, and history, how we got to where we are today\u201d (his major and minor respectively).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an uncharted life, he notes, \u201cI learned fairly quickly that you have to make your own opportunities.\u201d He shares the revelatory moment in mid-life when his marriage had ended and his personal life was in flux. \u201cIt was like turning a page in a book.\u201d He remembers walking down K Street in a suit, chasing jobs, when he stopped and said to himself, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to do this anymore.\u201d He\u2019d long dreamed of sailing and a life on the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So he bought Walter Cronkite\u2019s sailboat from the Naval Academy. He\u2019d already been teaching himself how to sail and earned a captain\u2019s license. \u201cI decided I\u2019d like to go south to the islands. I\u2019d been to the U.S. Virgin Islands, where I\u2019d run a campaign.\u201d When he settled in Ft. Lauderdale, his son joined him. He kept the boat behind his house and conducted charters, then expanded into yacht sales and marine development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was very like everything else I\u2019d done,\u201d he says. \u201cThere was no blueprint on how to go about it. I just learned as I went and it worked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laughter often punctuates Ressing\u2019s narrative, but he\u2019s serious about the importance of taking chances and risking failure. \u201cI think the idea of not being afraid to try new things is the key. People make too much about being successful and too much out of failure; the thing is to be willing to take a gamble and experiment a little bit.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Herb with his wife, Wendy Cox, and Morgan, his Wheaten Terrier, co-captain and greeter of 15 years<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Just as his first journey across the Atlantic as an undergrad was an unmapped adventure, \u201can interesting voyage that opened up all kinds of opportunities,\u201d so too was his radical transition to an uncertain life on the sea. \u201cA bunch of different things determine how it\u2019s going to go, where we\u2019re going to go,\u201d he says of life. \u201cAnd here I ended up in Florida.\u201d He also met his English wife, Wendy Cox, while sailing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trading the halls of power for the soaring freedom of the ocean\u2019s winds, Ressing revels in the variety of his life. With the Atlantic lapping at the edges of his yacht, he adds, \u201cIt\u2019s very simple. Don\u2019t be afraid to try new things. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a> about his career transition from D.C. to Cronkite\u2019s yacht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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