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Richard Trombly
Newly elected FBTW vice president Bob Scheier |
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In the fall of 2003, Richard Trombly realized that recent developments
in China, including the easing of political and economic controls, a 9-10
percent annual growth rate and the manned space launch, made that country
the most interesting place in the world to report from. It took a bit
of juggling, but by December he was in the Shanghai area. His wife and
children will join him in the spring of 2004.
Richard Trombly was born on April 18, 1967. He was raised on a family
farm in western Massachusetts and still lives in the old family farmhouse,
which he and his wife bought from his parents in 1997.
In 1989, he graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a BA in
English Literature, and, after some study in Germany, went on to teach
English at Kolbourne School, a private school in the Berkshires, where
he worked for six years.
Richard also wrote freelance feature articles for local and national publications
and reported for the Associated Press.
In early 2000, he was hired by the Berkshire Beacon to be its managing
editor. At the end of that year, he was hired to be the Associate Editor
of Industrial Distribution, a Newton-Massachusetts-based trade magazine
published by Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier
Inc.
Richard received his private pilot's license in 1990 and soon followed
it up with a instrument certification, a commercial license, and multi-engine
certification. He is an avid pilot and flies out of an airport in Northampton,
Mass. Richard is also a wooden boat enthusiast and recently built a 14-foot
wooden sailboat.
He is married, with two children: a seven-year-old daughter, and a five-year-old
son. His wife, Maria Trombly, is a Wall Street technology columnist for
Securities Industry News, and former war correspondent.
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