Bill Doyle to Visit Scandanavia; Baltics

Having recently returned from Iceland, where he has been studying the tiny North Atlantic nation's culture, history, religion and language, Bill Doyle will soon depart on a similar expedition to Finland and the Baltic states.

Bill, the significant other of Diana Fieg Monaco, daughter of the F.F.N. founder V.P. Fieg, is a member of the Union of Operating Engineers and has a relatively flexible schedule that allows him to indulge his fascination with European history when he is not tending to the repair and operation of graders, rollers, loaders and other types of yellow-colored heavy equipment. Bill studied the ancients at State University of New York at Buffalo. His specialty is the military.

He is considering retiring in Iceland with Diana, his life companion, or, to coin a term, "his old lady," with whom he takes occasional excursions to his rustic cabin the Adirondacks, and with whom he spends a great deal of time dining, traveling, reading or enjoying various other sorts of quietude at home, including weekend ballgames on TV.

Living the often unfettered existence of urban bonvivants, the couple resides in the stunningly beautiful lower Hudson River Valley community of Croton-on-Hudson, in a vicinity known to the people of New York City as "Upstate," but to the people upstate as "New York City." (See how that works?)

The vicinity, encompassing Rockland, Westchester and contiguous counties, includes West Point Military Academy, the palatial homes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Robert De Niro and the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Cagney and Helen Hayes and numerous other luminaries. It was formerly known as home to such great robber barons as John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould and was regarded by other types of robbers in residence as "Sing Sing."

For this coming trip, Bill will attend the Trialogos Festival in the Baltic state of Estonia on the European continent. It's an event devoted to global enlightenment through the advancement of Western thought, dialogue and culture.

Bill is a former U.S. Marines non-commissioned officer and Vietnam War veteran. His son, Capt. Dan Doyle, is on active duty with the U.S. Air Force in Oklahoma, where he serves as a judge advocate. Dan has served in a number of posts, including the combat zone in Bagdad, Iraq.