b'C H A P T E R T W Oare retired; several of them had posts of distinction during their working years, one as General Electrics manager of business planning in Europe, another as vice president and general manager of a division of GE Aerospace/Lockheed Martin Corporation, a third as head of his own company in the health-care products and services arena.One of two on the board still working full-time stands a long way from retirementand could hardly be more busy if he tried. He also happens to be by far the youngest director, now approaching his 31st birthday. This is John Pappalardo. Not only is he the youngest, but also hes the biggestsix feet five inches tall, and 275 pounds, a size that suited him well in football, wrestling and lacrosse.Owner of a twenty-foot boat, Big John, as associates call him, fishes with rod and reel three or four days a week for striped bass, scup, flounder, black sea bass, cod. But he does better financially through his job as policy analyst for the Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermens Association, headquartered in North Chatham. And, as if he werent stretched out enough with those demands, hes joined the important New England Fisheries Management Council -important because, as he puts it, the eighteen of us sit down and essentially decide who gets to catch whatYoungest and biggest of FCW between the Canadian border and Longdirectors, John Pappalardo fishes Island Sound. professoionally when he isnt How did Pappalardo ever wind up indoing policy analyses for the Chatham flooding his hip boots inCape Cod Commercial Hook fishing issues? After growing up in WestFishermens Association.Big Hartford, Connecticut, he went fromJohn serves on the critically important New England FisherPortsmouth Abbey boarding school to anies Management Council.English/Philosophy major at Seton HallCourtesj CCCHFAUniversity in New Jersey, came to Cape Codwhere his parents had a summer home, wound up teaching for a year at the May Institute ( very challenging, he says), then joined Paul Parker in assembling what is now the Hook Fishermens Association (with a staff of six and an annual budget of $775,000).30'