Richard “Dick” Spires, 82, Largo. He grew up building models, so it was perhaps no surprise that Dick Spires became a successful electrical engineer. In three decades with Bell Labs, he even led key developments in long-haul telephone systems. He had plenty of other loves, too, from photography to rock climbing to the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity (of which he was president in his final year at Ohio University)...(Click the information source link below to read more.)