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From Charlie McGowan: November 16th, 2014
Though six weeks have passed since our 65th and another classmate, Gerry Ciarcia D'Onofrio, has departed, the perpetuation of reunions and your thoughtful messages are golden.

Without the planing and communications of Dotty Kelley, Barbara Marvin, Patty Mawn, Ellen Shoemaker, and Nance O'Rourke, who made the WCC a perfect setting, we would not be face to face again.Dick Richmond and Bob Horne's input kept dialog and photos moving fast! To see and talk with so many at cocktails, dinner, and again in the evening brought back the "old days," even to kindergarten.

Yesterday, the town and an event were sort of an extension to October 4. I drove up from the Cape to my grandson, Ted Donahue's, confirmation at St. Mary's where I made mine in 1943. The Baptist Church, now condos, was were where I belonged to Troop 7, BSA. Pete Dillingham, Jim McLaughlin, and others recalled those days. Passing the town hall and fire and police stations after the Confirmation, we went UNDER the tracks, past old McCormicks, onto Main Street, and down Thompson Street. The post office has a special meaning, because my Dad worked there and delivered mail to the West Side.

From the Black Horse Tavern, located where the taxis waited for train commuters, I could look across at the field (now Knowlton) behind the old junior high where we graduated. I showed my grandkids the cinder track tatoo on my right wrist that "befell" when trying to run the quarter-mile.My, and Laurie's favorite, Dewars on the Rocks enhanced my excitement.

What a town! What memories! What classmates!

Thanks and Love to All,

Charlie McGowan

 
From Barbara McGowan (Mrs. Tom McGowan): October 16th, 2013
Revised message of the passing of Tom McGowan

First, let me apologize for the depressing note I sent to you shortly after his passing. What I should have talked about was how he lived! After a 3 yr stint in the US Army, he was hired by the Defense Department to work in the fledgling National Security Agency, (yes, NSA)!! We married in 1955 and for the next 54 years enjoyed a far from boring life. One child was born in Kyoto, Japan, one in Berlin, Germany and the other three in Washington, Dc .where we lived while he continued working at NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. When he retired in the middle of the 1980's we took a totally unscheduled road trip across the USA and back. The kids were grown, the bills were paid, which made for a wonderful, leisurely adventure. Shortly thereafter we sold the Maryland house and moved down here to Southern Shores on the Outer Banks of N.C. An awful lot of other retirees had the same idea and Southern Shores has many of them -- Even the volunteer firemen all have grey hair! And we were blessed with wonderful children, one a teacher, one a doctor, one working for the government, one a Navy Seal and one has just retired after 30 years with UPS, as one of their "suits" at the headquarters in Atlanta. And, yes, we have 10 wonderful grandchildren -- and how they loved -- and miss -- Grandpa!

Want to buy a beach house? It's not the same without Tom
 
From John Davis: June 26th, 2010
The Great Connecticut Jazz Festival will be held in Meriden, CT on the weekend of July 30th, 31st, and August 1st at the Sheridan Four Points Hotel. It features traditional "Dixieland" or New Orleans style jazz and "Swing." Several classmates have attended the Festival in years past, and will be doing so again this year. So, come and join us. For further information, go to the Festival website at www.greatctjazz.org. (John provided me with information on special hotel rates; you can email me at brad@gemini-matrix.com).
 
From Dick Richmond: March 31st, 2010
In August I'll be on photo-safari in Tanzania, then move over to Rwanda to climb in the Volcanoes National Park, hopefully for a chance at close-up photography of the upland gorillas there. Many of my photographs can be seen (given the time and inclination) at my picasaweb site (http://picasaweb.google.com/richmondra.)
 
From Bobby Horne: January 14th, 2010
My poetry book has sold out locally. I'm awaiting my third printing. Classmates can email John Sargent or Pete Dillingham or Lynn Roberson Aitkens for a "review". I can ship copies almost anywhere in the US for $12.00, but I can't do that in Maine or Western Mass or near the publisher in Troy, NY. Pam and I spent Christmas vacation in Aruba.
 
From Bobby Horne: December 30th, 2009
My new poetry book is out. I have it in the local stores—haven't been to Concord yet to put it in there. I also have it in a New York store, The title—My Solo Folio. Published by Troy Book Makers, Troy N.Y. I'll gladly send a copy to any classmate. It sells in the stores for $16.95 plus tax. I can ship it to anyone—especially someone not living near Mid-Coast Maine or Albany, N.Y—for $12,50. This includes shipping costs, etc. Out of the country—esp Canada—$13.00.