35 Years Ago
St. Patrick's School Elmira, NY
2nd Grade, 1969 |
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| Back Row: Carolyn Kerwin, Chip Hughes, Stephanie Carrier, John Thompson, Mary Alice Tierny, Buddy Grabowski, Cindy Ward, Terry Barrett, Barbie Cook, Jimmy Galvin, Miss McCarthy (?)
Middle Row: Kevin Sullivan, Jimmy Sandore, John Semler, Mike Houghtaling, Sean McLaughlin, Joe Wunderlich, Tom Sullivan, Jack Lagonegro
Front Row: Barbie Schmidt, Maureen Lynch, Katie Reidy, Martha Sgro, Georgine Rogers, Betty McKee, (Can't recall), Joanne Thompson
Bold font: Members of EFA Class of '79 |
Dug this one out from long ago! I can't believe I can remember everyone's name, except for one girl in the front row. I just walked up to someone tonight after Gabe's t-ball game who I hadn't seen in three years and I couldn't remember his name!
This is one of my only class pictures from elementary school that I have left and I just realized that it was exactly 10 years before I graduated from high school. Little did I know about Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, etc. at the time, but I'm pretty sure I remember the Summer of '69 (wasn't that before Bryan Adams was born?) and the first Man on the Moon!
It's funny to look back at this photo and see these young joyful faces of my classmates. I have a lot of good memories of my times at St. Pat's. Chicken fights on the playground. Playing Keepaway with the older boys at school. First Communion. Big, jovial, dark-haired nuns with facial hair. Snowball fights while waiting to be picked up after school. Church league basketball, shirts and skins. You know, those real events in one's young life.
I also remember some of the not so fun memories. Like when Terry Barrett, Sean McLaughlin and I decided we should put this big rock on the bottom of the slide at the playground. Except first we waited until we could get Jimmy Galvin to slide down head first. Well after the blood was flowing from his head, all four of us were marched to the principals office for corporal punishment! I cried my eyes out.
It was my birthday and my Mom was bringing cupcakes and juice for our class. I knew I would be in trouble! Miraculously though the tears were all gone by the time Mom got there and I didn't get too much grief over the incident. And everyone got cupcakes!
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