Happy July 4th. Hope the storms in the Northeast clear up for a nice weekend.
Remember how back in the day we often celebrated this holiday with family, neighbors, and friends with cookouts and fireworks in the backyard or at a lakeside cabin? You see a lot more sophisticated fireworks at the major events these days, but there is something especially memorable about even the small stuff going off close by. Personal pyrotechnics . . . in lots of places, a skill and thrill of the past.
November Chronicle freshman year
We got a little more mention in the Chronicle as we moved into the fall of freshman year. About time!
A bottom-page-4 article in then November 23, 1960, edition refers to us as “Eager Beavers” and cites scholastic activity of several members of the Class of ’64: Vincent Brown, David Rucinski, Maryellen Rooney, Diane Dillon, William Ligouri (sic), Thomas Roberts, Ellen St. Clair (sic), James Boucher, Paul Donahue, William Danoff, Mary Hurley, John Sheehan, Patricia Johnson, Mark Sullivan, Barbara Shean, Dennis Jacobi, Carol Organek, Alan Sponburgh, Gary Bushey, Patricia Canning, and Carol Forgemie.
Even the sports pages did not mention any members of the class, like, say, Gene Ryzewicz. That changed soon thereafter.
Here’s the November 23, 1960 Chronicle.
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