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| I went to River Dell Senior High School from 1964 to 1967. I played soccer, cross country, track, wrestling. All Bergen County cross country. Active weightlifter and body builder. Ran a 1.56:6 880 in the NJ State Finals! Walter Doerig. Bert Brondi. Mr. Kiesman, where are you? |
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River Dell High School Graduation. 1967. | ||||
Uncle Harry with his cigar sitting in Mom's easy chair.. 290 Concord Drive. 1972 |
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Here are some photos from Uncle Harry's and Aunt Laurel's 50th Wedding Anniversary plus some other old photos. | ||||
| I started out in Engineering at the University of Rhode Island in 1967. Couldn't get past Statics and Dynamics! Switched majors and graduated with a BA in 1971 with majors in Psychology and Biology with minors in Speech and Statistics. Ran indoor and outdoor track plus intramurals. Ran a 51.4 440! Set 4 intramural records at URI! Donna Smith was my first ever URI girlfriend. | These are my best buddies from college. Russ Rezendes and Steve 'Cuz' Messineo. We had alot of good times in Sigma Nu Fraternity at URI and 'down the line' in our beach house in Narragansett, Rhode Island. | |||||
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Our Sigma Nu Insignia - the White Rose - that I and Murray Petrakis painted on a basement wall in the Zeta Rho Fraternity House. Scene of many great mattress parties, Motown sounds, and wierd juice concoctions by Lenny Riordan. I learned alot about living with people. And many life lessons. I sure miss it.... | 
Claire DeLuca, my Italian 'Chooch' at URI. What a babe! |
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My first car! A 1965 Triumph TR4. I kept it only 6 months. Leaky pistons. Bought a new 1970 Firebird which I still drive every day in California. |
We spent our summers at Lake Teedyuskung in Pennslyvania. Here are some photos of Dad and the family enjoying the boating. |
 Graduation Day. University of Rhode Island. 1971. |
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Breakfast. 290 Concord Drive. 1975 |
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Ted and I use to return to the old 'homestead' every Christmas orThanksgiving. Mom would take a pic of us sitting at the kitchen table while we waited for breakfast. The things you take for granted....
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| I enjoyed Rhode Island. I made a lot of friends through the fraternities and sororities. Lots of parties 'down the line' in Narragansett and at Billy Dolan's house in Matunick. Driving in Lenny Riordan's VW or George Brown's 1967 Firebird. Walking down a country road with Donna Smith (Donna Comolli) to our favorite private spot near the lake. |
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Leaving home for the last time and going off to graduate school at New Mexico State University, 1971. That's Bert Brondi, River Dell HS senior class President, and Dad. Never saw Dad again. He passed on October 6, 1971 when I was 2,000 miles away at NMSU. | ||||
| I continued my education at New Mexico State University and received my Master of Arts degree in 1974. Majored in Engineering Psychology (Human Factors) and Statistics with minors Speech and Hearing Sciences. Engineering Psychology at NMSU was taught by the first generation of aviation psychologists out of Ohio State and Wright Patterson AFB! That's where I met Holly Hosford Dunn, who diagnosed me with a bimodal, binoral hearing loss. These were the original control/display guys! Dar Hunt, James Bradley, and George Briggs. It was a really great time to be at NMSU and involved in Human Factors. Greg Smith, Gary Conover, and I use to hike up into the Organ Mountains on the weekends. My dogger, Gandalf, would hike there every weekend. |
Here are a few other friends from my Las Cruces days. Cindy Davis (Cindy Pharis), Marc Caplan, Tanya Francis Dunn. And my Dogger, Gandalf. |
Elsie Parker. An old friend from NMSU. Now the lead singer for "The Poor People of Paris" in St. Louis and a 'new' friend in 1998. She sings beautiful French songs! Better than Edith Piaf!
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My roomie in Las Cruces, NM, Gary Conover, who lives in Colorado Springs and is an avid birder. Remember Maura and the orange juice? And Patsy Kinney?
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