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2010 NEWS FROMN D.C.FONTANA / DENNIS SKOTAK
This year (2010)has flown by! I feel like I've been on the run since Thanksgiving 2009. For one thing, my spring semester of teaching at AFI had two classes (20 students all writinjg up a storm),...
Last Post: Feb 3rd 2011
Author: Marion Douma Start
# of posts: 1
How fast 50 years can go by!
I joined the Air Force and while stationed at Pease AFB, NH, I met and married a girl from Maine in 1961. We came back to NJ when I was discharged in '61. We lived in Pompton Lakes and West Milford...
Last Post: Nov 7th 2008
Author: Kelly
# of posts: 6
Florida Reunion
We are in the process of planning a reunion for the classmates here in Florida on March 16. We will be holding it in Trinity where John Ciccone lives. Hope to see alot of the Florida folks there
Last Post: Mar 5th 2008
Author: ldutchespv57@aol.com
# of posts: 1
OUR 2008 NEWS
An article entitled (L.F.) "Women's Club celebrates its centennial in 2008" appeared in the Jan. 24 issue of the local PASSAIC VALLEY TODAY newspaper. The first page of this article covered the L.F....
Last Post: Feb 3rd 2008
Author: Marion Douma Start
# of posts: 1
2006 news from D.C.FONTANA / DENNIS SKOTAK (Oscar winner for special effects on 'The Abyss')
Dot Fontana's holiday letter received in 2007: "2006 was another one of THOSE years for us. In Jan., Denny was declared clear of his lymphoma, and his following CT / PET scans reveal he is in...
Last Post: Jan 28th 2008
Author: Marion Douma Start
# of posts: 2
Can't believe I'm missing our 50th
Can't believe this is the first reunion I'll miss and it's our 50th!! First of all, I want to tell you that you've done a marvelous job on the website! I hope you post comments afterwards for the...
Last Post: Nov 12th 2007
Author: gloria
# of posts: 1
It's been an interesting 50 years
In 1961, my husband, Al Gaita, and I opened the Gaita Memorial Home for Funerals in Singac.Then in 1963, Al was hit by a car while crossing Union Blvd. and died 6 days later. I had to decide what to...
Last Post: Nov 7th 2007
Author: Stokes
# of posts: 3
Hi Everyone- Barb Padula Speziale
Jerry and I have been married 49 years, we are still in Wayne, NJ, and he is still at his hair salon/barber shop doing his thing, along with being on the NJ Board of Cosmotology. I have shortened my...
Last Post: Nov 7th 2007
Author: bspez523@aol.com
# of posts: 2
50 years! Impossible!
Tom and I have spent our lives in the child care business. Tom has been a carpenter and worked for many years on his own until we became involved in the Peppermint Tree Nursery School. We did so...
Last Post: Nov 7th 2007
Author: tomfenwick
# of posts: 1
My last 50 years
For the last 20 years before retirement, I was in sales for a wire mill in the Stony Road section of Paterson. I worked with companies all over the US as well as some in Europe. When Randy retired,...
Last Post: Nov 5th 2007
Author: burner
# of posts: 1
CAROL (WINSCHUH) BROWN's latest art award
(this is the presentation speech made this summer covering Carol Winschuh Brown's painting that was selected for the cover of the 2007 Harford [PA] Fair Book -- the Harford Fair is an annual...
Last Post: Sep 26th 2007
Author: Marion Douma Start
# of posts: 2
It's been an interesting 50 years
50 yrs is a long time to capture in a short recap. Without boring you with a myriad of details, I've been married to the same person for 47 years. She is the same one I dated all through high school....
Last Post: Jun 19th 2007
Author: Campy
# of posts: 1
My Biography
I graduated from Douglass College with a major in Mathematics and minors in Science and History. I met my husband, Bob (Rutgers, class of '58), my first day on campus and married him six years later....
Last Post: Jun 15th 2007
Author: Kusha
# of posts: 1
My last 50+ years!
I left PV at the end of my junior year for a vacation at Parris Island, SC courtesy of the Marines. I wound up at HMX-1 in Quantico, VA assigned to the presidental helicopters--first as a crewman and...
Last Post: May 26th 2007
Author: Poppa G.
# of posts: 1
Can't believe it's 50 years
I attended Seton Hall and graduated in 1962. I went into the health club business and became regional manager of 6 clubs in NJ and PA. In 1970 I went into the health care field as a sales rep for...
Last Post: May 24th 2007
Author: diener
# of posts: 1
How do you cover a HALF-CENTURY OF MEMORIES?
Maybe I could highlight each decade & try to get through those fifty years that way: 1950's--after grammar & high school graduations, I began working full-time at Bonat, West Paterson, on June...
Last Post: Apr 30th 2007
Author: Marion Douma Start
# of posts: 1
Busy 50 years.
Became an RN in 1960, graduated from Mountainside Hospital, Montclair,NJ, where I worked in L/D. Moved to Dallas, TX to work at the Baylor Univ. Medical Center.
Married Tony Olivito and began...
Last Post: Mar 25th 2007
Author: vanimi
# of posts: 1
The 50 year dash
It didn't take me long to relize after high school that my PV varsity letter wasn't going to get me very far. Got a job in the Ford plant in Mahwah, then a job as an electrical apprentice. Started...
Last Post: Mar 24th 2007
Author: riki
# of posts: 1
Lou Alessio's music goes on
I have been retired since 1998, but I still sing and play guitar at home or maybe a small party--which is enough for an old man! Ha! Ha! I have six children-4 boys and 2 girls. My oldest son is a...
Last Post: Mar 24th 2007
Author: Alessio
# of posts: 4
JUST LATELY
Doug Herman's short bio as included in the Dec. '06 issue of the Wellington (FL) "VillageWalk" newsletter:

"Captain Doug Herman is the Administrator and Supervisor for Titan Security...
Last Post: Mar 22nd 2007
Author: HERMANCAPT800
# of posts: 2
Piccolo's story
Piccolo means small in Italian. My life has been anything but! A real adventure with lots of twists and turns (sometimes on 2 wheels). Married 3 times (third a charm) and have 4 sons, twin step...
Last Post: Feb 26th 2007
Author: Organgrinder
# of posts: 1
George Caban's post PV life
Joined the USAF in 9/57with Harry DeWeil and Bob Beauchamp. Did basic and electronics school together before being split up. In 1969, I left active duty for DC Air National Guard at Andrews AFB. Left...
Last Post: Feb 22nd 2007
Author: ldutchespv57@aol.com
# of posts: 1
Joe Greenwald's life in a nut shell
Married the end of our senior year and had 4 sons and 2 daughters. Divorced in '75 and moved to Maine. Remarried in'80 to a woman with 2 boys and a girl. We then had 5 more girls. Now there are more...
Last Post: Feb 22nd 2007
Author: ldutchespv57@aol.com
# of posts: 1
My life
Last Post: Feb 19th 2007
Author: Wylie
# of posts: 0
the last 50 yrs.
We moved to CT. in 1966 when my husband went to work as an aeronautical engineer for Sikorsky Aircraft. He remained with them until 1998. I went to work for them after my children were teen agers and...
Last Post: Feb 19th 2007
Author: Wylie
# of posts: 1
My life after PVHS
After HS, I became a RN and worked in a Montclair hospital for 21 years. I married in "64, had a daughter in'65 and a son in'66. I divorced in 1981 and moved to Fl. with my children. Worked in a...
Last Post: Feb 19th 2007
Author: ldutchespv57@aol.com
# of posts: 1