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Quod Paulus McC rogavit aliquem scribere in Latina, id faciam cum non essem eruditissima discipula in schola. Tamen secutus sum in passibus sororis Jameo Mariae. Ego studebam docebamque Latinam linguamque Hispaniae vigintiocto annos. Conata sum uti huius modo cartarum et quidem. simile sorori, ego illas movebam dicebamque "proxime, sede, proxime." Ego dabam illam spectatum. Hic modus not erat utilis discipulis modernis. Nihil eos terret.

I will let you all ask your kids to translate, as I am sure you made them all take Latin and suffer as we did. We did get good skills as evidenced by those who have blogged.

I majored in Latin at Emmanuel along with Joan Hoar and continued at BC. After college I did Europe with Maura Mc Groarty and skied with her, Edie Reidy and others. After teaching for VII years, I married Richard Moore.and we have lived in Westwood for the last XXX years with Emily, Brian, Kevin and Patrick. After teaching the last XX years at Woburn High-yes Latin- , I have retired and am spending much time with the grandchildren.

Spero vos omnes visuram esse Septembre et ferte memorias.

Louise O'Brien Moore

"A picture is worth a 1000 words"

Thanks to Marie winning a Cape Cod Hospital golf tournament last Summer (which is why she's the most sought after partner in our AWHS '62 Bob Woods Memorial every year) we had a photo session with a photographer in Chatham for all our children & families (which took as much planning as our upcoming reunion). Do you think that after my Father Moran impersonation, the good Sisters "guided" me to The Catholic University of America and probably had something to do with why I'm now living in St Marys, Georgia?

- Jon Peterson

Got another "member" Following the blog

Welcome, Jon. We now have 4 members and counting. Still getting hits on the blog but noone seems to want to add to it. Just send me an email with a little bio like Karen and Joe and I'll get it into the blog.

Update from Karen Maloney

I am living in Auburndale, a section of Newton. In Nov. 1987, I married Bob Bruno and feel very fortunate to have him in my life. Back in 1993 we bought a Cape house in West Harwich where we are presently spending most of our time because our almost 18 year old dog does better in a one -story house.

I took early retirement from teaching in Canton Middle School when I was 59 and didn't adjust easily to my new life style. As a result, I went back to work part-time in Lexington at the elementary level. Now, however, both Bob and I are fully retired and exploring both new and old interests.

My eldest son, Brian, married his high school sweetheart and has five children and they live outside San Diego as does my youngest son, Bobby. Peter, my middle son, lives in New York city. We rented in downtown San Diego one winter and may well spend winters there again once our dog is gone.

Meanwhile I 'm looking forward to renewing past friendships at our 50th reunion.

The McAuliffe's Second Honeymoon

Alyce and I were married in 1970 and camped across the USA in a VW bug for two month on our honeymoon. You really get to know someone in a pup tent. Last July we decided to rekindle the flame and flew to Denver, CO., rented an economy car and headed for Boulder and took a scenic walk on Pearl Street. We did not camp, but should have. We stayed at a Rodeway Inn and I expected Anthony Perkins to peek in on me in the shower. Did you ever sleep with your jack knife open under your pillow and were afraid to turn over because you might slit your own throat?

Next day we drove through the Big Horn National Forest, Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park to Cheyenne, WY. This road has to be one of the best scenic highways in America, BUT, if you get wheezey driving on hilly, winding, narrow roads on the side of a mountain where the sign that says" Falling Rocks" means it, stay on the interstate. This is where I wished that I rented a hopped up Mustang, stick shift, convertible.

We landed in Cheyenne for 'Frontier Days', a carnival, old time parade (horse drawn wagons, old tractors, horses), rodeo, concert (Toby Keith and Eric Church) with a great mix of people: the cowgirl ih her tight jeans, high boots, tank top, funky sun glasses and the cowgirl hat; the cowboy in construction boots, jeans with a truck buckle, cut off flannel shirt and the cowboy hat; the 300 lb. tatoo sitting on his Harley with a leather vest, no shirt, his 'doorag' and a Coors; and finally the tourist with Reebok sneakers, Nike shorts, 'vacation shirt' and baseballl cap with his favorite pro-tean or college.

Headed for Yellowstone National Park and stopped in Cody for the night. You have to spend at least a half a day at the Buffalo Bill Museum to get a feeling what is was like to live in the 'wild west'. You need two days to drive through Yellowstone. We stayed in a cabin with a bathroom, very nice and cozy. As you drive through the park, bear, deer, buffalo, elk and coyote walk across the street and in the street and don't give a s--- that you're there.

As you drive from Yellowstone to Jackson Hole, you pass through the Grand Teton National Park. You need to take some of the cutoffs to get beside the waterfalls and enjoy the snow-covered mountains. I can't remember the nane of the hotel in Jackson Hole, but as we pulled in there were two bikers having a Coors, so when I got out of the car I said, "You started without me". They apologized and one of them ran in to their room and came out with two Coors for Alyce and I. I told them that Alyce only drinks hard liquor, so he yelled into the room to have his woman pour Alyce a 'tall Jack Daniels'. Everywhere we went the people were very friendly.

The ride from Jackson Hole to Laramie is 6 hrs at 80 mph with a constant change of landscape. Get Gas, because the next station is two days away. You can see what an exhausting trip it must have been to cross this area in a covered wagon. There are some places on the road where you see no life in a 360 circle, then one cow walks by. It is a short jump from Laramie to Denver and the Zoo, with a great collection of animals and infomation.

The second honeymoon was great, but it ended with the flight back to Bean Town.

Paul & Alyce McAuliffe

Another blogging hint for the uninitated

First, welcome to Rick Blasser as a new Member of the blog. So far today there have been 65 visits to the site. So you must be preparing something to send along.

The easiest way to do it is to just type it into an email and send it along. You could use notepad or word too and email the files as attachments but typing into email is the easiest. Attach any photos and send it along.

OK, I'll get it started....

Met Judy in the summer of '66 and we got married two years later. She's been my best buddy ever since. I was roommates with Carl Kowalski at the time. We live in Walpole and recently bought a small cottage in Sandwich. Judy was an elementary school teacher in the Walpole system and I worked in computer software.
Fell into computers in '68 (no Computer Science degrees then) and worked for Honeywell. Got the travel bug and working for a big company gave us the opportunity to live/work in Paris for 3 years and then travel a bit on the company's dime. Then I worked for a succession of smaller outfits, while still enjoying travel. Only Europe, mostly France. We are Western Civ kind of people, I guess.
I played hockey in the over 30 leagues with Johnny Walker for 20 plus years. When too many injuries forced me to give it up, Judy found another hobby for me. Painting. So, I've been dabbling in oil painting for the past dozen years.

We are both retired now and enjoy taking roadtrips in our Jeep. Bought our first Jeep only about 8 years ago and are now on our third. It has been rejuvenating. As long as we can climb in it, we'll keep taking the trips. We like taking the Jeep on the beach on the Outer Banks and Sandy Neck. Also, we have a blast rock crawling in the back roads of Arizona and Utah. We have spent the past 4 winters in Sedona, AZ. That's me in the photo with my niece and her roommate. We really enjoy visiting National Parks and Civil War Battlefields when on the road.

Tony Donovan

Additional info on blogging

I just sent out a long email with lots of stuff in it so I thought I'd use the blog itself to get some more info out. When an entry is made to the blog it is called a Post. You can Comment on anyone's Post if you'd like. Just click on the Comments link. You have a box where you can type your comment. Then it asks you for a profile name. You may already have a Google profile or a Facebook profile. If so, use that. If not, just select Anonymous and put your name in the Comment to identify yourself. Then click on Publish. At that point you may be asked to re-enter a funny word to show that you are really a person looking at the blog and not a robot. Just retype the word and hit enter and with any luck at all, it will work!

What has Joe Dotoli been up to?

Hi everyone,

I have been married 42 years to my wife Fran. We live in Vermont on an island (North Hero) in Lake Champlain. We have 2 daughters, Annie and Julia. Julia is an artist working in Brooklyn. Annie has followed us into the horse world. Annie is also married and has a daughter Nora (3) and a son Carsten(6 months).

I got involved with horses during my high school years, became more involved during college (Stonehill) and turned professional in 1968. I have been very lucky to have ridden and trained many wonderful horses and taught many talented riders, the most famous being 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist Peter Wylde. My wife and I had the great experience of being in Athens, Greece to see the boy we started teaching when he was 10 years old have a gold medal put around his neck. It was a very powerful moment.

I have also been involved in the governance of equestrian sport, serving on many committees as well as the board of directors of the United States Equestrian Federation and the Professional Horseman's Association of America. In 2001 I was awarded the USEF's Distinguished Service Award for contributions to equestrian sport.

Currently I am "semi-retired" although most weeks it doesn't seem that way. I manage a series of horse shows in Tucson AZ for 8 weeks in the winter months, and officiate as a judge at numerous shows in the US and Canada throughout the year.

In 2011 I published my first book, "Wylde Ride" and am currently working on my second. Clear HERE to get a look at the book on amazon.com.

First "Follower"

Congratulations to David Petit for being the first classmate who is not me to actually sign in and "Follow" the blog. "One small step for man, one giant leap for the blog".

A few artists in the bunch.

Despite the total lack of any art classes in high school, the art bug got a hold of a few of us.

I started painting after giving up playing hockey in the Over 30 league for 20 plus years with John Walker.

Elaine Mattie McCombs has been painting local landscapes and reproducing her memories of her travels in water color and oil.

And Charlie Sorrento has been painting and teaching art for quite a while.

There must be more of you out there that had this interest deep down inside and have let it out. Or are there any musicians out there? I'll bet there are.

In the meantime, check out these web sites.

www.asdonovan.com

www.elainemccombs.com

www.fineartsbysorrento.com

Save Sept 28-30 for the Reunion

Here is some feedback from the planning meeting of 2/11.

Ya All ( for the snow birds) as a result of last nights meeting we decided to try to put together the reunion for Sept 28-30. We are checking on room availability. We hope to have a casual get together at the school on Fri. night 9/28. some may play golf Fri morning. some are looking at a harbor cruise, duck boat cruise, walk throught the north end...et al on Fri, on Sat night we are hoping to get a room at the Marriott in Quincy ( where we had the 40th) we are also trying to get a block of rooms, so we can be together and have a Sun brunch. if you have any suggestions for an activity for the day time, please forward. We are trying to get a Mass set up for Sat afternoon.

If you have contacted someone and have a confirmed address/ telephone/ or E mail; please forward, Bob Pickett is going to prepare an updated list. If you have tried to contact someone with the info I had and found it to be wrong, please forward that Info.

Send some stories to Tony Donovan (tony@asdonovan.com )so that we can start to fill up the BLOG. If you know that you can not make the reunion, please forward a quick story of what you have been doing for the last 50 years. no more that one typed page, double spaced, and Sister James Mary is going to red line it before Tony puts it in the BLOG. If you were one of ' the smart ones', please write it in Latin....... planning on having the next meeting on MARCH 23

Paul Mc Auliffe's Super Bowl Rant

As this was what gave me the idea to document this reuninon process, I thought I'd start it off with on of Mac's Rants. You can "Follow" this blog by clicking on "Join this site". If you have a Google account, use that. If not, just create one by using your email address and make up a password. It's pretty simple. Start sending me stuff to put up here.....

"It's super bowl sunday and I'm a little pissed, so I figure that I should get it off my chest now, because if the Patriots lose, I will be 'wicked' pissed and may say something I shouldn't. There are 65 e mail addressed now, five of them are wrong. Have you tried to contact the person to get it corrected? Of course, there a 15 of you who have not responded to anything , so you wouldn't know of the mistakes. A month ago I asked for some help tracking down some classmates, requesting you contact me with some names that you would be willing to contact to get an e maill address or confirm a mailing address or telephone number. A few have, but most of you are sitting on your hands. Lorraine Stella is trying to put something together on the deceased classmates, if you have comments or suggestions, contact her; if you have any comments or suggestions on a mass, contact Jim & Joan Hartnett. As of now, the following are meeting 2/11; Bob & Cathy Pickett, Sue Downey, Rick Blasser, Carl Kowalski and me, anyone else? Sometime soon, someone is going to ask you for some money to help fund this gathering...get of your ass and help.
GO PATS. Those of you who have been recently added to the E mail list, please DELETE this rant...."Paul McAuliffe, Esg

First Post of new blog

Hi all,

This is the first post of a new blog that will be a collection of all sorts of information pertaining to our upcoming (dare I say it?) 50th reunion. This will be an ideal spot to put information about events, schedules, what you have been up to, memories of school, suggestions, rants, etc, etc.

Initially, I'll maintain the blog. All you have to do is email me with your thoughts, comments, experiences, whatever, as well as photos and I'll get them on the blog for you. Click HERE to send me an Email.

As time goes by, other people may want to help out and keep the blog updated with results of planning meetings, hotel information, etc.

If we end up with a fun and useful blog, we can turn it into a book which people can purchase as a terrific souvenir.

So, let's get this party started....