The
Scratch Sheet, Volume 13
IN
THIS ISSUE
A.
A Weekend of
Investiture, and Awards: October 16 and
17, 2009
1.
Pete Shoemaker’s
Welcome of Autumn Adkins
2.
Himmelrich, Kane
and Stidham Inducted Into Girard’s Athletic Hall of Fame
3.
Joe Frigiola Introduces
D’Amico for Award of Merit
4.
D’Amico Blames
It All on His Classmates
5.
President Adkins
Acceptance Speech
B.
The Infirmary
C.
Upcoming
Schedule
D.
Searching for
Photos and Memorabilia
A.
A Weekend of
Investiture and Awards
On the weekend of October 16, and 17 there
were three ceremonies held at the Hum.
First the investiture of Autumn Adkins as the 16th President
of Girard College, held at the Chapel.
Then, the latest induction of members to Girard’s Sports Hall of Fame held
in the library. From the Class of 60,
Bob Himmelrich, John Kane and Jim Stidham were so honored. Later that day, Rocco D’Amico received the
Alumni Award of Merit at a dinner and ceremony in Founder’s Hall along with
three other Girardians. In addition to
these events there was also an investiture reception, and we had two reunion
committee meetings at dinner on Friday, and at a lunch on Saturday. Classmates, and significant others who
attended one or more events included:
Rich and Linda Adams, Dennis and Suzanne Bevans, Toby Caplan, Bob
Culver, Rocco D’Amico, Ed DiRomaldo,
Charlie Ellis, Bill Evans, Dan and Sandy Ferro, Joe Frigiola and Linda O’Hara,
John Kane, Nelson Mishkin, Max and Emily
Page, Mike Quinn, Ron and Lorraine
Saracini, Pete and Rosalind Shoemaker, and Lorraine Stidham.
Along with the usual banter, and
reminiscing the reunion committee made significant strides in the planning for
next year. At the Friday dinner, Nelson
Mishkin provided valuable tax advice on non-profit status, and tax implications
for our Class Gift effort. Charlie Ellis
provided invaluable clean-up services at both of the meals held outside the
Hum. No leftovers here. Even at 66, the man can still eat. At the Award of Merit dinner, Saracini wore
one of his more outrageous ties. (See
following photo.) He said he was threatening
us, insisting that if he had to wear a tie down the aisle next year, he would
wear his piece de resistance,,
the one with the full horse’s head on it.
Some wag suggested that it would be more appropriate if he had a tie which
displayed the other end of the horse. At
the investiture reception, a number of us were talking to John Egan, who heads
the Board of City Trusts, and formerly headed the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. When he learned we were Class of ’60, he
immediately volunteered that William (Dave) Ross, and Wes Teasdale were two of
his better employees there.
In the Sections below we provide more
detail on the various events, which is then followed by a page of photos from
the weekend.
1. Pete Shoemaker’s Welcome of Autumn Adkins
As Chairman of Girard’s Board of
Managers, Pete was one of the featured
speakers at the investiture. (Soledad
O’Brien of CNN was another, by video transmission.). We haven’t yet received a copy of Ms. Adkins’
acceptance speech, but hope to have it by the next Scratch Sheet. However, many of her ideas are expressed in
Pete’s welcoming speech, along with two pieces of journalism from
Pete’s Remarks
Good
afternoon……President Egan, members of the City Council, members of the Board of
Directors of City Trusts, fellow members of the Board of Managers, former
Girard College Presidents, faculty, alumni, students, and distinguished
guests, it is with extreme pleasure and
humility that I stand before you and welcome you on this special occasion. Little did I know or dream that when I
entered those gates 60 years ago and put on my Girard knickers for the very
first time, that I would have the privilege of greeting all of you at the
investiture of the next President of Girard College.
I
imagine there are a number of you who may be here on this magnificent campus
for the very first time. to you, a special welcome. Please take the time to learn and absorb the
atmosphere, the history, and the beauty of this campus, so that you can begin
to understand why so many of us love
My
role this afternoon is primarily to greet you…..and Bernie Smalley will be
introducing Autumn in a few minutes, but if you would be so kind as to indulge
me, I’d like to say a few words about Autumn as well.
This
is a very historic moment in Girard’s history.
For those of us who were involved in the search and selection of Autumn
Adkins as our next president, our mission was simple: find the most qualified candidate
possible…..and we did.
And
as I reflect on the significance of this day, I can’t help but observe that there’s
been tremendous change at Girard through the years, but, as I see it, the more
things change, the more they remain the same… why? Because in the short period of time that I’ve
been fortunate enough to know Autumn, I see certain parallels between her and
her predecessors as past presidents of Girard.
Parallels that I’d like to share with you now.
Like
Dr. Lander, Mr. Devlin, Dr. Friedman and many others, it starts with her love
and passion for teaching. Like them,
she’s an educator first.
Like
Dr. Odgers, our 7th president, she arrives at Girard at the age of
36, but with the maturity of someone much older.
Like
Dr. Allen, our 3rd president, there will soon be a newlywed in the
president’s house.
Like
Dr. Cooper, our 8th president, she has learned and grown from the Quaker
tradition.
And like Dr. Bache, Girard’s very first
president, they are both descendents of people who played a critical role in
the formation of our country. Dr. Bache
was the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, while Autumn is the great-great
grandaughter of Sandy Merchant. Born
into slavery,
But,
most important of all, I would suggest the strongest similarity is to Dr.
Herrick, who served as Girard’s president from 1910 to 1936. The similarity is
their common bold vision for the future of Girard. Dr. Herrick is credited for taking Girard to
new heights, both in raising the standard of education at Girard, as well as
the physical plant. It was during his
tenure that the library, the high school, and this beautiful chapel were
built. To listen to Autumn, she has that
same bold vision of greatness for the future of Girard. Let’s not forget that Dr. Herrick’s
accomplishments were during the severely difficult economic times of the
1930’s, not too dissimilar to now. And
let’s hope the 26 years he served as president becomes another similarity with
Autumn.
Another
example of the idea that the more things change, the more they remain the same
is that in the short period of time Autumn has been on board, I’ve heard her
ask such questions as:
- Why don’t we have a full-time, 7-day program?
- Why don’t we have an arts and music program in
the middle school?
- Why don’t we teach our children to use fine
china and silver on linen tablecloths?
- Why don’t we have classes in public speaking?
- Why don’t we reintroduce mechanical training?
While
I am not sure which, if any, of these ideas will be implemented, all of these
programs were a significant part of the foundation of my education at Girard in
the 1950’s, and Autumn is already wondering why they should not be a part of
the program in the 21st century.
As
I said, the more things change, the more they remain the same.
So,
in closing, on behalf of the Board of Managers, it is with great pleasure that
I welcome you to this momentous occasion.
Thank you.
From the
Investiture for 16th
Autumn Joy Adkins, an educator
with experience in Quaker and other private schools, had struggled with writing
a speech for yesterday’s investiture ceremony at Girard College recognizing her
as 16th president of the boarding school in Fairmount for low-income students.
Her first two drafts focused on
her historic role as the first African American and first woman to lead a
school created by a bequest of the 19th-century merchant-banker Stephen Girard
to educate poor white orphan boys.
Yesterday, she acknowledged
Girard’s turbulent 161-year history, and dabbed at her eyes as she noted the
demonstrations and legal challenges that led to Girard’s desegregation in 1968
and admission of girls in 1984.
”I feel humbled and honored,” she
said.
But instead of dwelling on the
past, Adkins delivered a rousing speech in the school’s ornate stone chapel
that outlined her vision of Girard’s bright future and drew hundreds of
applauding students, teachers, alumni, parents, and local leaders to their
feet.
”We will become the
premier institution for effective urban education,” she said, noting that she
has been concerned about the lack of educational opportunities for low-income
students since she was 17.
She made a personal pledge to the
600 current Girard College students from first through 12th grade, promising
”to work with passion, love, and an intensity” to provide them with a
21st-century education that will not only prepare them for college and careers,
but teach them ”how to be the civic leaders in this global society we
desperately need.”
And she said she would begin
working on a strategic plan with robust fund-raising to carry out her vision
and help sustain the school.
In a brief interview afterward,
Adkins said she had decided that the ceremony was the right time ”to go out
there and say, ’This is what I’m going to do. And this is what our children
need.’ And it’s nice being the president, because you can say it.”
One of her friends called it”a
call to arms.”
Adkins said dealing with the
school’s finances would be one of her first major challenges.
Autumn
Joy Adkins was overcome as she spoke of Girard’s desegregation and admission of
girls.
Income from the Girard Estate
funds the school, which provides free boarding and a college-prep education for
academically qualified low-income students. But Adkins said the school’s
investment portfolio had taken ”a significant hit” in the economic downturn.
Girard has made several
cost-cutting moves, including limiting new admissions to first graders.
Adkins is a native of
Monongahela, near
She holds degrees from the
Most recently, she spent six
years as an assistant principal at Friends Seminary in
Adkins, whose selection was
announced in March, has been at the helm of the school since July.
She succeeded Dominic M. Cermele,
a 1959 Girard graduate, who retired in June after six years.
Though Adkins did not dwell on
her history-making role, the audience was filled with those who had come to
witness it, including Charles W. Hicks, Class of 1974, the school’s first
African American graduate.
”I could not miss this occasion,”
said Hicks, who drove from
Mel Dorn and Karen Asper Jordan
were there as well.
Both were teenagers when they
joined the ”freedom marchers” who demonstrated outside Girard’s stone walls for
seven months in 1965, seeking admission of black students.
The around-the-clock civil-rights
demonstrations were led by Cecil B. Moore.
”This day,” Dorn said,”made me
realize it was all worth it.”
Interview with Autumn Adkins in
By Sam Katz
Power Lunch: Schooling the City
Autumn Adkins, Girard
College
Photograph by Jeff Fusco
For more than a century,
Fairmount’s
Autumn
Adkins: Before we get started, let’s take on the obvious. I am
not a white male. I know the school’s legacy, and what Girard’s will said. But
setting aside an enormous sum of money for a school to operate in perpetuity in
the 1830s was a hugely progressive notion. That it was to be for orphan boys
was equally unique, because that group would not have had access to this kind
of education. Girard knew that if we didn’t address the needs of this part of a
young nation’s society, the whole democratic experiment would fail. For the
times, including orphans was revolutionary — the most aggressive form of inclusion
possible. I see my appointment as just another step along that continuum of
Stephen Girard’s forward-thinking nature.
Sam
Katz: So much for my first question. How is it that you were
able to get comfortable with the exclusionary nature of the will?
AA: I
came here with a historian’s understanding of Girard’s times. Women were not
even legal entities, so this wasn’t going to start off as a co-ed school.
Blacks were also not legal entities in 1831. But Girard recognized their
humanity. One of his first acts in the will freed Hannah [his slave] and
provided for her financially. People haven’t wanted to acknowledge that
SK:
Philadelphians know so little about Stephen Girard. Should something be done
about that?
AA:
I’m determined to change how the city understands Mr. Girard
and this school. Lawsuits and controversy caused us to retreat behind these walls for many years. I think we wanted to
avoid attention, and the pain that comes with it. But we’re ready to adjust
that thinking and tell our story. Great things go on here.
SK:
Do you find that people are uncomfortable with untraditional schools like
Girard?
AA:
Schools exist to serve children, not to make adults comfortable. I don’t
understand why some are so critical of charter schools or school choice. We
should press them, and not let surface answers like “They take funds from
public schools” be the end of the conversation.
SK: Should
AA:
We have a responsibility to be a place of innovation that can provide solutions
to urban education. We can be the great laboratory for educational creativity,
and part of that is opening the gates of Girard so that our students get more
exposure to the city and the city to us. That’s coming.
SK: How
is your school changing lives now?
AA: When
I talk with our alumni, the messages I take away are about the sense of
community they have, the safety —physically and emotionally — that they
enjoyed here as students, and the familial, social and business connections
they made. One of our 11th-graders stopped me in the hall with her dad. He
thanked me for providing his daughter with the opportunity “not to have to
think about some of the things that go on in the neighborhood” while she’s
here.
SK: Are
you thinking about increasing your enrollment so more kids can have the Girard
experience?
AA: We’re
at 600 now. At its height, Girard had 1,800 students — but there were 30 boys
lined up in a row of beds. It’s not how we’d want them to live today. We need
to plan strategically, but I could see us growing to 1,000. We’d need capital
to improve our buildings, but we have the land and the space.
SK:
How did you get here? It all seems so surprising.
AA: I
was born in Monongahela, out near
SK: So
you’re “living the dream”?
AA: Amazingly,
I am in every respect. Right at the time this job came along, I met a wonderful
man from Virginia, the man of my dreams. Dream job, dream man. Though at first,
I wasn’t sure about being the first non-white to lead this institution. I knew
SK:
Carrying the legacy of Stephen Girard and leading this school, starting a new
life and a family — your plate is pretty full.
AA: So
was Girard’s. I had done some research, but I truly realized the extent of his
legacy when I visited the
2. Himmelrich,
Kane and Stidham Inducted Into Girard’s Athletic Hall of Fame
The Girard Athletic Sports Hall of Fame
is only three years old. This year 17
alumni were added to the rolls recognizing their superior athletic achievement
while in the Hum. This year, 3 of our
classmates were inducted. Bob Himmelrich
was recognized for his two letters in both soccer, and baseball, and his being
the Center Halfback on the undefeated soccer team of 1958. Toby
Caplan accepted the award for him. John
Kane was honored for his letters in three sports, soccer, wrestling, and
baseball, his multiple letters in wrestling, and his championship wins at the
Episcopal Academy tournament which ended each wrestling season. Jim Stidham was honored for his four letters
in swimming, and as the preeminent diver of our generation of Hummers. Jim’s widow,
3.
Joe Frigiola’s Introduction of Rocco at the Award of Merit Dinner
According to his resume, Rocco D'Amico graduated
from the U of Penn with a degree in political science. From there, he went on to
But, these are not the most important, nor the most
interesting, facts about Rocco. Let me share with you a few that I think are.
Rocco is the only classmate I know who always
insisted that he had to persuade his mom to send him to Girard. He made up his
mind on the initial visit after seeing playgrounds and ball fields filled with
all those kids that needed to be organized and with whom he could play .
As a charter member of our infamous messers club, Rocco
has the dubious distinction of having been allowed home on only two weekends in
our sophomore year due to his prodigious accumulation of detentions.
Since his days in Girard, Rocco has continued an
avid interest in the life of Stephen Girard.
He is a collector of Girard memorabilia, and to this day, he takes
delight in informing others of both pertinent and obscure facts about the
founder.
His loyalty to the college has continued throughout
his life. He is an early life member of the alumni association. He has
contributed to the senior class trip for over 30 years. He is a regular
contributor to the development fund. And, he's always believed, and argued,
that our alma mater continues to evolve toward a greater good.
But, for the class of 1960, Rocco's greatest
contribution involves his commitment to maintaining contact and strengthening
the bonds of brotherhood. He was instrumental in starting our class newsletter.
He's now both editor and publisher. He has initiated our website on which we
are encouraged to post the details of our lives as well as memories of Girard.
He has long supported Founder's Days and he invariably instigates the reunions
they entail.
Rocco certainly embodies the ideals of Stephen Girard.
He has become for his classmates a most reliable friend, advisor, supporter,
leader. And at times, benefactor. In recent years, he has been keenly
interested in helping us to reflect upon our Girard experience, to acknowledge
it's impact on our lives, and to share this recognition with each other. He is
to all a most remarkable friend, and a credit to Girard. Both personally and
professionally, he has truly been dedicated to helping others with word and
deed.
I am proud to introduce my life long friend, Rocco
D'Amico.
4. Rocco’s Rejoinder: “It’s All My Classmates’ Fault”
Thanks Joe,
Joe instructed me to keep it short, no jokes, people
want to get to the dancing. I
think he was kidding.
The Steel and Garnet in which my receipt of the
Award was announced “noted that every class has a member who serves as a bond
between his classmates and Girard,” and ascribed that status to me. I’m fully aware that such Girardians
exist. Certainly in the classes immediately
prior to mine, Gil Mcdonald of ’59, Jim
Mckendrick of ’58, and Bruce Perazelli of ’57 played such a role.
However, in my class this responsibility has been
widely dispersed, and I am only one of many who have actively worked to keep
the class together, and to assure our continued involvement in supporting the
affairs of the Hum. Consequently I
consider my award an honor to the many guys who have worked to achieve these
goals.
So I’m going to name names and bore you to death,
then we can dance.
Beginning in 1960, Leo Michaluk put out a regular
newsletter that kept us all informed. He
did that for over 15 years. He then
passed that torch on to Ed DiRomaldo, and then it was passed on to me. At this point we have over 300 of pages of
newsletter that chronicle our comings and goings. Leo began with a mimeograph machine, we went
to Wang word processors, and today we have our own Website, though we haven’t
gotten to twitter or face book. Adam
Deveney’s son, Scott, built our site,
and continues to support our efforts.
Dennis Gries, is a master of genealogical
research. He knows how to find
everyone. We know the whereabouts of all
our 81 surviving classmates, at least 10 classmates who didn’t graduate, and
the details of the passing of the 21 who are no longer with us.
In the last 25
years, DiRomaldo and Bob Culver have taken on the tasks of handling all
the complexities of printing documents, and updating old photographs for
distribution. In the last five years,
Bill Evans has been a regular contributor of articles to our newsletter
Over the years we have met regularly. In earlier years, Rich Adams, Charlie Ellis,
and Adam Deveney have organized and / or hosted our gatherings.
We now have a 50th anniversary reunion
committee which has put together a 4 day affair for next May. This committee headed by Joe Frigiola, John
Kane, and Dan Ferro has been meeting bi-monthly for two years. Joe herds the cats involved, which also
include
We also have a Class 50th anniversary
gift committee, headed by Myron Caplan, and Pete Shoemaker. We have already exceeded the largest class
gift ever given, that of the class of 57, and with Myron and Pete still having
7 months to pick our pockets we expect to double that gift.
10 of the 20 classmates I have just mentioned are
with us tonight. I would ask all of them
to stand now to receive your approbation.
For all of us, I thank the Alumni for this
recognition.
So what am I trying to say. I don’t really know. It is nice to get together, to talk about our
childhoods, mock our teachers, keep track of each other, and to give back to
the school. We’ve moved on from “the
band of brothers, (and now sisters).
We’ve dispersed, we’ve built our own families.
However, I have some regrets. It seems to me that we may not have taken
full advantage of the benefits that our time in the Hum afforded us. I would cite the 21st century
concept of networks, and the professional and social benefits these afford
those who build them. I would suggest
that all of us already had such a network when we were 17 years of age, but
didn’t know it, and consequently rarely used it.
I don’t mean to denigrate the efforts of the Alumni
Association,or the school, over the
years which conform to this model. I was
pleased to hear Ms. Atkins comments yesterday about the school continuing to be
actively involved in the lives of the current graduates for at least six years
after their graduation. I would
suggest that a conscious effort to instruct these young people on the mutual
support they can provide each other throughout their working lives be part of
that effort. It seems to me that this
also should be an important role that the Alumni Association needs to adopt.
Hail Girard
6. President Adkins Acceptance Speech
Autumn Adkins speech at the installation ceremonies
is being sent as a separate file to all members of the Class of 60. The only copy your editor has received is in
a format which cannot be installed into a Word document. Sorry for the incompetence, but I still have
a Wang Word Processor. One other note,
Jake Kutschera has noted relative to Pete’s speech above, that one other
similarity that Pete missed is that as the 16th President of the Hum
she shares the same number, 16, with our 16th President, Abraham
Lincoln.
PHOTOS FROM THE 10/16-17 WEEKEND
 Installation Services Peter Scotese ’37, Former Chairman, Board of Managers; Autumn Adkins, President, Girard College; John Egan, President Board of City Trusts; Peter Shoemaker, Chairman, Girard Board Of Managers |
Hall of Fame Installation Caplan (Accepting for Himmelrich), DiRomaldo, Evans, D'Amico, Culver, Lorraine Stidham, Frigiola, Kane, Ferro |
 Alumni Dinner Bevans, Shoemaker Ferro, Saracini, Page, D'Amico, Caplan, Adams, Culver, Quinn, Frigiola, Evans, Kane |
 Dinner Suzanne Bevans, Linda Adams, Emily Page, Linda (Frigiola) O'Hara, Rosalind Shoemaker, Sandy Ferro |
B.
The
Infirmary
We got the following scary email from Al Bullock:
Rocky--
Here's the latest regarding Dennis Lambrecht: Several weeks ago, after
returning to Lowes Hardware in Millsboro, DE after lunch, Dennis reports that
without warning he felt a severe pain in his chest, and his leg was
paralyzed. He fell to the ground in the parking lot and called for help
to some EMT's that worked for him at the store. They helped to stabilize him
until the ambulance came to take him to Bebe Med Ctr. He had
emergency cardiac surgery, and they later told him that they cracked his chest
and repaired his aorta which split (thrombosis) and caused his stroke
(leg). He was minutes from death. After being shuffled to several
rehab centers, he is now at Silverlake-Dover Rehab, Room 228,
302-734-5990 and expects to be there for a while.
-Al
We talked to Dennis a week ago at the above number
and he seems in good spirits, and progressing in his rehab. He figures he’ll be playing in the
Alumni-Varsity game next Founders Day (softball version, of course.) Seriously, Dennis tells us that he may never
walk again. His aorta was split from his
heart down to where it branches to serve the extremities. But he insists, that he will slap the next
person who tells him, he was close to death.
You can reach Dennis directly at 302- 856-4793, send him a card at
Silverlake 1080 Silver Lake Blvd., Dover, DE 19904, or reach him through his
wife Carolyn at 302-249-9223.
C.
Upcoming Schedule
November 14:
December and January Committee Meetings - TBD
D. Searching for
Memorabilia and Photos.
The Jitterbugs: Mishkin, Ferro, Swantek
The “Hum Rat”
Well as
displayed above, you guys are responding to our requests for photos and other
memorabilia. We hope to incorporate much
of this material in the Corinthian II, and in other keepsakes, and displays at
our 50th anniversary.
The photo
of the Jitterbugs is from a collection of photos provided by Dan Ferro. A sampling of these are found at the end of
this Scratch Sheet. It seems to have
been the practice for guys to take photos, make a bunch, and then distribute
them to their buddies, often with some sort of salutation or comment written on
the back. The captions under Dan’s photos following are
what was written on the back of the particular photo. It would be interesting to know how these
photos were taken: who the photographers
were, what kind of equipment was used, how were they developed? If you remember, let Rocco know.
Joe
Alberici provided us the photo of his “Hum Rat”. That was clearly our nickname for it, but no
one seems to remember where it came from, or what it was supposed to be. Caplan who also still has his, thinks it came
out in our junior or senior years.
Ed
DiRomaldo just received a large collection of photos from John Mlynarczyk.
He’s currently processing them for the next issue of the Scratch Sheet.
And then
the latest treasure trove. Rich and
Emily Page appeared at the Award of Merit banquet with a shopping bag of
stuff. Rich’s mom was quite the
collector. She passed away recently, and
Rich and Emily found all the following stuff:
·
Two recruitment brochures for
mothers describing life in the Hum.
These were presumably vintage 1948-49 since Rich entered
·
The Program for Mothers’ Day for
·
Printed passes to be given to your
mother for Summer Vacation of 1957, with instructions on health care, warnings
about the boy smoking etc.
·
A photo of House B in the 49-50
school year. I have a version of this
picture, and I have always assumed that the Hum had these photos taken of all
six
·
Small printed folders for March
1954, titled The Girard Bulletin. This
lists events for the month including Interacademic sporting events, Dances
Saturday, and Sunday chapel services, including the speaker at the Sunday
Chapel service. On
·
A picture postcard of the Circle in
front of Founders Hall when it was full of tall evergreens and azaleas. Max’s message on the back unstamped and
clearly undelivered “Dear Mother (next line) ho”.
Looks like 2nd grade writing.
·
An advertisement cut out from a
·
Two booklets clearly designed for
mothers and guardians, defining the rules of the relationship between Girard
and the mother. One dated
·
Six copies of the Girardian, the Hum
Literary magazine. These go back to
1952, but most importantly include the Spring 59 issue, when we were Juniors,
and the Fall Winter 1959-60 edition when we were Seniors. We have the Spring 1960 issue from Joe
Alberici. Junior writers in the Spring
59 edition include Bovoso, Chachkin, Collins, Consavage, Evans, Michaluk,
Sheitleman, and Singer. You can be
assured that you will all we be embarrassed as we publish your contributions in
the next few months. In the Fall issue
of our Senior year additional contributors included Caplan, Grey, Miller,
Minemier, Phillips, and Rieg III. But on
that issue who the hell was the Faculty Advisor, Mr. Thomas Malim?
·
Girard Calendars for CYs 1950, and
1951 showing Hum scenes.
·
Programs for Mothers Day 1950;
Founders Day 1955, 56, 57, 59 and 60;
The Investiture of Dr. Cooper in 1955; Our Commencement Exercises; A number of Christmas Concerts; The Plays
presented in our Junior and Senior Years;
The Talent Show in our Senior Years; and the Spring Choir Concert in our
Senior year.
·
Six color photos from our 25th
anniversary showing Ellis, Bevans, Bertino, Himmelrich, Heaney, Fiore, Chapman,
DiRomaldo, Garfein, Hill, Jayne, Rich, and Emily, and Corrigan. 2 Black and White photos of Rich around 2nd
grade with 3 unrecognizable classmates.
·
Nine copies of the Girard News
dating back to 1949, including 2 from our Senior Year.
·
Six printed cards which show work
squad assignments for particular weeks.
·
Letters to Mrs. Page instructing her
to bring Rich in for a pre-induction physical
(June 2, 1949), and a second instructing her to bring him in for
admission (Sept.9, 49).
·
A letter to Rich informing him that
he was receiving a check for $94.75 due each member of the Class of 1960 from
the estate of Henry G. Freeman, Jr. (
·
A letter to our mothers from
Friedman describing the new Friday and Saturday night dating program. (
·
The invitation to our commencement
exercises.
·
An 8 ½ inch photo of the library
probably around 6 grade with a group of classmates studying there: Santilli,
Dennis Devlin, Caplan, Johnson, Himmelrich, Page, Mitchell, Kutschera, one of
the Lambrechts, and Werley.
·
An announcement from Alberici
indicating he was putting together an email network, prior to 1990. Incredibly Joe still has the same email
address.
·
A very good copy of our class
picture on the
So guys, up into the attic, and those corroded cardboard
boxes. Send photos to DiRomaldo, let
D’Amico know about any memorabilia.
Contacts for this issue:
D’Amico:
301-229-0834; rdamico@ihsm.com
DiRomaldo:
Frigiola:
609-702-0503; joefrigiola@comcast.net
