It was great reading about all of you who have submitted bios. As for myself, I have not lead as exciting a life as most of you. I currently live in Georgetown, MA with my wife of 21 years, Alice, and my son Marc, who was 15 on July 13. He is the joy of my life and I am spend most of my free time involved in his activities (whether he likes it or not). Although a very average player, he is involved in different levels of basketball, baseball and soccer. He is an honor roll student (occasionally making High Honors) and will be entering the 9^th grade this September. My wife works in the Lawrence District Courthouse as the Traffic Clerk. You go to see her when you want to contest a ticket before a Clerk Magistrate or a judge. Sorry, no ticket fixing. I have directly and indirectly worked for New England Life Insurance Company (A.k.a. New England Financial) for 30 years in various Accounting and Management positions. I am currently Divisional Controller for the Computer Operations and Telecommunications division. New England merged with MetLife in 1996 and over the past year Met has started to flex its muscle. Don’t know what the fallout will be, but we’ll just have to wait and see. I am looking forward to retiring at the ripe old age of 60 – just 6 years and 7 months from now, but who’s counting. I have been fortunate over the years to have always been working. I won’t say I’m a rich person, but we have a nice house and live comfortably. We have our health and that’s more important than all the tea in China. Speaking of health, I continue to play basketball regularly. I play with a bunch of guys in Ipswich each Sunday night. We have a blend of young studs and old farts like myself (now that I think of it, I think I’m the oldest fart that still plays). Oh, well as long as the legs hold up. My son keeps me very young at heart. I probably will never grow up.

My mother still lives on Lee Road. My dad passed away in 1989. I try to get down to visit her and do things around the house as her house needs a lot of work. It’s hard because I live 60 miles away and I have my own house to keep up. She doesn’t get out much as her health isn’t all that great plus she prefers the confines of her house. She’s a very old 71. My sister Pat lives in Canton and my sister Mona in Foxboro. I’m the only one who moved to the No. Shore.

Several of you have mentioned nostalgia. I too seem to become a little more nostalgic as I get older. Whenever I hear some of the old songs, I think about the days growing up in Sharon. They were fun times. I only wish we realized how much fun they were. I remember the days hanging around with Bobby C., Bibbo and Fran McNulty (who lives in Needham, I think) and later with Lou I., Cliff G., Rick M., Norm L. Leo H., and Bobby Carter. I don’t really keep in touch with anyone except on occasion Linda Finer and even rarer Bob Bibbo (he had a triple bypass a couple of years ago). I saw Bobby Cunningham at his father’s wake and the same was true of Rick Markt. Bibbo lives in Sharon as some of you know. Bobby C. lived in New Jersey the last time I knew. Rick lived down in Jeff Kublin territory (Georgia) the last time I saw him. Whenever I see shows such as The Wonder Years or Doogie Howser or the movie Stand By Me, I reminisce about the old days. How nice it would be to recapture some of them. In the movie, Stand By Me, Richard Dreyfus, who narrates most of the movie, makes a statement something like, you’ll never have the friends in life that you had when you were 14. How true…

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I really enjoyed our 10^th and 20^th class reunions and would welcome a 35^th. 35 years, do you believe it? I hope we can pull it off.