You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
Stanislaw J. Lec
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| Left to Right: (?), Laurie Franz, Brian Gould, Teresa Capone, William Spinnelli, Kenny Dahl, debating finer points of Longest Teacher Strike in NYS History |
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This "Message Board" has been added as a place to communicate with each other.
To deposit our memories and anecdotes, to ask questions, and to find out answers.
To reminisce, relate, emote, expound, theorize, and exculpate. To re-interpret, elucidate, exonerate, and divulge. To divert, disclaim, analyze, summarize, celebrate, converse, connect, exchange and enlighten. In short, just write something...anything.
To add a new post, or continue an existing thread, click on the red link below, and Go.
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| Sue Olsen and Cynthia Ramsey |
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Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
Abraham Lincoln
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| Tommy Scordato and Paul DePaoli |
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A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Anonymous
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| Barbara Rome |
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There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes
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| John Miller |
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In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint but much suffering.
Caruot
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| Marlene Turer and Carolyn Fedro |
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Ever notice how a dog wins friends and influences people without ever reading books?
Vidette, Iuka, Miss.
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| Jimmy Keegan, Ann Andrews, Casey Stengle |
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If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them.
Plato
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| Top-Bottom: Tom Forgacs, Kevin Flood, Casey Stengle, Patti Lee, Nina Abrevaya, Ellen Boyle |
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As pride increases, fortune declines.
Benjamin Franklin
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| Steve "Lips" Lack |
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Those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest.
Brutus Hamilton, Olympic decathlete and track coach
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| Donald "Hambone" Hamilton |
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There is a growing sentiment in America that regular saving should be ignored, that the government will take care of people and give them security when they get beyond a certain age or become old and unable to work. But it must be borne in mind that the people who earn and do save, they take care of the government! Were it not for the thrifty and the willing workers, the government would be in a bad way.
George Matthew Adams
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| L-R: John Vallorosi, Tommy "Ze-Zay" Simmonds, Ann Andrews, Debbie Vargulick, Andy Ward, Eddie Reilly |
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses--behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali
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| Front to Back: Laurie Franz, Mary Hogan, Cynthia Ramsey, Jackie Robillard |
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In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
Abraham Lincoln
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| The Andrew Ward Family |
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Hair of the Dog (from The Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins):
The theory--and a most unsound one it is--that the best remedy for a hangover is another drink (hair of the dog that bit you) goes back to ancient times. The Romans believed that the best remedy for a dog bite was the burned hair of the dog that had attacked you. They even had a proverb Similia similibus curantur ("Like things cure like") to express this belief.
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| Donna Shelley, Valene Otis, Carrie McElroy |
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He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
Dhammapada, 222.
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| Varsity Basketball - 1978: (Back Row L-R) Scott Klarer, Eddie Clark, Bobby Robles, Jimmy Fleitz, Glenn McKenzie, John White (Kneeling L-R) Joey Fleitz, Eddie Sambrana, Ruben Sotillo, Eddie Reilly |
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That woman can speak eighteen languages and she can't say no in any of them.
Dorothy Parker
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| Ken Filete with NY Yankees 2009 World Series Trophy |
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To know the husband, observe the face of the wife.
Spanish Proverb
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| 4th Grade Class Trip - Vanderbilt Mansion. L-R: Mark Connor, Mike Donnellan, Lynn Denike, Mike Littleton, Matty Moro, Mark Johnson, J. Susa, Ronnie Sadler |
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Woe unto you, lawyers! for you have stolen away the key of knowledge.
Luke xi, 52.
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| Casey Stengle and Paul DePaoli: Bertoline's Beer and Soda |
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The Seven Wonders of The Ancient World:
The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Statue of Zeus at Olympia, The Temple of Artimus at Ephesus, The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Lighthouse of Alexandria
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| 30th Reunion: Paul DePaoli, Matty Moro, Teresa Capone |
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Oh, Great Spirit
Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me, I am small and weak,
I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold
the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have
made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things
you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have
hidden in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy - myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my Spirit may come to you without shame.
Native American Prayer translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887
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| Janet Kunkel and Laura Murphy |
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Always tell the truth--that way you don't have to remember what you said.
Mark Twain
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| 30th Reunion: Kelly Godridge, Cheryl Gross, Colleen Baker |
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"A Drinking Song"
Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.
W.B. Yeats
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| Teresa Conforti and Carolyn Fedro |
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles
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| 30th Reunion Pre-Party: Kenny DaRos, Frank Mann, Steve Hamilton |
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Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
Astronaut Frank Borman, quoted in The New Yorker
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| Farley's House: Ann Andrews, John King, Ralph Fasano, Andy Ward, Brian King |
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My great concern is not whether God is on our side; my great concern is to be on God's side.
Abraham Lincoln
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| 30th Reunion: The After Party |
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| Beth Lochtefeld |
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| 30th Reunion Pre-Party: Craig Langer and Ann Andrews |
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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| Cynthia Ramsey and Debbie Sutton |
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| 30th Reunion: Matty Moro, Kelly Godridge, Marlene Turer, Ellen Boyle |
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| Mark McCaffrey |
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| 30th Reunion: Jimmy Keegan, Casey Stengle, Kerry (Hanley) DaRos |
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| Clay "Bony W" Welch |
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We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has grown...but we have forgotten God.
We have forgotten the gracious hand that preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched us, and strengthened us. And we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all of these blessings were provided by some superior wisdom or virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace...too proud to pray to the God who made us. The pursuit of happiness has become the pursuit of pleasure, and we wonder why we cannot find inner peace. When will we learn that inner happiness does not depend on outward circumstances?
Abraham Lincoln announcing the First National Day of Thanksgiving in America, 1863.
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