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We live in the present,
We dream of the future,
But we learn eternal truths from the past.

Anonymous

Miriam Popp and Karen Theiss
Glenn "Niles" O'Neill
 
Liz Mitchell: New Year's Eve 1978
 
Richie Bobik, John King, Jerry Kolosky, Mike Perrelle, TS
What worries you, masters you.
John Locke

 
Mark Vespa
 

“Gesson, Touch the Fence!”
BY TOMMY SCORDATO


 
 
“Way to shank it, Mike!!” Johnny Gesson yelled loudly to a fellow player during a brief lull in a long and hot double-session football practice, late summer of 1977.  I was the long snapper, and we were trying out punters and kickers for the specialty teams.   From snapping the ball, to kicking, to blocking and formations, we were all tired and truly sloppy that day.
It was a dog-day August afternoon, and Coach Scozzafava ("Scozz") had had it up to his ears.  He reacted like he always did when he got mad, a high pitch scream emanating from the very depths of his skull.  “Gesson:  touch the fence!” he wailed.   These were the words you did not want to hear as a Walter Panas High School football player.  It meant you had to run double time up a massive hill. “The Hill”, as it was unaffectionately known. The Hill started on the lower practice fields, and ran straight up through a thigh-high wild-grass and briar patch infested incline [today, 30-years later, it is covered with scrubby trees and low growth forest], an almost vertical half-mile straight up over moguls, gofer holes, and tangle.  Grass- hoppers jumped into your hair and mouth, and the Eastern rattler seemed likely to strike at any given moment.  Tripping and falling on your face was mandatory, going up.  Going down was a semi-controlled free-fall; most of the time we gave in and rolled down. 
When you finally stumbled up to the top you had to touch the chain link fence, which was there to prevent hapless students from pitching headfirst down The Hill during regular school hours.  After just the first go up, one generally hung on to that fence and panted like a mad dog, while everyone down below gawked and laughed.  If Coach did not like your hustle you ran again, and again, and again until you got it right.

John Sarkissian
“Gesson, touch the fence!” the order rang out louder, Scozzafava was now madder than ever.
 
I have known Johnny Gesson since I was 2 years old.  He was my neighbor, my playmate and my teammate.  He remains an extremely close friend of mine.  I could guess to the inch what Johnny would do next.  In these situations, being wired the way he was he would make a snap judgment and deliver the next laugh or prank, assured in the fact that it was worth the swift punishment about to be levied by the authorities.  He would never resist the punishment or beg for forgiveness.  If he broke rules to make others laugh, he did his time, never complaining, reassured in the fact that the world, or at least his immediate audience, was a happier place.
During his out-burst at the hapless punter, Johnny happened to be standing next to a chain link fence on the lower field.  This fence separated us from the swamps below. 
 
I looked over at him and shook my head willing him: “no don’t do it”.  A silence came over the whole team; all of us were watching. Johnny studied the practice field, glanced up to the hill top, and back at the fence he was standing a foot from, and then he looked at me with his enigmatic smile.  I shook my head “no, no, no” to my old friend.  But I knew better. It was a done deal.  Johnny slowly reached over and put his hand and arm high in the air and ever so gently touched that fence right behind him, all the while looking Coach Scozzafava straight in the eye.  We all broke up, laughing like hyenas, everyone that is, except Coach.

Johnny Gesson
TS
Scozzafava blew a gasket and started running at Johnny.  Gesson headed for The Hill fast.  As he passed me I heard his familiar “I'm being chased giggle”, the same giggle he had as a kid when we fled some real or imagined semi-harmlesss prank.  While he was running toward the hill, "Scozz" added an additional punishment: Johnny had to carry one of the large car tires we used for agility drills.  He was to “wear” it over his head while he ran up, and up, and up…and then down, and down, and down.
Of course I knew what was coming next. 
After a while most of us had forgotten about Johnny and his punishment.  We went back to the business of football.  Suddenly from the top of the hill we heard a loud, high-pitched “YOOOO-HOOOO, YOOOO-HOOOO”.  We all looked up.   There was Johnny flinging that tire, executing a perfect roll down The Hill. The tire gained speed and bounced high as it flew directly toward us.  Even Coach cracked an uncharacteristic smile at this.  But he kept Johnny running up and down that hill for the rest of the practice, almost a full hour of lung-burning and calf-screaming torture.  Johnny took his punishment like a man, never letting up, never complaining, and even smiling about it later that evening in the locker room.
Many, many years later I ran into Johnny.  We reminisced about what has fondly become known in inner circles as the “Gesson, Touch the Fence Affair”.   I asked him, “Johnny, was it worth it?  Was it worth all that running?” He paused and said with a little grin, “Yeah, yeah…sure, to me it was.”   Just what I thought my old friend would say.

Panas 9; Lakeland 6 October 1977. Back Row L-R: John Hintze, Billy Haviland, Dr. Vincent Spinelli, Kenny DaRos, Ray Scalone, Richie Mellone, John White, Jimmy Fleitz, Coach Nelson. Front Row, L-R: John Gaccione, J. Susa, Coach Sarkissian, Kenny Dahl, Rich Bobik
30th Reunion Football Team: TS, Kenny Dahl, Tony Graci, Jimmy Fleitz, Richie Mellone, Billy Haviland, Coach John Sarkissian, Paul DePaoli, J. Susa, John Hintze, John Gaccione, Shawn Mackey, John King, Timmy Hogan
 
What Happened:  1978
v 
Camp David Peace Treaty:
 Egypt makes peace with Israel
v  Public Service strikes in UK
causes major disruption to all services
v 
After nearly 30 years The Volkswagen Beetle stops production having manufactured 20 million cars
v 
Worldwide Unemployment rises
after several decades of near full employment
v 
Gold reaches an all time high of $200.00 per ounce
v 
The US Dollar plunges to record low against many European currencies
v 
Japanese car imports account for half the US import market following the energy crisis and increase in fuel prices that fuels demand for economy cars
v 
The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland
v 
Sweden becomes the first nation to ban aerosol sprays that are thought to damage earth's protective ozone layer
v 
Rhodesia
's Prime Minister Ian Smith and three black leaders agree on the transfer to black majority rule
v 
The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz runs aground on the coast of Brittany, causing an ecological disaster with an oil slick 18 miles wide and 80 miles long covering 200 miles (320 km) of Brittany coastline
v 
Serial killer David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam," is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison
v 
The U.S. stops production of the Neutron Bomb (kills people but leaves buildings and infrastructure standing)
v 
The first Susan B. Anthony Dollar is minted
v 
The Cult leader Jim Jones instructs 400 members of his church, "People's Temple", to commit suicide
v 
Israel attacks southern Lebanon following bus hijacking in Tel Aviv
v 
A powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Thessaloniki, Greece
v 
Due to poor Cold War Relations United States bans sale of latest computer technology to Soviet Union
v 
Pope Paul VI dies
at age 80
v  John Paul I becomes Pope on
 August 26, 1978 and dies just 33 days later on September 28, 1978
v 
Cardinal Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope John Paul II
v 
Britain launches the Motability scheme to provide cars for disabled people
v 
World’s Population Estimated at 4.4 billion

v  Dominica gains independence from Great Britain
v 
Karl Wallenda, founder of the Flying Wallendas, dies after falling off a tight-rope
v 
Argentina wins 1978 World Cup in Argentina
 

Technology: 1978

v  Illinois Bell Company introduces first ever Cellular Mobile Phone System
v 
Space Invaders
Launches Craze for Computer Video Games
v 
The first computer bulletin board system BBS is created
v 
98% of all American homes have a television

v  First Test Tube Baby is born in England (a girl, Louise Brown) from in vitro fertilization
  

Popular Culture: 1978

Popular Films:
v 
Grease
v 
Saturday Night Fever
v 
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
v 
National Lampoon's Animal House
v 
Jaws 2
v 
Heaven Can Wait
v 
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
v 
Revenge of the Pink Panther
v 
The Deer Hunter
v 
Academy Award, Best Picture: Annie Hall, Charles H. Joffe, producer (United Artists)

Popular Musicians:
v 
Bee Gees with
" Night Fever and Stayin Alive "
v  Paul McCartney and Wings
v 
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
v 
Rolling Stones
v 
Commodores with
" Three Times a Lady "
v  Boomtown Rats
 

Record of the Year: "Hotel California," Eagles
Album of the Year: Rumours, Fleetwood Mac (Warner Bros.)
Song of the Year: "Love Theme From A Star Is Born" (Evergreen), Barbra Streisand and Paul Williams, songwriters

Popular TV Programs:
v 
Happy Days
v 
Little House on the Prairie
v 
The Rockford Files
v 
Good Morning America
v 
Jim'll Fix It (UK)
v 
Saturday Night Live
v 
Wheel of Fortune
v 
Charlie's Angels
v 
Quincy, M.E.
v 
The Muppet Show
v 
CHiPs
v 
The Love Boat
v 
Three's Company

  

Music: 1978

With funk, disco, punk, and New-Wave all in high gear, 1978 was the 70’s last great hurrah. Blondie, Elvis Costello, and the Jam were all near the peak of their careers; The Cars, The Police and XTC joined the New-Wave onslaught with strong debut albums, and Todd Rundgren adapted well to the new aesthetic.  Soft-rock singer-songwriters were waning, but Janis Ian's talents were intact. Meanwhile, ACDC had matured into a great heavy metal band, and The Who led the dinosaur rockers with one last great album before the tragic death of Keith Moon.
Disco may never have been great art, but for what it's worth some of the best disco albums date from 1978. Chic's C'est Chic and the Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever (released in 1977, but all over the charts throughout the year) are probably the best examples.  Rock stars like the Rolling Stones and Rod Stewart turned to disco and promptly scored major hits, although Aretha Franklin and Martha Reeves bombed with the approach. First-rate soul and R & B was still coming from older acts like Ashford & Simpson, the Isley Brothers, the Jacksons, and newly independent artists Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, and Bonnie Pointer.
On the down side (as though the above isn’t enough of a down-side), a lot of important artists just took the year off: Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, and most notably Stevie Wonder. The Beach Boys, James Brown, Eric Clapton, and Bob Dylan all probably should have taken the hint, but didn't. Frank Zappa made a damned fool of himself with "Baby Snakes." Black Sabbath was floundering. Meanwhile, the Ohio Players were falling apart, and Prince's debut album wasn't exactly impressive. All of that, and the sputtering momentum of the newest innovations, didn't bode well for the coming years.  (courtesy of Wilson and Alroy’s Record Reviews)


Sports 1978
Super Bowl
Dallas d. Denver (27-10)
World Series       
NY Yankees d. LA Dodgers (4-2)
NBA Championship
Washington Bullets d. Seattle (4-3)
Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Boston (4-2)
Wimbledon
Women:
Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert (2-6 6-4 7-5)
Men: Bjorn Borg d. J. Connors (6-2 6-2 6-3)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Affirmed
NCAA Basketball Championship
Kentucky d. Duke (94-88)
NCAA Football Champions
Alabama (AP, FW, NFF) (11-1-0) & USC (UPI) (12-1-0)
World Cup
Argentina d. Holland (3-1)
NYS Teacher Strike Local 1760: Parking Lot Debate
 
Teresa Conforti, Carrie McElroy, Donna Shelley with Senior Prom dates (DS married her guy!)
 

Panas High circa 1978 Trivia: 

  • Who was inside the Panther costume?
  • What was Mr. Rancier's nickname?
  • Who wore the Gorilla suit to school occasionally (and why)? 
  • Who was the starting Quarterback?
  • Who was the Student Council President?
  • The best party of 1978 was:  a) Spaten Dark; b)New Year's Eve; c)Every party at Farley's house?
  • Name the cast of Saturday Night Live c.1978?
  • Who had the coolest T-Bird ever to grace the parking lot at Panas?
  • Name the editor of Paw Prints?
  • Which uber-popular teacher, on a dare, belted out BTO's "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" at a Friday Night dance?
  • Who was the MVP of the '78 World Series? 
  • Who was the Homecoming Queen?
  • How deep (supposedly) was the Quarry? 
  • Whose class was easiest to cut, bar none (hint:  Math)?
  • Who was the Assistant Principal our Senior Year?
  • Who was the school "Narc"?
  • Who was the opponent on Homecoming weekend (extra points:  what was the final score)?
  • What was the Prom theme song?
  • What is a "Gammon"?
  • Senior Cut Day was held at: a)Croton Dam; b)Mohansic State Park; c)Farley's house?  
  • What is a "Trobe"?
  • Can you identify the following by nickname: "Nate"; "Lips"; "Java-Man"; "BoneNeck"; "Cube"; "Spanky"; "Ze-Zay"; "Dr. No"; "Boney W and Boney A"; "Rocky"; "Crash"; "Haggar"; "Bowmar"; "Sark"; "Bogart"; "Niles"; "Brother"; "Hanbone"; "Yid"; "T-Bird"; "Raisinhead"?
  • Who was the first (and last?)WPHS Athlete to appear in Sports Illustrated?
  • Name the members of "Reality"?
  • Where (or what) was the "New Toad"? 
  • What was the best Pizzeria in Peekskill, hands down?
  • What were the Musicals during our four years at Panas (this is a bonus question)?
  • Who were the members of the Outstanding WPHS 1978 National Championship Debate Team? (That's right:  National Champions.  You can Google this one)

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Terese Calderon
 
Richie Mellone
 
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
Muhammed Ali, quoted in the Norwich, Conn., Bulletin

Our Friend: Mr. Jimmy Fleitz
Jimmy Fleitz - Michie Stadium
 
Valene Otis and Carrie McElroy

THE YEAR THAT REALLY CHANGED EVERYTHING

The Spirit of '78, Stayin' Alive

By Kenneth S. Baer
Sunday, July 13, 2008
The Washington Post 

Everyone seems to be telling us that if you want to understand 2008, you have to look back 40 years to 1968. "It's the year that changed everything," wrote
Newsweek last November. Seen through tie-dye-tinted glasses, Iraq is the new Vietnam, Barack Obama is the new Bobby Kennedy, and bloggers are the new student activists.
But are we commemorating the right year? If we really want a time that defined the way we live now, we should look back not to the romance and trauma of the '60s but to the gloriously tacky '70s, to the year that made modern America -- 1978.

Look beyond the year's bad disco and worse clothes; if you peer deeply into the polyester soul of 1978, you can see the beginnings of the world we live in today.
Start with politics. Two weeks into that year, on Jan. 13, former vice president Hubert H. Humphrey died, but it took six more months before the big-government liberalism that he embodied was buried. In June, California voters backed Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes and capped tax increases, thereby marking the start of conservatism's rebirth -- and the beginning of the long end of New Deal liberalism. People had good reason to be irked at Washington, too. Voters were fed up with rising tax rates (heavily fueled by inflation) and an inefficient government that was seen as wasting their dollars. The Yankelovich poll found that 78 percent of Americans agreed with the statement, "Government wastes a lot of money we pay in taxes," an 18-point jump from 1968.

This anti-government sentiment propelled successful efforts to limit taxing and spending in 13 states and prompted 23 state legislatures to call for a constitutional convention to consider a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. The sour public mood, especially after the passage of Prop 13, triggered a stampede of elected officials to the right, and those who didn't dart quickly enough were run over -- such as
Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, who lost his party's gubernatorial primary.
In fact, it was in November 1978 that the modern Republican Party -- which had been on the verge of extinction after Watergate -- was born. In the midterm elections, the GOP gained three Senate seats, 12 House seats and six governorships. The anti-tax, small-government worldview of its right wing was suddenly ascendant -- and has dominated American politics until the present day. (Note that, even with President Bush and his party on the ropes, neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Rodham Clinton was willing to back the sort of nationalized health care that every other industrialized democracy enjoys or mention raising taxes to get rid of the massive deficit that Bush is leaving behind.)
 
Our year also set the contours of today's civil rights battles. In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court ruled that rigid race quotas for university admissions were unconstitutional but that affirmative action policies designed to ensure a diverse student body were not. Americans have battled over the implications of this decision ever since, but we have come to accept diversity as a virtue in universities, corporations and throughout American life. That began with Bakke in 1978. Of course, today's most contentious civil rights battles aren't over race but over sexual orientation. Here, too, 1978 was pivotal.

As the year began, a handful of communities had ordinances on the books banning discrimination against gays in employment and housing. But as these measures passed, opposition mobilized, often led by the singer Anita Bryant. In 1978, the citizens of Eugene, Ore.; St. Paul, Minn.; and Wichita, Kan., voted overwhelmingly to repeal these gay-friendly laws. Even in liberal New York, Mayor
Ed Koch's effort to expand a ban on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation for municipal hiring never got out of the relevant city council committee.

But the most bizarre and important incident happened, perhaps unsurprisingly, in San Francisco. The city had passed its own anti-discrimination law in March. On Nov. 27, Daniel White, the lone city supervisor to oppose the ordinance, walked into Mayor George Moscone's office and shot him dead, then proceeded to the office of Supervisor Harvey Milk -- the country's first openly gay official of any consequence -- and killed him, too.
More than 30,000 San Franciscans took to the streets to mourn Milk and Moscone, blaming their deaths on the anti-gay backlash. One person held a sign stating: "Are you happy, Anita?" If this didn't galvanize the gay community, the light sentence that White received did. That year, the gay community's first Washington lobbyist was hired, and its long struggle for equality was underway.

Politics wasn't the only thing that began to change in 1978. Are you reading this article on your
BlackBerry? That's only possible because, in 1978, Illinois Bell rolled out the first cellular phone system -- a radical new technology that promised to break the 10-year waiting list for mobile phones. That same year, the first computer bulletin-board system was created, and the first piece of e-mail spam was sent over the ARPANET, the forerunner to today's Internet, inviting users to a computer company's product demonstration. (No word on whether it promised to enhance the attendees' virility.)
Computers were quickly becoming more pervasive, too. VisiCalc, an early spreadsheet program, was introduced in 1978 and quickly became the first commercially successful piece of software, giving personal computers mass rather than just geek appeal. "Eventually, the household computer will be as much a part of the home as the kitchen sink," Time magazine boldly predicted in February 1978.

E-mail spam went largely unnoticed at the time, but the year's advances in biotechnology certainly did not. Late on the evening of July 25, in the small city of Oldham in northwest England, the first "test-tube baby" was born. Louise Brown's arrival after in vitro fertilization, touched off a worldwide ethical debate about whether and how we should be fooling with Mother Nature. Thirty years later, IVF is commonplace, and genetic science has leapt astonishingly forward, but the scope of the debates -- now focused on stem cells and cloning -- remains the same.

Other eerily familiar issues from today's headlines first appeared three decades ago. Wiretapping and national security? The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- whose overhaul triggered a contentious debate last week on
Capitol Hill -- was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in October 1978. Skyrocketing gas prices and national reliance on foreign oil? The country's first comprehensive national energy program was signed into law at the end of 1978 -- but only after 18 months of contentious logrolling in Congress.
You can find the roots of some of today's biggest foreign policy challenges in 1978, too.

A Middle East roiled by Islamist extremism? Nineteen seventy-eight marked the beginning of the end for the shah of Iran, soon to be swept aside by the Shiite radicals led by
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini -- a man whose example would help pave the way for a new generation of Sunni fanatics also angry about the U.S. role in the Middle East. But while 1978 was a rotten year for U.S. efforts to prop up the shah, it was a far better one for Arab-Israeli peacemaking. Not only did the otherwise hapless Carter help broker the watershed Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty at Camp David, the summit also produced "A Framework for Peace in the Middle East," a much more ambitious document explaining how Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians would work out their own conflicts over the next five years. That time horizon proved a little ambitious, but a precedent had been set: Since 1978, Arabs and Israelis have expected the U.S. president to be personally and deeply involved in any painful deal-making.

Then as now, the Middle East got the most headlines, but it was what was happening in the Far East that would most radically shape the world. After years of near-total isolation, China decided to join the rest of the world, setting out on what its rulers called a "New Long March" to become a world power by the end of the century. Under the leadership of
Deng Xiaoping, Mao's heir, China ratified a peace and friendship treaty with Japan and reached out to its traditionally wary Asian neighbors. At home, it took momentous early steps toward capitalism by beginning to dismantle its agricultural communes, allowing peasants to sell their crops and pocket the profits.

The most dramatic sign of China's new openness was announced simultaneously in Beijing and Washington in December: The United States formally recognized China, broke its longstanding recognition of Taiwan and normalized relations with the communist titan. This momentous decision helped propel China into the modern world, turn it into a rival -- if not an enemy -- of the United States and intertwine the two countries' economies. Last year, U.S. trade with China was $386 billion, up from $1 billion in 1978. There is not a person reading this article who doesn't own a Chinese product.
The rise of China may not be as sexy as the student uprisings of 1968, and the passage of Prop 13 may not pack the same emotional punch as the tragic campaign of RFK. But from politics to technology, from civil rights to foreign policy, 1978 marked the start of the age we live in. Thank God, disco didn't survive.
(Courtesy of Kenny Dahl)

Graduation Day 1978: Betsy Pines, Donna Duchene, Ellen Boyle, Rose Calcutti, Jeanne Dondero, Valene Otice
 
Casey Stengle and Eddie Clark: Eddie's No-Hit Game

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1970's:  

First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank

while they were pregnant.  

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.  

Then, after that trauma, we were

put to sleep on our tummies

in baby cribs covered

with bright colored lead-based paints.  

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets,

and, when we rode our bikes,

we had baseball caps,

not helmets, on our heads...  

As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes. 

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.  

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.  

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.  

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And we weren't overweight. 

WHY?  

Because we were always outside playing...that's why!  

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day.

--And, we were OKAY.  

We would spend hours building

our go-carts out of scraps

and then ride them down the hill,

only to find out we forgot the brakes.. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.  

We did not have Play Stations, Nintendos and X-boxes. There were

no video games, no 150 channels on cable,

no video movies or DVDs,

no surround-sound or CDs,

no cell phones,

no personal computers,

no Internet and no chat rooms. 
 

WE HAD FRIENDS

 and we went outside and found  them!  

We fell out of trees, got cut,

broke bones and teeth,

and there were no lawsuits

from those accidents. 
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse. 

  
We ate worms, and mud pies

made from dirt, and

the worms did not live in us forever. 
  
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and  

-although we were told it would happen- we did not put out very many eyes. 

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them. 

 Little League had tryouts

 and not everyone made the team.

Those who didn't had to learn

to deal with disappointment..
Imagine that!!   

 The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! 

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?

  "With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?" Jay Leno 

Eddie's other tight outfit
 
Frank Mann, Steve Lack, Larry Salberg
 
Kenny Dahl and Scott Klarer: Swearing In, Scott's Re-enlistment
 
10th Reunion
 
Kristie Hearle and Glenn O'Neill - 20th Reunion
 
Courtesy of Kenny Dahl
 
Croton Dam
 
 
Never confuse the stockmarket with the economy. 
Ronald Reagan

 
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