The Times Are changing

I'm sure some of what happens in this video represents the new reality. Funny!!

John DiTomasso

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing my classmates a Happy Thanksgiving,

Reggie

Recall and Renewal

We all know this year has been a year of unparalleled social isolation. All the more reason this  Thanksgiving, in our autumn years, to be grateful for the opportunity our September reunion provided to recall memories and renew the friendships of when we were young. In so many ways, we live today in a different universe, yet for me, and I imagine all of us, participating in the reunion made the memories of 60 years ago seem as alive as yesterday. That is a blessing I will reflect on tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, and for many days to come.

Bernie Casey

The Big Decision

This is a picture taken before the Thanksgiving Day game between Saints and Tolman.  

Our Reggie Macamaux on the left, Reggie's sister who was a cheerleader for Tolman in the middle, and Lou Godinho from Tolman.  The reporter got wind of this and posted it before the Thanksgiving day Game 1960 in the Pawtucket Times. Reggie's sister was supposed to be making a decision about who she really would root for - her brother's school or her own school.

Tom

Another book I've read

It is "The Great War and The Death of God  By Charles O'Connor. (forgot his middle initial) For those of us who have served our country and beyond.  Kept me spellbound and brought back some memories. You can get a better idea of the book from Chuck.  I thought it was a great read even though it was very deep.  Kept me riveted until finished and brought back an incident I had. 

Reggie.

 

Directory info

Does anyone have a better email address for Frank Mooney than the one in the directory ?
I've sent an email to that address and it comes back "invalid recipient ".

Mike McCarthy
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Posting

I saw the All Valley pic Reggie posted and I was reminded how two kids from our grade school class at St. Joseph's were included — our own dearly departed Denny O'Brien who became a Saints legend and Tolman's Gerry Philbin who became a pro football All Star for the New York Jets. I think he may have been an All American defensive end at Buffalo before that. The two of them,Denny and Gerry, along with Ronnie (Togo) Palagi, who also went to Tolman where he played basketball, were the tough guys in our grade school class. Gerry and Ronnie were outwardly tough, Denny less so. But I learned early in life to respect Denny's strength. It was in the third or fourth grade. My older brother, Andrew, had taught me a couple of wrestling moves. I tried them out on Denny one day on North Bend Street. He flattened me in a in a nano-second. Life lesson learned. RIP, friend.

Philbin moved into our neighborhood on Arch Street probably in sixth or seventh grade. He was from a large family. I had a crush on his younger sister Doris and I took over his older brother Terry's paper route. Gerry and I were never tight but we got along well. I don't remember if he ever played pick-up football games with us in the Memorial Hospital yard but we had so many of them that I think he must have. In any event, strong though he was, I don't remember thinking of him as being that big or being destined for athletic greatness. So I'd like to get the impressions of you guys who actually played against him in high school — Paul, Reggie, Tom, Bill, Chuck, others on the team. I believe he was All State as a senior, maybe before, right? Was he thought then to be as fearsome a player as his later career proved him to be? Has anyone stayed in touch with him?