DHS BLOG PAGE
SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008
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Welcome to the Blog pages. Sound off and talk to other classmates. You can add photos by clicking on "Add Attachment" on the Blog entry page.
MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2008 - 06:59 AM
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nobody is commenting i will be staying at john vogt's house. i wish linda cottle would show up this year. can't wait to see john vogt and my pet.
FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008 - 09:58 PM
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Hi! Much love and best wishes to everyone on our 40th reunion!
The website is fantastic....my favourite - the 'Youtube' of the making of the 35th reunion picture.
This is the 35th year Carl and I have been living in England.
There is a poignancy in growing older in a place where you were not young.....but where your loved ones and adult-lived-life is based.
This summer our eldest daughter Sophie is getting married -
to her best friend from high school - Kwadwo Sarkodie - they remet a year or so ago....and took up their teasing where they left off, and added a few new activities!....
wedding guests arriving from three continents- has anyone else found their birth family including parents fighting like cats and dogs prior to a big family event? Nothing like maturity to bring out the worst in people?!
Our son Max back from working in Boston in the hotel industry, temporarily living at home..working odd jobs while job hunting....and giving us the benefit of his critical comment on all aspects of our daily life.
Lucie, our youngest finished her part one (degree) in Architecture and working in Seattle. Loving it and delighted to find USA life includes not just working hard, but playing hard - softball, volleyball, skiing, etc. etc.
I'm working in a Catholic school for the first time since leaving DeSales.....as a school based Family Worker, in Luton (about
40 miles north of London). The term 'globalisation' is not
abstract here - in our school of 215 children aged 4-8 years - within our families we have 27 different nationalities and languages! They have come from all over the world, with our largest non-English groups - from Poland in Europe, and from about 12 countries in Africa....
Carl is curating an exhibition this autumn of paintings and sculpture of buildings by Palladio. His own work can be seen at www.carllaubin.com, and within those paintings you can see my back (!) , along with figures of our children at various ages...
Much love to all of you, and prayers. I was very moved by the 'transitions' section of the website.
xxxx
Chris Creighton Laubin
TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2008 - 04:21 AM
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Hi Everyone,
I am in Michigan. Menominee, Mi to be exact. It is about 40 miles northeast of Green Bay, WI. So, you can tell who we root for during football season. I have been here for about 12 years now and before that I live in Sturgeon Bay, WI. for about 35 years. Sturgeon Bay is just across the the water from where I am now but is still 90 miles by land. I am a computer support specialist for a paper company here and really enjoy my work but hope to retire in about a year and a half. I am very active with the local Alumni Drum and Bugle corps and we are hoping to put together a mini corps this year that will perform indoor exhibitions during the spring. Once a year I coordinated a stand still drum corps show for the community waterfront festival. This year we will have 4 drum corps performing . I was an avid car show buff for about 12 years and had a triumph spitfire that I showed but I got tired of it so I sold it last year and bought a motorcycle. I have 2 grown sons John and Michael and between them they have 4 children. Michael lives in Superior, WI about 300 miles from us and we try to visit several times a year. He has 3 children and really enjoy the time I get to spend with them They are Kiley (13), Dominic (7) and Jaxon (6). I also have another grandson, Marcus (12). He lives in Green Bay, WI. He is close enough that I we spend a lot of time with him. Menominee, where we live is right on the southern border of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We are bordered by the bay of Green Bay to the east and by the Menominee river to our south. It is a beautiful place if a person loves the outdoors. In 1998 I competed 22 years combined military active duty and reserves. As a benefit my wife and I have made 5 trips to Hawaii. The military has a private 5 star hotel on Wakiki Beach. I have probably wandered all over in this Blog but I just wanted to fill everone in on where I have ended up. I will only be at the reunion on Saturday becuse my wife and I will be on our way to Vermont that weekend and it just happen we will be going right by Lockport. I have included a picture of my grandkids. See you all soon.
John D'Auria
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2008 - 12:46 PM
ARTIE...
Well it's over and a GREAT time was had by everyone who attended our "40th" reunion. I just want to say a very special THANK YOU to Joe Hoffman for a great website… it certainly is a state of the art communication vehicle. A special thank you to the people who made this night such a HUGE success....Sandy, Mike, David, Eddie, Bob, John Mickey, Debbie, Kathy M. Mary O. Molly, Margie and if I left anyone else out, sorry, but thank you to you also!!!!!!!
The reunion was a blast, it was so wonderful to see Tom McGinnis, John Middaugh, John D'Auria, John Glassford, Patty Skeets, Margie, Patti McCalister, “LAGRAFF” and everyone else who came in from out of town.. We had a very nice Mass at DeSales on Saturday before the Country Club event. The Mass was celebrated by Jim Roth, OFSF ---aka "Bones" Both Roth's brother. It was very meaningful and we did a special rememberence for the "5" of our class mates that are no longer with us. If you missed this reunion....please consider coming to our "50th" after all none of us are getting any younger and we need to start planning it today to show Lockport High !!!! LOL !!!!!!!!!!!
Kathy Galus AKA—“ARTIE”
SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 - 03:17 PM
P. MCGREEVY
Hello Classmates,
I was sad to miss the reunion this year. Sandy can you please change the font on this blog, I can barely read it. So, here is what I am up to. I work at the American University of Beirut. It was founded by US missionaries in 1866 but soon gave up on converting Arabs and became a secular university. Some of you may know that I have long been working on a book about Lockport. It will be in print at SUNY Press this winter. It's called "Stairway to Empire: Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the Shaping of America." So, you can see that I am with you in spirit. I am at work on a new project now about the globalization of higher education. Betsy, who lives with me in Beirut, works for the Faculty of Engineering. My two sons have dispersed to Las Vegas and Montreal. It seems you all had a great time. From the pictures, it is surprising how some people just look the same (with few more pounds and wrinkles, while others are hard for me to recognize. Perhaps some of you share my strange ambivalence about our high-school years. It was certainly a different era, and we were held in a small world in those days. I'm not sure I would want to go through it again, although it profoundly shaped all of us. The attached picture was taken on Braggs' Island this summer, off the coast of Newfoundland, with my two sons and daughter-in-law.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2008 - 11:08 AM
