Veterans’ Day 2012

To all the Veterans who served our country … Thank you VERY Much.  We owe our gratitude to the Vets for putting their lives on the line in service to our country.  At the end of this posting, please click on the “add a comment” or the “x comments” (where x is a number) and add your words of gratitude.  Last year only a few people added their words of thanks.  I actually don’t believe many members of our class saw the posting.  Perhaps they did and a lack of comfort with the computer prevented them from saying their thanks.  So to the Vets of our class (and all Vets), please accept these few words of gratitude for everyone who served with you in high school.

Our class had many men and women who served their country.  Many saw action in Vietnam.  Some died while in service to our country.  Many will never be the same as they were in high school.  All were very young.

If you are a member of the class of 1965 and a vet and your name is not listed, please let us know using Contact (to the right under the Main Menu).  Your name will be promptly added to the list.  If you are a vet and have some words to say please feel free to comment at the end of this posting.

Lynn English High School’s Class of 1965 Veterans include:

Donald Baillie Naval Reserves

Frederick Bollen Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Robert Bonin Marine Reserves

Richard Bowlby Navy Reserves

Temma (Brown) Effron Air Force

Kevin Buchanan  Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Richard Burke Army

Howard Burnett Army National Guard

Roger Caldwell Navy

Richard Callahan Navy (saw action in Vietnam)

James Cogen Marines (saw action in Vietnam)

John Collier Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Brian Doucette Navy

David Emerton Marines (saw action in Vietnam)

Tom Fabrizio Air Force

Lawrence Flanagan Air Force (saw action in Vietnam and died while serving in Texas)

Arthur William “Bill” Fogarty Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Ronald Gerstenhaber Air Force

John Gotimer Navy

Reverand Arlyne Grant Army Reserves

Norman Grant Marines (killed in action in Vietnam)

Donald Hamel  Navy

Mark Hammond Coast Guard

Robert Hartshorn Navy

Robert Johanson Army

Jim Lampes Mass. Army National Guard

John MacDonald Air Force

Walter Mehm Navy (saw action in Vietnam)

Robert Muller Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Haig Nalbandian Air Force

Paul Nardone Air Force

Robert Newhall Army

John O’Neil Air Force

Albert Paradis Army

John Pension Navy

Leland Perry Army

Bruce Phillips Navy

James Prendergast NH Army National Guard

James Prunier Air Force and Army National Guard

Robert Reed Army

John Reppucci Navy

Michael Rodgers Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Charles Sarcia Army Aviation (saw action in Vietnam)

David Schulze Air Force

Michael Schulze Navy

Christo Stratos Navy

John Sturgis Army National Guard

Robert Tibbetts Army

John Warwick Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Douglas Waters Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Bradley Wentworth Army

Paul Yacovitch Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Francis York Navy

A Pictorial Tour of Lynn English Today – Fifth Installment

This is the last of the 5 installments of the Pictorial Tour of Lynn English Today.  This installment highlights the interior of the Paul Cavanagh Field House where the new gym, locker rooms, work out rooms and coaches offices are located.

To get to this installment from the home (or blog) page, just click on this link (fifth installment) or click on the page at right (Lynn English Today – The Paul Cavanagh Field House).  To get to the other installments of the photo essay, just click on the appropriate page on the right of this page.

I will repeat the paragraph from last week’s blog to help you become familiar with navigation.  If you are reading this post while you are on the website, you are on the home page.  All blog posts go on the home page.  If you subscribed to the blog (do that at the top of the right column) you may receive this post as an email.  If you are reading your email and  you click on the links for the fourth installment, you will go directly to that page and bypass the home (blog) page.  If you want to make a comment on something on one of the pages (like photos), you have to do that from the blog (home) page.  There are links on the page for the fourth installment to get you back to the home page.  Just go the home page and to the bottom of the posting you want to comment on.  Each posting on the home page has a spot to comment on that posting.  I have noticed that sometimes people comment on one posting, but they click the “comment” on the bottom of a different posting… and their comment goes there instead of where they intended for it to go.  If you make a mistake, you can always use Contact (in the right column) and send me (Bob Maleszyk) a note and I can help you fix the problem.

We would like to thank our fine tour guides.   LEHS Class of 2012 alum, Shaday Imadiyi, and LEHS senior, Claudia Buruca, spent most of a fine summer morning showing us the school from top to bottom.  Also many thanks to Matt Wilkins of the LEHS Guidance office for his efforts in setting up the tour.

So, continue your stroll around the old school.  Don’t forget, click on the photo to see it full size.  When you are done looking at it, click on “close” on the bottom of the photo.

 

Our Tour Guides (Claudia and Shaday) with The Bulldog

A Pictorial Tour of Lynn English Today – Fourth Installment

This is the fourth installment (of 5) of a pictorial tour of Lynn English Today.  This installment shows the new cafeteria, kitchen and balcony (link between the old building and the Paul Cavanagh Field House.

This installment is also short (only 11 photos).  To get to the fourth installment just click on this link (fourth installment) or click on the page at right (Lynn English Today – The New Cafeteria).  To get to the other installments just click on the other Lynn English Today pages (exterior photos, general interior photos, old gym and cafeteria) on the right.

A little about navigation on this website.  If you are reading this post while you are on the website, you are on the home page.  All blog posts go on the home page.  If you subscribed to the blog (do that at the top of the right column) you may receive this post as an email.  If you are reading your email and  you click on the links for the fourth installment, you will go directly to that page and bypass the home (blog) page.  If you want to make a comment on something on one of the pages (like photos), you have to do that from the blog (home) page.  There are links on the page for the fourth installment to get you back to the home page.  Just go the home page and to the bottom of the posting you want to comment on.  Each posting on the home page has a spot to comment on that posting.  I have noticed that sometimes people comment on one posting, but they click the “comment” on the bottom of a different posting… and their comment goes there instead of where they intended for it to go.  If you make a mistake, you can always use Contact (in the right column) and send me (Bob Maleszyk) a note and I can help you fix the problem.

That said, continue your stroll around the old school.  Don’t forget, click on the photo to see it full size.  When you are done looking at it, click on “close” on the bottom of the photo.

another view of the new cafeteria

A Pictorial Tour of Lynn English Today – Third Installment

This is the third installment of a series of photos of Lynn English High School today.  This installment is the beginning of the photos of things that are NEW.  But, this installment shows what happened to the old.  The old gym and old cafeteria have changed.  The gym is now the library.  The cafeteria is now classrooms including the new art room.  I made the comment in the opening statement for the third installment that I can’t remember where the old library was IF we even had one!  I hope someone can remember.  I also stated the old art room was in the front center of the building on the second floor.  Does anyone remember?  Feel free to comment by clicking on the “add a comment” just below this blog posting.

To get to the third installment, just click on this link (third installment) or click on the page Lynn English Today – The Old Gym and Cafeteria to the right.  Click on the other Lynn English Today pages (exterior photos and general interior photos) to go to those pages.

So, continue your stroll around the old school.  Don’t forget, click on the photo to see it full size.  When you are done looking at it, click on “close” on the bottom of the photo.

The door to the new library (our old gym)

 

A Pictorial Tour of LEHS Today – Second Installment

This is the second installment of the series of photos of Lynn English Hish School today.  This installment has photos you may recognize.  The main office, the principals office, the auditorium, the little theater and a few class rooms and corridors.  Plus some things we didn’t have… a TV Department, ROTC, a bronze bulldog, and a few other things.  We hope this installment brings back some memories.  I remember I was in the language lab on November 22, 1963.  The language lab is still in the same room as it was back then.

Just click on the link, Lynn English Today – General Interior Photos, to go to the page containing the photos.  Remember, you can click on any of the pages to the right of this blog to go to that page.  To get to the first installment, Lynn English Today – Exterior Photos, either click on the link (highlighted) or click on the page to the right of the blog.

So, continue your stroll around the old school.  Don’t forget, click on the photo to see it full size.  When you are done looking at it, click on “close” on the bottom of the photo.

LEHS Bulldog GRRRRRRRRRRRR

A Pictorial Tour of LEHS Today – First Installment

Quite a few people have wondered what the old school looks like today.  Unfortunately, it is difficult to schedule a tour for everyone who wants to go.  To solve this problem, Sue Rummel and Bob Maleszyk took a tour of Lynn English on July 25, 2012. The tour allowed us to take numerous photos of the school both inside and out.  We will post the photos in a series of installments over the next few weeks.

The first installment of photos are the exterior shots of the school.  Future installments will include interior shots showing how our alma mater has changed (or not changed) since we graduated.  We hope you enjoy strolling in and around the school via this photo gallery.

To see the photo gallery of the exterior of LEHS today, go to the Lynn English Today – Exterior Photos page.  To see each image full size just click on the image.  When done viewing the larger image, just click “close” on the bottom of the photo.

 

Drive way and Front Entrance of LEHS

Life is Good… Here’s Proof!

Recent Get Together at Anthony's Hawthorne in Swampscott

 Note:  click on the photo to make it bigger.  Hit back arrow to go back.

Front Row (seated):

Linda (Hoey) Bergeron, Marcia (Sanborn) Roach, Gail (Minton) Hickey

Standing (left to right):

Maureen (O’Connor) Hendersen, Karen (Hyde) Mancinelli, Jan Cawlina, Eleanor (Shellgren) Starkenberg, Linda Witham, Helen (Heffernan) Jennings, Mary (Montejunas) Kaufman – in town from CA, Kathy Hashian, Janet (Thomas) Scholz, Janet (Durgin) Atkinson

Searching for lost classmates… the search continues!

Hello everyone.  I am hoping that someone sees this post and responds.  This is to update you with some statistics concerning our search for all of our classmates.  We are searching for 647 classmates (total) including some people who didn’t graduate from LEHS because they either dropped out or moved to another high school during their senior year.  Of those, we have contact information on 401 people and we know of 66 who have passed away.  If you have been contacted by one of the LEHS search members and have provided your contact information, update your contact information every-so-often to make sure we have it correct.  Just use the Address Update Form.

That leaves 179 with dubious contact information.  Of those we know of one or two people who have decided not to give us any contact information and we have 101 people we have been unable to reach (for whatever reason).  Those 101 people have contact information that needs to be updated.  Their names are on the Need Update Contact Information List. 

Another 77 people are considered “missing or lost”.  Their names are on the Lost Classmate List.

Recently we have received some unsubstantiated information that some of our missing classmates are no longer with us.  I repeat… UNSUBSTANTIATED.  This presents us with a dilemma.  Do their names belong on the Memorial List??  Six of our classmates are listed below who may have passed away.  If you have ANY information on these folks (or any of the 180 people with dubious contact information) please contact us.  Thank you in advance for your help.  We all hope that we are mistaken with

Here are the names of the six members:

Ernest A. Hoffman
Henry E. LeBlanc
Earl F. LeGault
James J. McCarthy
Robert J. McIntyre
David Santos

Support Our Scholarship Program

Hello everyone.  This website is for Lynn English High School Class of 1965.  It is free for you to use and we don’t like asking for money.

BUT…. we DO award scholarships to deserving Lynn English High School Seniors and would like to continue to do so.  We have a page on this site which explains our Scholarship Program and we hope you check it out.  Click on Scholarship Program under the Main Menu or just click the highlighted words Scholarship Program in this posting.  They all go to the same place (hint hint).

The Scholarship Program is funded by your donations.  During a reunion year, there is a place on the reunion registration form to add a donation as you pay for your reunion tickets.   Most of the money in our scholarship bank account comes from money that is donated during reunion years.  Not very much comes in during off years.   Deserving students can use every small amount of financial help they get to help pay for skyrocketing college tuition and expenses.  We would like to continue to fund our Scholarship Program in the off years and perhaps increase the amount we give as our bank account allows.

So we are asking for donations.   Many of us are retired and on fixed incomes.  Under those circumstances, donations may not be possible.  But  if you can find a way, please make a donation.

All the donations will go to Pat (Johnson) Morley who will make sure the money is deposited in our LEHS Class of 1965 bank account.  For everyone’s protection, we have a policy of not posting contact information on this website.  So to make a donation, please request a scholarship donation form by clicking on CONTACT  under the Main Menu and requesting a Scholarship donation form.  We will email you a scholarship donation form which you can print, fill out and send to Pat via US Postal Service.  Her address is on the donation form.  By the way, if you don’t have email, just ask us to mail you the form and we will.

You can also update your contact information (which is great to do annually even if it hasn’t changed) and request a scholarship donation form at the same time by clicking on Address Update Form under the Main Menu.  When you send the address update, just request a scholarship donation form in the box for “anything else you want to add?” at the bottom of the address update.  Don’t forget to include your phone number in the address update form.

That concludes this request for money… something we REALLY don’t like doing, but sometimes we just have to do it.  Please don’t forget to visit the Scholarship Program page and see who contributed in the past year (mostly at the 45th reunion) and a list of all the award recipients over the years.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR HELP.