Janet Tremblay Pozen

100 days until the 50th Reunion

I asked for some photos that you would like to share while waiting for the 50th Reunion to commence and Janet Tremblay Pozen has been the first to respond. And has she ever!


First up: Janet, with her husband, Robert Gray, and four of their five grandchildren. "Tess came along later."  Now this is exactly the kind of photo I've wanted to put up on the class blog from the very beginning, classmates. Just perfect.

Olivia, Robert, Henry, Janet, Evan and Audrey

Then there's this B&W gem from the past. Can you identify all the kids in the photo?  Unless you went to HT Grammar you would not know who two of the boys are. They didn't go on to HTHS. One boy in the photo did, but, for only two years.

Janet Trembley's 8th grade party

For those who no longer have our freshman yearbook this is how some of us looked that first year at HTHS. The gauntlet has now been thrown down to any of you in 9B and 9C if you want equal time.

Freshman 9A

How good could any of our Blue Brave B-Ball teams have been without these Lady Blue Braves to help raise the crowd and the team's spirits?

Freshman year

Sophomore year

Senior year Lady Blue Braves

And, if that wasn't enough, Janet hosted a mini-reunion of the Massachusetts contingent of HTHS at her home recently. Kathy Amon said it best: " Were we all kneeling or is Bill really that tall?"

Whatever the answer to that question they ALL look absolutely marvelous!

Bill Hogan, Maryann Hogan, Charlie Mattina, Janet Tremblay Pozen, Kathy Barry Amon and Diana Finer


Are you ready to rumble Jersey Girls?

Kathy, Diana and Janet

Thank you, Janet, for all these memories.

  Senior photo          

Photo credits: Janet Tremblay Pozen and Robert Gray  




Answer to Second Trinity Jersey Girls reunion: Pam Dorne Venckus                                                 

Some stood here.

Holy Trinity grammar school is no more. Its incarnation now occupies our former high school as an interparochial school. But the sturdy old building still remains and has new life as a condominium providing convenient housing for young professionals who commute to NYC. They may even use the Jersey Central as many of our parents did. That clarifying information was provided to me by Paul Younghans, as I had mistakenly assumed that it was probably intended as residences more for senior folk like................us!



Below, is the graduation photo of Holy Trinity School class of 1958. There are 38 of us on Charlie's present HTHS roster. Four, we know, have passed on. Does anyone know the whereabouts of any of the others? Click on any of these photos to enlarge for a better look.

As an extra bonus, Lou sent me her copy of the 8A class, presided over by Sr.Therese Concilio. She adds that when her youngest son attended Jefferson school she again met Patsy Agone, the young man in front of Bill Kervick. He was a custodian at Jefferson. Lou also mentioned that she and Mary Jane Taylor Slover and their husbands had a nice get-together about three years ago. Even though Mary Jane was not in HT grammar school, she's still one of Lou's good friends. A bond forged since high school. Lou does maintain yearly correspondences with Suzanne Will Babcock and Becky Maher Welter. Pam Dorne Venckus turned up at a local supermarket one day and Jim Caldora is still plying his masonry trade around town. I might add that a spirited discussion occurred over at Facebook™ after Stephanie Woodruff Visokay found and friended Frank Kroncke,.  He's the young man on the left directly behind Jim Caldora. But, "more than that I will not say".  [Try his name in the google.]

I managed to find my copy of the 8B class. Weren't we a happy looking group capably watched over by Sr. Miriam Theresa. [ Hat tip to Stephanie for both remembering her name when I could not and for that great line quoted above.]  Do any of you from this class remember Richard Moffitt and his cousin who were with us for a time and then vanished? Years later when Happy Days was on the tube, I was convinced that  Richard had to have been the inspiration for Fonzi.

And to think; there are people eating, sleeping, brushing their teeth and perhaps even blogging in these very class rooms right now. I wonder if they ever hear voices?

Here  are the rest of the photos from Lou and Ed's HT grammar school series.

Top and 8A photo credit: Lou and Ed Hogan