Are your bags all packed? Are you ready to go?

                                                    7 days until the 50th reunion 

Before you board that plane, train, automobile or Trinity Jersey Girls® limo, there are just a few  odds and ends that need to be brought to your attention.

First: One more photo,( I never tire of them), and email concerning the most famous member of our class, Bernie Worrell, from Janet Tremblay Pozen.

Bernie and Janet, together again.

"On tour Bernie Worrell and his group played at Johnny D's in Somerville MA.  Bill Hogan and I and our spouses spent the night stage-side bathed in their amazing jazz.
"Yes, Bernie is our 'claim to fame.'  That night we were infused with his brilliant music, amazing range (yes, we detected some of his classical origins), and subtle leadership of the younger (yes, he is as old as we are) musicians.
"He truly is a living legend (oh those hands) where most of us can only wish we were.

"As we departed Johnny D's we spoke with several of the younger musicians who were hanging outside for their cigarette.  They recognized us because Bernie had introduced us during the show (AND we were the oldest by far in the audience). (SOME of us danced, Bill. ) They spoke of Bernie with reverence and the privilege it is to work with him - confirmation of the looks on their faces when he lead them into their solo parts.

"Thank you, thank you Bernie."   [ JTP]


If I had to lose the class record for the most (interesting) time spent with Bernie at one of his performances I'm glad that, Janet, (along with her dance resister friend, Bill) now holds that enviable distinction. Bernie had joyfully made it a point to tell me back in May 2008 that he had a serious crush on Janet at HTHS. A glimmer of that is still very much evident. Obviously, Janet was enjoying the moment as well. Seeing this photo and reading her account made my day. I hope it makes yours.


Next: Copies of our 1962 Class Night program were submitted by both Lou Bace Hogan and Paul Younghans. The things that some people save! Thankfully. This particular image is the program Paul sent. It arrived looking like it was just printed yesterday.

 Last, and, most appropriately, Lou Bace Hogan furnishes us with a pristine copy of the Commencement Exercise invitation which proclaimed our graduation from HTHS so many years ago. Simple yet eloquent.

This will wrap up the class blog for now. To those who are going have a truly festive and unforgettable 50th Reunion at the King's residence in Spring Lake. Do forward any photos, videos, personal experiences and observations that you have to the blog afterwards so everyone may share in the celebration and the HTHS Class of 1962's 50th Reunion can be preserved in the ethereal amber of cyberspace forever. Or, at least until Blogger goes out of business.




Photo and print credits in descending order: Weather Underground; Rosemarie, Bristol, UK, Janet Tremblay Pozen, Paul Younghans, Lou Bace Hogan.

Clan Carlton

                                               21 days until the 50th reunion


                                                                                                                                   
Hadn't received anything worthy of a new post on the blog until, low and behold, this Carlton family gathering photo turned up in the inbox. This has got to be a family group record for the Class of '62 wouldn't you agree?

Notice they are all wearing Trinity Blue.

There wasn't a lot of info in the email except that this a very recent photo of "the first chance to get all 11 grandkids together" taken at the Outer Banks in North Carolina.

I only had to do just a little sleuthing to find out that Dennis and Peggy Carlton, (you can find them easily enough in the center), have 5 children: Patricia, Maureen, Daniel, and twins, Kathleen and Megan. I'm guessing the twins are at the extreme left and that Daniel must be the tall young man on that same side.
You will be able to find out exactly who is who here, including the names of all eleven grandchildren, at the reunion since they will definitely be there!

Dennis and Peggy, that is.



Photo credit: Dennis Carlton

Reveille call

         
                                                    63 days until the 50th reunion
                                                                                                                                                                Here is your November 1961 edition of Reveille.
                                                                                                                                                            I'll repeat this again.You can read your own downloaded copy of Reveille by using the following method:
1. Left click the Reveille page.
2. Right click the superimposed image.
3. Click "save image as" on the menu that appears.
4. When new window opens, label the image as Reveille pg 1 [repeat in sequence with all four pages]
5. Click "save". Image will download to your computer.
6. Use magnifier/ enlarger that is part of your photo gallery program to increase to readable size and use pointer to scroll the enlarged page.

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Page 4

Paul Younghans would like to know if anyone has any photos of the old parking lot across the street from the rear of the school. He is interested in finding any pictures of his 1954 Ford [with gray primer] that might be in them. Was there anyone who was into photography in our class?

Please let Paul know if you can help in his quest.

EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!

                                                       69 days until the 50th Reunion

                                                                                                                                                                      As many of you know, Paul Younghans, will not be able to attend the 50th Reunion. But he wanted to share with his former classmates a couple of items that he found stashed away in one of his mystery cartons. This is the first edition of Reveille published by the senior class of 1962: The October, 1961 edition. I've put this up in a large size so you can read it while you are tapping your fingers waiting for the festivities to begin. You may have to get out your magnifying glasses to assist you.

There is a way for you to read the pages on your computer. Left click on the page. When the pop-up page changes the image it looks like it changes to a smaller size. But not really.
 Right click on that image. When the menu appears click 'save image as'. Label the image anyway you want, like: Reveille Page 1. Then click save. The image then downloads to your computer. Use the magnifier in your own computer's photo gallery system to increase the downloaded image to readable size. That should work. You will also have your very own copy of Reveille to print if you wish.

Here's an abridged report on the front page:

* Four new teachers joined the faculty, including new PE instructor, Margaret Stockhammer, who had to fill the formidable sneakers of the well liked, Miss Rodgers. Father John Flanagan, replaced, Father Houghton, as "being in charge of Holy Trinity HS". Funny, somehow it seemed he was always there.

* Janet Roguski, was inaugurated as Girls' State Governor at Douglass College, New Brunswick. She  learned and did almost everything a candidate for office could possibly know and perform within our political system of government and in its electoral process as they were designed to function. A laudably prestigious accomplishment. This probably explains why she isn't Governor of Texas today.

* Freshman were given a complete rundown on everything that would be expected of them over the coming year including a warning about a much to be feared "jug". Yes, never pass up an opportunity to intimidate the poor, lowly beasties.

* In the middle of the page we learned that, Charles Mattina and Lucretia Bace, were installed as temporary officers in an exciting new political club, the Teenage Republicans. Do the Romney campaign veep-vetters know about this?

* Barbara Griek qualified as a semi-finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Catherine Bartels, John Finch, William Hogan, Catherine Keegan, Willis King and Nancy Roberts, were awarded Letters of Commendation. We'll have to stay tuned to a future Reveille edition to find out how Barbara did.

* The U. S. Navy was offering a scholarship. Maybe Ted Hack can fill us in?

* And five seniors; Barbara Staib, Stephanie Woodruff, John Finch, Charles Bodayla and Charles Mattina, will be attending a journalism class. We all know how THAT turned out.
                                                        

Page 2

 Page 2 has a conservative Op Ed offered by, Willis King. A liberal rebuttal by an alumnus, Robert Wilhelm '61, appears in the November edition. [Were there no liberals in our class?]  Together they make for an interesting political / historical time-capsule, especially in light of events that would soon follow our leaving the comfortable womb of HTHS. Fifty years later both positions sound remarkably familiar.

* Mary Anne Zambito, releases her inner, Murray the K.

* Elaine Reinberg, my former next door neighbor - Hi Neighbor! - does the Alumni-News. Elaine had a natural gift for interviewing the more mature collegiate male.

*  Two reporter/artists by-lined as, "Lu and Cathy," cover the pleated plaid skirt euphoria of the senior girls at being the first upper class in Trinity history to wear the innovative not-a-uniform uniform. The girls were so besotted with them those skirts might very well turn up at the reunion.


The rest of this edition you will have to decipher as best you can on your own because my eyes are rebelling against this shrinking print.

Page 3:

Even  kindly, Barbara Staib, can't resist mugging the frosh ^

 And finally, the sports page. Sorry, no scores in this one, but there are several faces and names you will surely recognize as well as some well written sports columns.

Paul and I hope you enjoyed this historic literary excursion.
You might send Paul an email and let him know what you think of his contribution. He'd enjoy that.

                          Next week: The November, 1961 edition of Reveille.

Another Bernie Worrell sighting

                                                 77 days until the 50th Reunion
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Saturday, June 23, 2012, Lou Bace Hogan, and her husband, Ed, and, Ed Guididas, and his wife, Mary Lou, traversed the wide wilds of New Jersey to attend the Fourth Annual Local and Legend Music Festival at the Unionville Vineyards in Ringoes to see Bernie Worrell and his orchestra. [Read Bernie's Wiki entry and you might be surprised to discover, as I was, that long before he was our classmate he had already made a couple of remarkable musical achievements.]

Bernie Worrell live at Ringoes

The theme for this particular 4th edition of the music festival was a tribute to and celebration of Bernie's 65 years in music. Kinda makes a 50th celebration of anything less significant in comparison.

If you click the picture to larger size and look very, very closely you might be able to see both Lou Hogan's and Ed Guididas' signatures on the poster.                        Or not.

While Lou and Ed, and, Ed and Mary Lou, - - stay with me here - - were setting up their chairs around 5:15 PM they heard the band on stage mention Bernie Worrell by name. After that band set was finished Lou and Ed G went up to Bernie and asked him if he recognized them. Well, it's only been a paltry fifty years. Of course he did!                                    Or not.

Bernie was extremely preoccupied then, as you can imagine, but they agreed to get together after his performance. However......

Lou relates: " As luck would have it, Bernie's set-up guy had not shown up so Bernie had to do everything himself which took quite a while." That caused the band to go on much later than scheduled. The rules were that the whole place had to shut down at sundown and everyone had to be gone by then. A casualty of the delay the hoped-for meeting with an exhausted Bernie was all too brief. Just barely enough time for this photo to prove to us that Lou and Ed had really been there and really did meet with Bernie face to face. They also had a great time listening to Bernie and his orchestra perform.

Lou, Bernie and Ed with WOO T-shirt

It's a shame they did not get to talk longer with Bernie. Though I must confess I'm inwardly pleased, that, in all the class, I alone, still hold the record for the most time spent with Bernie at one of his performances. He didn't know it but, that chat and performance was the inspiration for the class blog. For that, I'm indebted to Bernie. If you enjoy visiting here, you are too.

For those who have never heard Bernie perform live, except for his long-ago gig up in Sister Rose's Piano Lounge or at our Alma Mater concerts, you are missing something special. You can visit his website and check out his tour schedule. Unfortunately, he will be in Stowe, Vt. the day of the 50th Reunion. You can even purchase something there to show your support for our talented and distinguished classmate. You can also go to You Tube and dial-in his name. There are quite a number of offerings featuring him there. The following You Tube of Bernie Worrell is just a tiny taste of what that man has done throughout his long and brilliant career.



I know we all wish, Bernie Worrell, and his legion of fans, many awarding years of musical entertainment and enjoyment ahead. We can also hope he got himself a new set-up guy.


Photo credits: Lou and Ed Hogan

Jean Peterson Sinnott

                                                 83 days until the 50th Reunion
                                                                                                                                                              Next on our pre-reunion photo cavalcade is a post almost a year in the making because of some technical difficulties. Jean's husband, Richard, was able to solve the problems. Jean had first taken drawing lessons about ten years ago but only started painting in 2008 when she enrolled in an  art class at a favorite art gallery conducted by the owner/artist. Her chosen medium has always been oil because "it really lets you play with color and texture."

Her first painting is The Train. It's from an old photograph belonging to her husband, Richard.  Trains are his hobby and the painting was done as a surprise gift for him. It's of a NYC bound PRR train at the Rahway station.

This painting is from a photo in one of Jean's favorite English garden magazines.

An early still life done with sunflowers she received from Kroger and a vase from her daughter Laura.

An English cottage photo re-creation.














Last, my personal favorite, for some inexplicable reason, painted from a photo taken in 1994 on her first trip to San Francisco.

The Golden Gate Bridge

All in all, some very nice stylized work done by Jean, especially when you consider that she's only been at it for four years. She has her own art room downstairs at home and when her granddaughter, Reagan, comes to visit "we love to paint together."  Jean's brother, Dick, has been an artist for many years so Reagan probably has inherited genes.

 As to why she only started painting later in life Jean says, "I just never thought I could do it. I really think that anyone who wants to can learn. Try it, you may be pleasantly surprised!" We might recall back in our day a certain, Grandma Moses, who only began painting in her late seventies.

There can be no doubt that the gifts Jean is most proud of are all in the photo below taken last Thanksgiving at her home. They just happened to be surrounded by a few of her paintings.

Seated R to L: Jean's son, Steve, holding his son, Ryan. Steve's wife, Diane, with the budding artist, Reagan. Daughter, Laura, with, Isabelle. Laura's husband, Scott, with, Kennedy.("The twins are walking, holding on. They are doing so well.") Standing: Jean's husband, (and chief photographer), Rich, holding, Lily, their Cavalier King Charles, and, Jean, holding Laura and Scott's son, Christian. Jean adds that Reagan and Ryan had a great time playing with the twins and Christian in the pool on Father's Day.

Jean and Richard Sinnott

Jean is eagerly awaiting the Reunion. " We will have such fun." Looks like she's already starting without us.

Photo credits: Richard Sinnott

Richard did an excellent job squaring up Jean's paintings and photographing them for this post. That is not easy to do.