SCHOOL DAYS

SCHOOL DAYS

THIS IS THE VIDEO VIC PRUSINOWSKI SHARED WITH US AT OUR 40TH REUNION. ENJOY, IT IS PRICELESS!

THANK YOU, VIC!

PEGGY AND PATTY FUCHS, LINDA GALLO, MICKEY GALLO

LORETTA MANZELLA DURING OUR ENTRANCE PROCESSION

ALONZO WERNER

BRIAN MEEHAN STANDING AND HENRY JACOBS SITTING

MARY CLAUSING

JOHN PELLATT AND LOUIE PAPA AS TIM BUCKLEY'S BROTHER MIKE LOOKS ON

PATTY FUCHS, MARY CLAUSING AND PEGGY FUCHS

PEGGY AND PATTY FUCHS, MARY CAPPASSO AND DEBBIE O'DOWD

THE FOLLOWING PHOTOS WERE PROVIDED BY SUE KREITSEK:

JOANNE BASINI AND ROSEANNE CANDELA

ROSEANNE CANDELA, MARY CAPPASSO AND DIANE CICHANOWICZ

DALE COTTER? AND GRACE CZYGIER

CHRIS GERRARD AND PEGGY FUCHS? I KNOW, THEY'RE OUT OF ORDER.

MARY KRAMER, SUE KREITSEK, KAY KUHLMAN, JENNIFER LEE, AND MELANIA LESZCZYNSKI

PETER BASINI, STEVE BIENIEWICZ AND TIM BUCKLEY

KENNY KINMAN, BOBBY KLEIN AND STEVE KRUMFOLZ

TOM KULESA, DAVE LENAHAN, RON MALONEY, BOB MANGEL, BRIAN MANNIX AND ?

GIG SHELDON, MARTY SIDOR, DENNIS SMITH? AND BUD SPELLMAN?

THE CLASS OF '69 ANXIOUSLY AWAITS THEIR ESCAPE!

SHARON BENKO

GRACIE CZYGIER

ROSIE CANDELA

SUE KREITSEK RECEIVES HER DIPLOMA AS KAY KUHLMAN AWAITS HER MOMENT.

SUE KREITSEK

THE LOVELY SUE KREITSEK

IS THAT RON MALONEY IN THE BACKGROUND?

MR. AND MRS. SHELDON AND THEIR LITTLE BOY, GREGORY :)

L TO R : VIC PRUSINOWSKI AND GIG SHELDON (RIGHT MEETS LEFT)

IS THAT JOE SHELIGA BEHIND THEM?

TWO MORE FROM MARTHA:

MIDDLE, TOP OF THE STEPS, LEFT: JOHN GRODSKI (CLASS OF '70) AND MARTHA ANDREJACK

GRADUATION DAY...MARTHA ANDREJACK AND JOHN GRODSKI (CLASS OF '70)...LOVED THOSE CUTE UNDER CLASSMEN!

LORETTA MANZELLA

Some of us had to come back to school after graduation to take the Regents.

OUR SCHOOL SONG

LOYAL AND TRUE WE'LL BE TO YOU

KEEPING YOU EVER IN OUR MEMORY

ALOFT WE'LL HOLD THE GREEN AND GOLD

AS ON WE MARCH TO VICTORY

AROUND US HERE FROM YEAR TO YEAR

STRONG BONDS ARE FORMED THAT WILL NOT FADE AWAY

THE LESSONS TRUE, WE'VE LEARNED FROM YOU

WITHIN OUR HEARTS WILL ALWAYS STAY

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL WE SALUTE YOU

THROUGH THE YEARS TO BE

GLAD WITH THOUGHTS OF THE DAYS SPENT WITH THEE

MAY YOUR STRENGTH AND MAY YOUR SPIRIT

IN OUR HEARTS FORE'ER, DWELL UNDIMMED BY THE

PASSING OF YEARS

TRUE TO GOD AND TO HIS CHURCH

OUR PATHWAY LIES ABOVE

THERE IS CALM, THERE IS PEACE, THERE IS LOVE

LET US NEVER FAIL OR FALTER AS WE MARCH THROUGH TIME

LOYAL SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THINE

BUT EVEN BEFORE THIS GRADUATION, THERE WAS ANOTHER...JUST LOOK AT THESE BABY FACES...

St. John the Evangelist Center Moriches 1965

ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CENTER MORICHES 1965

ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CENTER MORICHES, 1965

St. Joseph The Worker, Bellport 1965

Saint Joseph the Worker, Bellport 1965

Saint Joseph the Worker, 1965

SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST, RIVERHEAD 7TH GRADE 1964

(LEGEND IN PROGRESS)

Infant Jesus, Port Jefferson, 1965

Click to enlarge the next three photos.

Infant Jesus 6th grade photo, 1963...click to enlarge

6^th Grade Class at Infant Jesus School

Boys - Standing from left to right,

Front to back

Girls - Sitting 1^st row on left,

Front to back

Jay Schaefer

*MARILYN AMATO

Harry Radenburg

Dale Risotto

Pat Affourtit

Cathy Floresz

Guy Brochard

Anne Langan

Pat Kelly

*CHRIS GERRARD

Michael McCarrick

Girls - Sitting 2^nd row from left,

*PHIL ZAKAS

Regina Klein

Tommy DiGennaro

Donna Nicastro

Tommy Blend

Barbara Kaleda

Pat Smith

Connie Sullivan

Sr. John Louis, D. W.

Peggy Tierney

Charlie Donohue

Girls - Sitting 3^rd row from left

John O’Brien

Linda Stein

*PHIL HOFFMAN

Eileen Blasius

Marcy Dionisio

*ELLEN BUCKLEY

*TIM BUCKLEY

*ELAINE EBERT

Tommy Harmon

Mary Roberts

John Gladys

Girls - Sitting 4^th row from left

*BRIAN MCGRATH

Pamela Young

Kyle Lukas

Chris Martin

*FREDDY KASTEN

Ann O’Brien

Girls - Standing from left to right

Jackie Hans

*MARY CAPPASSO

Girls Sitting 5^th row from left

Barbara Robertson

Kim Ball

Denise Costantini

*EILEEN FITZGERALD

Kathleen Romeo

Diane Lang

*MAUREEN FLYNN

Theresa Furey

* GRADUATES OF MERCY ‘69

Infant Jesus, First Communion photo...Click to enlarge...

Second row from the bottom: 3rd from left: Eileen Fitzgerald

7th from left: Mary Cappasso

Third row from the bottom: 3rd from left: Phil Zakas

5th from left: Fred Kasten

15th from left: Tim Buckley

Phil Hoffman is the shortest guy in the middle of the back row, wearing glasses.

SEND US YOUR GRAMMER SCHOOL PICTURES...WE'LL ADD THEM HERE...

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE WASHINGTON TRIP?

NOVEMBER 22, 1968 - NOVEMBER 25, 1968

The nuns came prepared to keep the senior boys and girls

on opposite sides of the Potomac...

MOST OF THE FOLLOWING WASHINGTON TRIP PIX WERE PROVIDED BY LORETTA MANZELLA:

THE NEXT TWO PICTURES ARE COURTESY OF MICHELE TUMULTY:

MARY CAPPASSO, MARY CLAUSING, PEGGY FUCHS AND PATTY STEPHANI

ELLEN BUCKLEY

THE FOLLOWING PICTURES WERE PROVIDED BY GRACIE CZYGIER:

SISTER MADELINE MOORE (STANISLAUS), GRACIE CZYGIER, AND SR. LOUISE SHEEHAN (VENARD) WHAT'S WITH THE FLOWERS, GRACIE?

THE NEXT PHOTOS ARE COURTESY OF MARTHA ANDREJACK, AND THE CAPTIONS ARE HERS AS WELL...

LINDA GRIFFITH AND TOMMY COADY OUTSIDE THE CAPITOL BUILDING...TOM COULD USE A NAP!

TOMMY COADY "EXITING" LINDA GRIFFITH THROUGH THE WHITE HOUSE GATES. KAREN RIZZITELLO TO THE FAR LEFT AND GRACE CZYGIER BEHIND HER.

LEFT TO RIGHT: TOMMY COADY (KEEPING AN EYE ON THAT BUS!), LINDA GRIFFITH, LONNY WERNER (WHO WILL NOT HOLD TOM'S HAND), KAY KUHLMAN...THREE OF THE NUNS IN THE BACKGROUND...AND THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT BEHIND THEM.

LEFT TO RIGHT: TOMMY COADY, LINDA GRIFFITH, LONNY WERNER...AND MARTHA ANDREJACK (HIDING HER SHORT SKIRT FROM SR. EUGENE) OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE GATES.

KAY KUHLMAN ON THE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN...(I'M GUESSING THAT'S BOB SALOMONE AND KAREN WHITE AT THE TOP OF THE STEPS...MEC)

LONNY WERNER INSIDE THE CAPITOL DOME WONDERS HOW MANY LIGHT BULBS ARE IN THAT THING?! (I'M GUESSING THAT'S VICKY KINGSTON ACROSS THE WAY...MEC)

FRED KASTEN (INSIDE THE CAPITOL DOME) THREATENS TO JUMP IF THE NUNS WON'T LET HIM VISIT THE GIRLS' MOTEL...ACROSS THE RIVER...REMEMBER? HOW TRUSTING...MEC

KAY BROUGHT HER GUARDIAN ANGELS WITH HER ON THE TRIP!!! P.S. IS THAT A CAMERA I SEE, DANGLING FROM A STRAP? WHERE ARE YOUR PICTURES, KAY??!!

LEFT TO RIGHT: REAR MARY LOU AMBROSE AND MARY ANN WOWAK

FRONT: LYNNE KING AND KATHY COLICCHIO

KAY FINDS THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH!!

FRED KASTEN PONDERING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL

LINDA GRIFFITH AND TOM COADY RUNNING FOR THE BUS (REALLY!)

SEE?

LONNY WERNER (IN FRONT OF THE IWO JIMA MEMORIAL) WONDERS IF MAYBE HE SHOULD JOIN THE MARINES. (LONNY DID A LOT OF WONDERING.)

THE IWO JIMA MEMORIAL...CENTER OF THE PICTURE...DIANE CICHANOWICZ, TO HER RIGHT IS TIMMY MILLER AND TO HIS RIGHT HIS MELANIA LESZCZYNSKI

DIANE CICHANOWICZ AND HER CAMERA...WHERE ARE YOUR PICTURES, DIANE??

KAY KUHLMAN IS HOMESICK...OR HUNG OVER!

L TO R: KAY KUHLMAN AND MARTHA ANDREJACK (TAKEN BY TIM MILLER)

KATHY COLICCHIO ON THE BUS...AND OUT OF HER SEAT!

DIANE CICHANOWICZ IN THE HOTEL BATHROOM..."I THINK SR. VENARD STOLE MY MASCARA!"

LEFT TO RIGHT: DIANE CICHANOWICZ, MARY ANN WOWAK AND KAY KUHLMAN

(MARTHA'S GRANDSON UNFORTUNATELY SPILLED WATER ON SOME OF THESE PICTURES...BUT SHE LOVES HIM ANYWAY!)

SENIOR RETREAT

SOME OF US WENT TO MOUNT AUGUSTINE RETREAT HOUSE ON STATEN ISLAND AND OTHERS WENT TO SAINT GABRIEL'S RETREAT HOUSE FOR MEN ON SHELTER ISLAND. (I GUESS THE GOOD FATHERS AND BROTHERS MADE AN EXCEPTION FOR THE FEMALE CONTINGENT OF THE CLASS OF '69! LADIES WHO WENT TO ST. GABRIELS: DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE "FOOT WASHERS"? WHO SAID THAT, ANYWAY? REMEMBER FATHER JOHN AND BROTHER BOB? WASN'T THERE ANOTHER ONE; YOUNG, GOOD LOOKING, FATHER/BROTHER REGIS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT?)

THESE ARE THE ONLY TWO PICTURES WE HAVE FROM OUR SENIOR RETREAT. THEY ARE FROM MARTHA ANDREJACK AND WERE TAKEN AT THE SHELTER ISLAND RETREAT IN MAY OF 1969.

SR. LOUISE SHEEHAN (VENARD) AT ST. GABRIEL'S RETREAT HOUSE IN EARLY MAY , 1969

L TO R: KAY KUHLMAN AND MARTHA ANDREJACK BEFORE LEAVING FOR RETREAT AT SHELTER ISLAND. (NOTE: THE ABSENCE OF HALOES) MAY 1969

On April 26th, 1968, The Class of '69 held their Junior Prom at The Polish Hall In Riverhead. The program and photos that follow are from that night.

CHECK OUT THE "ARTWORK" IN THESE ADS BY GIG AND DAVE!

THE FOLLOWING PIX ARE FROM GIG SHELDON:

DIANE YOUSIK AND GIG SHELDON

GRACIE AND HER DATE

GIG SHELDON

LEFT FRONT: DIANE YOUSIK

LEFT REAR: BARBARA MCKAY AND DON SCHEU?

RIGHT REAR: CHARLIE BENDER AND MARILYN PRICE

RIGHT FRONT: I'M GUESSING HERE, KATHY VERDERESE AND ROB REYER?

LEFT TO RIGHT: ROB REYER?, KATHY VERDERESE, MARILYN PRICE,CHARLIE BENDER, WENDY FITZSIMMONS AND STEVE DORIS?

Wasn't sure where to put this one...would this be considered "Beefcake"?

THE NEXT PIX ARE COURTESY OF SUE KREITSEK:

SUE KREITSEK AND MAUREEN FLYNN AT HOMECOMING JUNIOR YEAR

MAUREEN FLYNN AND PEGGY KUKLA (HOMECOMING QUEEN) TO THE LEFT.

GIG SHELDON AND SUE KREITSEK

SUE KREITSEK DANCING WITH MR. PENDULIK

THE NEXT TWO PIX ARE COURTESY OF GIG:

THE NEXT ARE FROM SUE KREITSEK:

FRONT ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: LINDA SCHUG, BARBARA MCKAY, SUE KREITSEK, FREDDIE HAVENS, SR. THOMASINA, MILLIE RUIZ (KNEELING, MARTHA ANDREJACK, MARILYN AMATO AND EILEEN FITZGERALD

STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT: CHRIS MURPHY, MARILYN PRICE, JOANNE BASINI (BEHIND MARILYN), DIANE CICHANOWICZ, LYNNE KING, MARY ANN WOWAK, AND ELAINE EBERT