Richard Dunlop

I enlisted in the Air Force only 9 days after graduation, was trained in electronics, and became an aircraft radio repairman, where I spent tours of duty in Okinawa, Vietnam, and North Carolina. After I was discharged in 1972, I entered U Mass at Amherst, and graduated three years later with a degree in physics. After another year in the graduate physics program at Boston University, I got accepted into medical school at the University of Miami. Graduated with my M.D. in 1980, then did an internal medicine internship at Waterbury Hospital in CT. I then re-entered the Air Force to pay back a scholarship through medical school, and spent all four years at an Air Force Hospital in upstate NY. I was then accepted into the Radiology residency at Boston University/Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center). After the four year residency, I joined the radiology group at Brockton Hospital, where I spent the next 18 years, before moving to North Carolina (I couldn't take the winters any more!). I've been practicing radiology down here since 2007, and plan to retire in another 4 years or so. Life is good here.

I do have some regrets when I think back to our high school years. For a large part of the three years we were there, I spent most of my free time with my girlfriend Chris, from the class of 1969. As a result, I had very little time left to spend with friends, or to get involved in extra-curricular activities (I would have loved to have tried out for the baseball team). I do have some fond memories... "The Fringe of Society", the rock and roll band that Glenn Corriveau and I put together, along with Steve Grady, Steve Weismantel, and Jay Moran. I just found out through this web site that Glenn passed away three years ago and I am deeply saddened by that news. I had tried looking him up on a number of occasions in the past. Glenn was a good friend, certainly an individualist, as the yearbook attests to. He and I spent quite a few hours in detention together... always his fault, of course. I remember we rented an old hearse for the band to haul all of our instruments on a gig we had at a Catholic school dance once. We were never invited back. I hope the rest of the guys remember the band with such fondness. I'd love to hear from anyone with stories to tell.

Sadly, much to the dismay of my wife, I won't be attending the reunion. I am not sure not many of you would remember me, and I fear that it would be a bit awkward for us all. I have reached out to a few of you through this web site, both in the public and private forums, but have gotten very few responses. Nevertheless, it's been fun reading about your lives since high school, and many fond memories have been awakened by doing so... memories I have long since forgotten.

Thank you, Arthur, for all of your hard work in planning the reunion and putting together this great Lynnfield High School Reunion website!

PS. For those of you who look at my high school picture and can't for the life of you remember me, please understand that I didn't wear my hair like that back then! My mom made me goop back my hair for the high school picture, which didn't look anything like me! That's why I added a picture of "the real me" in high school, and a medical school graduation picture, at the end of my profile pictures.

I wish you all the very best, and have a great time at the reunion!

Fondly,

Rick Dunlop (Ricky, Rinkly, Ricky Dicky Doo)