Peter W. Burnham

I was the initiator of the 1967 first ever Paris Amer H.S. class reunion in 1988.
I have had several good friends of mine, after those class reunions to pass away and had a good time talking to them. BTW-Jason Spindler is deceased but it takes more than one person. I couldn't tell you who told me that he had passed away after the 1988 reunion.
Have had several jobs, working for Dunkin Donuts in Management , then changed to Yenkin Majestic Paint, and to Sherwin Williams, both in management too. Took my expertise in management and changed to working for several doctors offices in medical billing and collections of accounts. Helped doctors who were having problems in keeping accounts paid and trouble shot those accounts and doctors offices. Did that for several years and kept at it till I retired from my last position and came home to help run the house and keep the house in good condition, running errands while I was home as well as look for things that would make the house better.

Came to PAHS and had a good time, met alot of very fine people, who went on to become pilots, attorneys, doctors, government consuls, etc. The teachers that I had, Mr Lee, Mr Hull, to mention a few were outstanding teachers and made you work for your grades and work at it to learn what they were trying to get into your brain. The alcohol and pin ball machines on weekends were a distracting factor and had a good time perfecting my pinball tactics. In fact, I was one of the very few that could go to a pinball machine , play it for 5-10 minutes and have it die on me due to my relentless pushing of the flippers on the machine for the ball to go thru. Its a trick of standing on one leg, holding the other leg up and pushing on the flippers at the same time keeping the ball playing as long as possible.