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If there are any details to be shared regarding the death of our classmate, please let us know - events like a death of a classmate remind us of our own mortality, and should help us live every day to the fullest....and makes events in life such as this reunion so important.
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Carl Pauli
I remeber John fondly, and I am saddened to hear of his passing. I read an article that mentioned John’s death on January 21, 2007 at Care One in Morristown after a long bout with Friedreich’s Aphasia. He was 43. He had moved back to the family home in Union nine years prior after his disability made it impossible for him to continue to live on his own.
The article also went on to say that John was an environmental chemist for 12 years, an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University for two years, and webmaster and designer for the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark for five years. A 1988 graduate of Kean University in Union, John received a master's degree in environmental chemistry from Seton Hall University in 1990 and a second master's degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in computer science in 2006.
John was also a certified handicapped scuba diver and used equipment customized to accommodate his disability. He frequently traveled to some of the world’s most exotic locations, often diving with others who had disabilities.