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Fairfield Rugby 50th anniversary celebration, part 1
At the Seagrape, Friday evening. A get together organized by my class (’73) for the classes of ’69-’74. What happens when juvenile, immature fabulous age 60-something ruggers get together. The great Bruce Klastow, the great Colin Kiley, and the REALLY great Betsy Kiley. Betsy took this picture. My t-shirt was a hit! Huge celebratory dinner…
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Guest posting: our friend Laurie – view from Mt. Elmore
Actually just a guest picture, looking down on Lake Elmore. Of course the connection is, Farandaville is on Elmore Avenue. As you can probably tell from the leaves, Lake Elmore is well north of us – in fact in Laurie’s home state of Vermont. The town of Elmore can no doubt be described as quaint.…
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Pope announces canonization for John XXIII and JP 2
He announced it in Latin – which doesn’t help me much (two years of HS Latin leaves me with Amo, Amos, Amot, in Latin I’m not so hot”). Canonizations set for April, next year.
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My friend Judy’s newspaper interview regarding Pope Francis’ interview
Excellent! I love it. A short video of Judy and then she's quoted in the article. Local Catholics rejoice at pope's 'beautiful tone' for church. Many say pontiff seeks compassion, not new teachings
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Stepinac loses to St. Anthony’s
The score was 14-14 at halftime, but St. Anthony's took over the second half and won 31-14. This was despite St. Anthony's turning the ball over 4 times. But we couldn't take advantage. Stepinac record now 2-1. From the Journal News/Lohud Game story: Stepinac fails to capitalize in loss to St. Anthony’s Here are the…
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HIghlights from Stepinac 42-3 win over Xavier
Check out the first catch. If the video "sticks" just hit the play button again. Xavier was on a 12 game winning streak. Speed kills. Stepinac 42, Xavier 3
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Stepinac says goodbye to textbooks – now all digital
Good article. Lower cost and more convenient. Tim has an iPad, in addition to a laptop, which he rarely uses. this is an excellent article about where education (and everything else!) is going – No more books: Archbishop Stepinac High goes all digital "Out of curiosity, Nicholas Dadario weighed his backpack last year when it…
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Stepinac (& Tim) football season underway with a good start
UPDATE: The highlights in 74 seconds. Stepinac 47-14 The home game, against Mt. St. Michael from the Bronx, a few minutes from the end. Final score was 47-14. Tim played very little – probably about 12 plays. He simply has not picked up the knack for linebacker and fullback, after spending his JV year at…
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How we spent Labor Day weekend, Part 1
We had two big events: a beautiful wedding and a birthday party on another ends-in-zero birthday! The wedding was Saturday, between Debra Anderson (of course the 2nd daughter of our great friends Judy and Bob) and Hugh McGrory. They had a lovely sentiment printed on the back of their Nuptial Mass program – To our…
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A game-ending triple play
In the AAA minor league game between Columbus and Toledo. Toledo Triple Play: Minor League Team Ends Game With Amazing Play (VIDEO