Staples 55

Chip DiBlanda, sad to report, passed away on January 24, 2011. Long overdue on getting this posted, we learned of Chip’s passing last year. Picking up from an earlier post, I had heard from Chip a year ago. He had learned through his son that John Ottinger and I were trying to locate him. He […]

In another comment (originally posted 11/23/2009), Leann Walker sounds fairly confident that…:
This picture [click photo to enlarge] is from the 6th grade and it is both Mrs. Stebenson’s and Miss Lumpkin’s class at Bedford Elementary. The unknown boy in the third row is Paul (Huron) Marquis. He is also in the photo of […]

Thanks to Ginny (Morehouse) Gillotti who sent me the newspaper article, I have just posted the 1989 obituary of fellow classmate, George Malkin. Thanks, Ginny!

Succumbing to illness after many years, our class spokesman/master of ceremonies, Don vonLiebermann, passed away peacefully at his home in Weston last Friday, April 2. His obituary is posted at westportnow.com which you can read here. From the obit: “Friends are invited to attend a Mass of Christian burial Thursday, April 8 at 11 a.m., […]

Remember Miss Comer’s dance classes? With Don Freeman helping jog my low battery recollection, here is our best effort to date at identifying the young worthies in this group. If you’d like to comment on this post, please use the icon, below, to do so. In that way you can share your comments with the […]

UPS/FedEx/DHL Delivery Failure . This one’s real. You can verify/read about it here.
This latest virus that’s circulating is the “UPS/Fed Ex Delivery Failure”, initially launched in July, 2008. It will be an email from UPS or FedEx or DHL along with a packet number. It will say that they were unable to deliver a […]

Remember this guy? Don is alive and well, living in western Massachusetts. He popped up on my radar one day recently when he came across staples55.com, then contacted me by email. Great career, great marriage, great lifestyle. With his permission, here (on a Classmate Updates page)—in his own words—is a newsy account laced with highly […]