1979 TABLE OF CONTENTS THINGS FOR THE YEAR 1979 TAMBUSSI, NAT HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL (Hope Springs for LETTER FROM GOV GRASSO O'BOYLE, JAMES HANSON, PAUL WEATHERBEE, ROGER HANNON,DEBRA BELISLE, BOB VACATIONS COLLINS, KAREN COOPER, BRYAN SR ST. VALENTINE'S DAY SHEEHAN, BILL SPORTS NIGHT FOR GEORGE HALL WENC, DAVE LANKHORST, ELLEN GOLD, MURRAY PAULAH,HELEN GREATER HARTFORD OPEN GROGEN, FRAN KANIA, TOM MANNING, KEN LUDDEN,GERRY ST. PATRICK'S TRIP TO IRELAND MONA, PAUL MASERA,RAY DONAGHER,HUGH MARCONI, ANGELO WOODWEAVER, GEORGE SCANLON, JOHN LABBE, RICH TRAVERSO, A ITILIO NORRIS, BOB MY FAIR LADY HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL WHAT THE NATION NEEDS NOW RIO TRIP DAY DISASTER STRUCK (Tornado in WL) KENEY,PAT LOUGHRAN, JACK MONTEMERLO, GUIDO TASSISTRO, RICHARD FLANDERS, DOROTHY LEE, JULIA MACIEROWSKI, SONJA SHEEHAN,BOB LOSE,RUSS RUGGIERO, PATSY HAWLEY, BILL FLYNN, BOB ANNUAL RETREAT I ALUMNI NOTES THANKSGIVING KEEVERS, ADRIAN COLAPIETRO, TONY STRAnON, BILL BRIERE, GEORGE DUBE, ANN MARIE (Little League) STOPPA, CHARLES CHRISTMAS AND/OR NEW YEARS "Kittle" No~ football Raiders. Dennis GragnolatC Joyce Wojtas The "good old days~~ 6f Coach Pat Seelza Can 1 take on Goliath again, 1 better check on those dogs Windsor Locks. ' The same wish as Tom's Frank Campisi Vinny Musco Dick? 'in Plainville. Dick Williams Ed Brazalovlch Activity at the Southwest Early golf with friends ... Windsor Locks is rough on Another Yankee year. Soccer and Softball fields. Mike, Frankie and John. ChIef Bill Reilly Ed Savino GOP.. Jim Lennon . With Jack Redmond The best seats at the Yankee Tenure in the First Selection Charlie Rader But I enjoy singing •'Wild Stadium. Continued supremancy for Colonial Boy." slot. the Democratic party in town. THINGS THEY MAY WANT John Scanlon George Hall FranColli - Billy Mandrola Same as the chiefs ...only at Gov Ella Grasso _ IN 1979 Where's the next KofC I already have tenure as What's the' weather reports People should come first. Fenway. Town of Windsor Locks convention? selectman. for February? Jim McKenna A Theater, a few less Jean and Len Senofonte Judge Bill Leary Paul McCarthy My angels are ready for stoplights, a mild winter, A good lobster dinner at the Entry for the New England r d miss those town meet· Coach Dan Sullivan another season. continued success for the civic cape. Whalers in the NH( ings. A winning basketball and Bob Reid and Pat Rafferty and fraternal organizations, .- _ Tom Cooney Fran Anfello baseball season ...just to be Continued "jock" success in a new look downtown, with Father Steve Foley This cold weather is inter­ Isn't it about time for different. town with the kids. green grass for show, not as the Enthusiastic singing at the 9 rupting my golf practice. another world championship? Sy Prell Bob Hanrey only commodity. o'clock mass. Pat Young Bob Oliva An upset in the fall election. Another successful year for Jack Fahey Joe Flore More evenings of songs in the Lions. I can't wait til the n~xt "I love New York" ...but I'll How about a full house at 1979. election. WmGould Joe Urso take Windsor Locks. the Holy Family Retreat House Pete Couture An early spring ... amenll Big doings for the Knights Neal Cunningham in June. To continue being matched Sen Con O'leary Joe Savage i' and the swimming programs How about a championship Ed Ford with the greats of bowling. I'd hate to leave' Windsor Keep those Irish eyes in the new year. - softball team in town. A good year for people, polo BerbSteams Locks ... but Washington, D.C. smiling. Happy New Year To All To have a few scores as high Tom Leonard and horses. would be nice. Jack Redmond For 1979 try this for size ... Running can be fun ...join Jennie Mlslek as Pete's. Joe Barile More "Cabbages and "the great pleasure in life is' me at 5 a.m. at Spring and Physical fitness for all ... its Tom Mandirola Another Willie Pep among kings" interviews .. .I'm in the doing what people say you Ledyard. worth it. A winning season for the the youth of Windsor Locks. -book. cannot do. " -The Windsor Locks Joumal- ThUl'Sday, January, 11, 1979 Hope Springs Eternal A NEW YEAR AND TWELVE MONTHS TO BE AN OPTIMIST By Jack Redmond I know its been used, but in this new year, it fits ... "It was the beet of times and the \Y51rst of times. " 1979. A new twelve months to make history and try for the optimistic view ... be it in Windsor Locks, Conn. or the world surrounding you. There seems to be en9ugh of dollars around for eating out, drinking or whatever tickles your fancy. On the other hand ... we know of unemployment, a scarcity of food in some countries and the curse of war in the Middle East or wherever people disagree on fundamental principles. I really believe most people are ... as the songs says, "I'm just a cockeyed optimist." We get up in the morning, eat som~_ cornflakes, get in the car and drive to our eight to five job, watch some television after supper, and off to our needed rest in the arms of Morpheus. Sounds boring. To many, it must be that way. That's when optimism should play an important role in our life. The town fathers should be optimistic now that the downtown situation is picking up. We have a charter commissiori working~on the details of our town government. We must believe Governor Ella T. Grasso, our native daughter, is optimistic ,in starting her new four year team: There's one girl who will make the history books and rightfully so. On the bleak side ofthe coin ... there may be a gas shortage and going to a dollar a gallon and hamburger going up fifty cents a pound. My mother-in-law always said, "guess we'll have to add a little water to the soup.'" And the winters in New England can be rough. But if you're a native, you know that. Weather is part of life, just like food and work. , We Red Sox fans are optimistic for_ 1979. The sporting fathers in town are' always hoping for another 1965 championship. We all can dream. History is an accumulation of events and the people who shape those events. We have folks in Windsor Locks who shape the daily events. People like the Grassos, Savinos, Chiefs, Reilly and Kulas ... you know the names ... all familiar to readers of the Journal. However, Windsor Locks IS made up of fifteen thousand people of all ages and talents. Talent in Windsor Locks is immeasurable. Just read any "Cabbages and Kings." These outstanding personalities come to you every week. They are all part of the new history of Windsor Locks. Let's hope I can fill those columns in 1979. Then again ... I'm an optimist. Have a good and healthy 1979. I read the following and ... well, I'll let the author, D. O. Flynn, have the last word ... " A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all ... he's walking on them." -The Windsor Locks Jo~_ .Thursday. January, '1, 1979 "CABBAGES AND "KINGS" With JAck .Redmond I James Patrick O'Boyle, in education and the credent- and Nan are members of the Jr. is a nonpolitical person. ials to teach in the nutmeg Nor the r nCo nne c tic u t The Scranton, Pennsylvania state. The past 18 years Jim Regional Center for Retarded born teacher is best described has been involved in education People. Nan is one of the Vice as "familv orientated." The of grammar school students, Presidents of the group. family includes his wife Nan mostly in the Hartford region. All five of the O'Boyle and five O'Boyle children, and Currently Jim is the English children attend schools in to Jim' they come first. He teacher of the eight grade different towns. Jim admits feels the children are "the students at Quirk Middle things do become hectic at building blocks that make up School. times, but everything works the cornerstone, n as th~ The twenty years of out for the best. When they indispensable force in life. marriage for Jim and Nan has get together on vacations or This philosophy of Jim found five new additions to the holidays. .Jim takes them O'Boyle is further demonstrat- O'Boyle clan. Erin, the oldest hunting, tish1Og, hiking or ed as an active member of the at 19, is a journalism student camping just to keep them Enfield "Right to Life Group." at Marywood College in active. The past two summers Jim grew up in Scranton, a Scranton. Erin has been active the O'Boyle and Kerrigan town in the coal mining section in the Retreat movement in clans motored to Delaware, ,of his home state, at a time~ and" around ,Scranton with talking over the past years when the industry was slowly teen-agers. Maureen, 16, is a experiences. 'Jim said there's being depleted of the black junior at the Windsor Locks 45 in number for the Irish' fuel. He had no desire,. or High School. She is a busy gal songs and fun. inclination, to be a coal miner. with cheerleading in football, Jim has taught night school COI?ing ffo~. ~ doc~or;s. ba~~etball , an~ soccer, in Hartford this year he's}n famdy,young Jlm~, after gram- . Maureen, like her mother, Suffi~ld at ~~~ St: 'Alphon-sus J mer and high school, where he hopes to be a nurse after high College Seminary helping performed on the track team, school.