1987 TABLE OF CONTENTS KUNTZ, MARIE VILLA, GIL FREDRICK, BILL & CAROL DANYLUK, MICKEY RIBAUDO, DEAN KULAS, ANDY CARROLL, HARRY (police officer) FRECHETTE, TOM, RHODA, MATTHEW BOSCARINO, JOHN FISHER, ANN MALLOY DAKIN, GEORGE PEASE, WELLES MILLS, TERRY & STEVE CAMIROS, STANLEY DREZEK,DEREK (Editorial on Bill Rielly's death) WHITTEN, MARK BARTHEL, DICK, & ART BRUNEAU (little league) NILSSON, GUS KING, BILLY YOUNG, ED & MARY MONTENIERI, TONY ZIEGLER, WAYNE BIELINSKI, JACK DOWNS, STANLEY LAFERRIERE, MIKE POHORYLO, BOB MCKENNA, TOM SCAVOTTO, ERNIE WAWRUCK, ALAN SCHIESSL, CARL III SZEPANSKI, JAY AUSTRALIA TRIP SZYKULA, WASYL RICHARDSON, FELTON CANGAMI, GINA JAMES, PETER FUSICK, MIKE SICBALDI, ALDO ROONEY, LAURETTA IGNAZIO, ROGER HANCOCK, MARK POPPELS I MARINONE LUSCINSKAS, MARY LITTLE COMITO, CAROL ASPINWALL, HOWARD SLOMCINSKY, PETER GIANNELLI, PHIL & MARY ANN LESCO, TIM CREECH, LINDSEY (Christmas) GREATER HARTFORD OPEN NEW YEARS PIKTEL, DAVE WINDSOR LOCKS JOURNAL, JANUARY 2,1987 Marie Kuntz - Memories of Paul and Their Adopted Town Memories to Marie Westbrook Kuntz are AT THE END of 1954, they moved to Con­ with their two children . Michael and the wonderful years with her late husband, necticut, when Paul joined WTIC as news Christopher. Paul Kuntz, their six children growing up cabbages and kings editor and reporter. For 24 years Paul was Lisa, lives in Windsor with her husband, and the six years living in Windsor Locks - By JACK REDMOND part of the radio and television scene as Rick Newton. Lisa received her bachelor's to Marie, the town with "good and beautiful assignment editor for both medias, and as degree from St. Joseph's College and has a people." news director at WTIC Radio, when the master's degree in psychology and is a. Today, Marie is just a step or two over every girl must play ... they did, I played television portion went its own way. school psychologist at the American School the town line in Windsor, keeping in touch basketball and field hockey." Over the years, Paul worked with some of the Deaf. locally, with Peg Critz's telephone service familiar names - Bob Steele, Arnold Amy, a Trinity graduate, is at Brown organization, as a part-time employee. DURING WORLD WAR II, Marie work­ Dean, Larry DeBear and Dick Bertel, to University for her doctoral degree in Many of the local and state listening and ed jobs in the summer months, where name only a few. Spanish Literature. Amy hopes to be a viewing public will remember her hus­ employment was plentiful in Washington, Marie said one of her husband's career teacher, when she leaves the Ivy League band, Paul, as an integral part of the WTIC D.C. Her first job, after graduation, was in highlights was back in 1965, when he and school. radio and television network. an accounting office. Bob Dwyer spent six weeks covering the Barbara also lives in Windsor, with her Their children, five daughters and one However, soon after, her life changed. war in Vietnam. Before they left the states, husband, Don Trinks. She also received a son, have spread themselves over the east She was persuaded, by a friend, to go on a a list of names of servicemen were compil­ degree from St. Joseph's and now teaches in various occupations and have given blind date. Her date was a U.S. Marine by ed, from the listening area of WTIC, so special education in the East Hartford Marie three grandchildren to remind her the name of Paul Kuntz. Paul was born and that, when Bob and Paul were in Vietnam, School System. Paul, Jr. lives at home. He that life goes on. raised in Erie, Pa., attended Gannon they could communicate with each man, if is a cabinetmaker apprentice in the State Marie, an easy-to-talk-to lady, makes University for two years, transferring to so located, to say hello and give greetings of Connecticut program. one feel right at home, telling her story of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., from back home. It proved rather suc­ Both Paul and Marie were involved in the her "good and quiet man" she married in where in 1951 he received a degree in cessful. Returning to the states, Paul and CCD programs at st. Robert's Church, 1953, he in the U.S. Marines and both recent journalism .. Bob traveled all over the state, talking to under Father.Leonard Goode. Paul was its gradudates of college. Soon after graduation, Paul enlisted in various organizations, such as the first CCD president, and taught school Marie Westbrook, daughter of Robert the Marines. Paul was on active duty for American Legion, Knights of Columbus around the state, under the Archdiocese of and Ellen Westbrook, grew up in Troy, more than two years, rising to the rank of a and V.F.W. in raising funds for a hospital Hartford. N.Y. In 1940, her late father, and mother full colonel. in Vietnam, that they had come in contact Marie was a member of the St. Robert's (now 87 and living in Washington, D.C.) Years later, when Paul and Marie were with while reporting the action. Womens Club and looking back at those decided to leave Troy for work in the naval living in Connecticut, he stayed on, as a It proved to be another successful opera­ days, said, "I still miss Windsor Locks." shipyards around the nation's capital. marine, in an inactive reserve status, at­ tion. A new wing was eventually added to Marie, 12 at the time, soon became ac­ tending summer camp each year and held the hospital, all through the combined ef­ AN AVID READER, Marie also made all quainted with the Catholic schools of the role as commanding officer of the Hart­ forts of Paul, Bob and the contributors. the girl's clothes, even the wedding gowns, Washington, D.C. She attended·St. Cecilia ford U.S. Marine Corps. In 1978, Paul left the radio station to saying, "I enjoyed it," adding, "When the High School and Dunbarton College of Holy Paul and Marie were married while he become Director of Community Relations girls were growing up . I sewed, they Cross, where she graduated with 'a was still in the service. Soon after for the town of Bloomfield. Marie said, cooked." bachelor of arts degree in 1951. \ r;~~ k'~ , discharge, he and his new bride returned to "Paul loved it ... he truly loved (the new Paul passed away in July, 1982. Marie's Did Marie play any sports? "Yes" it was Evanston and Northwestern for' a year, job and at WTIC) what he did." thoughts . "A quiet and good man ... an all-girl college and when the nuns said while Paul earned his master's degree. never had a nasty word for anyone ... he AT THIS POINT of the interview, I asked was always realistic, when it came to peo­ Marie about their six children ... Cathy, ple's actions . could have written the Nancy, Lisa, Amy, Barbara and Paul Jr. book on fighting fair." Marie's personal Cathy is married to David Jourdan, philosophy, "I can do it, if I have to." formerly lived in town, now resides, with Dave and their daughter, Beth, in Windsor. EPILOG: Marie Westbrook Kuntz was Cathy, an Eastern Connecticut State not sure what I would write about her - University graduate, has been an in­ her story, she said, was her husband and surance underwriter. their children. She was the wife of Paul and Nancy, married to Tim Ryan, is a mother to six children and now grand­ University of Connecticut graduate, has a mother to three. On two occasions, during master's degree in human development the interview, Marie said, "Paul made me and family relations. better than I was." He probably knew - Tim and Nancy live in Baltimore, Md., Marie could do it, if she had to. She has. People have a way of meeting, for the first time, and in many cases, find the . chemistry right. They go on to marry, raise a family and live happily ever after. In the case of Bill and Carol Frederick, that was quite the way it happened. Residents of Windsor Locks, for the past ten years, they came from different states, Bill of Troy, N.Y., and Carol, West Chester, Pa. They met on a blind date, while students in college. They can be rightfully called "college sweethearts." Locally, both have been active, Bill as a state employee, his department is involved in the supervision and design of the former Southwest School becoming a future home for the local senior citizens. Carol is not on­ ly the chairman of the Girl Scouts Cookie Program but is active on the PTO and Playground Committee of North Street School and a member of the School Reorganization Committee. Carol, putting it all in the proper perspective, said, "Be­ ing involved (in civic projects) makes one happier and are usually paid back many times." BEFORE THE MARRIAGE of - the "sweethearts" - Bill was born and raised DURING THE TRIP, it was decided, that after completion of their camping, it playing the piano and needlepoint. He is in­ would be time to settle down. They agreed, to woodworking and still enjoys playing cabbages and kings musical instruments. Family vacations By JACK REDMOND. are mostly camping at the cape or the woods of Maine. Hartford would be the place. They felt Cleveland was too large, a city like Hart-: AND WHO HAD in Troy, graduating from high s~hool in the most influence on 1962, where he played the accordlOn and ford, smaller, a place to work and to live in I Bill and Carol? In Carol's case, it would be the suburbs.