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| In the past 50 years the two events that have meant the most to me were marrying my wife, Helen. She was from the class of St. Michael's 1951. We met in high school and married two years after graduation. It was my best decision ever. The second event was the birth of our four children. They have continued to make me proud throughout the years; especially when we had our eleven grandchildren. The two classmates that I remember are: Ellis DeCresce for his sense of humor. He always had us laughing, particularly in Sister Gabriel's math class. The second friend would be Jim Geraghty, who was one of the brightest people in our class. He was quite interesting and showed his mature interests. My favorite teacher was Sister Francis. She tried to improve my spelling. After several failed attempts, due to my lack of efforts, she decided on a different tactic. She knew that Helen and I were dating, so she looked up Helen's spelling marks and found they were excellent. Sister asked Helen to help me with my spelling. Helen took her promise very seriously and on our Sunday dates she would hear my spelling. Shortly after my spelling improved. In September 1952, I entered St. Peter's College as a night student and was drafted into army service in July 1953. I was sent to Army Finance School after basic training and spent two years preparing payrolls and discharging the men coming back from Korea. I returned to night school at St. Peter's and graduated in June 1961. I had an interesting career in sales management and marketing. I rose through the ranks to become National Sales Manager and retired in 1996. We had the pleasure of seeing all four of our children graduate from college and marry successfully. Our grandchildren are the icing on the cake. We recently attended the college graduation of our oldest grandchild and two more are in college. God has been extremely good to us. We have been very fortunate and I am sure it started at Michael's High School. |
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| FRANK X. FARRELL 4 Greenwich Avenue Manchester, NJ 08759 Birthday: May 8 Married: Helen Martin in 1954 Children: 4 |
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