So? Did you have fun?

We all send out a tremendous Thank You to Rick Bowe, Irene Nagy and Brian Corcoran for executing a 40th RHS reunion that was a smashing success!! Please add additional thoughts and comments here as we recall the events and bask in the fun memories!

Hello! John Poor!!!!

Several of you have tracked down my email and sent me a note. Actually, you have been sending notes to my wife who has sent them on to me. It's about time I finally get to responding. Going back a few years, I went to BU and started out as a teacher in Hanover, NH. And, in no time got married, changed my last name, bought a house, bought a station wagon and had my first of 3 sons! That house in Plainfield, NH, is still our home, but very quiet now with the boys all on their own. Occasionally, the activity level kicks up around here when some of our 3 grandsons (with another on the way) pay us a visit. Now that is fun!
I moved on from teaching and spent 26 exciting years helping to grow a computer company up here. 10 years ago, it was time to move on and I changed careers to be a financial advisor with Merrill Lynch that will see me into retirement. My wife, Jeanne, is still a teacher in the same school now teaching her 2nd generation of families!
Great memories of you all from the WIllard days. Stan Brown and I have stayed in touch all these years so he can fill you in on any disparaging details about me if you need. Otherwise, I look forward to hearing from or seeing some of you at some point. The best email to use for my contact is j_woodward-poor@ml.com - I don't really use this gmail account much.
Take care and have a great time!
John Woodward-Poor

"Mrs. Belmore, You've Got a Lovely Daughter!"

A few words from Charlee Belmore!!

Lots of laughs reading the blogs and I'm impressed by everyone's recall. I suppose we're not actually that old just yet, at least that's what I'd prefer to think....we all remember something!

Anyway, without boring you all too much I'll try to provide a very brief top line on my life. Here goes:

Moved to Milwaukee my junior year at RHS, and graduated from Valparaiso University. Spent the next several decades working the corporate side with GE in marketing and sales management and also the agency side in client services and consulting. Lots of transferring around the country but all in all a very good time. Got married somewhere in the middle to a nice guy from GE, just not the one for me. I left after about 8 years, and we divorced in '89. Nope... no kids. Children would have been nice but only with the right person for me. Anyway, a few more transfers, some quality people in my life, and then things changed again with aging parents. About eight years ago I moved to the Baltimore area and re-invented my work life to accommodate the family situation. It all turned out to be pretty amazing and life changing in lots of ways. Now life is less hectic, and I can appreciate the pace and travel for fun instead of just for work. Recently left a very small start-up company after several years, and now helping to find a potential buyer...we'll see how that pans out.

So there you have it in an instant replay format. I'm very lucky, life continues to be wonderful, perhaps not what I had anticipated when I was sixteen--- but I'm sure glad to be here!

Looking forward to seeing some taller, once upon a time 6th graders, on Friday.

Greetings FROM MR. SLICKER!!!!

Mr. Clyde Slicker, recognized earlier in this blog website, is well-known to many of us from fourth or sixth grade, or, in my case, both! On a whim, I invited him to attend our Willard reunion! I am thrilled that Mr. Slicker took the time to acknowledge the invitation and provide us with an update on his family. I have included the photo he sent of himself and Mrs. Slicker (I didn't realize she had taught at Somerville and Glen Schools as well!) and a copy of the note he wrote. Being the consummate teacher and professor that he is, we also have a suggested reading list that will "leave us thinking!" I am proud to say, Mr. Slicker (as I hope you continue to check this blog!), that I HAVE already read three of the books mentioned on your list!

FELLOW SLICKER SCHOLARS please add greetings here or find me at the reunion to write down memories and thoughts that I will send back to him along with "taller" pictures of us!

I will bring the card, photo and note to the reunion. You may be able to get a better view of the message by clicking on the image in the slide show below.