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SPECIAL NOTICE

This notice is for one of our own Billy Palladino, Staples H.S. graduate, class of 1968. He was diagnosed with throat cancer in November of 2009 and has been hospitalized since Feb. 6, when complications from throat cancer surgery in November robbed him of his ability to speak. He had an operation where they removed his epiglottis, the flap that covers the trachea during swallowing so that food does not enter the lungs. He had a Tracheotomy and now is unable to speak. He is presently in Danbury Hospital and is receiving Chemotherapy and Radiation and hoping to go home soon.

With all this going on for Bill, another tragedy struck his family. His wife, Janice Ann McClenathan Palladino, age 45, passed away from a massive heart attack on February 11, 2010 at her home in Sandy Hook, CT. She was also a Staples High School Graduate, class of 1983. Not only did his wife meticulously prepare meals that were injected through the feeding tube Bill had implanted after his surgery and monitor his medications, her full-time job at a small manufacturing company in Oxford provided the health insurance that covered the bulk of his medical bills.

Now there is no income for family and they don't know how long the insurance from Janice's job will cover Billy's medical bills. They have 2 daughters, Michelle and Sarah Palladino who are both in college.

We want to let you know that a trust fund has been set up for Billy and his family at:

Newtown Savings Bank
30 Main Street
Danbury CT 06810
Phone: (203) 205-0080

For those of you that want to contact him or send get well cards to, his home contact information is:

Bill Palladino
7 Overlook Knoll
Sandy Hook CT 06482
(203) 426-8960

Here are some links for more information:

Article on Billy in the Danbury News Times, Feb. 21, 2010.

Obituary from the Westport News on Janice Ann McClenathan Palladino.

Please help out where you can. Collectively we can all make a difference for Billy and his family, no matter what the $ amount is. Words of support are also needed if you can't make a donation during these hard times.

Thank you, Shelby Goodlett Pike

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I recently traveled to Westport to attend a funeral of my friend Tom Conroy's Dad Jack. It was a bittersweet event, with a lot of sadness about a fine man passing, but a lot of great memories of growing up with great friends and hanging out at Tom's house with friends. Many of our friends and ex-football players came to the Conroy's house after the service. How appropriate to have a toast to Jack while listening to the Staples football team playing for the State championship. Unfortunately, they lost in an overtime playoff and the class of 1976 is still the only undefeated state championship team. It was great to see Ed Stalling and Bob Grune who both traveled a long way to be there. Sitting in Tom's basement I recalled a time when I took out Tom's fence with my Jeep one night and all Jack Conroy could say to me, was "get it fixed" with no other questions. I agree with Sue Holiday, that it would be great to to continue to relive the stories of growing up in Westport. I hope everyone is well.	Randall Grosberg 1976 view posts Thursday, 03/04/2010 18:38:34
I moved away from Westport in 1972 but I would have graduated in '76. I saw this site and it has brought back many memories, from King's Highway to Camp Mahackeno in the 60's.	Eric Farno 1976 view posts Friday, 02/19/2010 07:20:39
I've been remembering the Candlelight concerts that many of us participated in each year. Those were wonderful! But, I'm struggling to remember the lyrics to the processional song we sang: "Sing We Noel" It's the one the choir processed in to holding candles. It began with these words (I think) "Dost thou remember the prophet of old." But, then I get stuck! Does ANYONE remember what comes next?	Sue Holliday Windrick 1976 view posts Sunday, 12/06/2009 06:34:13
To the classmates of 76. I though it was fitting to post the proclamation by President Lincoln which made Thanksgiving a national holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to all and may God bless each and everyone of you. By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth. By the President: Abraham Lincoln	Nicholas Garoffolo 1976 view posts Friday, 11/27/2009 23:20:29
Tim, I was also recently remembering the flurry of postings that occurred at this time last year! What a blast that was. Perhaps we can reignite it once again. I say, let's get it all going again! Who's with me?	Sue Holliday Windrick 1976 view posts Friday, 11/27/2009 16:57:48
Wishing the Class of '76 a most peaceful Thanksgiving. It was just about a year ago that our class overwhelmed the Westporters.com site. I believe that we have created more than 600 postings covering topics such as spirituality, creating a scholarship fund, and the Frampton concert. More than the topics, it seems to me that we had (and have) a strong desire to reconnect, relive, and create anew the spirit of our class. I am sure that many of you have done as I - picking up the phone and calling classmates, visiting friends in cities around the country, sending e-mails and using all sorts of social media to further these initial connections. And it has been filled with compassion and joy. How great to sit with 4 friends from Long Lots - LONG LOTS - in Grand Central Station and catch up, and plan the next visit. How wonderful to share in the joys of classmates' children graduating, or getting married, or giving birth. How powerful, still, to read the perfect words of Erica Lehrer, to see the city- and landscapes of Tony Hoffman, to hear the creation of Amy's children. So it has been a year. A most memorable and historic year. And, or but, I wonder: how are you? I, for one, would welcome seeing this board come alive again with postings; with personal updates; with ideas, thoughts and commentary. There is much going on in our world and I am sure that Staples alumni are in there making it happen. So, what's new? (And, finally, what ever became of the Spirit of '76 fund there did receive so much attention?). May all of you, may all of us have much to give thanks for and enjoy these days,	Tim Garvin 1976 view posts Wednesday, 11/25/2009 19:43:20
My brother Duncan just came out East to go to the Staples 1974 35th reunion. I guess it was quite an affair - over 130 people were there. He had a great time and got a tour of the new Staples.	Honor Heath 1976 view posts Monday, 10/12/2009 08:54:33
My Dad has this great story about going to see the Brooklyn Dodgers, cutting his hand somehow, and ending up in their locker room with their doctor and meeting them all.	Laura Bloom 1976 view posts Thursday, 07/09/2009 06:29:23
The Bridgeport Dodgers? My father-in-law passed a love for all-things-Dodgers on to my husband and his siblings - and I'm talking the Brooklyn boys. It's still the only pro-baseball team he cares about, even if they did have to go move to LA. OK, that's ancient history. But the Bridgeport Dodgers sounds good to me. Is there enough room for them and the Sox? Maybe - but I still think the Whalers need to see the error of their ways.	Lisa Kaplan Steier 1976 view posts Tuesday, 06/09/2009 02:40:28
My oldest is 17 and youngest 14...still have a way to go for graduating the youngest. It would be excellent to put a pro team in Bridgeport...help rejuvenate the place. How about the Bridgeport Dodgers?	Rich Gleason 1976 view posts Monday, 06/08/2009 20:49:13
Congratulations, Nancy and Liz. I remember shedding lots of tears. One more year for Michael and then he'll graduate from college. Talk about surreal! Liz, I hear that your daughter is coming East to school? Smith? Carly went to Mt. Holyoke and we're just an hour from there. Will you be moving her here yourself? I'd love to run up to Northampton to see you. And Ken - CT is one of many states with no pro team? It seems like just about every state has one, but now that you mention it - you're right. Ah well, it's still something I feel we're missing. The minor league affiliates just don't come close (but don't tell them that!)	Lisa Kaplan Steier 1976 view posts Monday, 06/08/2009 18:44:24
Nancy, Mine just did on Saturday and it seems surreal. Cograts to you also and anyone else entering this new chapter.	Liz Marer 1976 view posts Monday, 06/08/2009 18:33:56
Lisa; Connecticut is one of many states with no professional sports teams, other than Minor League affiliates.	Ken Machol 1976 view posts Monday, 06/08/2009 04:36:15
Ah, Hartford Whalers! When I moved here and discovered the Whalers, I started enjoying hockey. When they left Hartford, I stopped following it. We really do need some Connecticut team to root for. (Other than those awesome UCONN Huskies, that is.)	Lisa Kaplan Steier 1976 view posts Sunday, 06/07/2009 17:35:46
Thank God, I have an Electric Car now! I grew up a Hartford Whalers Fans, lovely team colors!	Ken Machol 1976 view posts Sunday, 06/07/2009 15:34:40
Nancy; My wife is from Detroit, so we watch every game. How does Canada feel not having a representative again this year in the Stanley Cup?	Ken Machol 1976 view posts Sunday, 06/07/2009 07:26:54
Friends are priceless. Do you remember what magazine it appeared in? I'll look for it.	Lisa Kaplan Steier 1976 view posts Thursday, 05/28/2009 17:14:34
Bill; Thanks for the information about Jeff. I never realized that he was living so close to me. He passed away too young.	Ken Machol 1976 view posts Sunday, 05/24/2009 07:31:32
So sad. Thanks for posting it, Bill. Sounds like he accomplished an awful lot in his short life.	Lisa Kaplan Steier 1976 view posts Sunday, 05/24/2009 06:24:20
Jeffrey Floch, M.D., was a practicing Obstetrician/Gynecologist in Brandon, Florida who lost his battle with cancer on November 23, 1999. He is survived by his wife Yvette and daughter Cassandra. There is an award given out by the Brandon Hospital honoring Jeff each year.	Bill Shaner 1976 view posts Sunday, 05/24/2009 05:15:38
As broadcasting/advertising has been my career over the last 20 years I can say I'm sad to see an era end. Unfortunately, with the advent of the internet, readership as well as listenership and viewership has declined incredibly. Advertisers are getting wise to the audience fragmentation and demanding greater accountability for their advertising dollars (and rightly so). The only medium that can REALLY qualify their audience IS the internet with their analytics offerings. With the economy in the tank as well, there are even less advertisers out there to support the dying newspapers, radio stations and TV stations. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE $$$.	Martie Ffrench 1976 view posts Monday, 05/18/2009 18:29:28
After over 150 years, the Ann Arbor newspaper ends in July. Detroit's two newspapers (Free Press and News) actually combinded a few years ago, but they are also on their way out.	Christopher Frey 1976 view posts Monday, 05/18/2009 17:22:30
Yes Nancy, the Rocky Mountain News in Denver went under last month. One of my best friends worked there for a long time and it's been terribly difficult. There aren't many jobs left for people like him. And, it's sad that a way of life for us readers is slipping away.	Laura Bloom 1976 view posts Monday, 05/18/2009 15:24:18
Just saw here that Bill Mozingo passed away in 2000. He was my Holly Ball date way back when we were all 9th graders at Long Lots. I am so sad, he was so sweet. I would bet that his son is growing up just as adorable.	Amy Goode 1976 view posts Monday, 05/18/2009 07:47:41
Welcome back. It's been pretty quiet here as you can tell. Hope you are well too.	Laura Bloom 1976 view posts Tuesday, 05/12/2009 20:20:51
Well I'm still waiting for my growth spurt Dan, but yeah, I won't fit into a locker anymore! And 6'4" and 230 is hardly chubby. And for that matter, I think most of us are getting a lot of grey at this point...so good hearing from you, Dan.	Larry Weiss 1976 view posts Saturday, 04/25/2009 06:00:15
Hi Larry. I wouldn't think you are the same size today. I always thought you had a great attitude as to who you were/are and a great sense of humor. I was always big for my age and that sometimes worked for me and sometimes against me. Today I am 6'4" and a chubby 230 LBS with grey hair.	Dan Downey 1973 view posts Friday, 04/24/2009 07:15:10
Hey Dan...oh man now that's a memory. I've gotten over the locker scenario...maybe. And knowing me, yes I probably thought it was funny. But it's been 40 years or so and unfortunately I don't fit in lockers anymore. Great hearing from you.	Larry Weiss 1976 view posts Friday, 04/24/2009 02:53:07
Hi every one My brother told me about this Westporters site. I didn't go to Staples but my brothers Kit 73,Tommy 70 and Rob 68 all graduated from Staples. I would have gone too but my mother, father and I moved away on a boat that my father built in the back yard at Surf Road. I spent most of my 9th grade year sailing around and was educated by the University of Nebraska Correspondence School. That year there was no cutting class or failing to do home work. My mother was the teacher and my father was the disaplinarian. However I did go to Hillspoint, Saugituck, Kings Highway and Bedford Jr.. It has been interesting reading all the comments and seeing some of the names of people I remember from those schools days in Westport. Most of the things I remember are from Bedford Jr. The names and faces I can remember that are reprosented here are: Jim and Tom Cuniff. I remember Jin shaved little Tom‚Äôs head with a Mohwak. That was not a very popular hair style in 1965. David Wiener, you always were very funny and had a great sence of humor. Tim Plunket the same for you. Bonnie Stanton. John Fontaine you were just to smart for your good. Not a problum I have and which I will demonstrate here for you with my inabiliaty to spell and my poor writting skills.. I remember we were all in the aiditorium listing to some NASA scientists lecure. At the end he asked if any one had any questions. You asked him when he thought we would reach Alphacentory. We had only just landed on the moon a few years before. That cracked me up. Nothing like setting the bar just a little higher. I live in Rockledge,FL and I love to watch launches. I can see and hear the boom from my hose. I aspecially like the night time shuttle shots I dated a girl that was Lauch Director for all the Delta rockets back in the 90s. Scott Morehouse. I played football with you. You were one of the best players on the team and probably the only one that knew how to play the game. I know I sucked at Offensive Tackle and Corner Back. I wanted to play Deffensive End. I remember once playing Corner back and Coach Hall started welling at me ‚ÄúDON‚ÄôT YOU KNOW YOUR JOB. HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN A FOOTBALL GAME ON TV TO KNOW WHAT YOUR JOB IS?‚Äù I wanted to say ‚Äúno I do not know my job and yes I have watched football on TV and the Corner back runs off the TV screen as soon as the ball is snapped. Nancy Davis, you had big crazy hair. I appoligize if I ever made fun of it. What comes around goes around. When I got to HS in Miami my hair got just like yours. I once a black teacher refer to me as the gentleman in the back with the semi fro. I remember you Celest Allmand I thought you were the hottest girl. I am sure you thought I was a geek. Lary Wies, probably the smallest kid in school. I remember you telling me and some other freinds that you were small enough to get in you locker. I told you I didn‚Äôt believe you could do it, so you opened the door and sqweezed youself in. Once you were all the way in I slammed the door shut. You couldn‚Äôt get out. We were all laughing and I believe you were too. Then a teacher came over and she herd your muffled cries for help. She didn‚Äôt think it was very funny. I remember being in level 1 Spanish for dumbies. There were like 5 kids in the class. It was my third time taking the class. There were chaulk boards all around the room. I believe it was David Mull who while the teachers back was turned through an eraser and it hit her in the back leaving a big chaulk print. And no it was not one of the Digisis, they would rip you a new sphinkter if you did something like that in there classes. The teacher after being hit turned around and asked who through the eraser. Like the guilty party is going to rase his hand. To my surprise the whole class pointed at me. The dim whitted teacher believed them and I was sentenced to 2 hours detention after school to pick chewing gum out of the carpet with a pen knife. Ya thats right they gave a kid who gets in trouble a knife to wonder around school with. Once I was excussed to use the rest room. On the way I passed my friend Mark Snow who had just come from the boys room. He seemed to be in a hurry to get back to class which was weird for him. I went in and I could tell some one had been smoking in there .So I did my business and left promptly. As I stepped out the door there was the Hightower coming down the hall. All of a sudden there was a loud bang in the boys room. Some one (Mark) had placed a cigarette over the fuse of an M80. Needless to say I was picking gum out of the carpet again. Do you remember Mr. Stahl. I was in his wrestling club class. Ralph DaMattio was in it too. Ralph and some of his freinds roughed me up like the first day of school at Bedford. Ralph was a bit of a wise guy. Stahl was about to show us a very painful move that was vertualy impossible to escape from. Ralph piped up and said he could get out of it. Now stahl had a ginie pig to demonstrate no punn intended. Stahl put this move on him and began to wratchet up some pain. Ralph struggled but could not get free. Stahl wracheted it up a little more. I could see the pain in Ralph‚Äôs faceas it contorted and turned beat red. I don‚Äôt think you can do that today. Stahl said he would let him go if he called uncle. Having been beat up by Ralph‚Äôs gang I was enjoying this class a lot. It was not long before ralph was calling him Uncle Stahl. I remember at Kings Highway my gym class had a substitute one day and the class was unruley and made the subs day hell. Well when our ussual gym teacher returned he was REALY mad. He had us all sitting in neat rows indian style as he paced up and down the rows yelling at us. There were long pauses in his rant where you could hear a pin drop. In one of these pauses a kid let a thunderous fart. It echoed through the gym. The teacher tried to ignore it but it was clear he was trying hard not to laugh. There were only a couple giggles because we were afraid to laugh. No one realy knew who was responcibe until poor Calvin turned bright red. Those are just a couple of things I remember Well See ya Dan	Dan Downey 1973 view posts Wednesday, 04/22/2009 15:05:16
Hey Ken Machol I remember you in the summer of 1968 when you visited. Where in the world is John Chapdelaine these days? I see Cathy has written a few books	Carol Violette 1974 view posts Monday, 04/20/2009 20:26:11
Apparently she lived on Marc Lane, off Roseville Road. Here's the Westport News article with local info. -link-	Laura Bloom 1976 view posts Tuesday, 04/14/2009 12:34:52
When she was in Long Lots she was best friends with my neighbor Cathy Porter and she babysat me a couple of times and then babysat my brother Art for a couple of years. It's been one of my claims to fame for many years.	Jim Cutter 1976 view posts Tuesday, 04/14/2009 12:13:36
She used to walk to school with my sister. What I remember my sister telling us is that all she wanted was to be a movie star. I think she lived up at the top of Colony Road.	Beth Dalheim Van Doren 1976 view posts Tuesday, 04/14/2009 10:45:43
The L.A. Times ran a half page obit on Marilyn Chambers (Briggs) this morning along with a very beautiful photo. It is also interesting to go to the class of 1970 on this website as there are a lot of her close friends talking about and remembering her with interesting stories.	Jay Rockey 1976 view posts Tuesday, 04/14/2009 08:47:30
Marilynn Briggs, class of 1970	Bill Shaner 1976 view posts Tuesday, 04/14/2009 08:34:09
I believe she was in my sister's class of 1969.	Beth Dalheim Van Doren 1976 view posts Tuesday, 04/14/2009 07:00:06
I remember my boss at the Peppermill, telling us that he dated Marilyn at Staples in the 70's..	Ken Machol 1976 view posts Monday, 04/13/2009 20:41:45
What class was she scheduled to graduate in? Did she drop out or did she graduate in '70? She was a very beautiful woman.	Rich Gleason 1976 view posts Monday, 04/13/2009 19:16:02
THIS JUST IN (from CNN): Marilyn Chambers Dies at 56 LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Porn icon Marilyn Chambers was found dead in her Los Angeles home Sunday night, but investigators do not suspect foul play, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman. Chambers began her career in 1970 as a model for Ivory Snow soap, and starred two years later in the porn classic "Behind the Green Door." "She was a really nice girl," said actor Ron Jeremy, who co-starred with Chambers in adult films starting in the 1970s. Chambers' death was a "total shock," Jeremy said, because they had been scheduled to sign a contract Monday to perform together in an off-Broadway "tongue-in-cheek" re-enactment of the porn classic "Deep Throat." "What's strange is that she was at a stage where she was totally happy and totally content with her life," Jeremy said. "Her life was falling together, and she was doing really well." A family member found Chambers, 56, in the mobile home where she lived in the Canyon Country area and called police Sunday evening, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitemore said. The death appeared to be from natural causes, although toxicology tests have not been completed, Whitemore said. The coroner's investigation has not been completed, and no cause of death has been determined, according to a spokesman with the Los Angeles Medical Examiner's office. Although her career was mostly in X-rated films, Chambers' fame was boosted by the irony that her face had graced the Ivory Snow box, a soap advertised as "99 and 44/100 percent pure." Chambers eventually co-starred with all of the best-known porn actors of the 1970s and 1980s, Jeremy said.	Doug Parker 1976 view posts Monday, 04/13/2009 18:06:24
Kevin drove his mom's old Green car, a 1940 something Ford I think. What a creampuff! It's back seat was the size of a couch and I can't tell you how many of us used to pile in and head to the beach. Unfortunately, he had a close encounter with a telephone pole while tripping around town one day while skipping school! Oops! Very talented, funny and sweet guy.	Susan Jenkins Schutte 1976 view posts Friday, 04/10/2009 09:08:51
Larry; I looked him up in our yearbook. I did recognize his picture.He was not in any of my classes that I can remember.	Ken Machol 1976 view posts Thursday, 04/09/2009 11:15:29
Hey Ken. Kevin was in our class but he pretty much kept to himself.He was an incredibly talented person and had a great sense of humor.	Larry Weiss 1976 view posts Thursday, 04/09/2009 10:31:42
Was he in our class at Staples?	Ken Machol 1976 view posts Tuesday, 04/07/2009 05:39:13
The obituary mentions donations to the mid-Fairfield AIDS project...	Bill Shaner 1976 view posts Monday, 04/06/2009 21:01:47
Did the paper say how he died?	Doug Parker 1976 view posts Monday, 04/06/2009 18:46:02
Thanks Gail, had just heard about that. Very sad.:(	Susan Jenkins Schutte 1976 view posts Monday, 04/06/2009 15:32:05
Just read in the Westport News that J. Kevin Lambert passed away.	Gail Latimer Gorian 1966 view posts Monday, 04/06/2009 06:29:45
Julie; Thanks for the info. I have our graduation program as well. I did not know Bill in school...	Ken Machol 1976 view posts Wednesday, 04/01/2009 09:49:54
Ken, Bill Mozingo was in our class. I didn't recognize the name either but I have the program from our graduation. If I could figure out how to scan it I would post it "somewhere else."	Julie O'Sullivan Urciuoli 1976 view posts Wednesday, 04/01/2009 09:41:34
Staples Players calling all Godspell cast members for Players reunion memorial day weeekend. contact Abby Anderson-Peterson	Bill Shaner 1976 view posts Monday, 03/30/2009 18:37:21
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