Chris Barnett:  

Life First, I am at csambarnett at gmail dot com. Second, my family and I live in Cranston, R.I. Susanna and I have two daughters - an 8th-grader and a 4th-grader. My 13-year-old is a bright bookworm and the 9-year-old is the life of the party. As those of you who remember me might guess, my career has been split between journalism and PR. Today I work at the State House as Commuications Director for the Secretary of State. We do election reform, lobbying reform and economic development. College took me to Rhode Island, where I graduated from the University of Rhode Island with SHS classmates Paul Matthews, Sandy Johnson, Meg Legros, Laura Olsen and Neil Phenes. Work took me all over the country for the next few years. I finally settled in Rhode Island for good in 1982. Living in the Ocean State enables me to stay close to some of my best friends from SHS: Dan Downey, Pat Labbadia and Paul Matthews. My mother and youngest sister still live in Stamford, so I get to go "home" once a month. For anyone who hasn't been back, SHS might be the only thing you would recognize. Franklin Elementary School is now affordable housing and Burdick Jr...Expand for more