Perry Ciambella:  

I have pursued a number of dreams in my life; and as I did I was fortunate to encounter many old friends from our high school years. Herein I will chronicle, to the best of my memory, several phases including college, early career, public ministry and then family life. For college I went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy New York as did Rick Szalach from our class. Being out of town, both of us still dated our high school sweet hearts--he Lisa Schober and I, Donna Simpson. Early Career: After graduation I worked in the Industrial Coatings Industry, starting in Buffalo with the Spencer Kellogg Company. Being back in Buffalo, I hooked up with a number of our old classmates running into them everywhere from church (St Catherine's) to bars.and hearing of many through the grapevine--often through my rather large family of parents or six brothers and sisters. I was only back here for a year as my career moved me to Cincinnati Ohio where coincidentally Debbie Maples who had married Donna Simpson's brother, Joe, also moved. I recall that Joe had been transferred there for his job in the Coast Guard. After a year, Spencer Kellogg transferred me to Long Beach California, a long ways away from Buffalo. Over the next six years there as I thrived in my young career, I came back to Buffalo dozens of times as my heart was still here. Though I didn't see anyone from high school out there, I would run into people in my returns for the holidays, weddings, etc. Since my famil...Expand for more