William Minto:  

Have you heard about the mini reunion that Dessie Chrampanis - Henion, Barbara Roy - Caminiti and I are organizing? It will be on May 21, 2011 at the Elm Park Inn, located on Morningstar Road. It will run from 1 to 6 PM. There will be a sit down 4 course meal and cash bar. Cost for the meal will be $35 per person and will be collected at the door when registering for the mini reunion. Please pay in cash. RSVP your attendance prior to May 19th by going to MY School on this site and then Reunion. Hope to see you there. Dated August 16, 2010 Hi fellow PRHS Class of 65 classmates! So you want to know what's been going on in my life. Well, where do I start? Has it actually been 45 years. And your expecting me to remember. Well to begin with I have to confess something. What most of you may not know is that I didn't get to walk down the aisle of knowledge at our graduation ceremony. I failed English and had to go to summer school in order to get my deploma. Throughout my PRHS days and for almost two years following them, I worked at Majors Department Store located on Forest Avenue in Mariners Harbor. I am sure you alll remember it. While there I did take a few classes (if I recall correctly it ended up to be for 9 credits) at Staten Island Community College. But I didn't stay with it. Anyway, knowing that my days of avoiding the draft were getting fewer and fewer, I went down to the Air Force recruiter located down in St George next to the ferry in mid to late 1966 to enlist. However, because I was attempting to get into a specific specialty I had to wait until there was a vacancy available before I could actually take the oath and ship out to boot camp. Then in January of 67 I received my draft notice. So I quickly ran down to the recruiter again and asked him what he could do for me. While he couldn't get me into the specialty that I wanted, he did get me in the Air Force, where I spent the next 3 years, 9 months and 26 days. I was in the intellegence gathering business (some might call it spy work). Not actual 007 type of spy work, but very sensitive stuff which I can't go into detail about. It was hard but very interesting work, and nothing I ever thought I would be doing. But I truely did enjoy my military active duty time. The Air Force iterally took me around the world. Europe, Africa,the middle east, asia minor, the far east. Loved every second of it. I actually thought about stayin in and makeing the military a career. Why didn't I? I am not sure why. Guess I just wanted to grow my hair long. Which I did for a couple of years, but then I joined the Air National Guard and had to cut it short again. I served in both the New Jersey and Washington DC Air Guard and completed my 20 years of service. Getting bact, after I got out of my military active duty I layed back and collected unemployment benefits for about 6 months. Then somehow, and I don't recall exactly how or why, I applied for and attained a position with the Bureau of Narcotic and Dangerous Drugs in June of 72. This agency of the U.S. Department of Justice was later changed to and is currently known as the Drug Enforcement Administration. I worked in the New York Regional Office of DEA. I started out as a base radio operator, and worked my way into the position of Regional Security Officer. Then in late 1983 I notiified that my position was being abolished and made a collateral duty for a Special Agent due to a reduction in force (RIF). This was back in the days when President Reagan was attempting to make Government smaller. So, as a result of the RIF, I ended up being transfered t...Expand for more