George Walsh:
CLASS OF 1959
Wilby High SchoolClass of 1959
Waterbury, CT
Grand Avenue Junior High SchoolClass of 2002
Bellmore, NY
Jerusalem Avenue Junior High SchoolClass of 1986
Bellmore, NY
Springfield CollegeClass of 1964
Springfield, MA
Saint Thomas SchoolClass of 1955
Thomaston, CT
George's Story
Life
After graduating from WILBY in 1959, I actually went back to Wilby for a 5th year to get courses that I needed to go to college. I attended Springfield College in Massachusetts and after graduating in 1964, I began teaching in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School School District on Long Island. I taught at Jerusalem Ave. Junior High for 21 1/2 years before it closed due to declining enrollment in 1986. Then I began teaching at Grand Ave Middle School where I still taught Science and coached soccer, basketball, and baseball. Over the summers from 1960 until 1997, I worked at Camp Wonposet on Bantam Lake. There I continued to work side by side with John McKenna the former Wilby basketball coach until he retired in about 1986. I love theatre and see almost everything on Broadway and off and frequently travel to London to see more as well as friends who live in Epsom.
In June, 2004, I retired from teaching after 39 1/...Expand for more
2 years. For my retirement , my friends at school arranged a party bus and tickets for 20 of us to take a trip up to Fenway Park to see my beloved Red Sox---and they won.
Since retiring, I have taken to writing and improving my golf----boy, does it need improving. I have shared some of my stories with friends and generally get good responses from them. Will I ever publish anything? I guess that I would like to sometime but that is hard to do. If anyone would like to read a story, let me know.
Workplace
I began teaching in the Bellmore-Merrick School District in the middle of the '64-'65 school year.I taught science at Jerusalem Ave. until it closed in '86, and then moved to Grand Ave. until I retired at the end of the 2004 school year.
I enjoyed my teaching and coaching
I coached basketball, baseball, soccer, and track over the years.
I spent most of my summers working at a summer camp in Ct. called Camp Wonposet('60-'97)
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