Chris Surprenant:  

Wow. Amazing how many class of 65er's are here. I haven't thought too much about those days in awhile. My twin brother Chuck suggested that I log on so here goes. Seems like in high school I was always working after class. Stop and Shop was my extracurricular activity! After barely escaping algebra I graduated and after a summer at EB decided that there had to be a different way. I was a navy brat anyway so submarines here I come. Kind of funny really as my mom wanted me to go to college and I was done with school except that I found myself in the USN training pipeline for two years. Sorry mom, you were right! After that I ended up back in Groton making FBM patrols out of Rota, Spain on the blue crew of the USS Thomas A. Edison. Chuck was partying at UCONN during this time hanging out with people with different haircuts than mine. I met a Boston girl who was an elementary school teacher, married and had boy/girl twins who thankfully are not identical. After seven years, six patrols and a stint as an instructor at Sub School, I rejoined the world and was shocked to discover that my sense of personal self worth was not shared by most of the potential employers that I encountered. I had BTDT with the EB thing so we loaded up the kids in the VW convertible and schlepped up to Boston where I had scored a gig with my wife's dad who was a drapery installer. It was at this time that I finally realized the value of higher education and with the benefit of the GI bill, attended night school for five years earning a BS in business management from ...Expand for more