Dan McGrath:  

February 2012 I look back on my days at OLV and remember Latin classes with Sister Bernadine (?). That class was tough for me, until I found my older sisterss English / Latin translation of Caesarss Gallic Wars, like we were translating in class. I admit I used that to cheat a bit during class work, but not the tests. Soon I was so familiar reading the Latin sentences and the English translation directly underneath that I did not need the book anymore! I also loved Geometry class (with Sister Rita ?) the angles, equations, etc. I sat next to Dave McHugh and remember when she took his comb away when he started to comb his hair during class. She tried to break it in half, but it would only bend back and forth like rubber. Then she threw it on the floor and she started stamping on it. Dave just picked it up when she was done and put it back in his pocket. Remember how Olaf, RIP, would sit on the window sill and threaten to jump out? How about the time that Salerno almost got into a fight with Mr. Detore in the Biology lab chasing each other around the lab tables. Those in Mr. Heutherss homeroom remember how we collected (for UNICEF ?) before classes by stoning the appointed screw-up with our coins in front of the room while Heuther stood guard outside. We almost always beat Mr. Hunts homeroom total. After OLV I attended Bloomfield College for 2½ years with an Accounting major (which I learned to hate), at which time it almost went bankrupt, so I transferred to Kean College, but didn't finish and never did get my degree. I worked for Prudential in Newark / Florham Park for 10 years and left there as a COBOL programmer. I then worked for the City of NY on their payroll system as a programming manager for 10 years, then left to become a Business Systems Analyst employee with a NJ consulting firm and pr...Expand for more