Dominic Grillo:
CLASS OF 1965
New London High SchoolClass of 1965
New london, CT
Dominic's Story
One month after graduation, I went to Work at Dow Chemical. I started in the Styron area Packing room, Then became a cutter operator and then an exstruder operator. May thirteen, Nineteen seventy one, we went on strike. Two months later I went back to work as a loader in the warehouse. Held that job for a number of years ,then was put in charge of the high speed packaging area. Nineteen eighty We got a new plant manager. His first order of the day was no more day jobs, except for maintenance and the lab and clerical. Back to Styron as exstruder operator. Then to the Polymerization area and boiler house. Ten months later this operation was shut down. Next stop Styrofoam for a few months. From their to the new Styron and ABS plants. May thirteenth I was fired., but given one more chance to solve my weight problem.
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report The Diet center the next morning or lose my job. I went and in fifteen months I lost Two hundred and thirty five pounds. I met the love of my life In April of nineteen eighty four at Diet Center. We had our first Date on Halloween night, Got engaged on Valentines day Nineteen eighty five and married on June eighth nineteen eighty five.
We had two children, a girl named Janet Ivy, who was born prematurely and died two days later. A son named Dominic J. the third was born in July of the next year, also premature, but lived, he is now twenty three. I finished out my career at Dow as a senior security administrator. I left at age fifty.and worked for a few more years, applied for Social Security disability, due to arthritis in both knees. Got it and have been taking it easy ever since.
Hope to be at the fifty year reunion. I
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