John Sweeney:  

Life after Gloversville High School - After GHS, I graduated from Union College in 1958 with a BA in History, SUNY Albany in 1959 with an MA, and went into teaching. Taught 2 years in Voorheesville, NY, and 32 more years in Herkimer, NY. I taught all of the "Social Studies" including World History,American History, Government, Economics and Native American Studies. I retired from teaching in 1993. I am currently Village Judge in the Village of Middleville, and Town Judge in the Town of Fairfield, Herkimer County. I also own and operate JOHNS GUIDE SERVICE, which offers guided fly fishing trips and fly fishing instruction on the Ausable River, Delaware River, and West Canada Creek. I have personally fly fished in both fresh and salt water over much of the US and Alaska as well as Australia, New Zealand, Peru and Chile and Argentina.. I wrote one of the chapters in "Trophy Trout Streams of the Northeast", and am a major contributing editor to "Pro Series- Fly fishing for Trout", to be released by Globe Pequot Press in the spring of 2009 In 1990, Dawn and I went to Australia and we have travelled to many countries since then. These include New Zealand, Italy, Greece, France, Switzerland, Ireland , Scotland, Wales, Peru, and Chile. We had a great GHS reunion in August 2004 (our 50th), and are making plans for #100 !!! On Sept. 7, 2007, Dawn and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary, and In May of 2008, we went to my 50th reunion at Union College. In May of 2018, I was fortunate enough to attend my 60th at Union College.We had a class of 300 and there were 14 of us at the reunion!! Time rolls on, but life is good, and to quote an old Native ...Expand for more