Joseph Walsh:  

Walshie's Tale "Tech" & "Bo Tech": our colloquial nicknames names for the Boston Technical High School for Boys when it was located up on Warren Street in Roxbury, Boston in 1969. Freshman Home Room Class 1A. College Curriculum. Known as "Walshie", I think I was the second smallest kid in the whole school. The other smallest kid was in my homeroom. I played on the Soccer Team because I thought I was too small to even try out for the Football Team. I Wrestled and ran Track and participated in a few other school events. One of my friends who was on the football team and I used to wrestle together on our own time, all the time, all the way though High School! He could not stand to always loose to this tiny skinny little boy. Another friend and I wrestled at the beginning of every Gym Class. We did this for years until one day when I was severely under the weather ... he won! He never would wrestle me again after that single momentous victory! lol I never got my Year Book. I never even submitted a picture. In those days I really thought I was going to be a SEAL or a spy so I wanted to be anonymous and I didn't want any associations. Boy did life turn out differently!. Sure would love to see the Year Book today though. Years later someone told me that there was in fact a picture of me in our Year Book. They must have just found a picture of me somewhere for it. Freshman year we went through something in the order of twenty English Teaches and fifteen Math Teachers. Some of them didn't even last one class! I only remember one of this group of substitute teachers: a tall, thin guy, kind of a hippie. He was an English teacher, perhaps named Mr. Sherman (?) He was a good man and a good friend. Class 1A Home Room Teacher: Name?. A great big guy with a prominent forehead. He was the Coach of the Soccer team I played on. He also taught a class in Law which I enjoyed. One day for Law Class we all went to observe the proceedings at the Court House out near Forest Hills. He had a knack for quietly teaching us lessons that extended into life far beyond his required protocol. My High School years were during the Viet Nam War, and the Military even came and took eligible draftees right out of class. Al Munich: a tough little guy from Southie who taught woodworking / wood shop. He and I had so much in common. He was my Mentor in many ways. We build many Sun Fish Sail Boats, and Grandfather Clocks together. He wanted me to go on to be a Wood Working Instructor! He was a friend: kind of an older brother and father figure at the same time. I miss him still. Stanley: my best friend in freshman year. We studied Karate together up at the Dudley / Roxbury YMCA. One friend in freshman home room told me my studies of homeopathic healing techniques under my Father and Mother were able to help him with his complexion and completely changed his life! Hope you're still doing well. Miss/MS/Mrs. Eng (sp?): a pretty, petite, Asiatic woman, very sincere and kind. A heart I remember even today. In my Junior or Senior year, Miss Eng taught English. She was a very special person to me, a friend. When the other J Walsh won the class president election, it was Miss Eng who helped me realize I was somebody too. Debbie: a classmate from the local neighborhood who I had such a crush on. She was so beautiful, classy, strong, confident and elegant, and a full grown woman at at time when I was still quite a little boy! lol. I doubt she even knew I existed! It may have even been in Miss Eng's class. Eddie: one of my best friends in my latter years at "Tech". He and I had some interesting times after we as a class had graduated up to the Senior's Lunch Room, next to the Faculty and Staff Lunch Room. "Food Fight" from "Animal House" may ring a bell with some! Mr. Blundo: Biology Class Teacher, Black Belt in Karate, and Junior Coach to the Hockey Team under Head Coach Mr. Campbell. My friend Stanley and I had a lot of fun with Mr. Blundo. I will always remember him for the respect he ...Expand for more