Tom Sides:  

Born in Bridgeport CT, family moved to Trumbull in 1950, then to Montreal, Quebec in 1955, and then back to CT to Fairfield in 1961. I moved away from Fairfield upon graduating from Bowdoin College (ME) in 1968. Having recently married Carolyn Jones from the Ludlowe Class of '65, I toiled in the trenches at General Electric for 17 years in various financial management roles with GE in locations that included Pittsfield MA, Mount Vernon IN, Syracuse NY, Bridgeport CT and Stamford CT ( the latter assignment a division CFO role with GE Capital). Along the way, son Trevor was born in 1970 and daughter Brooke was born in 1975.. Great kids who are now great adults with their own families, (Trevor has two boys) and Brooke has a daughter Mia, along with three older step-children who have all graduated from college) . Both Trevor and Brooke are college educated and holding their own . Trevor graduated from Colby with a BA in Philosophy in 1992 and lives with his family in Rocky Hill CT and is an IT consultant. Brooke, after a year at St Lawrence University (1994), eventually secured her BSc in Criminology from Westfield State College in MA. She lives with her family in Great Barrington MA, works full time in Stockbridge MA while completing her MSW degree. Having played college hockey all 4 years at Bowdoin, I continued my passion for hockey and played semi-pro for 7 years after college and then in more informal senior leagues. I also became a hockey referee shortly after college and refereed NCAA & ECAC hockey games as well as high school and prep school games for almost 20 years,, while also coaching youth hockey when living in Manlius NY and Newtown CT. In late 1984 I took an executive position with Mellon Bank at their corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh PA, living on a golf course about 45 minutes north of downtown Pittsburgh in Butler PA.. A major corporate downsizing in 1988 found me looking for work, and in January of 1989 I took on the job as CFO and Head of Operations and Administration at Kent School, an Episcopal-affiliated boarding school for boys and girls in grades 9-12 located on two campuses with 1800 acres of property bordering the Housatonic River in Kent CT (northwest corner of CT). Some 24 years later, I hung up my spurs and retired from Kent School in July of 2013. In early 1993 , Carolyn and I separated ....we officially divorced in 1995. .She immediately remarried, and I began dating a woman with whom I had had one fleeting but memorable date in the summer of 1966. Judy Bjorklund, recently divorced, was originally from Trumbull, and living with her 9 year old daughter Laura in Binghamton NY, working as the Ass't Athletic Dire...Expand for more