Vincent Kmetz:  

Anyone who's reading this vis a vis Tahanto Regional HS, I'm fairly certain I'd want to hear from you. vinniekmetz here I moved from Danbury, CT and lived in Boylston from Dec 1977-Mar1981 and they were the happiest 4 years of my life. Went back to nearby Brookfield, CT in 1981, graduated Brookfield HS in 1985 and after time at University of MD, and back here at WestCT State U, I left school and immersed myself in a golf career that ended two years ago when I quit work, went back to school and am efforting to be a working writer in some capacity. For the last 10 years I have owned a house in Danbury. Went to Boylston Elem in 5th and 6th grade (teachers were Ms. Ahearn and Ms. Tower, I can't remember the 5th grade teacher(s) maybe Silverstein(?) Mr. Horace Coco for gym, Mr. cochran was the principal, Mrs Page (prounounced French style P-ah-jay) was music and directed all of us in the 6th grade musical production of "It Takes a Wizard" based on the Wizard of Id comic. I only mention this because I was the lead (the Wizard) I think Steve Palermo was The King, John Henshaw was The Jester and I think Susan Dietl was the female lead..but my greatness is mostly what I remember. Locally, I lived in Timberbrook Condos, 225 Edgebrook Drive and was best friends with donnie Hartman, Tommy Dumont, Gareth McCain and Michael somebody (Lane?)(forgive me)as well as Marc Nordstrom. Of the non-Timberbrook crowd (of which there were many) I was great friends with John Henshaw, Vinny Dipalato, and a few others. I played baseball for Ken Jones Rhinos up at Morningdale Manor (on a gravelly infield) with Artie Flagg, Scott McCubrey, Todd Trapke and a few others. I also played at least one year for the Boylston Bisons Pop Warner team who had Buzzy Buzydlo (also the town's Police Chief I believe) as the coach. Socially, beyond the realm of male friends, Boylston was a wonderful place to launch puberty. My first girlfriend and kiss was Kristine Swanson in sixth grade. Happened right there in my Timberbrook garage after I beat her ass in Monopoly. Sometime later when I taunted her after beating her skinny ass in basketball, she kicked me square in the groin. The relationship didn't last too long after that though it was the first bitter casulaty of the Mars Venus wars for this soldier. After Kristine my monogamous tastes moved on to "gasp" older women. I used to play Spin ...Expand for more