Bryan Wade:  

Tell my story? Hmmm. Gee, this might take a while. Let's see: Born in Poughkeepsie, NY. Mother is an ex-NYC public school teacher. Father, was a programmer for IBM. Parents separ ated when I was 4. Went to Oak Grove elementary and completed first grade. my teachers were Torebeck and Fischer. Came down to Flushing in the summer of '75 to spend a week with my grandparents and then my father moved back into the house and told us to not come back. So, I stayed in Flushing and began second grade at PS 163 that fall. My mother tried to get a job with the board of ed but they weren't hiring 'cause of the fiscal crisis so she went to Katherine Gibbs secretarial school and graduated at the top of her class. Soon, she got a job with American Express Co. I was in the little league (flushing copy) and then the cub scouts, weblos, and boy scouts. Troup 183. Mr. Murphy. We met in St. Ann's basement and sometimes in St. Ann's school gym. My teachers at 163 were(in order and spelling doesn't count): Thompson, Cohen, Folker, Weintroub, and Freund. Graduated from PS163 in 1980 and then went to IS237 Rachel Carson School. Some of my teachers were: Dinhoffer, Dinstein, Grossman, Lefelt, Morenstein, Gerbe, Cohen(math), Cohen(Spanish), Petrovsky, Jackel, Soebell, Weiner, Boksel, and Douch. Graduated in 1983. Then on to John Bowne High School. I lost my Grandfather in 1985. I Graduated from High School in 1986. Spent one year at Polytechnic University. Started working at m...Expand for more