Douglas Kydd:  

CLASS OF 1972
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Reading Memorial High SchoolClass of 1972
Reading, MA
Wentworth Institute of TechnologyClass of 1974
Boston, MA
Eaton Elementary SchoolClass of 1966
Reading, MA

Douglas's Story

Workplace 33 year career railroad man. In love with a job that does not love me. Victim of changing times and declining work ethic. Grateful to old timers who (in 1978) prepared me for 1948 but failed to warn me what 2006 would be like!. We need more JOHN PHILLIP SOUZA abd DUKE ELLINGTON flavour, less MICHEAL JACKSON!. Nostalgic for days of wearing overalls to w...Expand for more
ork, jacket & tie for Saturday night out and the Sunday drive. MARRIED: 14 October 2006 WIDOWED: 26 January 2012. * on that date, my home in Woodsville NH was destroyed in a tragic fire that claimed the life of LORA KYDD, my wife of five years, as well as two Chihuahua dogs, and all of LORA's Maccaw Parrots. three other chihuahua dogs and our cat survived.
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Yearbooks

Reading Memorial High School 1972 yearbook cover photo
1972 Yearbook
Reading Memorial High School
READING, MA
Reading Memorial High School 1971 yearbook cover photo
1971 Yearbook
Reading Memorial High School
READING, MA
Reading Memorial High School 1970 yearbook cover photo
1970 Yearbook
Reading Memorial High School
READING, MA
Reunions
RMHS - Class of 72 - 40th Reunion reunion event on Oct 20, 2012 image
Oct 20, 2012
Douglas was invited to the
RMHS - Class of 72 - 40th Reunion
232 invitees
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Nov 24, 2007
Douglas was invited to the
35th CLASS REUNION
234 invitees
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Nov 24, 2007
Douglas was invited to the
Reunion Group for Class of 1972
224 invitees

Photos

Douglas Kydd's Classmates profile album
Daytime Navy uniforms were pretty modernistic in the '80s (and the VA can be pretty nice at times, these days!)
Future snack!
Douglas Kydd's album, Timeline Photos
Still experimenting
TIGHT FIT - Queen Elizebeth 2, transiting GIERANGERFJORD, Norway, July 1991
Getting ready to go on a shore excursion - Dunedin, New Zealand. You guess right, if you figured that I DIDN'T go shopping in this port. - January 1992
Queen Elizabeth 2 in Dubai UAE, about to begin the final leg of the 2001 World Cruise. Nobody knew it at the time, however, but in just eight more years, the (at the time) little known port of Dubai would become QE-2's fina
Train LA-ME (Lawrence MA to Mechanicville NY) with three GP-40-2s, 124 cars, Mechanicville NY. May 1983. D F Kydd Engineer
Switching trains from one track to another, HOW IT USED TO BE DONE (October 1973). Nowadays, it's all pushbutton and computer touch screen. - - - Those old systems NEVER had hard drive failures, nor did they require constan
ROME, Italy. just walking distance from the Vatican.
New York World's Fair - 1964 (from a postcard)
Douglas Kydd's album, Timeline Photos
Greenwich, England, O degrees East Longitude, 0 degrees West Longitude
On July 25, 1979, I graduated from the B&M’s Locomotive Engineer Training Program.. Several days later, I am shown here covering my first Locomotive Fireman’s assignment. I worked as a “Promotable Fireman” (a.k.a. Reserve
Plainfield CT in 1958 during the filming of IT HAPPENED TO JANE. Doris Day and Jack Lemmon are somewhere in the crowd. May they be resting peacefully.
Who remembers when phones LOOKED like phones?
If you know how to operate THIS, than you might be a product of earlier times!
Princess phone, touch-tone dial.
Wall phone. Rotary dial. circa M-1960s
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