Peter Story:  

I graduated from NVRHS in 1965… After working that summer at one of the Old Tappan Swim Clubs,,, I began my collegian direction at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ… During the summer of 1967,,, I took off for Europe on my “I Gotta See It Before My Work Career Begins”,,, with my Fodor’s “Europe On $5 Per Day” travel guide,,, I begin the first leg of this journey by boarding the M/S Aurelia,,, a WW II troop ship being used by the UN Student Affaires Commission to take USA students ==> to Europe and European students ==> to the USA… On the second day out,,, I am introduced to a strikingly beautiful girl who was on a 30-day organized tour for Europe… We talked & laughed all day long,,, plus,,, dancing every night for the rest of the remaining 9-days on this “Aurelia Troop Ship” across the Atlantic,,, Changed my world for ever… I altered my European Trip after one week in England and Holland to catch up with this incredible girl… Three days on the train,,, I catch up with her in Nice and then on an over night train to Rome… This remarkable girl’s name was Paulette Marie Secail,,, a Basque/French girl from San Francisco who’s parents were born in France and moved to the USA in 1929… For the next 10-months,,, Paulette and I communicated (via the old fashion way); by letters written every day, cute love cards weekly and an occasional telephone call on a Sunday afternoon… Over this period of time,,, I fell completely in Love with her and was committed to do everything I could - - to make her my wife… That very next summer (1968),,, I came out to San Francisco on my very first airplane ride… On the 6th day with her in San Francisco,,, I asked her to marry me… The following day we went to a jeweler her family had used in the past and purchased a diamond to be crafted into an engagement ring… Two week later we go back to New Jersey to br...Expand for more