Thomas Foley:  

Life It’s Saturday November 25th at around 4:00 PM. My wife has just finished ironing my clothes for me and now asked me if I was nervous for about the 100th time. Well, ok maybe a little nervous. The real feeling at the time was nervous, anxious, excited and maybe a little bit overwhelmed. See I started I was somewhat excited. Here is a class of many people that I have not seen in about 15 to 20 years. I was looking forward to getting back in touch with people that I at one time hung out with. Seeing just how people changed and what they were up to now also seemed exciting. Anxious because I was unsure of what to expect, lets face it we didn’t always get along with everyone that we went to school with the were different social, intellectual and pier pressured clicks, all that seemed to be very important when we were in High School. Now over the years things in my life have changed, anyone that knew me new that I was girl crazy, as a matter of fact there were a group of girls that decided at the end of senior year to name themselves the calendar girls, I know this because they notated it into my year book. Nervous because my first thought was, what have I done by putting myself before a bunch of people that have not known me for the past 15 to 20 years and may feel that that tag still applies because that is all they have ever known of me. I live about an hour and half from Shelton. So I headed out the door about 4:30. Knowing what the traffic is like on a holiday weekend on I95. And it was a good thing because once I hit East Haven traffic was bumper to bumper until I got near the rout 15 exit in Milford. I arrived a half hour short of 7:00pm. I decided to go a head in and stay warm. As I walked in, Dawn Baroni, Deborah Sandgurg, Sue Rosa and Dan Ortoli were the first people that came across. (No disrespect intended. I am using Madden Names because most of us know each other that way). While waiting more of the class started walking in ...Expand for more