Timothy Corcoran:  

After St. Boniface I went to Ferris High School and then to North Bergen High School when my family moved from Jersey City in 1961. After high school I joined the Air Force in 1965 and spent time in San Antonio Texas, Denver Colorado, Albany Georgia, Saigon South Viet Nam, Karat Thailand and Columbus Mississippi. I was an electronics technician in the Air Force and worked on a broad range of aircraft including reconnaissance aircraft, fighters and B52 bombers. When I was discharged in early 1969 I joined IBM in Bergen County NJ. At that time IBM¿ers joked that ¿IBM] stood for ¿I¿ve Been Moved¿ and accordingly, over the course of my 40 years with IBM, I was transferred to Essex County and then Morris County New Jersey. Followed by transfers to New York City, Miami Florida, Kingston New York, Raleigh North Carolina, Tampa Florida and then eventually back to Raleigh, where I still live. I actually just retired from IBM after 40 a year career. I am now doing some consulting project management work and plan to continue doing that for the next several years. I have been married since 1967 and we have grown 2 children, Jennifer who is married and the mother of my grandson, Tanner (who is pictured with me) and they also live here in Raleigh NC. Jen is a manager at Lenovo Corp. a computer manufacturer. My son Sean has recently returned to the University of Florida to pursue a law degree. Prior to that Sean worked for IBM in Atlanta and then Symantec Corp in Orlando Fl. Ultimately I would like to return to South Florida, ¿where in South Florida?¿ is the question. We have family in Miami and I would love to move there, but my wife does not want to put up with the congestion and traffic so we may end up in either Broward County (Ft Lauderdale area) or Palm Beach County where we own some property. We have no timetable. For the past couple of years I have been looking at Classmates.com and recognize the names of a few of the people, Evelyn (Balk) Schmidt, Priscilla (Koslowski) Lombardo, Mary Ann (Giacobe) Mattaliano, Mary (Stach) Gaeta, Vincent de Lorenzo. I see Annette (Nicodemo) Lanzo is on the list of students but it is Frank Nicodemo that I remember being in our class, I suspect he may be her brother. A few years ago, while I was on a project for a client that required that I commute to their offices in the Newport section of downtown Jersey City. Ironically I stayed at a hotel on 4th Street and Columbus Ave, right next to the Newport Mall. Of course this is within a few blocks of St. Boniface and just up the a few blocks away from the house we lived in on 4th Street and Jersey Ave. Needless to say I had to visit the old neighborhood, and things have of course changed. I had been told that the church had been closed but it has been reopened again. But the school building was sold off and is now condominium. It is funny to look at the front of the school building and see what was our 8th grade classroom is now someone¿s living room. Likewise the rectory and the convent were sold. What was our school yard is now a parking lot.. Second Street Park (corner of 2nd St and Jersey Ave) where we guys played ¿punch-ball¿ during lunch, is now an apartment building. My first visit back to the church itself turned out to be an extreme emotional trip back in time. Except for a few minor insignificant changes, the church has not changed in all these years. It is just about exactly the same way it was on the day we graduated from 8th grade. As I entered the church I was overcome by a flood of memories. As I knelt in a pew at the back of the church (on the ¿boys side¿. of course,) I could see the pews where we sat for our First Communion; the pews we occupied when we made our Confirmation. I could remember the endless precessions we had, the stiff ¿Buster Brown¿ collars and the big ties, the candles, the songs. I could see the various groups of pews we would sit in each school morning for Mass. How they moved around the church as we progressed from grade to grade. I was happy to see that the Alter is the same ...Expand for more