A Short Blast-From-The-Past

As you may have gathered by now, not-so-subtle hints have been made so as to encourage the membership to provide fodder for our - which means it is yours too - ILS blog. Marily Benitez Reyes and Jeannette Foye have come through and "we," the Infernal, oops! Freudian slip! Informal Committe members and the lil' Igor blogmeister thank them heartily.

Now Sue Foye Perez - Class of '70 - has come through and submitted some nice images from the past. Sue had kindly invited the blogging entity to pollute the Class of '70 web site with its presence and he was honored to do so. An "adoption" of sorts, one supposes...Sue has been quite helpful with hints and suggestions for our planned reunion. Therefore, "we" name her an Honorary Class of '68 kindred spirit and proceed to let her and '68 classmate Pat Wilkie grace this post with their presence. Sorry Pat, you weren't asked, you were hijacked! From this point, Sue provides the commentary, via our email exchange documented in the "official" ILS '68 Gmail account. Pictures first, since a picture is worth 1000 words, right? Starting with Sue and Pat's Signum graduation portraits.

















































"Hi Sue! Your sister asked me to post the photo showing you and Pat Wilkie at the March of Dimes event - will be more than happy to do so; however I think the "blast from the past" entry would be enhanced if I included your school yearbook picture. I have Pat's in the '68 yearbook. Also, if you could tell me when the March of Dimes event was held that would be good - puts things in perspective.

Hopefully, others will follow suit and send their good "stuff," including anecdotes. We have some that will be posted and should be quite intereresting and humorous.

By the way - this is all strictly voluntary. If you don't really want to be a star on our blog, no questions asked and no hard feelings!

Take care,
Albert

Hi Albert - be glad to oblige and thanks for including me in your site. I've attached my senior picture from 1970.

The photo of Pat/me was taken in March of 1967 or 1968, making me a Freshman or Sophomore and him a Junior or Senior.

The Foye and Wilkie Families grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same schools: St. Michael the Archangel, Immaculata-LaSalle, etc. Patrick's brother Jim was my age/in my class since kindergarten.

Mrs. Eleanor Lee (other neighborhood friends) worked for the March of Dimes local chapter and asked me to model in their Fund Raiser/Fashion Show. I remember the clothes were from 5-7-9 Shops (how I would love to fit into one of those sizes today!) Somehow, she roped Pat Wilkie into being one of the escorts for the models, too. I thought it was so cool to have an 'older', handsome guy for an escort!

So - there you have it - I'll check in from time to time with you guys.

BTW - the Class of 1970 just decided to have a 'pre-40th picnic' at Crandon Park on Saturday, June 7th. When are you guys having your shin-dig? Just wondered.

Catch you later,
Sue Foye-Perez"

Ahh...good point, Sue - about "when are you guys having your shin-dig?" Or donnybrook, ye Irish?! That is an excellent question and one which was worked on by the Infernal, oops!-"Well, there you go again," as Ronnie Reagan would have put it so well-Informal Committee yesterday, February 23rd. Tune in to the next blog-post so you can see dramatic evidence proving we're here, hard at work for you, figuring out and piecing together all these important but still-loose ends. To be continued...