9/26/2023 Minutes of Zoom meeting September 24, 2023
Minutes of the September 24th, 2023 Zoom Meeting of
O’Connell High School Class of 1963 Association
Present were:
Mary Jo Lawrence –Chairman
Joan Cassidy – Vice Chairman
Steve Habeger
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9/19/2023 Note of Gratitude
Note of Gratitude
Thanks to the generosity of our classmates we have achieved our goal! We have met our obligation to the Westin Hotel.
We cannot wait to see you at the reunion. We wil
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9/17/2023 Minutes of Reunion Planning Zoom, September 10, 2023
Minutes of the September 10th, 2023 Zoom Meeting of
O’Connell High School Class of 1963 Association
Present were:
Mary Jo Lawrence –Chairman
Joan Cassidy – Vice Chairman
Steve Habeger
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After O’Connell, I graduated from LaSalle University in Philadelphia in 1967 and then spent 2 years in the Army Artillery area at Fort Knox and Fort Sill. In 1969, I was hired by Anchor Hocking Corp as a Management Trainee and spent the next 40 years in the glass container industry - manufacturing glass bottles. We have lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Indiana (multiple times) and Florida. However, the best move was to Bradenton, Florida in 1994 where we built a house on a golf course. Unfortunately, in 2003 I was transferred back to the corporate office in Indiana and spent the next 6 years visiting Taffie who remained in Florida with the 2 kids and my Mother. Finally I retired in January 2009 and love living the retirement lifestyle. I usually play golf 4 or 5 times a week and devote a lot of time to the local Corvette Club and attending car shows with our 2011 Grand Sport convertible. We also have 2 grandchildren – Peyton (5) and Mia (3) who we love to spoil and then give them back to their parents, Patrick & Stephanie, who live about an hour away. Our daughter, Barbara, also lives near us.
In June, 1971, Taffie (DJO class of 1964) and I married in St. James Church. We both attended St. James Elementary and lived on North Oak Street in Falls Church. Taffie’s twin sister, Trish, married Ned Godsey, my best friend at O’Connell and they live at Lake Monticello near Charlottesville, VA. Ned is retired but Trish is still teaching computer technology in the middle school. Taffie was a Rules Official on the LPGA Futures Tour from 2005-2011 and I enjoyed traveling to many of the golf tournaments with her.
We look forward to seeing everyone at the reunion.
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