Color Guard Quiz: Thanks to a gremlin in the famous Wolfinger Filing System I can't determine who sent in this photo, but who can name these young ladies? (This image concerns me because they seem to be heading for Weequahic.)
What a blast from the past ! Those were good times with everlasting memories. Texas is great but I still miss NJ especially first Friday's. Hopefully I'll be coming up for a visit sometime in September / October. Guaranteed that it will be on a first Friday. Maybe I'll see if Joe Fueller wants to come. What do you say Joe ?
Thanks again John for your web-site, it keeps me connected (ini spirit and thought) with everyone from SRL.
Sounds good to me. It's hard to believe that it's 40 years gone by. But the best part is that we are reunited and we all look great.
Hey Jay, D/FW first fridays sounds good to me. Let's talk to Joe and set something up. I misplaced your number (sorry) if you still have mine give me a call.
I am glad you had a safe and uneventful relocation to the Lone Star State and are settling in. You ain't in Newark anymore but know what? We have first fridays in Dallas too. With you, Joe and myself all in the the D/FW are maybe it's time to find a Cryan's south and keep the party going, Y'All.
I was in the color guard of the St. Rose of Lima Imperial Lancers in 66-67 and maybe I'm having a senior moment but I don't remember girl being in the drum section. It was all boys.
Hi Kathleen how the heck are you? as for the photo, yes, it looks like Colleen in the middle but i don't believe that is Maryann O'Toole. which reminds me, i have started scrapbooking. if anyone has pics, articles from SRAA or ILancers with my colleagues (60-67), i would love a copy of it with any info you can add. i already used the pics that were posted on this site from my "era". i have a pic of Miss Gilhooly & that's about it. my fondest memories were with the ILancers. you can fax them or send them to my outside email here at work. i don't have a pc at home.any help?
kathy, were are you living at now? i am still in parlin. lost mom recently. long story. what's up with you?
You are still living in Parlin? I lived there for three years before moving to Texas in 1979! It was the best place to be in Jersey. Bon Jovi came from there. Am I right? I know a friend that used to baby sit them in Sayreville.
Hey all my best wishes to you. I would love to compare notes after all these months. I hope you are doing great!
Best wishes to a special person!
BTW- After all these years I just heard from my cousin, Kathleen McGowan. I cannot wait to get in touch with her.
Hey Jay, did i not go to your prom with you at Seton Hall? if yes, i still have the blue stone necklace they gave us. How nice to hear from you. what the heck are you doing in texas? imagine steer & hot hot heat! yes i am still in parlin. am looking to go south in next few years hopefully, if the economy ever turns around. loved No Carolina (west part) nice country folk there. tired of up here,people & taxes.
kathy, gail & i were best buddies for several years. maybe that's how we met. i didn't realize kathy was a cuz. she hasn't answered me yet when i responded yesterday so i guess she hasn't been back to this site. it is so great coming to this site!!! meeting up with old friends & acquaintences. boy, thank God for internet. now i know what mom meant when she said she would love to contact old friends but didn't know where to start.
good to hear from you also. will be meeting up here as often as i can "steal" time away from working. don't have home pc yet.
xoxx r
I must be having a senior moment also....I don't remember girls in the lancers (playing drums) either. I was in the Lancers too (flag) but I don't remember you. I think I was in it in 1965/1966. I graduated SRL in 1966...take care......
Hey Pet, Kathleen didn't go to SR. she was in votech. she, gail gilmartin & myself were best friends for a few years even after we left newark. i don't know if you would remember her but the 3 of us were stuck together like siamese triplets. she was thin, big blue eyes, long, long (hippie long) brown hair parted in middle..
sorry you are correct. guess we will have a hanging out in the parking lot. sorry for the sr. moment. now i remember. funny, i have many pictures of the 3 of us but they are all at a distance or with winter hats on so you can't see where it is parted. those were the good days..................................................
The last D & B corps of the Imperial Lancers, that I'm aware of, was all girls. The boy/girl corps was discontinued, I believe, in 1966 because there were 2 corps at St.Rose's Parish at that time; the other known as St. Martin's, and, I believe, moderated by Father McDonald. To my knowledge, the all-girls corps was the last attempt at keeping a Lancers' corps as a unit. I'm pretty sure it finally disbanded in late 1967 while Father O'Leary was still the moderator and Lou Baumgart was the director. I taught drums and Al De Rosa or Rich Da Silva taught horns. Rich comes to mind because he and I were also instructing Cedar Grove Cadets back then.
There are probably former corps' members out there who can give a more accurate chronolgy and more info on it.
I sent in the photo which was taken by Ron Da Silva sometime in '66 or'67. I believe it was during a St. Patty's Parade and heading east along Lincoln Park towards Broad St. Maybe that's Pennsylvania Ave. or South St., although I forget some of the street names. I was at that parade because I was the drumline instructor.
This not about the young ladies. When I was at SRL there no marching band.
The hotel in the background is what I am writing about. It seems to me that when I was a little girl my brother drove by the hotel and showed the bullet holes in the front of the hotel. Seems he told me someone was killed outside of the hotel. Does anyone know the story? Eileen
