Go, Eagles, Go!

Remember the good old days, when we'd gather at Andrew Warde High School every Saturday afternoon to cheer the football team when the Crimson Eagles played rival schools from the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference?

Well, one of our classmates has the photos to go along with those wonderful memories.

"I hope I won't be sorry for doing this, but here are some photos my brother-in-law took that fateful football game," wrote Stacey Marden in a letter sent to reunion committee chairman Tony Procaccini. The photos show several classmates "back in the day" during a Crimson Eagles' football game at Warde.

The first photo above shows Stacey leading the cheers while Jerry Vigorito, in the Warde sweater, plays backup.

Janet Criscione and Matt Bell, in the second photo, played the role of mascots, apparently wearing protective rain gear. "Maybe they were disguised," pointed out Procaccini.

"I remember that game with such fond memories like it was yesterday," admitted Janet, who is married to Ed Szymansky. They constitute one of twelve married couples from among AWHS classmates. "My kids always look at me with weird looks on their faces when I recall how I dressed up as the Warde mascot at a few of the football games. Wasn't it yesterday that we were their age?"

"We look so young!" emphasized Stacey. Yeah, it's hard to believe that we were still teenagers over 30 years ago. We were young.

Special thanks to reunion committee chairman Tony Procaccini for staying in touch with our classmates before and after the reunion. Through his efforts, we were able to get the photos posted to the blog and the class reunion Web site.

Alumni are encouraged to send in their photos and stories to be published on the blog. Please email me at pppiorek@news12.com if you have anything you'd like to contribute and share with our fellow classmates.

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Paul