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Name: Ted George Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-12-30 18:55:42 Comments: Dominic - Forgive me for the presumptiousness of the following comments but I think you have the order backwards: you need to forgive those who have wronged you and let go of the anger and bitterness you feel over things in your past in order to be open and receptive to the love you seek. To me, your posts reveal a person consumed with the painful events of the past - until you divorce yourself from these events, there simply will not be room in your life for the family you want so much. I truly hope the New Year and the years to come will bring you happiness and the joys you seek. |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Homestead, Florida Time: 1999-12-30 18:10:44 Comments: NEW YEARS MESSAGE. This is the end of the year, it is the end of the decade, it is the end of the century, it is the end of the millenium, but I am working and praying in the hope that it is not the end of my family. I'm going to be 47, I never took wife and I never had children. My hair is turning gray, my teeth are crumbling, I can't read the fine print anymore, I start to hear things wrong. I have good reason to believe that my sexual health is in decline, even though I haven't been active for two decades. To the bastards who appoint themselves alternative police in America, improvising and enforcing their own bullshit-law, I say "thank you" for ruining the entire mating season of my life on earth. If I die without children, be proud that you killed off a good family without any good reason, and without proving a single one of your false accusations. Who commanded "thou shalt not take the law into thine own hands"? Who commanded "thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighber"? I want to forgive everyone who ever wronged me, but I have to be able to start my family LIKE A FREE MAN FIRST. Will my bloodline survive in the new millenium? |
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Name: Dome Proccacino Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Dade (land) County, Florida Time: 1999-12-30 17:49:26 Comments: During the mid-1990s (before the Busway Max) I went into Border's bookstore near Dadeland South. Then I took a bus to Cutler Ridge. While waiting for the bus to Florida City, I was approached by someone who looked like David H. He carried a book by his side and his dress and eyeglasses and hairdo were EXACTLY like they appear on John S. Barth's page of "Pietati Et Literis, 1970". But he didn't have the limp which David had in the mid-1980s, so I suspected that "shopping mall nation" (the alternative police) were trying to fool me with a look-alike. There were two other similar sightings in the Miami area. NEW TOPIC: One day in the mid-1980s, someone befriended me in Hartford, CT. After he had my confidence, he said something like "I used to live in New York City, and I used to be homosexual or bisexual, and I heard from some of my friends that when YOU lived in New York City, YOU used to be homosexual or bisexual. I would like to sit down with you and find out from you who our common friends are". (1) I was NEVER homosexual or bisexual. (2) I NEVER lived in New York City (but my identification was stolen there, in March 1970, as described in records #127 through #143). To pieces of human garbage who appoint yourselves "alternative police" in America: (1) don't harass me (2) don't harass Harriman or McIntyre or Hickerson or anyone else who I went to school with just because YOUR pornographic system in the Times Square internat hub attacked the health of MY lower abdomen on my first unsupervised trip to New York City in 1970. |
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Name: McIntyre / 71 Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Cambridge, Ma. Time: 1999-12-30 05:45:12 Comments: For those who knew David,I should add that the schizophrenia began in adolescence, as usual, and progressed. From the early seventies through at least 1992,he was essentially hitchhiking around, staying with friends if he could in the beginning, more removed as time went on. I last saw him in '92 or '93, in Buffalo, very haggard. He checked himself into Meyer Memorial for a short while, but since his current obsession was that he had to be in Washington Square Park soon for a gig set 20 years before, the guy in charge of his case figured "let him leave town". Has anyone seen him since? |
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Name: Ted George Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-12-29 22:16:59 Comments: Thanks to Michael McIntyre for the kind note. I seem to remember teasing him about his capering about like a drunken dwarf (of the Tolkien variety). I had to laugh at the reference to the 24 hour seminar - I assume that he meant the time spent to research, write and type the thing. Speaking of seminars, does anyone have any information about Mr. Hadrovic? I had a sighting of David Hickerson at Christmastime, 1975. He came through town and was on his way to see his mother in Texas, as I remember. He was then pretty much as McIntyre described him. Best wishes to all for a happy and healthy New Year. |
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Name: McIntyre/71 Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Cambridge, Ma. Time: 1999-12-29 06:58:20 Comments: Hi to all. Hi to Tom Dus, fellow punching bag in 1C in 66-67.But I was only in the day school then: the tales I heard of the bullying you endured in the boarding home were horrendous and plausible, particularly since I got to see samples on the '67 field trip to the Smokies. In Cleveland I think, you went to Fr. Mustos for help and so taught me not to. Thank you for that, [I'm sure you didn't notice] but I don't think I ever tried to ally with you then or later, and for that I'm sorry. I heard you were at the Tea 3 summers ago. I hope to run into you at one. To Dominic: by the big G that was nice! But I still haven't written the damn letter, so I wanted to write this in between. You actually were one of my favorite people for many years, I think a favorite among a lot of people.By the time I got to the boarding home, 68-70, you, with Hevesy, O'shea and Poncho, formed an elite. Remember leading the Fish Cheer in the rose garden in Delaware Park? And you, like Hickerson, were educational to be around, on music, film (we went to see Weekend at the then Circle Art), the writing of the 24 hour seminar... You were just always mischievous and aunt-scaring, but later you did try to rescue Hickerson [brilliant, taught himself Anglo-Saxon, infuriatingly good musician, cartoon parents out of town, schizophrenic, a terrible guest: one time he visited Dominic for about a week, and since Dominic said he didn't want to see any dirty dishes, he found about 20 under the couch after David left.] I thank you for trying to help David in Hartford; it cost you a lot, and I'm sorry, but it was noble. People need safety nets, but sometimes it's dangerous for the net. |
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Name: Dominic Proccacino Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Homestead, Florida Time: 1999-12-27 18:51:54 Comments: Micheal McIntyre was cordial to me on many occasions, so I won't argue about the correctness of every single word he wrote. He loaned me money to buy a Canadian National Railroad ticket for David Hickerson so that David and I could cross Canada together from Toronto to Vancouver B.C. on my way to Reed College (that was probably in 1971). I was trying to be a do-gooder and re-unite David with his father (any recent sightings of David Hickerson?). He provided me with a room to live in, in Buffalo during spring-summer '72. He gave me a place to stay in Chicago when I hitch-hiked there in '73 (I was testing my wings for an eventual trip to Oregon). He helped me get a job in Chicago when I drove there in '74 and he accompanied me on a very pleasant trip when we drove from Chicago through St. Louis, Cairo, Memphis, Jackson, and on down to New Orleans, later that year (I was going to go to Oregon in the spring, but I returned home when my father was hospitalized for surgery). After I got fired by United Technologies Carrier Corp. AND evicted from my "illegal sublet" rental unit in Farmington, CT, during the same month, August 1986, I felt that I was being persecuted and I fled to Cambridge, Mass, where Big Mack gave me a place to stay while I searched for work. That enabled me to get a job in a lumber yard when I was jobless and homeless. McIntyre did all this for me even though I was never his favorite person, just to compliantly and complaintlessly answer an appeal for help. I don't recall ever paying him for anything he ever did for me (except for that $4.00 check which has still not cleared) but maybe one day... If he's still in the bookstore business, he should be everyone's first choice when it comes to buying a book. This entry distracts attention from Ted George's open question, below. |
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Name: jane cudmore Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-12-27 17:11:15 Comments: I too would send my kids (if I had any) to Cal. I transferred there after 6th grade at Nardin where I was but one of a class of 25 or so white Catholic kids. Arriving at Cal I found such diversity and at such an important stage in my developement that I am convinced I am a much better person for the experience. I only stayed 3 years as my parents were not as convinced of the benefits and I was transferred to Nichols - a difficult transition to be sure! I am sure that I was somewhat naive and could not see the problems that others have referred to at the time , but my answer remains a resounding Yes! |
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Name: TOM DUS Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: STILL IN OHIO Time: 1999-12-24 19:10:10 Comments: I VISITED THE SCHOOL AT XMAS CIRCA '85. MY DAUGHTER WAS WITH ME. SAW GERENCSER, HE GAVE ME A BOTTLE OF CAL WINE. I STILL HAVE IT. HAVEN'T FOUND THE RIGHT OCCASION TO OPEN IT. ANYHOW, IN RESPONSE TO THE QUERY, MY DAUGHTER THOUGHT THAT GERENCSER WAS SCARY, AND SHE WAS CONVINCED THAT CAL WAS NOT THE PLACE FOR HER. SHE WENT TO LUTHERAN SCHOOLS INSTEAD, AND SHE'S ATTENDING BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY NOW. CAL, LIKE LIFE ITSELF, WAS AN EXPERIENCE YOU MAY HAVE REGRETTED AT THE TIME, BUT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO DO SO. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL |
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Name: Michael McIntyre/71 Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Cambridge, Ma. Time: 1999-12-24 04:50:04 Comments: To answer Ted George, a wonderful fellow whose family boarded Kovi after the boarding home closed in '70, I would send my kids (if I had any) to the school if it was as it was when we were there, but I could send them with less trepidation in later years, when the sexes were more balanced and there was progressively less hitting and "cookies" (an earpull from a particular priest). But in all periods, it had great teachers: one of them, Chambless,once said that it was a "terrible place to work but a great place to teach". To Dominic, I have to write you a letter and will do so within a week, but I think the people here who didn't know you in the boarding home should know that your problem was not so much being separated from your family as in the family you were separated from. Also do remember that you used to pile garbage on my head while I was asleep and did worse things to others; power sawing Horn's [Fr. Mustos'] crucifixes in half lengthwise for instance was probably funnier than wise.But you were very worth knowing, though expensive if one lent you money (your official position was that everybody knew you didn't pay back money,so you didn't have to). And at U. of Chicago Press, putting the note from the coffee machine that said "Do not put wet spoon in cremora" in the press's first ever shipment to Red China in '75 was brilliant. Oh, the name you were looking for a while ago was Clinton Lee. To Nathan Rose, thanks for having this site.To all, Happy Holiday Period. |
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Name: David Koepsell Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-12-23 14:35:40 Comments: I would send my kids there, no doubt. In fact, I'd like to see a Calasanctius Charter School here, assuming they stand the constitutional challenge in court. I was way ahead of the game due to Cal when I got to college and I would say the majority of my education, despite the law degree and the PhD, happened at Cal. By the way, I have self-published a novel on the web. It's a sci-fi book about the SETI@Home project. It's available at http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=EB00004697 That's also the link above. I'd appreciate any feedback anyone might have. Special thanks to Martha Clother who typed it from my largely illegible scrawl. D Koepsell '86 |
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Name: Ted George Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-12-20 21:20:28 Comments: Thanks to Jessica Turnbull Engborg for reminding me of some of the positive unique experiences Calasanctius provided: the field trips were a wonderful memory and I experienced the same realization about the writing ability of my classmates when I went to college - even in law school one of my classmates had not taken a essay exam. The seminar program was a real plus. Thanks. I hope others will consider my question: whether you would send your kids to Cal if it still existed. Happy holidays. |
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Name: Dominic C. Proccacino Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Homestead, Florida Time: 1999-12-18 22:13:47 Comments: I went to Kindergarten in Hartford, CT with Miss Mullen at the elementary school which used to be at the corner of Washington St. and New Britain Ave. Hartford has since changed around some school names. They built a new High School on Wethersfield Ave and they gave the name of the old high school on Maple Ave to it (did my father go there?). Then, they gave the name of my elementary school to the old high school on Maple Ave. My elementary school (Fox) became elderly housing units. Those sly foxes! If I go back to Hartford and I describe where I went to school, they can make me look like a liar. I attended grades 1 through 4 at the Barnes and O'Connell Schools in East Hartford, CT. Then, at Calasanctius, I attended forms Ia, Ib, II, III, IV, V, and VI before going on to college. Some people are skillful at making us look like liars. Somebody called me a liar because I only went to school for 11 years instead of 12 between kindergarten and college ("it doesn't add up right"). Then, a job placement person in Orlando, Florida mentioned that I had only a 4th grade education, as if to say that my Calasanctius education didn't count in the "real" America. Who cares, anyway? Starting my family like a free man and then working to raise it is the real test. So far, I have flunked due to the condition I was in when I left that school. Please read my story in records #127-#143 to see what I mean. |
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Name: Jessica (Turnbull) Engborg Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Buffalo Time: 1999-12-18 01:23:26 Comments: Send my daughter to Cal? In a heartbeat!! The unique experiences I had at Cal (both when I was in Prep A through Prep C 1977-1981 & Form IV through Form VII 1987-1991) and the education I received were well worth the time & effort! I found that when I went to college the students there couldn't even write a simple 2 page comp paper or do basic pre-calc. And the fieldtrips! I have had the opportunity to travel to almost every state in this wonderful country and have the most amazing memories! Sure the bus smelled and we all got tired of each other after about a week, but come on, what other school offers such an extensive program these days? I was one of the lucky ones and if there ever is a school like Cal in the town I may live in you bet Miranda will be a student there! Thanks go to the Hull's for finding such a wonderful way to celebrate Geoff's life by starting the scholarship fund. My life would not be as rich if it weren't for them!! |
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Name: Dominic C. Proccacino Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Homestead, Florida Time: 1999-12-17 21:26:27 Comments: To Ted George: That's a big "if". In order to send my kids there, I would need to first have kids. I didn't have any yet, and I attribute this to problems which started during my last year at Calasanctius. At age 16, I got caught up in the fads of 1969. McNally's chapter (cf. record #235) mentions that season (Woodstock festival, etc). In record #136 I mentioned trying "real" hallucinogens in Oct. 1969. McNally reports that Kerouac died here in Florida later that very same week (his books stimulated my curiosity regarding drugs). Three weeks later, I snuck away from Calasanctius in order to attend the "March Against Death" in Washington, D.C. (was it Nov. 15?). I went so that I could call someone in Buffalo ("collect") and show her how radical I could be. I was surfing waves of faddism the way some people surf the internet. The crazy events which I report in records #127 through #143 were mostly in the boarding home and not in the day school. Father Mustos supervised for 6 years (1963-1969), then (with him gone) I ran wild that last year (1969-1970). If your kids are at home, you can watch them grow up. If they are away at a boarding school, anything might happen. |
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Name: Graham Silliman Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Cape Elizabeth, Maine Time: 1999-12-15 13:44:21 Comments: Send my kids? If the Calasanctius of the 70s still existed today (what a thought!), the answer is no. On the other hand, the school was a reflection of its times. If Calasanctius had survived until today, it would have had to change with the world around it. It's hard to imagine kids today doing some of the things we did, and it's hard to imagine a school in the 90s run the way Calasanctius was in the 70s. |
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Name: Ted George Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Time: 1999-12-14 23:21:36 Comments: I'm curious - If Calasanctius were not defunct, would you send your kids there? Assume that things would be about the same as they were when you were there. |
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Name: Tracey Mitchell Miles Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Time: 1999-12-14 03:34:05 Comments: Happy Holidays to all. Are there any plans made yet for the xmas party? |
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Name: Dominic C. Proccacino Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Homestead, Florida Time: 1999-12-06 20:56:16 Comments: There is a website called "www.jajazz.com" which contains a chat page called "Jazz Forum". That chat page is nicely done, with "table of contents" in the top window controlled by the upper right slide switch. Perhaps Mr. Rose might consider adding a similar page to the Calasanctius Home Page. I put some text into it ("Musician as Pied-Piper") which explains what I meant by a "sales blitz" in an earlier record. The story which I put into records #127 through #143 is also nicely complimented by the "Endgame" chapter of a book in this library branch: Dennis McNally, "Desolate Angel, Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America" (Random House, 1979). |
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Name: Dominic Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Homestead, Florida Time: 1999-11-22 19:39:47 Comments: Today, here, the Calasanctius Home Page is in "AltaVista" as "www.fas.harvard.edu/~ndrose/cal" but it is in "Yahoo" as "fas-www.harvard.edu/~ndrose/cal". Does this mean that schism-ism is about to split us up into two separate versions? Also, I found a separate "Calasanctius Preparatory High School - Buffalo Alumni Registry" at "www.infophil.com/New_York/Alumni/Calasanctius_Prep-HS/". What is this new registry all about? |
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Name: Naureen Mohamed '88 Website: Joshua Blake Sticht Freelance Illustration Referred by: From a Friend From: Buffalo, then Rochester, NY Time: 1999-11-21 19:27:59 Comments: Announcing the birth of Noah Alexander Sticht, born to Naureen Abubaker Mohamed and Joshua Blake Sticht (both class of '88) on Sept 6, 1999. 7pounds and 9 ounces and 20 and 1/2 inches long. This announcement is a bit late, but hey, we've been nurturing a new human being. Motherhood is wonderful and I have been so lucky to be able to take a FOUR month maternity leave. I can't believe it's almost 75% over already. Having a baby is not completely as I expected, and now I can hardly remember what it was like not having a baby. GO TO JOSH'S WEBSITE (ADDRESS ABOVE) TO SEE PICS OF NOAH! I will ask Josh to update it soon. I am now a board certified family physician with the task of finding a job. If anyone has any connections anywhere, let me know. This is a harder task than I ever thought it would be. Also, if anyone is a physician or knows one in city of Buffalo, please contact me so that I can get the scoop on what's going on in health care over there. Even though Roch is only 80 miles away, it might as well be 8000 miles away as far as the job search is going. If its job related, email me at Naureen_Mohamed@urmc.rochester.edu. Otherwise, email me at address above. Any plans for a headmaster's tea or other such get together this Dec.? Please let us know |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Homer-stead, Florida Time: 1999-11-09 22:40:48 Comments: Greetings to Carl Valvo. When I was the smallest kid in the boarding home, you were up there in the pantheon of older students. In records #143 and #150, I said that I wanted to carry my story forward into the 1970s. On June 16, 1999, I became out-of-work. On June 30, three of you asked me to please shut up (kick me while I'm down). Maybe in July, I discovered the backdoor into "Calasanbook", via the "world famous guestbook server" website. In August, I went back to work, and I was upset all day one hot day, because I had discovered that my text had become somehow bowdlerized. On August 12, I worked all day on a hot day, and then I raced my bicycle for a half-hour to get to the library before closing time to express my feelings about it. Record #194 was entered at 22:58:57 (London, England time), or 5:58:57 p.m. in Miami, Florida (less than 1 minute and 3 seconds before closing time). The librarian was asking me to please hurry up, is that when I typed "yound" instead of "young"? Two days later, I came back to continue what I was trying to say, and I got an error message upon submission. I was so angry that I tried 4 times in a row. I thought that Mr. Rose had finally figured out how to block me from access to the guestbook. In my exasperation, I forgot the lesson I had learned when #118 got in there twice, and I also forgot to disguise the spelling of "mol-est" to evade a pattern-matching filter. It seemed to me like some of you had asked me to please shut up, and then, someone found a way to anticipate my story in a snide, sneaky, swindling, back-stabbing, cowardly way, irrational argumentum-ad-hominem against a good man. Then came what seemed like parodies of my own mistake. It was only around August 25 that I came to see that the version obtained through the lycos website was bowdlerized, but the version accessed other ways was not. I am finished with what I wanted to say. Had I just told it all without listening to criticism, it would have been shorter and more coherent. |
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Name: Carl Valvo Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Concord, MA Time: 1999-11-07 05:35:41 Comments: Greetings from the class of 1966. What can I say? I've just spent a good chunk of time reading each of the 230 entries posted to date. I'm very pleased that this page exists (especially since the school itself no longer does), saddened that some of our fellows are struggling and in pain, heartened by the compassion and patience of others, and wondering where all of the early students -- those whom Fr. Gerenscer referred to as "pioneers" (and sometimes as "baboons") -- are. After Calasanctius, I lost touch with most of my classmates. If any of you are out there and wonder what happened to me, here's the short version. I managed to graduate from Harvard in 1970. A good number in the draft lottery allowed me to go on to graduate school in education, also at Harvard. A brief stint teaching in the Massachusetts public schools made me more grateful than I already was for my Calasanctius education. I left teaching and moved to Vermont where, after the obligatory time pounding nails (this was the early 70's after all), I drifted into law and returned to Boston for law school. Twelve years at the Mass. Attorney General's office (doing mostly constitutional litigation) and now ten years in private practice (doing the same) brings us to 1999. I was the graduation speaker at Calasanctius one year, I think 1982 or thereabouts. I have been married to Mavourneen Pardee for over thirty years (!). Mav has been active in child care issues for many years, is the principal in a consulting firm in that field, and is also involved in an internet start-up that will link parents, pediatricians and child care centers. We have three children: Corina (now married and a mother herself), Genevra (Smith '99, now living in Santiago, Chile), and Nick (a senior in H.S.). Life is good. I'd love to hear news of Calasanctians from my era. Mulhern, O'Connor, Mageli, Rudzinski, Brzustowicz, Lutomski, et al., what's happening? My parents have moved away from Buffalo, so I don't expect to visit that fair city too much, but I'd make the trip if there were a reunion. |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: South of Miami, Florida Time: 1999-11-06 22:51:03 Comments: Greetings to Ted George. In record #101, Dus mentions Soos (with nose like John "Alleyexpander" MacDonald) and Zubriczky (with face like young Louis Riel). Recently Mr. K. (who I have never met) mentions a Canadian bride. Dickenson & Young wrote "A Short History of Quebec". My 2nd edition (1993) tells me (if I remember correctly) that in New France, the age of majority was 25. Under the British regime (1763-1791), the voting age was 21, but the average age of marriage continued to be 22 for women and 27 for men. My mother had a french name, so the State of CT placed me in foster homes with french-canadian families in CT. When CT social worker Joan A. Bassford sent me to Cal-Prep in 1963, I was 10 years old, and she told me that I would be a "ward of the State of CT" until the age of majority, which she said was 21. In records #127 through #143, I tell of things which were done to me during my prep. school years, ages 10 through 17. Ted George can tell you that I looked normal for 6 years at Cal-prep, but I went into a tail-spin during my last year there. So I arrived at Reed College in 1970 in bad shape, and in 1971 I rec'd at Reed College, a letter (supposedly from the State of CT, but probably forged from info kept in Cal-Prep files) saying that my funding to Reed College was being cut off because CT was cutting the age of majority back to 18. It could be that the survival of my blood-line on the planet Earth was undercut while I was at prep-school. By age 25, I could do college-level work, but I'd rather stack produce. In March 2000, I will turn 47. Will I have enough health and time left to start my own family and raise it? |
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Name: Ted George Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Time: 1999-11-05 22:05:28 Comments: Finding this home page was an unexpected treat. It is nice to see familiar names from the past. To Fred Harriman - I saw the now old post relating your mother's passing. I have very fond memories of her and her kindness. I remember particularly riding back with your family from East Aurora once and your mom putting her head on your dad's shoulder while he drove. Their comfort and affection touched me even back then. My condolences. Rumor has it that John Miskuly is trying to put together a reunion. That would be great fun. It would be fun to hear from other members of the class of '70 (or thereabouts). |
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Name: David R. Koepsell Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Buffalo, still Time: 1999-11-04 20:45:03 Comments: Dear Cal Folks: This past summer was eventful. Got married to a wonderful Canadian bride. I am still teaching at the UB Law School I hope that any of my Cal cohorts will look me up when they're in town. It would be nice to catch up face to face. As for all of the nonsense that has been posted below, it is tedious and at times disturbing, but it would be a shame to block access to a fellow who so obviously needs someone to listen. It would be best if he could just tone it down a notch or two. Too much ranting can turn even the most liberal among us into proponents of censorship. koepsell '86 |
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Name: TOM DUS Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: OHIO Time: 1999-11-02 20:53:59 Comments: HEY PROCCI,CONGRATS ON YOUR MOST RECENT NOTE....NO SEXUAL REFERENCES, CLEAN AND STRAIGHTFORWARD. MORE OF THE SAME WILL BE GREAT. HOPE THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER FOR YOU EVERYDAY |
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Name: Dominic Proccacino Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: South Dade Regional Branch Time: 1999-11-02 01:15:20 Comments: Congratulations to all proud parents. In record #138, I wrote an ambiguous sentence. When I described my first "unaccompanied" trip to New York City, in March 1970, I meant to say my first "unsupervised" trip. On our Calasanctius field trip to Brookhaven National Labs, a few years earlier, we parked the Calasanctius School Bus at a Catholic School in Brooklyn, and we took the subway to see a show at Radio City Music Hall, complete with "The Rockettes". On that trip, we were closely supervised. We all ate lunch at a Horn and Hardart Cafeteria near Penn. Station, and I called my mother at 440 W. 34th St., asking her to come visit. When she came into the cafeteria, I greeted her tentatively, in front of all. Maybe that's why Tom Dus thought that I was from New York City. I wasn't positive in my identification of her, because my family broke up when I was in kindergarten. During my foster home years, from 1959 to 1963 (when I was sent to Calasanctius) I saw my father more than once a week, but I saw my mother less than once a year (on the average). That lack of mothering made it hard for me to identify her, but it made things easy for the ones who led me "through the mill" at Calasanctius, as described in records #127 through #143 and beyond. "As soon as you're born, they make you feel small. by giving you no time instead of it all..." (quoting John Lennon). |
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Name: jennifer chianta Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: buffalo/columbus ohio Time: 1999-10-07 06:53:04 Comments: hey cal folks! my name is jennifer chianta ('85-'87). after surfing the guestbook, i felt compelled to submit an entry as the only representative of the class of '96. what happened to you guys!! it was great to see the entries of some of the upperclassmen whom i looked up to. people like becky heim and susie post - even though you guys never knew me! well take care everyone. to those of you who constructed the site, a million thanks for the memories. i'd love to hear from anyone who was in the '85-'87 classes of ms. mcpherson, mr.lawrence, mr.rizzo etc... |
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Name: Susie (Post) Nadrich Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Cranford, New Jersey Time: 1999-09-30 22:23:23 Comments: My husband Mike and I are proud to announce the birth of our daughter, Tyler Emerson Nadrich, born August 2nd. She has blonde hair and blue eyes and weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces. After three months of bedrest during pregnancy, she came into the world only a few weeks early, and is doing very well. (We're thrilled to have a daughter, two sonograms told us that we were having a boy!) |
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Name: Jessica (Turnbull) Engborg Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Buffalo Time: 1999-09-27 13:36:45 Comments: HI EVERYONE - HOPE THE "PICNIC" WENT WELL - SORRY I MISSED IT - ANY WORD ON A HOLIDAY PARTY? IF ANYONE KNOWS PLEASE EMAIL ME WITH DETAILS - I'D LOVE TO HELP OUT IF POSSIBLE!! OH YEAH, CONGRATULATIONS TO JOSH & NAUREEN ON THEIR RECENT ADDITION!! YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A BLAST!! |
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Name: Carl Weiser '86 Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-09-20 22:31:16 Comments: I've add three new photos to Sammy Weiser's web page. You can check them out at http://www.e-stork.com/b73xgv/samuel/ |
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Name: Dominic C. Proccacino Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: F.C.C. (Florida City Campersite) Time: 1999-09-17 16:10:41 Comments: Mr. Rose, Here's another technical glitch: in records number 146, 171, 173, and 175 I tried to use clever text in the "Name" field. For some reason unknown to me, my name got zapped-out in each case. Another observation: From our home page, if you click upon the guestworld icon or link, you get into the same "world famous guestbook server" page which I previously mentioned. If you put "Acharra27" into the lower box next to the SUBMIT button, you get into another guestbook from lycos which I have also embellished. |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Outskirts of Hurricane Floyd Time: 1999-09-13 16:12:24 Comments: I don't remember any David Scrimm, but I knew older members of the Regan, Spaulding & Chisolm families. There were so many younger students in the school when I graduated, I didn't know them all. Relating to Montana, I put some text into the chat page of glacier.national-park.com. My last trip through Montana was in 1971, returning from Reed College in Portland, Oregon to Tonawanda, N.Y. in a car driven by Peter Fejer. Some people find my story in records #127 through #143 to be incoherent because they don't read it in the correct order. I started out telling it very concisely. Then, when no one barked, I got expansive. One day I may do as Mr. Rose suggests, putting it on my own web page. Hurricane Floyd will MAYBE hit us tomorrow, it's category 4 and it didn't hit the gulf stream yet (that's a double meaning joke, because I live in a Gulf Stream brand trailer). You can find hurricane graphics by searching via YAHOO for EARTHWATCH, STORM99, & NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER. |
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Name: David Scrimm Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Helena, Montana Time: 1999-09-12 04:51:49 Comments: SO glad to find the site. To all those responsible, my sincere gratitude. JUst read all the postings(skimmed). I remember Dom back when I was at Cal and hope that he can find peace. His postings are a bit of a hassle, but I for one, can handle it, especially if in some small way it helps him. Maybe those of you in the medical field can suggest some remedy. If anyone cares, I'm now an attorney with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality. Although I didn't graduate from Cal, it sparked a life long interest in learning that has yet to be extinguished. I'd like to find the mailing list if one's available. I'd love to know what happened to all my friends and tormentors. Thomas Lowes, George Haar, Bill Regan, Thomas Gullo, PAul and Philip Burke, Jessica Mix, Mark Spaulding, Tibby Chisolm and everyone else from '72 to '74 or that era. Did we change the world? |
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Name: Pam (Fried) Crawford Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: South Carolina Time: 1999-09-06 05:31:47 Comments: This website was quite the "fun find." I'm a bit of a nostalgia buff and wouldn't mind hearing from some old pals. Life is pretty good here in the South- two kids, two cats...what more do you need? |
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Name: jane cudmore Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-30 20:22:39 Comments: Just a note of thanks to the organizers of the Graycliff event. It was a lovely evening and a great opportunity to see the place. Though still a "diamond in the rough" Graycliff will prove to be one of the jewels in the crown of WNY. |
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Name: Thom Tsukada Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-29 19:43:50 Comments: Nathan Rose mentioned the Calasanctius Mailing List. This pre-Web organization provides a cautionary example of what can happen if civility and self-restraint give way to unbridled indignation. The archives of the CML are available at http://www.voicenet.com/~tsukada/cml_archive.htm , and chart the descent of the CML into acrimony and civil war. I should warn potential readers that this collection is extremely obscure. (Obviously, some of us had far too much time on our hands during the early 1990's.) |
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Name: Fred Harriman '71 Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-26 16:06:35 Comments: Decisions by Kansas State Educators to impede the teaching of Evolution in High Schools remind me of how lucky I was to have a Calasanctius education. One of the first things that Fr. Benjamin Cobos (RIP) taught us in 1A (5th grade) was the scientific method. It never ceases to amaze me how persistent moronic, provincial, right-wing reactionaries can be with their lunatic agenda. Thank you Fr. Cobos, Dave Roycroft, and everyone else who helped me understand the difference between scientific thought and religion and the need for both. Calasanctians! Unsheathe your sharpest Kriglerian wit to put reactionary morons in their place! |
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Name: Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, Florida Time: 1999-08-25 01:03:27 Comments: Mr. Rose: There's a back-door into the guestbook. From YAHOO, I search for "lycos guestbook". I click upon "world famous guestbook server". In the lower box next to the SUBMIT button I enter "Calasanbook", then I submit it. This is one of many ways that I use to get into the guestbook. This is the version that comes up "bowdlerized", it took me a while to see this pattern. |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Homestead, Fl Time: 1999-08-24 23:43:04 Comments: Greetings to John Searles. I remember you and your brother David, and I met your father also. You were from Missouri then, and when Searles Brand Cranberries from Kansas came into the local Publix Supermarket last year, I thought of you. I tried to put a good story into records #127 through #143, but later it got out of focus. I don't think that I'm going to recover from the trouble that was made for me in 1969-1970. Some people needed to leave me alone until I was fully grown. If I had started a small family around 1973-74 when I was "building my love nest" (apartment, car, two jobs) then I would have raised it by now and I would have 20 years ahead of me to plan my retirement. Instead, I'm up against it in years, working in a container nursery. I thought that Beauregard Lee was from some place other than Atlanta, some people get the story scrambled. |
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Name: John Searles Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Cleveland, OH Time: 1999-08-20 15:10:42 Comments: Hello Everybody - Anyone remember me? I was at Calasanctius for three years, '63-67, in the boarding home run by Fr. Mustos, in the class with Ritchie, Norcross & VanCoevering. VanCoevering was the one who put the bone on Hadrovich's desk, though I was the one who took the blame. Menke was the one who dumped out all the beer that I bought (at age 14). I got kicked out of the boarding school for repeatedly bringing in an 18-year old waitress from the corner coffee shop. Precocious, but frankly I didn't know what to do with her. Sexually naive then. An excellent experience overall, met lots of fine, interesting people though I picked up a lot of bad habits (smoking etc.) that took years to overcome. Making a living as an Artist now, after trying a number of other things. Into rollerblading, swing/lindy dancing, trying to feel young and energetic. I was in Buffalo last year, found Delaware Park, then the old school, looking exactly the same except that the main driveway is now grassed over and there's a big black wrought iron fence blocking the old entrance. Found the Boarding Home on Switzer, now condos. Tompkins and Reuther were distilling ethanol down in the basement, then filtered it through activated charcoal stolen from Palma's chemistry lab, trying to make some version of Jack Daniels. Ended up with an unpalatable slurry of ethanol and powdered charcoal. Very chi-chi area now, outdoor cafes, etc. Almost 47 now, the years have zoomed by. How much time do we get here on Earth? I hear Persico died, Van Coevering took his life. I have dozens of stories, about Michael Jackson, the water fights spurred by the syringes George Hevesy stole from his father, football with Mr. Brennan, renting a limousine with Peter Csepes to take Ellie Kirsanow and Nadia to the school dance where she introduced me to French Kissing while dancing to the Beatles. Wrestling with George Wilkins in the National Park, some kind of contest to see who was most worthy of Louise. Wrestling with Pat Crowley, I always immediately put him in a ferocious headlock and then clamped down like a bear-trap until he gave up. Hope your ears are okay, Pat. I remember you too, Procacino. Sorry I was so rude to you so often. You were younger than me and that was part of the code there, the older victimized and harassed the younger, until the younger proved himself indomitable. Sad but true. I remember 4 of us in the Boarding Home, attacking with pillows that young black kid from Atlanta, hitting him until he blacked out. I still feel guilty about that. I remember Fr. Nokawi stealing all our money and getting dismissed. I remember when Fr. Mustos took an Alka Seltzer without water and had to be rushed to the hospital. His little green Ford Van and all those trips to the airport and back. Well, I'm taking up too much space and I have to get to work. Cheers everybody. Feel free to write. |
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Name: Nathan Rose Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-20 07:08:49 Comments: By the way, as some of you have discovered, there is a little glitch with the guestbook. When you submit a post, you may get an error message telling you it didn't go through. However, it probably did. I'm contacting the management about this. In the meantime, if you think your post didn't go through, check the guestbook before you resubmit it; it's probably there. Nathan Rose |
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Name: Nathan Rose Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-20 07:01:40 Comments: Before the Cal page there was the Cal Mailing List. These early records of primitive Calasanctine internet civilization have been recently unearthed. Linguists are at work even now deciphering these difficult texts. A url will be made available when their work is complete. |
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Name: Jessica (Turnbull) Engborg Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Class of 1991 Time: 1999-08-19 18:09:27 Comments: Wow! What a great connection to some lost friends!! I just moved back to Buffalo this summer after being in Washington D.C. and Cincinnati for the last 8 years. I brought with me a beautiful 8 1/2 month old little girl, my daughter, Miranda. I hope to see many of you in a few weeks at GrayCliff!!!!! |
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Name: Jessica (Turnbull) Engborg Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Class of 1991 Time: 1999-08-19 18:03:13 Comments: Wow! What a great connection to some lost friends!! I just moved back to Buffalo this summer after being in Washington D.C. and Cincinnati for the last 8 years. I brought with me a beautiful 8 1/2 month old little girl, my daughter, Miranda. I hope to see many of you in a few weeks at GrayCliff!!!!! |
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Name: Jessica (Turnbull) Engborg Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Class of 1991 Time: 1999-08-19 18:04:38 Comments: Wow! What a great connection to some lost friends!! I just moved back to Buffalo this summer after being in Washington D.C. and Cincinnati for the last 8 years. I brought with me a beautiful 8 1/2 month old little girl, my daughter, Miranda. I hope to see many of you in a few weeks at GrayCliff!!!!! |
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Name: F. A. Preve '83 Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-17 01:36:29 Comments: Just do it already, Nathan. I think it's safe to say that (aside from DP's former classmates) we've all had enough of his senseless rants. It's a real shame that I had to sift though copious amounts of his :-) just to find Carl Weiser, Thom Tsukada and Maureen McL's recent posts. Censorship be damned. Oust the :-). Cheers. |
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Name: F. A. Preve '83 Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-15 03:13:21 Comments: Just do it already, Nathan. I think it's safe to say that (aside from DP's former classmates) we've all had enough of his senseless rants. It's a real shame that I had to sift though copious amounts of his :-) just to find Carl Weiser, Thom Tsukada and Maureen McL's recent posts. Censorship be damned. Oust the :-). Cheers. |
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Name: F. A. Preve '83 Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Time: 1999-08-15 02:33:49 Comments: Just do it already, Nathan. I think it's safe to say that (aside from DP's former classmates) we've all had enough of his senseless rants. It's a real shame that I had to sift though copious amounts of his :-) just to find Carl Weiser, Thom Tsukada and Maureen McL's recent posts. Censorship be damned. Oust the :-). Cheers. |
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Name: F. A. Preve '83 Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-15 02:29:37 Comments: Just do it already, Nathan. I think it's safe to say that (aside from DP's former classmates) we've all had enough of his senseless rants. It's a real shame that I had to sift though copious amounts of his :-) just to find Carl Weiser, Thom Tsukada and Maureen McL's recent posts. Censorship be damned. Oust the :-). Cheers. |
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Name: F. A. Preve '83 Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-15 02:28:47 Comments: Just do it already, Nathan. I think it's safe to say that (aside from DP's former classmates) we've all had enough of his senseless rants. It's a real shame that I had to sift though copious amounts of his :-) just to find Carl Weiser, Thom Tsukada and Maureen McL's recent posts. Censorship be damned. Oust the :-). Cheers. |
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Name: Nathan Rose Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-14 20:43:01 Comments: To Dominic Proccacino: Enough is enough. A bulletin board only works if new messages are visible at the top for a while. Instead, they are immediately buried under ten of your nonsensical postings. I've already told you I'm reluctant to restrict this board; but if you don't cut it out, I'll have to block your access. Nathan Rose |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, Florida Time: 1999-08-14 17:01:06 Comments: In the last 5 or 6 entries (one got in repeatedly because of the error message problem reported by Pam Legge), the 6 letters "m-o-l-e-s-t" again got bowdlerized out with the happy face. "M-o-l-e-s-t" cannot be on the F.C.C. list of banned words, and the man who came into my trailer park after Hurricane Andrew was smearing me as a "child m-o-l-e-s-t-e-r" (an exact quote). Bleeping it out suggests a word on their list. You don't protect children by twisting my words around, as Mr. Rose suggested, you protect them by letting them read my story EXACTLY AS I WROTE IT, so that they know in advance that such things are done in the world. I took that walk in New York City in 1970 because it was OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF MY IMAGINATION that anyone could attack me the way that I was attacked. Children need to know, that's why they should read records #127 througfh #143 and beyond. I love truth, I hate lies. Please don't mutilate the truth the way my life was mutilated. |
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Name: Dominic Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, Florida Time: 1999-08-14 16:37:28 Comments: The story which I put in this guest book, starting in record #127 and continuing to #143 and beyond, is a free gift to the world. I am trying to show some people that you really make too much trouble, and it leads to the destruction of families like mine. We weren't born to compose symphonies, build skyscrapers, build ocean liners, or whatever. We were born to grow up unmolested first, love spouse 2nd, have children 3rd, work to raise family 4th, all as the lord intended. The deal that I was born into gave me until age 21 to finish growing up. Some people wormed their way into that deal. They made my trouble by pushing me in or leading me in to things ahead of my time ("lead us not into temptation"). They ruin the basics, they brag about accomplishments which are far from the basics, they kill us off by attacking our health before we are fully grown, then they try to take our place in the world. I am trying hard-work-in-the-hot-sun to see if I can cook out of me the trouble which started inside me at |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, Florida Time: 1999-08-14 16:18:36 Comments: The last two records got truncated to a shorter length than when submitted. The two faced game is this: (1) some want to present me as the molester of the young woman I dated around 1974, and present themselves as her champion. (2) Then, to another group, they want to say that all of the trouble which started for me in 1969-1970 (before college) was actually caused by things like my relationship with her (after college). In 1973-74 I was looking for a wife, but my heart was divided between the high-school girl and Miss M1, far away at college. In 74 when my car was paid for, I left CT with the intention of courting her in her college town, but I never got there. |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, Florida Time: 1999-08-14 16:10:26 Comments: The last two records got truncated to a shorter length than when submitted. The two faced game is this: (1) some want to present me as the molester of the young woman I dated around 1974, and present themselves as her champion. (2) Then, to another group, they want to say that all of the trouble which started for me in 1969-1970 (before college) was actually caused by things like my relationship with her (after college). In 1973-74 I was looking for a wife, but my heart was divided between the high-school girl and Miss M1, far away at college. In 74 when my car was paid for, I left CT with the intention of courting her in her college town, but I never got there. |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, Florida Time: 1999-08-14 16:09:37 Comments: The last two records got truncated to a shorter length than when submitted. The two faced game is this: (1) some want to present me as the molester of the young woman I dated around 1974, and present themselves as her champion. (2) Then, to another group, they want to say that all of the trouble which started for me in 1969-1970 (before college) was actually caused by things like my relationship with her (after college). In 1973-74 I was looking for a wife, but my heart was divided between the high-school girl and Miss M1, far away at college. In 74 when my car was paid for, I left CT with the intention of courting her in her college town, but I never got there. |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, Florida Time: 1999-08-14 16:15:31 Comments: The last two records got truncated to a shorter length than when submitted. The two faced game is this: (1) some want to present me as the molester of the young woman I dated around 1974, and present themselves as her champion. (2) Then, to another group, they want to say that all of the trouble which started for me in 1969-1970 (before college) was actually caused by things like my relationship with her (after college). In 1973-74 I was looking for a wife, but my heart was divided between the high-school girl and Miss M1, far away at college. In 74 when my car was paid for, I left CT with the intention of courting her in her college town, but I never got there. |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, FL Time: 1999-08-12 22:58:57 Comments: continued from #193. FACT 1, I became involved with a yound woman at Calasanctius, winter of 1969-1970, as decribed in records #127 to #143. FACT 2: I dated a high-school girl from the group home where my sister lived, from 1973 or 1974 until she went away to college. Maybe she was too young the first time I met her, but the last time I dated her she was a college freshman. FACT 3: One of the central truths of my life on earth is that my natural way of courting has never yet been seen, because of the condition I was in when I came home from school. Some want to say that when I was attacked in New York City in March 1970, I got what I deserved for my actions during 1972-1974 (when they describe what I did, they go beyond the truth. Then, they want to play a two faced game: to one audience (maybe the young girl's family) they want to say that I am the one who abused or mistreated their daughter. Then, to another audience, they want to say that all of the trouble which started at Calasanctius, 1969-1970 |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: South Dade County Time: 1999-08-12 22:46:58 Comments: After 4 days of hard work in the hot sun, I just left my botanical nursery job one hour and a half early. I'm 46, it's not as easy as it used to be. In case I pass out on the job, or have some other problem, I would like a few more words to outlive me. My text got bowdlerized in a swindling way which seems to point one in the wrong direction. When I came home from Reed College in 1972 I was "running around like a chicken with his head cut". The hallucinogens used at Calasanctius and the urinary-bowel problems which started 1969-1970 put me in a very confused state of mind. Normally my memory is excellent, but certain events during the period 1969-1972 are really confused in my mind. When I returned to CT in 1972, my first act was to try to get myself hospitalized, but an unemployed man has no insurance. My sister lived in a boarding home for high-school girls, and when I came home, at age 19,20,21, I tried to date a few of them. I had no circle of friends anywhere in the world, because of the way m |
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Name: Carl Weiser Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-11 20:34:21 Comments: Those not in Buffalo might have missed this announcement from the Buffalo News... Buffalo native William Eddins has taken another step forward in the classical music world with his appointment to the position of resident conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, considered one of the world's elite symphonic ensembles. His contract will extend through the 2001-2002 season. Eddins is a graduate of Buffalo's Calasanctius Preparatory School and holds the distinction of being both the youngest student ever admitted to the Eastman School of Music and its youngest graduate. In the 108-year history of the Chicago Symphony, Eddins is the first ever to hold the title of resident conductor. The new position will increase the number of concerts Eddins will conduct both in the regular series and during the summer at the Ravinia Festival, as well as expanding his role in the orchestra's education and outreach activities. Eddins had previously served the orchestra as associate conductor (1998-99), assistant conductor (1995-98) and apprentice conductor (1993-95). From 1992 to 1997, Eddins was assistant conductor, then associate conductor, with the Minnesota Orchestra. His most recent area appearance was as guest conductor with the Chautauqua Symphony in 1996. -- Herman Trotter |
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Name: Mr. Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, Florida Time: 1999-08-11 00:37:43 Comments: In the beginning was my text, and my text was with truth, and my text was good. Someone found a way to worm into my text. Bowdlerize: To expurgate (e.g., a book) prudishly. PUNS: I didn't become like a PRUDE until my PRUnes got stewED. STEWED PRUNES. SOUR GRAPES. MOLDY FIGS (moho = mold, higo = fig. The last of the Moho-higans). SALE (soiled, en francais) PAIR O'DICE (Sal Paradise, the hero of Kerouac's ON THE ROAD, the man with the dirty balls who fell [old typesetter might spell "sal" with an f] from paradise). Did I use any words banned by the F.C.C.? NEW TOPIC: I put some unrelated text into the chat pages of X.NATIONAL-PARK.COM, where X stands for Biscayne, Everglades, Glacier, Grand.Teton, Rocky.Mountain, Sequoia, Yellowstone, Yosemite. I discuss our Calasanctius field trips, etc. Maybe someone can help me with the exact dates. |
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Name: Nathan Rose Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-10 15:21:47 Comments: Good grief, Proccacino, don't take on so. The guestbook has not been altered. You are using a public terminal in a library, no? I suspect the library has installed filtering software to protect children. So the guestbook may look different where you are, but the rest of us still have the pleasure of reviewing your autobiography in all its pristine splendor of diction. |
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Name: Dominic Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Homestead, Florida Time: 1999-08-07 19:04:19 Comments: It looks like somebody tried to bowdlerize our guestbook, certain words considered expletive have been deleted. Maybe somebode wrote a filter which replaces certain words in a list with the character string ":-)" (it looks like a sideways happy-face). In records #158, #159 and #176, the 6 letters "m-o-l-e-s-t" (remove the hyphens) got replaced by the happy face ":-)", for example. This is a clever swindling technique, because if you asked people to imagine what the original text said, they would almost certainly guess something else (try it, ask many people). In records #127-#143, I tried to share the truth as a free gift to the world and as a warning, in the tradition of old time epistle writers who have to end-run the truth around those who block it. In other places, other everyday dictionary words got bowdlerized out with the happy face. Maybe you can start a big argument about the propriety of certain words, and when everyone is distracted by little issues, you can squelch the truth about truly bi |
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Name: Ross Hammond ('81) Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-07 06:46:03 Comments: Sorry I'm going to miss the picnic. By the time I found out about it I had already made by Buffalo pilgrammage plans. I'm still out in San Francisco, doing my international consulting work and playing disc golf (frisbee golf for the uninitiated), wondering what has happened to my classmates. If any of you are in the area, drop me a note. Cheers, Ross |
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Name: Richard Hull Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-08-06 16:29:56 Comments: P.S.: I'll be in Buffalo from the 16th through the 22nd, and can be reached through Elaine's phone at 645-3650 ext 671. There for David Koepsell's wedding and to try to sell the Elmwood apartment house. (Any buyers?) |
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Name: Richard Hull Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Austin, Texas Time: 1999-08-06 16:27:05 Comments: Responding to Tom Tsukada's query about "City of Light": Yes, Tom, I just finished the novel. Sara Kolberg very kindly sent it to me. It's been reviewed positively in the NYTimes (Monday of this week, as I recall). I enjoyed both the fiction and the history very much. The novel is very successful in transforming Buffalo and Niagara Falls into what they were like at the turn of the century. It skillfully captures a number of real characters and interweaves them with the fictional characters. One of those books it's hard to put down. Made me late to work twice! Buffalo must have been quite a place 100 years ago.... I won't comment on the possibilities of employment for a programmer in Buffalo, but i can assure you that they are terrific in Austin. If you want to come down to look things over, you (and any Cal alum) are welcome to crash at my place. Very neat city, great downtown (no boarded up or vacant stores!), terrific night life, great university, fair museums, pretty good classical music, very good live music, rolling hills, trees green year 'round, lots of lakes and water, laid back community (you can go to the symphony in evening clothes or sandals and cut-offs and no one minds).... |
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Name: Maureen McLaughlin '85 Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Beautiful Sunny Dowtown San Francisco Time: 1999-08-03 18:41:00 Comments: For the first time in 5 1/2 years I will be cruising the streets of Buffalo, NY and the surrounding areas. I will be there from Aug. 19-22 and am wondering if there is anyone from '84-'86 who might be around. I am planning to head out with the glowing bride (who is the cause of my journey), for one last night of Buffalo debauchery at the Pink Flamingo, Continental, etc. Are these places still in existence? What should be I be expecting from my old hometown? Anything new and exciting I should be sure to explore? Let me know. I am excited but also a bit apprehensive about returning to Buffalo. I have fond, albeit foggy, memories of my Buffalo years and I am debating whether or not I should just leave them where they are. I think this email may be more for reassurance that Buffalo is still wonderful and I will be transported back to age 17 when my mind was clearer (?), my friends understood everything and there was always food in the fridge. |
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Name: Thom Tsukada '83 Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Philly Time: 1999-07-18 04:15:40 Comments: Has anyone else read the new novel City of Light, by Lauren Belfer? For those who haven't heard of it, it's a historical mystery/melodrama set in turn-of-the-last-century Buffalo, around the time of the Pan-American Exposition. Cal folks will find it of particular interest, as much of it is set in the Delaware Park area. In fact, the Sinclair House where much takes place is the Buffalo Seminary building just around the corner from Cal. Many of us will remember playing soccer and tennis and even a few Turkey Bowls in the field belonging to this house. Also, the Rumsey family plays an important role. The book has gotten good reviews in the NY Times and elsewhere, and I'd certainly recommend it to Buffalonians and Cal folks. (I imagine it's gotten a lot of press in Bflo.) - Thom |
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Name: Thomas Tsukada '83 Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: suburban Philadelphia (a little east of Devon) Time: 1999-07-18 04:03:08 Comments: Hi all. I've been mulling over moving back to the Buffalo area, and I was wondering what current Cal Buffalonians think about Buffalo as a place to live and work. My old Buffalo friends are split into moderately anti-Buffalo and extremely anti-Buffalo factions, but these are all ex-Buffalonians, whose measure of success seems to be how far they have moved from WNY. On the other hand, they are all more-or-less rational, so they may have a point. (I'm particularly interested if anyone has any opinions about the Information Technology scene in town. I'm in software, and haven't seen much there, though I am pursuing a possibility.) Thanks. - Thom Tsukada '83. |
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Name: DomProccacino Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Homestead, Florida Time: 1999-07-12 17:26:26 Comments: Greetings to Pam Legge. In records #127 through #143 I was trying to show what really happened. I've heard that some people have similar stories to tell, but they can't find the words. Life is short, a big piece got blown out of mine. I'll work harder than ANYBODY to raise my family (I proved it this past winter) but I have to start it like a free man first. Attacking my health before I'm fully grown doesn't help. Thanks to the ones who do read my story. |
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Name: Pam Legge Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Buffalo, NY Time: 1999-07-11 10:21:08 Comments: Sorry for the duplication. I got an error message after sending the first posting, so I figured it didn't go through. The message remains the same, however. That's all, thanks. |
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Name: Pam Legge Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Buffalo, NY Time: 1999-07-11 10:20:40 Comments: I, like many others, find some of the recent postings upsetting and disturbing. I am even more disturbed, however, that there are those of us who choose to condemn rather than try to understand. Once I realize the nature and content of Dom's messages, I simply choose to skip over them, as I would any others that don't really concern me. This is not only an easy choice, but one totally within my ability and propriety. While I, too, would like to see these outpourings cease, I would be much happier to see them replaced with messages of hope at finally having found effective help, followed by those of gratitude to us for our indulgence in the meantime. Dominic, please feel free to contact me. I will do whatever I can to help, I promise. |
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Name: Pam Legge Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Buffalo, NY Time: 1999-07-11 10:04:09 Comments: I, like many others, have been upset and disturbed at some of the recent postings. I am more disturbed, however, by those of us who would choose to condemn rather than try to understand. Once realizing the nature and content of Dom's messages, I simply began skipping over them. This is an easy choice, and one within my ability and propriety. I also make the choice to personally pray for Dom and hope he will truly find the peace and help he so dearly needs and deserves, no more or less than any of us. I would be delighted to see the messages stop, but if they were replaced by those of gratitude at having finally found help and solace, and thanking us for being indulgent while he needed to share that journey with us, all the better. Right now I feel helpless to be of support to a former friend who is so obviously in need of help. Please contact me, Dom, if you like. I'd be glad to do whatever I can. |
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Name: Aaron S. Meier Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Time: 1999-07-09 22:56:20 Comments: DP: Censorship or no, this is no place for venting about sexual molestation. Nor are you the first person to be victimized by Cal students and faculty. Back in the 80's, one of the guys in upper school was sexually brutalized by a bunch of his classmates on a field trip. I don't see him posting the sordid details of this incident here -- nor should he. Administrator: Let's oust this character and restore some sanity to this forum. I'm sick of reading his nonsense. Okay?!? |
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Name: sick of this nonsense Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-07-09 20:54:46 Comments: Dom, two words: BOO HOO. After reading your whole story, I can only conclude that the only person preventing you from living a somewhat normal existence is yourself! In your quest to set your self up as the pathetic victim you blame all your misfortune on everyone else, but fail to recognize that millions of people have experienced much greater tragedy and trauma, and are doing fine. They are not sitting around complaining about it to an audience who really couldn't care less. You will never accomplish your stated goals of wife and family if you continue to wallow in your pit of paranoid victimhood. Nobody wants to date a whiner, pal. Get over it, and good luck! ps. do us a favor and don't bother to respond |
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Name: D.CHrIs P. Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, Florida Time: 1999-07-09 17:54:35 Comments: typo CORRECTIONS: the packing house closed June 16, 1999 (record #175). I lost the underlayment job on January 14, 1994. There seems to be a force in nature which can trip my pen when I'm writing, my tongue when I'm talking. In 1985, a prosecutor gave a garbled account of something. He confused me, I wanted to say "no, not exactly" but my tongue said "yes" (I was surprised). I tried to type without error, but then I was blind to my own mistakes. Record #165 is continued from #164. The exact quote in #174 is: "He's a child molester, all he does is sit around AND jerk-off all day" (still not true). Pardon bad spellings (smae for same, becase for because, syphon for siphon, etc). Record #121 seemed to pooh-pooh the idea that things done to me during prep.school years could influence my life today. In the story which begins in record #127, I try to show you how the dominoes fall. Thank you for reading it. "Domino" Proccacino. |
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Name: Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, Florida Time: 1999-07-08 15:50:45 Comments: 6 of 6. DC=Disorderly Conduct,SP=SamePrayer,PD=PoliceDept, PX=Publix,H=Homsted,FC=Fla.City. In 92 I was thrown out of a rooming house in H for praying too loud for fair chance to start family like free man. In 94(?) I had scuffle with PX manager, smae reason,SP. 9/30/95, my bicycle was stolen,FC case#58794. FC impounded my car maybe 8/6/96. So I had to walk home from PX after midnites. One night I walked home praying aloud, SP. Two men menaced me with knives on U.S.1. Another night a would-be-robber threw me to the ground on Krome Ave,FC. 12/15/96, robber stole my wallet at the gate to my trailer park, FC case#84952. 3/22/98 H PD arrested me for loud prayer, SP, in PX parking lot, "DC". 4/19/98, "case dismissed". 9/10/98, H PD arrested me after I shouted at a PX customer who stuck his hand in the pocket containing my wallet on payday. "DC". 9/12/98, PX dismissed me. 6/16/98, packing house closed, unemployed. PUT ON MY TOMBSTONE: "He never gave in". |
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Name: CHrIs P (Chip) Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, Florida Time: 1999-07-08 15:35:32 Comments: 5 of 6. In 94 it looked like I was in line for a house. Someone (no exact date) came smearing me in my trailer park: "He's a child molester, all he does is sit around a jerk-off all day". Not true! But at Reed College, 70-71, I was smeared as "the mad masturbator" becase of the shape I was in when I left Cal (cf. entries #127-143). Next someone came around smearing me at my Publix job: "Chip has homosexual tendancies". Nickname "Chip" comes from "CHrIs P". I don't want a house before I have a woman, I don't want a woman before my condition improves (hard work doesn't improve it enough). Otherwise I might be just an "emasculated name on a doormat", a stepping stone in the land rush, a pawn in their game. I won't settle for less than starting my family like a free man, and I won't deal with a central committee about it, but it might already be too late. P.S. - In the 80s, harassment chased money, in the 90s it chased housing. |
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Name: Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Dade County, Florida Time: 1999-07-08 15:27:18 Comments: The Falcon hears the Falconer, Mr.Rose, 4 of 6. I rode my bicycle from CT to FL in '88 'cause my car was impounded in New Haven, 87. In 93 I got Ma's car from TX. I reg'd & ins'd it in FL, late 93. 1st week of 94, someone put jar, bottles, can under tires 3 morns in a row before I left for my construction job (courthouse builder). Next week car wouldn't start despite tune-up oil-change etc. on 12/23/93. 3rd week of 93 I lost my $290/week floor underlayment job due to car going bad (clogged fuel line, flat tire, etc). That sent me into a packing house, 2/94. Next brake lines were punctured on two separate occasions(94.95?) . Finally, car was impounded in Florida City, after it was blocked from emissions test, illegally I think. Why did trouble pick up again in 94? Some people are legit authorities (no doubt), but they can't find me until I register/insure a car. The country is like what Digital Equip. Corp. calls a "layered product". Some are layered like shit on a shingle. What does your shingle say |
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Name: Nathan Rose Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-07-02 19:30:59 Comments: A clarification for Dominic Proccacino: you don't need your own computer to use email. Various places (Yahoo, for instance) offer free email accounts that you can access with a web browser without any special configuration. You just have a password. Same thing with free space for home pages; so you could do it from the library's computer. In any case, you, like anyone else affiliated with Cal, are welcome to use this board for conversation. It's just that long, ongoing narratives would be better put on their own page, the address of which you can always point to from this board. Nathan Rose '83 |
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Name: Website: unemployed(?) Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Homestead, Florida Time: 1999-07-02 15:29:22 Comments: Ten years later in November 1998 I was working in a bean packing house. One night I forgot money for food, so I munched on many green beans soaked in a chemical (insecticide? preservative?) which was supposed to be washed off. I munched on them until I felt mildly sick. This feeling (chemical after taste, funny stomach) lasted 2 or 3 days, but the irritation inside me went down to nothing for almost 2 months, and I thought that I had finally defeated the trouble which started in 1969-1970. But then, in January 1999, the irritation started to come back, and my jubilation turned into anger. Why couldn't the doctors do that for me? I would be happy to hold the irritation down to that level for many years. This is the last entry for now, addressed to all Cal scholars who went to Med School. |
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Name: Dominic C. Proccacino, 1970 Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Homestead, Florida Time: 1999-07-02 15:22:08 Comments: In 1985, after 15 years of seeing doctors with urinary and bowel complaints going back to my last year at "Cal", I decided to try to treat the problem myself. I tried to rig up some contraptions to combine the effects of a "sitz bath" with a "digital rectal exam" in treating "chronic non-specific prostatitis". Some bastards apparently concluded that my contraptions were "homosexual paraphernalia", and harassment against me intensified. The idea that I could mechanically squeeze bad secretions out of my prostate region was a good one, I did just that when I rode my bicycle from Connecticut to Florida in 1988. The irritation went down for months until I next drank draft beer in a bar. I also rode my bicycle to Florida to escape the "hellhound bastards of organized genocide" who (I am proud to say) I have never given in to. |
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Name: Proccacino,class of 1970 Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Homestead, Florida Time: 1999-07-02 15:04:32 Comments: Greetings to Grossman, Miskuly, Dus et al. - Let me finish in 3 to 6 entries what I want to say. During the 1980s I had a computer of my own to config, and I worked as a programmer. In direct proportion to my level of income, I was harassed by ones who thought I was homosexual, and they ran me into homelessness (1985,1986) and joblessness(1986). The bastards couldn't make a case, so they tried to frame me. Subsequently, I was blackballed and, when I became poor enough, I had to let go of my belongings in storage. Hurricane Andrew was nothing compared to "the trouble I've seen". That's why I don't have a computer today to config for E-Mail (this is the library's), but I don't want to buy another computer, I want to start my family like a free man. |
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Name: TOM DUS Website: Referred by: Net Search From: ELYRIA,OHIO Time: 1999-07-01 22:05:47 Comments: PROCCI, I WAS SADDENED TO READ YOUR STORY. I HOPE YOU WILL CONSIDER GETTING SOME PROFESSIONAL HELP TO DEAL WITH YOUR SITUATION. PERHAPS A LOCAL PRIEST WOULD BE WILLING VISIT WITH YOU OR REFER YOU TO SOMEONE WHO CAN HELP YOU. YOU MUST GET HELP, BECAUSE GOING IT ALONE IS NOT WORKING. WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WERE RAPED. IT'S THE GRAPHIC DETAILS THAT OF THAT EVENT THAT DON'T BELONG ON THIS SITE. PLEASE TAKE MY RECCOMENDATION SERIOUSLY. |
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Name: Jason (John) M. Miskuly Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Boston Time: 1999-07-01 21:01:01 Comments: What a delight to find the page! Just spoke with Peter Good about having a reunion of 1970 grads next year. Would love to hear from those interested and anyone with contact info. on classmates. I, too, remember Chris P fondly. Things don't always develop as we might expect or like, but it's good to know he's still out there struggling. |
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Name: Anita Grossman Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: New York City Time: 1999-06-30 22:10:35 Comments: When I was at Calasanctius (1966-1971) we were graded by the number of intelligent statements in our blue books. Are we grading Proccacino now? His messages may make some uncomfortable, but I, like other alum, have fond memories of him, and welcome him to the site. |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Miami-Dade Public Library Time: 1999-06-30 20:11:47 Comments: Continued from record #165: I was harassed, I was run into the gutter. Now I am 46 years old and facing extinction. The trouble was made because my health was attacked before I was fully grown. Do these words sound familiar: "IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE DEAL, AND THE DEAL WAS WITH (somebody), AND THE DEAL WAS GOOD. SOME PEOPLE WORMED THEIR WAY INTO THE DEAL RIGHT FROM THE START"? It's an old story, who let the camels into the tent? Let your children read records #127 through #143 of this guestbook, had I heard of such things happening, perhaps I could have avoided them. |
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Name: Dom Proccacino Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Miami-Dade Public Library Time: 1999-06-30 19:52:17 Comments: Families like mine are killed off in America because sneaky hellhound bastards of organized genocide succeed in attacking our health before we are fully grown. Then such bastards try to squelch the truth in a way that covers up the genocide. I put my story in the guest book because I wanted every alumnus to read it. Perhaps their children can learn how to evade the genocide. Before you tell me to get out of my school's guestbook, I suggest that you get out of my country. This past winter I worked harder in a packing house to feed your kind of shit than probably any one of you have ever worked. Some people destroyed my chance to grow up in a famuily of my own flesh and blood, they destroyed my chance to go through the normal stages of growth, they destroyed my chance to go through 5 stages considered as one thing (5 fingers, 1 hand): (1)date my woman (2)win my woman (3)love my woman (4)have my children (5)raise my family. I was pushed down, my pants were pulled down, something was stuck up my ass, I w |
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Name: Nathan Rose Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-06-30 19:19:58 Comments: As the maintainer of this site, I don't want to start excluding people or particular messages. However, it seems clear that most alumni don't want to read any more of Mr. Proccacino's life story. So I have a suggestion for him. Many places (including the site that hosts this bulletin board) offer free web space for home pages. Why not get yourself one, and put everything you want to say there? I'm sure no one would object to your posting the address on this board, and then anyone who liked could visit it. While you're at it, you could get a free email address, so people could respond to you privately. Nathan Rose '83 |
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Name: Francis Preve '83 Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Deep in the heart of Texas Time: 1999-06-30 16:28:45 Comments: I'm not sure I'm feeling quite as charitable as Jane after sifting through ten or so pages of Proccacino's ramblings. While I'm no fan of censorship, I hereby move to ban this disturbed fellow from our newsgroup/guestbook. His postings are a waste of bandwidth to those who actually *want* to communicate with other alumni. Anyone second that emotion? - F |
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Name: Jane Cudmore Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 1999-06-30 16:06:52 Comments: Mr Proccacino - On behalf of the vast majority of Cal alumni, family and friends who enjoy this site, I respectfully request that you refrain from any further diatribes regarding your unfortunate experiences at Cal. I think we all understand and sympathize with the problems you had and infact may still have, however, this bulletin board is not the appropriate place to explore them. I hope you are able to receive the help you need in a more suitable forumThank you. |
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Name: Tracey (Mitchell) Miles Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Buffalo Time: 1999-06-29 04:35:33 Comments: Greetings all, has a date been set for the picnic? Hoping maybe the weekend of Aug 14th.......... |
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Name: Dominic C. Proccacino Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Downtown Miami Time: 1999-06-19 18:03:25 Comments: In #158, I wanted to say that some people swindled me out of my fair chance to grow up unmolested first (that was during my Calasanctius years). Then, after I returned from school in bad condition, some OTHER people found excuse to harass me and eventually run me into the gutter. Earlier this week the packing house where I worked closed for the season, so I am unemployed again. Another time I may continue my story. Meanwhile, greetings to all Alumni, and please read what I wrote in entries #127-143 of this guestbook. Thanks. |
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Name: Dominic C. Proccacino, II Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Miami-Dade Public Library System Time: 1999-06-17 16:38:42 Comments: "The People Seldom Judge Rightly" (continued). Some people want to fight against the little King Davids who attack our health the way mine was attacked (see records #127-143). They appoint themselves vigilante-judge-jury-executioners, and they enforce their own laws. I was attacked in New York City in March 1970. It took me years to see that some people were treating me like a dirty dog because they thought that I was the attacker. I was harassed, I was called every kind of dirty name. Some people molested me out of my fair chance to finish growing up. Then, when I came home from school in bad condition, they found reason to call me the molester. Maybe they were looking for a substitute charge to get me with. I had two girlfriends in my youth, all basically normal. But they called me unbelievable dirty names. "They keep making trouble until everybody is dead, that's their system". |
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Name: Dominic C. Proccacino, II Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Miami-Dade Public Library System Time: 1999-06-17 16:25:52 Comments: I put a truthful story into records #127-143 of this guestbook. I got some comments: (1) "They do that to you so that they'll look better than you. That's why he doesn't want them, either". (2) "What's your objective in writing that?" My objective: Love woman, have children, raise family. But if I can't meet that objective because of what was done to me, I have a secondary objective: show what really happened. Families go extinct in America, no one seems to know why. In record #156 I was refering to 1 Samuel 17:49. Some people fight a war of take-over by attacking the sexual health of the young. QUOTE: "Omnia Gallia est divisa in tres partes". (1) abdomen, from the dome (diaphragm, pun: frag'em) on down to the anus. (2) thorax (lisped: sore-ass). (3) head. Some people "divide and conquer" by attacking our lower abdomen. If we die without children, they try to take our place. QUOTE: "The people seldom judge rightly". I was attacked in New York City, March 1970, as described in records #127-143. |
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Name: P-R-O-C-C-A-C-I-N-O Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Miami-Dade Public Library Time: 1999-06-14 15:38:55 Comments: Continued from record #155. I was echoing the pharaoh (Hinny-Says 12:18) "What is this you have done to me?". (3) The attack against my back-end by "little King David" in New York City, March 1970, which I describe in records #127 through #143 of this guest book. Imagine Goliath to symbolize man's sexual potency, imagine "one stone" to symbolize what that "little King David" slammed up my back end (pun on "1 SAM-U-EL" : SLAM-U-WELL). I didn't fall yet, but I've had an irritation inside me since 1969-1970. I avoid foods which make it worse (beer) and I try foods which bring down the irritation (Cranberries, Iced Tea mix with Citric Acid, mixed extra strong). |
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Name: P-R-O-C-C-A-C-I-N-O Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Miami-Dade Public Library Time: 1999-06-14 15:22:09 Comments: Greetings to Frank Carey! I am also normal but I left Calasanctius in bad shape. Imagine that you are young and carefree. Your friends get you drunk, they take you for a walk in the woods, they push you into a beartrap which they previously set and chained to a tree. While you're trying to figure out how to get your foot out, they set a fire under the beartrap. While you're jumping up and down, they say "why are you doing that to yourself? Back in the days of yore, the mighty men (Hinny-Says 6:4) could walk on hot coals without jumping up and down, they could stick their hand in the fire without being burned. Hercules could hold his horses and not be torn apart". I use fire to represent the irritation which started inside me during 1969-1970. Three things went into this problem: (1) The drug experiment of August 1969 seemed to burn my prostate gland the way too much fertilizer burns a plant. (2) The fling with Miss M2 (winter 69-70) led me to cry about difficulty pissing. I was echoing the Pharaoh ( |
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Name: Grinch Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Niagara Falls Time: 1999-06-11 22:40:12 Comments: Hello, all! Some of the Older Members occasionally do get together for a jar and a jaw; as a matter of fact, I'm off to join McIntyre now. We'd love to hear from you! I must say, having read some of the prior entries, that the only thing remarkable about my post-Calasanctius life is how absolutely normal it's been. Go figure. Regards, Grinch '73 |
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Name: Dominic Christopher Proccacino II Website: none Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Miami-Dade Public Library Branch Time: 1999-05-07 22:39:39 Comments: TO FRED HARRIMAN: I rec'd card sent in response to record #150. If this system doesn't communicate, then someone sure fooled me. I sent you a picture postcard and then 3 letters all within the past week, via USPS mail. If they don't get there then let me know. I forgot to use pen-name "Sonny Caprock". TO ALL ALUMNI: Imagine that you want to win the America's Cup Race. In the hour before the race, your "friends" drug your drink, they slash your sails, they jam something in your rudder, they set your prow on fire. Then, the race is on and while you drift helplessly in the tide, your friends are pointing at you: "Look at what an idiot he is! He can't do anything right!". That's what I try to explain to you in records #127 through #143, by "the last hour" I mean my last years at Calasanctius. In this guestbook, "view previous 10" seems to mean "next 10", and vica versa. |
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Name: Nicholas Gramza Website: Referred by: AngelFire From: Time: 1999-05-06 06:30:22 Comments: "Hiya, just settin' down to yammer atcha for a spell..."(-morph) Calasanctius begat one amazingly cool trip with my ripe little neurons and therein kissed some cool dream winds. I learned foremost a love of chemistry and horticulture nd am currently in the entheogenic plant buiseness. You can buy from "me" V^d#maoNZ;) at entheogen dot com. I am working on some interesting chiasms - meristematic genetic interface. Need a classic Volvo? How about one hybridized with a westphalia syncromesh? Also, on wesern new york's first Desert Caracle refuge and playground - a labour of love for the edification in enviropsychaelogy of some scruffy little urchins. My granddad left me a big chunk of land bordering on the grounds of Bethlehem Steele and I figured - what the fuck. (probably Fr. G.'s exact words when he admitted me!) Any $$$ contributions will be gratefully accepted (definitely among the most useful things Cal taught me - need money, ask for it.)my lawyer is yet working with NYPIRG and the WNY Land Conservancy for tax exempt. status... Lessee, more about me. After Cal i went to the Park school and quickly left, having received funding from, in part, a very generous and great hollywood actor, to study at the prestigious Millbrook School and Trevor Zoo. "The bus stopped by and I got on, that's where it.." always drops me down when my neurons blaze too much. I love hob nobbing with important people and would be nothing without their strange and caring curiosity in my life. Oh the shit I've lived w/o even thinking twice.... the hearts I've broken...(some of whose daddies are listed annually in Forbes;)the strings i've pulled to literally save my life. Virtual reality has nothing on the opportunities C |