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Walt Whitman High School Class of 1968 - Coincidences

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Body:	<i>It's one thing to walk through your old neighborhood and bump into someone you knew decades ago - that's practically expected. For instance, walking up my old street a few years ago, I spent 15 minutes reminiscing with Phyllis Muhr's Mom, Phoebe. And that evening I attended my nephew's wedding and reception - his sister (my niece) was with her best High School friend - who was actually Debbie (Binder) Harty's daughter. (BTW, Debbie, your daughter is as beautiful as you.) When my father passed away in late 1993 - I found the chance to trade letters with Lynn Piat - whose parents were close to my own. It's quite something else to discover a connection to one's past hundreds or even thousands of miles away. In 1984 and '85, when I was home from my offshore drilling rig on the Gulf, I became involved with a faith-based prison ministry with a fellow named Jack Easterwood. Jack invited me to accompany him on a trip up to Huntsville, to minster and also transport some newly released inmates to Houston Intercontinental so these guys could fly home to their respective loved ones. In the course of the day, I noticed a poster and it named Alex Taylor as the chief Chaplain. I dismissed it as coincidence - after all, I know many men named Alex and Taylor's a fairly common surname. Just a few years ago, Chris Green mentioned Alex in an e-mail - and I realized how close I had come to meeting Alex himself during my days in Texas. During that same time period, I spent one short afternoon on a small drilling rig operating for Shell or Texaco, I cannot exactly recall - that afternoon I noticed a framed certicate on the wall of the galley, denoting the rig's Declaration of Seaworthiness - and I recognized the signature - it was signed by Timothy Cerniglia - the handwriting was an exact match to the autograph he placed in my eight grade memory book from St Hugh's. I soon forgot about this 'encounter' but it remained buried deep somewhere in my rapidly fading memory. Thanks to Richie Smith, Katie and others instrumental in this site and its administration, the Cerniglia handwriting 'sighting' surfaced in my mind, so I searched him out and found this: <http://www.colvinweaverlaw.com> I'm not 100% sure - but this attorney is the right age, and so I've e-mailed him this evening through his firm contact info - and await his reply. I fully realize that some of our classmates may not want to be found - so be it - but we should reach out with open arms anyway. I'm certain my own chance encounters with the past aren't unique - that others here have had their own as well - and I was thinking it'd be good thread material. So whose name or face did YOU bump into far from home?</i> *
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