OK.  Brace yourself for some time travel.  These are from Carmella’s and Janet’s (McCarty) private collection (worth untold dozens of dollars). Do you have anything to add, hopefully something suitably embarrassing?

It was 1949. WW2 ended just four years earlier, and the world held great promise for these eager youngsters from Jamesburg, NJ. Not all would make it to the graduation 13 years later... some would move, others would move in. How many can you recognize?

Kindergarten 1

HELP! Who ARE these people???

Standing (LtoR): ???, Virginia Ceraquas (sp?), Gloria ??, Anthony Lena, Helen Freer, Rosmary Seminara, Tommy Caprio, ???, Charlie Vingara

Seated (LtoR): Barbara Collura, ???, Carolyn Mancuso (we think), Elizabeth Conover, Cathy Pullen, Margaret Stoeffler, Carmella Caruso

Kindergarten 2

Standing: LtoR: Henry Kowaleski, Michael Route, Peter Lief, Bobbie Richards, Jackie Rhoades, Richard Kolbush, Lew Emens, Eugene Tonkery  Beloved Teacher: Miss Davison

Seated row: LtoR: Nancy Davison, Linda Yetman, Carolyn Mancuso (we think again), ???, Joan Collins, Barbara Sudowsky, Carol Jorgenson, Jane Davies, Janet McCarty (Worthington)

So who was the photographer at the bottom of THIS pile? How many can you name?

Trip to Washington, D.C.

Margaret clearly injured herself slugging the LAST person who tried to pull off her top.

Girl’s Picnic

Costumes

The late Alecia Hlusko and Carlton Miller’s wedding.

Monroe Graduating 8th Grade Class, courtesy Venera Golino

High School Graduation (above) and 8th Grade Graduation (below)courtesy of Janet Worthington

SEATED: Jerline Mitchel, Edith Handy, Elizabeth Conner, Helen Freer, Mary Ann Wzorek, Janet McCarty, Kathy Davison, Margaret Stoeffler, Faith Demele, Rosemarie Seminara, Mary Longo, Virginia Cerequas, Anna Aplass

2nd Row: Jane Davies, Carol Jorgenson, Barbara Applegate, Kathy Pullen, Barbara Sudowsky, Barbara Colura, Janet Nikkola, Janet Curley, Carolyn Mancuso, Carmella Caruso

3rd Row: Philip Cicciari, Richard Chlopicki, Robert Richards, Jackie Rhoades, Carlton Miller, Walter Davis, Rudolph Wolfinger, Frank Soboczynski

4th Row: Carmen Chiarra, Charles Sohl, Joseph Craparatta, Richard DiStefano, Richard Mancuso, Peter Lief

5th Row: Lynn Bunn, Charles Vingara, William Sohl, Mark Pansy, Rosbuth Mathis

6th Row: William Burd, Michael Vingara, Michael Pepe, Richard Kolbush, Michael Route