On July 5, 1980, the Town of Norwood Recreation Department released the comprehensive roster and schedule for the second session of its summer youth program, spanning from July 7 through July 18. The announcement provided specific times and locations for swimming and tennis instruction, catering to hundreds of local residents across multiple skill levels.
The swimming curriculum was divided between the Hawes facility and Fr. Mac’s swimming area. At Hawes, the Junior Life class at 9 a.m. included Laura Cotellesso, Karen Doherty, Thomas Duffy, Carolyn Fitzgerald, John Garrity, Mary Ingersoll, Patricia Matthies, Suzanne Norton, Susannah Power, Lisa Rempelakis, and Greg Froncis. The Swimmers at 9 a.m. featured David Barner, Lisa Cavallaro, Lisa Consentino, James Doherty, Kathleen Hubbard, Michael Ingersoll, Peter Kennedy, Kathie Reilly, Eileen Roberson, Maureen Roberson, Amy Roman, Karen Russo, Melissa Smith, Andrew Troiani, Darren Vito, Jeffrey Vito, Tracy Walton, and Kristen Viall. Intermediates at 9 a.m. included John Costa, Michele Decareau, Thomas Decareau, William Discepolo, Candice Doherty, Katherine Dooley, Marc Dunn, Mary Ann Farren, Laura Finnell, and Janice Frangioso, while a 10 a.m. session included Paula Green, John Harris, Sandra Johnson, David Kelliher, Jessica McCann, Mark McCreadie, Scott McCreadie, Michael McNeil, Maryellen O’Brien, Robert Spongnardi, Thomas Spognardi, and Matthew Troiani. Advance Beginners at 9 a.m. were Michelle Berube, Theodore Brooks, Thomas Bryant, Joseph Consentino, John Cooke, Ann Marie Costa, Heather Dauphinee, Danny Farren, Martin Feeney, David Gavin, Paul Girard, Kevin Grady, Scott Howard, Christina Jewell, Charles Kennedy, Chris McGhee, Kevin Meagher, Caron Narbut, Scott Norton, Linda Russo, Vito Serratore, and Robin Cavallaro. The 11 a.m. Beginners session listed Brain Azzola, Louis Barbato, Maria Bartucco, Lisa Blazejewski, Kathleen Brooks, Bridget Canniff, Michelle Caulfield, Joyce Colleran, John Costa, Mario Costa, Tony D’Amato, Marc DiFlaminis, Ann Marie Faherty, Mary Faherty, Michael Faherty, Kevin Farren, Robert Flaherty, Daniel Feeney, Ann Marie Flaherty, Janine Flaherty, Marney Gavin, Brian Grady, Mira Guirguis, Danielle Harris, Christine Law, Lauren Liotta, Joseph Maggio, Kathleen O’Connor, Linda O’Connor, Beth O’Leary, Karen Olsson, John Palumbo, Arthur Powers, Sonia Puopolo, Michelle Ridini, Michelle Rioux, Maria Rondirnelli, Deborah Saia, Rocco Silvestri, Janet Smith, Maureen Spoghardi, John Stadalnick, Marisa Vito, Matthew Vito, John Walton, Daniel Wolfe, Sarah Yanez, Christopher Johnson, and Michelle Daley.
At Fr. Mac’s, the 9 a.m. Junior Life class consisted of Kathy Brown, Catherine Carpenter, Christine Cassidy, Christine Connolly, Daniel Donovan, Paula Goggin, Susan Hand, Kate Kelley, Lois Pyne, Melissa Smith, and Joseph Jacobs. Swimmers at 9 a.m. were Jill Goggin, Janet Jacobs, Peter Jordan, William Jurgelewicz, David McKeown, Julie Naughton, Susan Rilev, Mark Sampson, Arleen Shield, and Susan Quinn. Intermediates at 9 a.m. were Laurie Alton, Roseann Buckley, Elise Comeau, Kristin Crowley, Paul DeCosto, Maureen Donovan, Christopher Drummey, Jill Drummey, Paul Folan, Beth Goodrich, Sean Hanley, Andrea Jackson, Louis Jordano, and Paul Jurgelewicz. The 10 a.m. Intermediates featured Megan Kelleher, Jamie Kelly, Jeffrey Lambert, Michael Lodge, Paul McCafferty, Ellen Munzenrider, Marianne O’Brien, Kristin Petherick, Jennifer Power, Mary Lou Sawkiewickzy, Jean Simons, Debra Smith, Charles Steeves, Louis Taris, and James Weber. Advance Beginners at 10 a.m. included Becky Ahern, Karin Alton, Concetta Astorelli, Jeanne Carpenter, Shau Shauna Coffey, Michael Connolly, Lauren Devine, Jennifer Drummey, Nicole Fino, Jay Flaherty, Melissa Flaherty, Kathryn Hand, Robert Jurgelewicz, John Kelleher, Laura Klein, Thomas Lane, Sean McKewon, John O’Brien, William Plasko, Sharna Smith, Brian Sullivan, and Tracy Treeful. The massive 11 a.m. Beginners list included Steven Aiton, Mark Anderson, Paul Barnes, Vincent Belur, Kelly Bishop, Christina Bowies, Dawnna Cahill, Scott Cameron, Stacey Cameron, Stephen Cameron, Suzanne Carulli, Dino Chlavegato, Andrew Ciarletta, Wayne Comeau, Mike Connolly, Danielle Cormier, Philomeana Curran, Paul DeCoste, Beth Desmond, Kerry Fetherston, John Flaherty, Karen Foley, Matthew Foley, Kathy Fruci, Maria Fruci, Robert Gramer, John Hines, Michael Johnson, Chris Joseph, Eileen Kelleher, Gavin Kelleher, Colleen Kennedy, Maureen Lane, William Lane, Michael Lovecchio, Scott MacLeod, Peter Mao, Erin McCafferty, Barbara McDonagh, Kellie McTernan, Robert Marshalsea, Brian Moloney, Daniel Naughton, Christopher Nutting, Jacqueline Ochs, Stacy Ochs, Elizabeth Penza, Paul Petherick, Anthony Pham, Thomas Pham, Therese Pham, James Plasko, Tricia Piasko, John Power, Karen Power, Kerri Robson, Rebecca Sansone, Jacquelyn Shlhoub, StaciJoyce Shapiro, Kevin Shipman, Jill Sinibaldi, Steven Smith, Joseph Steeves, Kristin Stewart, Susan Tomasello, James Hughes, Brian O’Connor, Kathleen O’Connor, Michael O’Connor, and Christopher Porro.
Tennis schedules were similarly robust. Junior High South featured Beginners at 9 a.m. (Kathleen Brooks, Kenneth Brown, Sean Caulfield, Christopher Cerullo, Kimberly Clasby, Elise Comeau, Waynee Comeau, Ann Marie Costa, Thomas Curran), 10 a.m. (Susan Davis, Suzanne Decareau, Kristen DeRoss, Elissa DiMaggio, Stacey Duncan, Patrick Egan, Derek Grudinskas, Wendy Levine, Deborah Saia), and 11 a.m. (Michael Lind, Kristen Lyons, Robert Meers, Andrea Najjar, Danny O’Neill, James Shannon, Karen Tyler, Gregory Watson, Joanne Wood). Advance Beginners at 1 p.m. were Lauren Abruzzese, Theodore Brooks, Debra Caldicott, Kristen Cieri, Kristen Gatley, Edward Hardiman, Mary Ingersoll, Charlotte Jobbagy, David Kenefick, Maureen MacEachern, Patty Mayyhies, James McCarthy, Paul McCarthy, Ray Milano, Kathie Reilly, and Tracy Walton. Junior High North hosted Beginners at 9 a.m. (Debbie Allen, David Bowles, Stephen Brown, Barbara Bushnell, Dawnna Cahill, Tina Conlan, Kevin Cote, James Crowley, Nancy Daniel, Craig Donaruona, Jay Flaharty, Melissa Flaharty), 10 a.m. (Roberta Dunn, Janell Genovese, Denise Geraghty, Jill Goonan, Joseph Gugliotta, Amy Heckman, Louis Jordano, Andrew Lafferty, Tommy Lloyd, Janet Maher, Margaret Maher, Matthew McCarthy, Kathleen McGuiness), 11 a.m. (Nancy Petrocelli, John Power, Helen Roussas, Mark Ruma, Kristen Scollins, Michael Shea, Nancy Shea, Tracy Shore, Keith Stanley, Tracy Treeful, Mark Welch), and Advance Beginners at 1 p.m. (Ronald Aipperspach, Amy Carten, Jeanne Galvin, Kate Kelley, Lisa Nutting, David O’Brien, Kathleen O’Connor, Scott Stanley, Andrea Topping).
Archival Note: This article has been dynamically reconstructed from the original public record print archives of the Patriot Ledger
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