..ooO}-- Cromwell Students - Middletown High School --{Ooo..
Class of 1948


 
Wesley Blakely
Wellington Brush

John Branciforte
Jean Cole

Elizabeth Derenthal
 

Joan Derenthal

Mary Derenthal
Clarence Fillmore
Barbara Gaik
Patricia Gilbert
 
Lawrence Gilman
Bernice Grower
Joe Hagel

David Johnson

Gordon Johnson
 

Marjorie Johnson

Bessie Johnston
Daniel Lord

Ann McClure
James Moffatt
 
William Nelson
Robert Nielson

Joan Nordgren

Barbara Reiman

Ronald Schaefer
 

Donald Smith

Carmine Varrichio
Richard Watrous Earl Woike
Pleasant Street
 

His father was First Selectman and he was Town Foreman for many years


A thank you to J.Richard Franklin, class of '47 for identifying the Cromwell students.


From Rick Callahan:
a couple of interesting comments about the class of 48 from Middletown.

Vivian McRae, lived right in back of us before we moved to Cromwell in 1955. She
lived on Wadsworth street in an old brownstone house. It was the my first black
family I knew, although it was then that I discovered that I was color blind, not
literally but socially. I remember that whenever my mother was sick or somehow
not able to care for us, her mother would come down the hill and wash all of our
clothes and cook for us. Vivian was a baby sitter for me when I was 6,7 or 8.
Later, she would take me to the playground where she was a counselor and I
would be able to learn crafts and the such. Later, I believe she was in Middletown
Government. The memory that sticks in my mind is that when they hung out their
sheets they were as white as they can be.

The other is John Morello. In 1965 when I started my Toolmaker trade, he was
already a Journeymen Diemaker at Emhart Corp in New Britain and I went to his
brother Sal to have my hair cut in the center of Cromwell across from Farmers and
Mechanics Bank (Cromwell Savings).

it's interesting how well all the pieces fit.