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


Richard Watrous' father was First Selectman and he was Town Foreman for many years


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.