[tomwed]

I'm from Secaucus NJ, a suburb close to Hoboken. I was in the CYO [Catholic Youth Organization] and we were pretty active. Every other year there was a convention and in my sophomore year 1967, it was in Miami. We had all kinds of fund raisers but our biggest money maker was the musicals. They were so much fun .We did Bye, Bye Birdie, South Pacific and Guys and Dolls. Flying to Miami out of Newark was something else. I think we sang "I'm leaving on a Jet Plane, don't know when I'll be back again" a hundred times. I think there was a movie too. When we landed we all clapped. We stayed at the Atlantic Towers but snuck into the Fountainbleu pool pretending we were big shots. At the convention., at the Fountainbleau our guest speaker was Hubert Humphrey. I met a girl from Texas and fell in love with that accent.