Education
" Grafton High School, we both went here; he graduated in 1968. I graduated in 1969.

Here is the University of Massachusetts -- Amherst Massachusetts. Dennis graduated from here in 1972.

Here is the campus green at Westfield State College, Westfield Massachusetts. This is where I went to school from 1969 until 1970. When I went to school here, there was no campus green.

Here is a view of Nichols College, Dudley Massachusetts. I graduated from here in 1974. This is the entrance to the library, yes, I did pass through these doors on more than one occasion.

 Here we have a view of Algonquin Regional High School, Northborough Massachusetts.This school is where Dennis taught for 28 years.


A collage of things we have done. Think of the number of people the two of us have had a role, in part of their lives through music, teaching and sports.
Grafton, Massachusetts

This is where we grew up, the picture is looking from the steeple of the Congregational Church towards Mt. Wachusett.
Pratts Pond, North Grafton


Here are a couple of scenes from the center of town.

North St., in Winter.
The Second Baptist Church
These are all pictures from the center of town. When we were young there were three distinct sections in the town. The North was the middle class mainly the baby boomers, the South end was the Milltown where the factories were and the center, where the money was. Here is an example of the type of housing that might be found in the center.
The Polish Club, this was a very popular place in the southern part of town. There is a bar in the basement.







We are being read to at a very young age.

Places We Went

Hampton Beach New HampshireThis is the place where we went on vacation, and we would go with the CYC every year.

Below we have Mt. Monadnock, every year, we would go to climb the mountain; one year, Dennis fell off and broke his foot. The mountain was not that big, we climbed on paths. Not that difficult.




Below is St. Mary's Church.Dennis and I were both altar boys here, that is right me too!


We were both in the first classes to go to this school, he was in the second-grade, I was in the first.

Here is a picture of Dennis, Beth and my grandmother after the graduation from the University of Massachusetts.


This is Dennis at a very young age. Even then he looked acedemic!
This is the Methodist Church, in the background is the Perry Hill School where my brother and I went for the fifth and sixth grade.
Some Pictures from the Early Years


Dennis at the Junior prom



Me heading to the Little League ball, the look never changed.

The picture below shows my father and my younger brother Dan. We should not forget them.






This is my younger brother Dan in the hospital. This particular time, I am visiting, probably after his operation. He was put in the hospital a couple of times when he was younger simply because he was our younger brother. Dennis and I used to play catch with him.
This is a jazz band Dennis and I played in high school.The picture was taken at the worlds fair in Montréal in 1967,you can hear us at the bottom.
Great Grandmother,
Sarah McInnis Hogan
Sarah Ann McInnis oldest daughter of Peter McInnis with five of her children Rear: Laura, Sarah Ann,May Front:Rosella, Bernard, Mabel Joe McInnis and his nieces Laura, Mabel, May, and Rosella


Martin and Laura Wrenn


Dan Wrenn and his children Francis Wrenn and his children


Donna
Dennis

Jack
Steve

Sheila
Dan
Jack's son Michael while on a trip to Ireland after graduation. This Picture Is Bryan, Jennifer, Andrew, and Patrick. Jennifer and Andrew are Dan's children Patrick and Bryan are Steve's. Sheila's son Wayne : This Picture Is of Jessica, Lissa, Scott and Patrick; at a very young age. Jessica, Lissa, and Scott are Dennis's children. The baby is Patrick.

Above is the Wrenn side of the family. Editorial privilege has come in to play.
This Link is the genealogy from Prince Edward Island;Click here.
Below are some YouTube videos I have made. Showing are GHS Jazz Band, Chorus,then ME--"Bry Italy" -- "Vietnam--"Atumn in New England And Easter 2010 made for my mother, she saw this before she passed away .
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September 26, 2009

14 ways to tell you may drink too much:

14 - Although armed with fire extinguishers, friends stood at a safe distance as you blew out your birthday candles.
13 - Thanks to you, Jack Daniels stock is up 15 1/4 since Friday.
12 - Boris Yeltsin called personally to ask you to slow down on the Stoli.
11 - For some reason, there's salt on the rim of your basketball goal.
10 - Your name is Otis and Sheriff Andy has brought you some of Aunt Bea's pancakes.
9 - For the money you spent on Thunderbird, you could've bought the automobile.
8 - You're now the proud inventor of the "Slim Jim": Ultra Slim-Fast shakes made with Jim Beam.
7 - Answering machine full of warnings from Coach Switzer.
6 - Absolut wants to run an ad featuring a picture of your liver in the shape of a bottle.
5 - Yet again, dry cleaner employees greet you with, "Hey, it's Vomit Man!"
4 - The doorman asks for your I.D. just to see how long it'll take you to find your pants.
3 - Your liver, in a fit of pique, leaps out of your abdominal cavity into a pan of frying onions.
2 - Worried friends call Monday morning to make sure you returned the goat.
1 - You're now sober enough to realize "Drink Canada Dry" is a slogan and not a personal goal.

September 20, 2009

Brady: We all gotta do a better job


EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- It didn't matter that the Patriots' offense hadn't seemed right all day. When Tom Brady jogged onto the field with one final chance to tie yesterday's game against the Jets with 1:48 remaining, all of New England was thinking the same thing: Get ready for overtime.

The obstacles didn't matter: 90 yards, zero timeouts, no Wes Welker (inactive, knee injury). Brady had engineered 29 fourth-quarter comebacks during his career, including last week's improbable 11-point comeback over the Bills. This was crunch time for one of the clutchest QBs in NFL history and surely this would be comeback No. 30.

But five plays later, it was over. A desperation chuck to Joey Galloway with the Patriots facing 4th and 10 from their own 28 fell incomplete and the Jets emerged with a 16-9 triumph at the Meadowlands. It was the first regular-season loss Brady had endured since a defeat to the Dolphins on Dec. 10, 2006, a stretch of 19 games.

And suddenly all of New England was thinking the same thing: What was wrong with Tom?

"I thought we had a chance there," said Brady. "We just didn't execute well enough on the 2-minute possession and that's something we've been good at. The Jets were better at it today than we were. It's frustrating, we had really high expectations for this game, and we didn't put it together very well."

The Jets had grand plans as well and brazenly talked about them for much of the week. Scott knew what Patriots' fans were thinking when the Patriots took over late and didn't mind dashing their hopes.

"I know they were expecting the Tom Brady comeback," said Scott. "We put the team on our back, put it the defense's hands, and closed the show."

September 17, 2009

New York City from the air:

This Picture has nothing to do with family.
The only connection here would be that we both Went to the New York World's Fair in Queens in our teens and Dennis did some studio work in New York. He often said that if he could live there he would.

September 06, 2009

Today;




No one knows where Gobo goes when Gobo goes away.







Still no voice, need a new microphone, I think.

September 02, 2009

Today;

Happy Birthday--Joe!
The LA Fire--Looks like a BOMB!

August 27, 2009

Today


Still no voice, typing. Will just show a picture until the PC gets repaired. Here comes the picture.

August 07, 2009

Good Afternoon:

When Dennis went to the University of Massachusetts, I was a senior in high school. Even so, a few times I would go up and spend the weekend with him. Being freshman in college these students had discovered certain freedoms that might not have been there when they were still in high school. His dormitory was in the Southwest section of the University, in the high-rise dorms. The university was quite large, at that time, I believe there were over 20,000 students. When visiting it was okay to become involved in the various contests that would be run typically by freshman in college. Was rather cruel game was to go around to the campus and see, you could pick up the ugliest girl. While still in high school, I won. I admit, the game was cruel, but I was kind of funny that I was able to win it, while still in high school. Will figure out a better one for tomorrow.

August 06, 2009

Where We Grew up:a couple of stories when we are young

WALKING TO SEE OUR GRANDPARENTS:

My brother and I were considered to be Irish twins although this was not true. In order to be true Irish twins, you must be less than a year apart, my brother and I are 11 months apart I was two months premature which does not fit the definition.But I digress.
I could generally talk my brother into anything at that time. This was the case on this sunny day. We were about three and five years old, my mother’s parents, our grandparents, had moved about 2 miles away. My brother and I were outside playing, and I decided that it would be a good idea to take a walk to see my grandparents. The problems here were;
We were kind of young to be walking 2 miles by ourselves.
We were supposed to be outside playing. So that someone might be upset when they couldn’t find us.
So the two of us made our way from our safe neighborhood on the hill to see our grandparents. This journey took us to Route122/140, which at that time was known as the Cape Road as this was the way to go to Cape Cod on Route 140 or Rhode Island on Route 122. Unknown to us, at this time, we were discovered to be missing and my mother was frantic. She contacted a neighbor across the street who had a car, the search began. Not finding us where we were supposed to be, the search widened. We were found walking on the side of the road about a half mile away from where we should have been. Needless to say, we were chastised for taking the trek. This is just one of many times that we were chastised for doing something with good intentions that were not shared by the adults.





THE HUMAN CHAIN


When younger children are left to their own means, they become creative. This was the case one day when, left to their own means some of these 4 and 5-year-old children decided that it would be great to stop traffic the one road that led into the neighborhood. So here were five children stopping all traffic trying to enter the area using the only road in or out. The group was comprised of three girls and two boys. Ironically, the father of the three girls was a State Trooper. Here we were delinquent at a young age. This is just an example of one of many incidents that would occur over the years.

August 05, 2009

Anniversary of sorts

Today is an anniversary as today was the day 10 years ago that my dad passed away. This definitely has to do with my brothers and definitely should be partof the post for today. A major part of doing this blog and any other is the memory involved. It is not seeing how the computer works or showing what you can do it. The important part is being able to save some of the memories that you have and share them with others. Enjoy.

August 04, 2009

Today:

Hello, I am very late and I do not have much to say. I know many people believe that. I have been reading up on different methods that I could use to attach music to this site. It would actually be pretty neat, if I could put the picture of the high school jazz band and have the songs play from that band. I will work on that, it will take me a while. If anyone has any ideas, please share. Later.

August 03, 2009

Today:

I will continue to work on this Blog. At the end I will add pictures of the family that we never got to see when we were young, because they lived in New Mexico. Today, that would not be as big a problem but at that time travel was not ask accessible as it is today. By putting all these images on here, I believe this is the only space where all of these are shown together. This will take me a while, but I do think it is a worthwhile endeavor. Big words. Till tomorrow, later!

August 02, 2009

Today:

Given the title of this Blog, think I will write about the two of us in school. Because I was always a year behind teachers always thought that I would be a similar student as my brother was; wrong. In most cases Dennis was the ideal student, I was not. A great example of this was when we were in high school, he was in the National Honor Society, I was not. He was in the top 10 in his class, I came in number 86. The big difference was that I played basketball, baseball, band, jazz band, chorus, student Council he did not. Needless to say, although we were very close in age we were very different. Much of this can be attributed to the people that were in our age group. We will expand on this in future posts.

August 01, 2009

Today:

Well I did not put anything up yesterday. I did change some things on the site. Today I will continue to change the template somewhat by adding enough to fill the main part. My plan is to add pictures of genealogy at the bottom of the main template. I think this is accomplishing what I have planned to do. The blog is showing some of where we grew up and the two of us prior to the teaching years. I will continue this.

Today's picture again comes from another country.

July 30, 2009

Today

Well I have had a little bit more today. I should explain the reason I am doing this. The main reason is that after my brother passed away, there totally and was much on Facebook that dealt with the years he spent teaching, and rightfully so. He was a tremendous teacher and enjoyed teaching tremendously. Postings that were made were very important for all of these students but I felt it was important also to address some of the years prior to his becoming a teacher. I may not accomplish this, but I will give it a shot. This blog will also show much of the family that was not shown before.

July 28, 2009

Today: July 28, 2009

Since this blog is about the two of us, I should start at the beginning. We were born in Worcester, on Birch Street so I am told. I was very young. We moved to Grafton,in 1954 our house was the last one on the street at the time. The neighborhood was called the airport, because it was built on the site of the Grafton Airport. When we moved there, there were plane wrecks in the woods. Many of the remnants of the airport was still visible, the Massachusetts Turnpike was still in the planning stages.

July 27, 2009

My daily post:

I am still working on the template, at least now I know how. My brother was known very much for music and I was known for being involved with athletics. While I did play sports in high school, college and after, I was also involved with music and especially during high school played in the band, jazz band, sang in the chorus with my brother Dennis. The two of us also played in a garage rock band as teenagers, he was the leader played lead guitar I played rhythm, sang; we played and a few church events as well as a couple of high school dances, it was fun.

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Well-educated, disabled at this point with Multiple Sclerosis. I am very glad that I was able to do the things that I have been able to do over the years. had to change the picture, this one's more realistic.

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