Hi, I just wanted to say thank you for having this page up, this is the first time in many years I had seen my Father\'s picture and yes the question mark besides his name can dissapear. It truly is him.I will be glad to provide you with information on his accomplishments, and my 4 sisters well as his survivng Grand Chidren.
Sincerely,
Mario Tagliaferri Jr.
PS. I miss Founder\'s day and the Girard Gingers. nothing like them anywhere.
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Joe Zanghi 54\'
Posted on the 2016-06-24 at 20:00
New Girard College website!
http://www.stephengirardsgirardcollege.com
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Chuck Zellers 1960
Posted on the 2016-06-24 at 20:00
A very good web site not for only '58 but all who attended Girard.
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Sedgwick Tourison, \"58
Posted on the 2010-06-01 at 20:00
In mid-1996 I was invited to testify before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The Select Committee was hearing testimony regarding the CIA and U.S. military special operation mission against North Vietnam. During this mission, approximately 500 specially recruited commandos were dropped into the North or landed by boat on coast. There was never any hope that they would be able to return to the South. While aware they had been taken prisoner, MACVSOG and their South Vietnamese counterparts, the Strategic Technical Directorate initiated a deliberate program to cover up the disaster. While aware that nearly all had been taken prisoner, the families of the commandos were told their sons had died in order to save money, according to official records of the operation which is described in"Secret Army, Secret War/" In my written testimony I recounted, as a Girard graduate, the words we all learned originated by Stephen Girard: "My deeds must be my life. When I am dead my actions must speak for me." It was Girard\'s words that caused me to write about our greatest betrayal. Due in large part to my work and the evidence uncovered at the National Archives, Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Bob Smith, supported by other senators, introduced legislation establishing a fund of $20 million to compensate each survivor or next-of-kin of all eligible a minimum of $40,000 for their heroid deeds deliberately covered up until nearly 300 survivors returned from the North\'s most brutal prisons to tell the word they were still alive. My Baltimore neighbor, Le Ngung, commander of Team Hadley who was captured in the North in February 1967, was released from prison in July 1982. In December 1988 he asked me to tell the story about the commandos. Although I did not know these commandos during the nearly eight and a half years I served in Southeast Asia during the war, I know that I had to accept Ngung\'s challenge and do one small deed as this combat veteran\'s contribution to those who otherwise had noone to tell their story. Underlying my decision were the words I cited from Stephen Girard, words that have challenged every graduate to perform actions that reflect on Girard\'s heritage passed on to us as a living testimony to his unselfish generosity.
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ralph piro
Posted on the 2009-07-30 at 20:00
Best sight I've ever seen concerning Girard. I wish you would forward all this to up coming classes.
I graduated in "63" don't remember you guys. My memory only goes back to the class of "59" senior class.
Haven't even nevegated the whole site. It's wonderful. My best whishes to the class of "58" Hail Girard, Ralph Piro "63".
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Joe Margotta GC'54
Posted on the 2008-08-03 at 20:00
Great work on your reunion website. Nice stories and achievements. Congratulations on this fine record and the chronicle thereof.
Very impressive all around but I don't understand retiring in Dunmore, Pa. or Tamaqua, Pa. Yeah, now I do, you can't take the boy out of the coal mines forever.
This Dunmorean left in 1969 and ended up in Chicagoland after many intervening places. Hell, who retires on the Great Lakes?
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Tim Worrell '56
Posted on the 2008-05-02 at 20:00
Enjoy your time together @ your 50th. reunion.It like your 10 years or so at Girard will be a highlite in your life. After reading most of your bios under classmates- I will be happy to talk to as many as possible on Founders Day-- see you in the Chapel. Your classmate Ed Toff is doing a fine job running the SJWave Alumni Chapter. Can't wait to attend the next chapter meeting. Tim Worrell '56
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Tom Eckard '56
Posted on the 2008-03-16 at 20:00
Great job guys, keep up the spirit Brothers, God Bless. Tom
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George Dornbach, '56
Posted on the 2008-03-16 at 20:00
Congratulous you old goots! George
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David G. Hunscher
Posted on the 2008-02-12 at 19:00
Am looking forward to being with the class. It has been a long time for me, having only visited periodically. Although my home was in Pennsylvania, I have not been back other than to start the current local government form in Mt. Laurel, NJ. Much has changed and hope to renew some loyalty to Girard which I have lost over the years with all of adventures in my life. I hope the reunion will be warm and successful. I trust I will be able to take part in most of the events but will be at the dinner on the 16th. My best to all, 'Davey Crocket'-DGH- dhunscher.com
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Victor Jurciukonis
Posted on the 2007-03-11 at 20:00
Looking forward to seeing everyone after all these years.
