Saint Stephen's Alumni - guestbook

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Name: Betty Bonshoff '59
From: 12th & Luzerne
E-mail: bettybonshoff@verizon.net
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I mentioned that Ryan Howard was restoring a baseball field in Hunting Park. I understand he will be there next Wed,Sept 8. He made a $50,000. donation. I'm sure there will be some organizations from the area attending the occasion.
Added: September 1, 2010
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Name: Kathleen Agin Allston 61
From: Vero Beach
E-mail: kathyallston@bellsouth.net
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I was in Philadelphia a few years ago and I went back to the neighborhood 3600 Marvine Street and there was crime scein tape blocking the street.. so sad but we did have some great times down there,
Added: August 31, 2010
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Name: Bill Kehoe
From: Erie Ave
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Yes, I agree, Charlotte--you would cry if you saw that area in Hunting Park now. Fairly trashed and somehow cut into parcels from what I can see when I go through there. Old York Rd. near the Park looks like a war zone which it likely is.
Added: August 30, 2010
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Name: Charlotte Waslov '61
From: 3821 N. 10th Street
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Hunting Park. Used to live there since I was right down the street. It was a built in babysitter. Jim Iaquinto, I used to play basketball with Chrissy Conly and Jean Flanagan at the "Y" there. It was a great make out place and I remember all the cars parked there with the parking lights on. I would probably cry if I saw it today. Used to swim in the old and new pools. Went on the merry-go-round a million times and caught the gold ring for a free ride. I was in that park just about every day. Watched the Butler Bears games and the Basketball games where we rooted for the likes of John McAllister, Pat Devlin, Bill Danks and Ricky Costello. How sad that a part of our youth is now gone.
Added: August 30, 2010
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Name: mike gospodarek
From: 13th&allegheny
E-mail: smokeygo1946@gmail.com
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Bob did you meet at the dining car with Ed murray aka sunny
Added: August 28, 2010
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Submitted by
Name: Bob Gavin
From: Nicetown
E-mail: cgavin3537@comcast.net
Comments:
Sorry to be so long between comments. I'm still recovering from an injury incurred on last Easter Monday.
Sorry to report that we lost Billy Morgan (class of 54) a few months ago. Bill was a retired police lieut.and a mainstay at our monthly get together (SSS oldsters) at the Dining Car in NE Philly. Although he was very sick, he made the reunion at the "Rosebriar" last year.
Good to see Jimmy King checking in from the class of 53.
Hunting Park was the scene of some great football games as well as baseball. Pompei Catholic Club played their home games there. Thanks for the memories.
Added: August 24, 2010
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Name: Leslie Lynch-Wilson
From: Lincoln Park, Michigan
E-mail: lalynch@wideopenwest.com
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Does anyone know the name Tom Quarry (1891 - 1948) who was a member of St. Stephen's? He might of gone to school at St. Stephen's but I'm not certain.

My Dad, Edward G. Lynch, was the St. Stephen's grad (Northeast Catholic, 1936) and all of his family (parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles) worshiped at St. Stephen's with many of them having gone to school there. My grandparents Garret and Mary Quarry Lynch were married at St. Stephen's in 1902. Tom Quarry was a younger brother of my grandmother Lynch and my Dad's uncle.

A cousin that I've never met but found online last week told me about Tom Quarry.

Tom Quarry was a baseball player of some note before WWI. The story is that Tom was a catcher on the Nicetown team. Rumor is that Connie Mack, the legendary manager of the A’s, had once signed him but the family does not have any documentation. Tom served in WWI but came home to Nicetown with psychological problems. He passed away in 1948.
Added: August 18, 2010
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Submitted by
Name: Bill Kehoe
From: Erie Ave.
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I love reading comments on this website, both nostalgic and informative. If you WIKI Hunting Park, it will reference a Minor League Baseball Team that called the Park home. I believe that was The North Phila. Cardinals from the mid 40s into the mid 50s. Lou Kreider whom I don't remember was the force behind the venture with Frank Whitaker also a contributor. Some of the best Mohawk Players moved onto the Cardinals. I don't believe they were paid but The Orioles funded the Program with bats, uniforms etc. At least, that was what I was told by a few much older people in the neighborhood. I surely do not remember the lake or any bands playing but others have referenced that several times and WIKI suggests John Philip Sousa played there at one point.
Added: August 17, 2010
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Name: Joe Baron "1960"
From: Then Old York Road now Danville KY
E-mail: danvillebaron@adelphia.net
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US Army - two tours 1968 and 1969.

All Vets ---Welcome home ---
Added: August 17, 2010
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Submitted by
Name: Anthony Babbitt (72)
From: 3825 Percy Now Reading Pa
E-mail: mrbab4444@comcast.net
Comments:
I think in 67 or 68 the carousel was removed and by 68 we stopped going to the pool due to dicey conditions.However,things were still pretty good if you stayed close to 9th street - which we did from 68 till we moved near the end of June/69.
Added: August 17, 2010
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