Those in photo are identified in this article

Saintly blast from the past

Since Mary Chris Fazio Ramsey, Class of 1969,
 is in this Sts. Peter and Paul School photo, this has to be the 1964 graduates.

That’s 14 years after P&P’s most famous pupil graduated.

You guessed it: Robert  “Satch” Kasper, who helped Ford Motor negotiate international contracts with the United Auto Workers Union before retiring to South Lyon and Grand Lake (Presque Isle) in Michigan.

Fooled you, huh?

OK, Bob is best friends with other famous grad, John Olesky, also Class of 1950, since they met in 1^st grade at Sts. P&P. Bob walked 2 miles to school every day; I skipped 4 doors down to get to my seat and await my paddlings from Sister Ursula and Sister Agnes.

 Mary Chris' mother, Frances Olesky Fazio, was a younger sister to my father, John W. Olesky, Sr., and Helen Olesky Kerekes, the world’s greatest cookies baker.

 

Mary Chris' father, Renzy Fazio, was the best golfer I ever played with, at White Day. Maybe it helped that I've never played with Arnold Palmer or Tiger Woods. But a 30 at White Day is outstanding, nevertheless.

Father Briggs survived Japanese internment in Japan during World War II and became a historian about the 1907 Monongah mines explosion that killed 362 (still America’s worst mine tragedy), led the push for the Monongah heroines’ tribute to miners’ wives and families that stands near the Town Hall and founded Saint Barbara’s medical facility just beyond Monongah’s southern boundary not far from where Bob and sister Evelyn Kasper Boggess and retired St. Petersburg Times advertising vice president Leo Kubiet of Largo, Florida grew up.

Thanks to Pamm Yanero Bragg, here are the identifications for the historic photo:

Front row...Cathy Mikulski Rogers, Donna DeCarlo, Jo Ann Bonasso, Rosemary Baransky, Sarah Bright Yanero, Pamela Yanero Bragg..2 girls behind....Mary Kay Matro, Mary Chris Fazio Ramsey..Boys...Joe DeFazio, Edward Salabor, Ron Manzo..Back...Steve Batiste, Joe Jacobin, Joe Martin, Jim Pulice....Sister Stephen...Father Briggs...