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lived in Fox Mill Estates from 1983 until 2009 The lot was barren of any trees or bushes We planted seedling pine trees as part of a Cub Scout Project |
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We attended Mass at
St John Newmann Catholic Church Our parish from 1983-2009 |
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George Mason Middle
School and High School
served the students of Falls Church City since 1948 |
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taught here from 1984 - 2007 All that's left from those years are the bricks in the "Legacy Garden"  |
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In
2001 Michael Hoover and I took the unprecedented step of transforming
George Mason's Student Newpaper from a print edition to online access "News as it Happens" Michael taught the Journalism students. I used the then current USAToday online format to create "Lasso Online" |
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Here
is our FINAL EDITION Michael and I retired in June 2007 |
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I
believe we were the first Virginia HS to go online since the VADOE Dept in charge of evaluating student papers required us to print out all our articles and mail them to Richmond. It took many 3 ring binders and a lot of postage to do this. Access our Archive HERE |
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George
Mason Middle School and High School was located on the corner of Route 7 and Haycock Road next to the Virginia Tech Graduate Center Because of rising enrollment a separate Middle School was built in 2005 George Mason HS is now Meridian High School (opened in 2021) |
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Meridian
High School |
Commercial
Development on the old site |
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Another stop on our 2400 mile trip
was Forest City, PA, my parents' hometown I attended this HS during my Sophomore year 1961-62 Gym class often included ice skating on the adjacent pond |
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St
John the Baptist Byzantine Roman Catholic Church where my grandparents were married in 1920 and my parents in 1943 |
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My
Dad's family home in Browndale is a vacant lot. Only a row of their pine trees marks the entrance to their Vine Street "alley"  |
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Jessup Pa, 18 miles from Forest City, was the home of my Mother's sister Anna after she married George Sewack We visited them here often |
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We walked through St John's cemetery remembering family and friends My grandmother and Aunt Mary are separate from the family plot In the 1920s a recently arrived miner with no family was interred there by mistake  |