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Gary Martin
As many of you may know,
Gary
Martin
passed away in 2000.
Some of you may remember that he and
Ernest
Halley played the bagpipes during
“assembly” at our 40th reunion. Those
of you who have Tom Tom’s will see a picture of
Gary showing his resume on a poster board.
This writer lost his
Tom
Tom
over 40 years ago but still remembers that picture.
Gary
was in so many organizations and an
officer in all.
Gary
was also a straight “E” student and a
member of the CHS All-State Orchestra.
Gary
married classmate
Ann
Noe
but were divorced some years later.
Ann
was also a very bright student. She received an AS from
Rutgers
,
BSN
,
MA
and PhD from
Univ.
of
Pennsylvania
and in 1981 (our last contact) was a professor at
Wilener
University
.
Gary
went on to get his AB, BD & PhD at
Princeton
. He also attended
Ludwin-Maximilian
University
in
Munich
and
Yale
.
Gary
became a Presbyterian minister and true to his form was an officer in many
civic organizations. He has four
children.
Gary
gave me my first sex education experience in the 3rd grade.
Gene
Landrath
,
Carl
Washburn
,
Charles
Bright
and I were listening as he stated that a woman had to have sex before she could
have a baby. Fred and Gene
challenged the statement. “It is
true said
Gary
… I read it in the Encyclopedia.”
If he read it in the Encyclopedia … it had to be true!
I was thinking “not my mom!” Then
we all looked at
Charles
Bright
who had seven sisters and thought “if
that is true his mom must have had sex eight times.”
Gary
was not into athletics in school. He
was into music and academics.
I remember asking him what his dad,
Albert
Martin
, did for a living.
He said that he was a candle maker, but that was only
for three months of the year and that he was a stage manager.
I had no idea what a stage manager
was until we entered CHS.
Gary
’s dad was indeed a stage manager. It
was through him that our assembly and Daze
events emerged.
Anybody else have memories of
Gary
? Send them and I will pass
them on.
Last updated
01/06/16