ALUMNI FRIENDS
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Vincent “Jim” Perrone ‘37 Former business teacher Vincent “Jim” Perrone passed away April 4. He graduated from NFA in 1937, attended Becker College of Business Administration, Long Island University and received his Master’s Degree from the University of Hartford. Jim enlisted in the Navy on September 17, 1940 and received training at the Naval Training Station in Newport, Rhode Island. He was promoted from Apprentice Seaman through all Enlisted grades including Chief Petty Officer and then on to Commissioned Warrant Officer. After retiring from the military in April 1963, Jim returned home to Norwich, received his Master’s Degree and taught at NFA for 20 years where he taught business classes and was the Campus Store Advisor. He retired from NFA in 1984. He is survived by his daughter Betty Perrone Choate ‘70 and JoAnn Perrone Fadeley ’74.
Terell Wilson ‘10 Terell Wilson, Class of 2010, died May 9, as a result of injuries sustained from a motor vehicle accident. His vehicle was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 95 in Milford. Wilson was a member of the Norwich City Council from 2013-15. He served as President of the NAACP’s Connecticut State Youth and College Division for five years and former vice-president for the Norwich branch’s Robertsine Duncan Youth Council. At 15, he received the Medgar Evers Youth Leadership Award. He was recipient of the NFA Alumni Association’s George Ripley Student Humanitarian Award in 2009.
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We express our deepest sympathy to the families and classmates of the following NFA graduates who are known to have recently passed away. They will be missed. 1930 Cecile Lafreniere Allen 1931 Ruth Wight Still 1932 Virginia Backus Davis 1936 Hattie Olenkiewicz Pillo Harry Swatsburg 1937 Celia Hankin Hochman Walter Kelly Helen Button McGuire Colombe DesSureault Mossey Vincent “Jim” Perrone Nina Poulaino Shaver 1938 Saul Caroline Ruth Johnson Morin 1939 Louis Hankin 1940 Doris Freeman Jeppesen Margaret Cox Lenkiewicz Olga Remondi Melnichuk 1941 Shirley Bissonette Morrissette Jess Poliquin Ann Birok Shaughnessy Lorraine Beauregard Starr Penelope John Tillery 1942 Frances Fazio Buckley Leona Frances Helen Bujnowski Gwiazdowski Dorothy Llewellyn Joray
1943 Theodora Millard Bates Mary Alfieri Bosko Rita LaRochelle Hoffman Allen Kaufman Lawrence LaFreniere Catherine Bray Monahan 1944 Schuyler Gilbert Therese Quinn Kent Loretta Desjardins McCaffery Kenneth Ring Madelyn Charron Schuller John Walsh 1945 Kenneth Botham Henri Lambert Grace Patrick Moran Agnes Benson Taylor 1946 Blanche Cimikoski Armen Elizabeth Brown Burns Rene Houle Harold Johndrow Victoria Papyis Johnson Maude Shea Seyler 1947 Florence Majchier Beausoleil Marion Thom Camp Emery Caron Alice Carter Geer Milford Newbury Patricia Gocka Perkins Raymond Peterson Beverly Staebner Raymond Margaret Altschul Shaughnessy Arlene Pachiodo Staubley