MY PARENTS:
This will be a chapter about your parents. Resist the urge to make this chapter overly long.
Remember, this is YOUR life story, not the life story of your parents. A page or two will suffice. Some things that might be included:
Where were they from?
What were their occupations, education, training?
Were they members of a church?
How did they meet and fall in love?
You might divide this into three areas: 1. Your Father 2. Your Mother 3. How they got together
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Both my parents were from a part of Worcester, Massachusetts, called Grafton Hill. They attended schools and Roman Catholic churches literally accross the street from one another. They both knew a third party, my uncle, and with that, came to know each other.
Noreen Sullivan - Sept 20, 1941
Eugene Achilles Langlois - Feb 27, 1939
The third party,my uncle Fran, was my mother's oldest brother. I am named after him. I am told that Francis X. Sullivan was the close friend of my dad, 'Red' Langlois.
Noreen met Red and other members of the Langlois clan through my uncle. I don't know much about my parents' dating lives but they were married when my mom was only 20, in 1961. In fact she was 20 for one month before my parents were married on October 21, 1961.
The first of six children, I was born about 11 months later, on September 18, 1962.
My mother was a bookkeeper of some kind after high school. I do not know when she became a full-time housewife - a job she loved - but stayed at home at least as soon as my birth. As kids, we were surprised to learn of the very good secretarial skills that my mother possessed. She was an excellent typists for example. I can easily imagine she would have been a good bookkeeper - she was organized, a flexible thinker and detail oriented when she wanted to be.
My father worked for Rand-Whitney Corp, then owned by Jacob "Jack" Hiatt. This is a company, broadly speaking, in the paper industry. The factory was right in Worcester and produced cardboard containers. Eventually, my father would retire from the same company under the ownership of Bob Kraft after taking a few excursions to other jobs.
My dad had a few jobs with the Rand-Whitney. His skill with figures and dimensions was always evident. And he endeared himself to the Hiatt family, from whom I receieved a college scholarship.
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