Donald Walsh        [email Don] 

   - lived at 264 West 19th Street

   - St. Francis 1964, Cardinal Hayes 1968, Montclair State (BS), Baruch/Mt. Sinai School of Medicine - CUNY (MBA)

   - married Sharon in 1976  

   - live in Annapolis, Md.

   - Budget Officer, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC; Bronx & DC VA Medical Centers;  first real job with Phil Blair and his mom at the A&P on 20th St.; member of the Amalgated Meat Cutters Union at 15 years old

   - enjoy hiking, ice skating, roller blading, windsurfing and anything else to keep me outside

   - favorite music: hip hop & rap... yeah right... anything but Country - Doo Wop, Big Bands, the Boss, Pearl Jam

      "What a great place to grow up.  Our lives were ruled by the seasons and activities... baseball, stickball, touch football, street hockey, hand ball, off the point, spinning tops, flipping baseball cards, pitching coins.  We hiked down to Leroy St. pool in the morning to get in at half price and hiked back up to Central Park in the afternoon to play hardball. God that pool water was never warm.  Actually going swimming in the Hudson.  Were we crazy or what... six or eight of us sneaking into the subway on one token squeezing into that enclosed turnstile on 14th St.? Imagine letting your kids walk to Central Park alone, jumping on the subway and heading out to Rockaway for the day.  Did anyone ever get hurt?"

       Donald Walsh