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WELCOME TO
THE IRVINGTON REMEMBERED WEB SITE
DEDICATED TO BRINGING IRVINGTONIAN’S TOGETHER AGAIN
AND PRESERVING OUR INCREDIBLE HISTORY
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IRVINGTON PARK CLIQUE
NOVEMBER 22ND, 2008
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Together Again. The Irvington Park Clique
Left to right: Jeanie Graul, Patty Cataldo, Kathy Goeb, Linda Dispenza, Cindy Sikora, Nancy Walker. All are Class of 71 except Jeanie Graul, Class of 70.
The Girls: Jeanie Graul, Cindy Sikora, Kathy Goeb, Patty Cataldo, Linda Dispenza, Nancy Walker. The Boys: Charlie Lombard, John Manning, Bruce Sikora, Joe Torre, Joey Vargas, Scott Gross, Paul Stahl.
Best friends reunited: Jeanie Graul, Class of 70 and Kathy Goeb, Class of 71.
Linda Dispenza, Nancy Walker, Cindy Sikora, Joey Vargas
Cindy Sikora, Class of 71 and brother Bruce Sikora, Class of 69
Precious friends: Jeanie Graul, Kathy Goeb, Joey Vargas
Joey Vargas, Joe Torre, Class of 70
Paul Stahl, Class of 71 and best friends, Charlie Lombard and Joey Vargas
Nancy Walker, Cindy Sikora, Bruce Sikora
Patty Cataldo
Charlie Lombard
Linda Dispenza and Nancy Walker
Jeanie Graul, Kathy Goeb, Patty Cataldo, Linda Dispenza, Nancy Walker
Paul Stahl, Class of 71
Linda Dispenza, Nancy Walker, Cindy Sikora
Joey and Patty Cataldo
Dinner in West Caldwell
This was a dinner get-together at a great Italian place in West Caldwell with all Irvingtonians.
Left to right: Dean Braithwaite, Class of 71, John Manning, Class of 71, Charlie Lombard, Class of 72, Paul Lobozzo, Class of 71, Craig Schreiner, Class of 71, Al Shave, Class of 66 and standing Joey Vargas, Class of 72. At the end of the meal, stumblin’, mumblin’ Al Shave broke out his harmonica and did some blues right at the table in the restaurant. A unique ending to a great time amongst old friends.
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The Original Irvington Park Clique - circa 1965 to 1969
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Warren Gross 71
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Linda Dispenza 71
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Charlie Lombard 72
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Nancy Walker 71
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Joey Vargas 72
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Kathy Goeb 71
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Charlie Beach 71
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Kathy McMinn 71
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John Rich 71
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Cindy Sikora 71
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Bernie Sikora 71
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Debbie Alati 71
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John Manning 71
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Paul Stahl 71
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Pete Bronzino 70
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Jeanie Graul 70
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Mike Sikora 70
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Phil Rizzo 70
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Paul Lobozzo 71
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Barry Nikodem 71
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Frank Bellis 71
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Barry Pribula 71
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Patty Cataldo 71
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Miriam Sherry 71
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Bruce Sikora 69
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Ellen Patrinick 71
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Doug Beauregard 70
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What We Did Together
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 Irvington Park for me was just magnificent. When my family first moved there, I felt like I had died and gone to heaven. It had everything you could possibly want. And I lived right on Lyons Ave. directly across the street from the park. It just couldn’t have been any better for a young sports-minded kid like me.
More on that in a bit, but just as great for me were all the people whom I was so fortunate to be able to hang out with. I loved all these people above and we had the most amazing times day in and day out. I just couldn’t wait to see everybody walk into the park one by one to join us. And we hung out during all four seasons.
As I said before, Irvington Park had EVERYTHING !!! Baseball fields, football fields, basketball courts, a track path, great hills, a beautiful pond, climbable trees, swings, merry-go-round, see-saw, sandbox, tetherball, ping pong tables, tennis courts etc. And we took full advantage of everything. Bike riding was so cool there. The summers were the best. The Essex County Park Commission (ECPC) operated out of the building you see in the picture above. And inside that building were all the supplies we needed to play whatever we wanted to play. We played football, baseball, softball, basketball, wiffleball, stickball, badminton, tetherball, etc. to our hearts content. And during the winters, they would freeze the pond and we would all go ice-skating. It seemed like the whole town showed up for ice-skating. And we’d go sledding as well. Needless to say, we just “lived” in that park.
Later, I will talk a bit about the people themselves in our clique.
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