Darwin K. Davidson
35 Plumb Point Road, Deer Isle, ME 04627
207-348-7767
e-mail: darwin@darwindavidson.com

I've always maintained that some of the best friends I have in my life are ones that I made in high school. That school was Newburgh Free Academy in Newburgh, New York. Actually, I've know a couple of these good friends since grammar school.

Newburgh was, and still is, a mid-size city on the Hudson River about 60 miles north of New York City. Growing up there in the 1940's and 50's was a wonderful experience in retrospect. Even then we knew it was pretty good.

The NFA Class of 1955 has been very successful in having a reunion every five years. The last one was our 50th in September 2005.

The photo below is of Mary Torrens, Darwin, Jack Corwin and Joyce (Gillespie) Walker taken when we all were together for our 45th reunion. Mary Torrens was a favorite South Junior High School teacher.  She passed away at the age of 90 on June 1, 2005.  Here's her obituary.

We also lost Joyce on January 28, 2009 after a long battle with cancer.

Darwin and Jack are still as crazy as ever.  Check out Jack's main interest in life at http://www.sanitysingers.org/

Bill Norvell maintains a fantastic website about NFA and other items of interest about Newburgh.  Be sure to check out all aspects of this site. http://home.att.net/~w.norvell/#null

I hope all of these various web pages will help in many ways to bring about future class reunions.  Contact me at any time for more information.

At this point there are a number of members of the Class of 1955 registered at www.Classmates.com. If you're not currently registered, please visit that site and join. That will give our reunion organizers another way to keep in touch with you.