Racette, Carriere, Cynthia                                                     * Home

1965(Vestal Central HS)     2000(Lake Champlain)  

Cynthia can be reached at:

RCRacette@cs.com

 

Bio from Cynthia, July 17, 2000 

Graduated from SUNY Plattsburgh with chemistry degree after spending a semester in Germany teaching chemistry, and 
married my college sweetheart, Dick, right after graduation. Dick was a senior electrical engineer at NYSEG and I worked 
in chemistry in the R&D department for Anitec in Johnson City for several years until their demise. 

We have three lovely children- Mark, 29, who directs the evening news for WBNG-TV in JC, Amanda, 26, who is married and 
is a senior market research analyst in Buffalo, and Michelle, 23, newly married this May, a national account 
representative in Rochester. 

I had always done a lot of technical writing in my job at Anitec, so I turned to that when Anitec closed and have done 
some consulting work in that field. I have published several articles in national magazines, both technical and 
otherwise and, now that we have moved to Vermont, am looking for a position in that field. 

Dick and I are avid boaters and have sailed NY waters in successively larger sailboats for some 15 years. Recently we 
decided to go to power to do some extensive cruising of the northeast and Canada. The picture above was taken recently 
when we brought our new boat up the canals into Lake Champlain to its new home near Burlington where we live near the 
lake. 

We miss Vestal, having lived so many years there, but Lake Champlain Country is gorgeous and Vermont is one of the last 
bastions of "country quaint" in the US.

 

Commentator:   Kamin             , Kamin                  , Cynthia                                      8/6/00

Cynthia R wrote in Cynthia's yearbook: "Cindy, Good luck at Western Reserve and never forget G.S and New York. With a name like Cindy you  have to

succeed."

  Commentator:  McLean           , n/a                     , Rich                                        6/27/00

I loved your reminiscences of picking your son up in front of the school. Wow... I think a lot of our class will also wax nostalgic on that. For me, it was

catching the bus to take me back home on Old Vestal Road.

Walking up to the house just north of the cemetery, rounding the corner and opening the back door. My aunt (I lived with my great aunt) would be there

fixing dinner and I would go upstairs, put my books in the study and come down to chat.

I hadn't had that memory in many, many years... but it came back to me when I read your own deja vu. It was a very good memory.

  Commentator:  Racette           , Carriere               , Cynthia                                    6/27/00

 As far as reminiscences of Vestal go, I have many mental images, both in the distant past and in the more recent past. My three children graduated from

Vestal High School also, and in some ways it was a very eerie experience

watching them go through some of the same experiences I went through only 20-odd years later. I remember the first time I sat in front of the school in my

car, while waiting for my eldest son to come out so I could ferry him to a

dentist appointment. Major deja vous!!!! I remembered myself running out to my mother's car for the same purpose a long, long time ago. And here I was,

back where I started, on the other side of things, as it were. And my younger

  Commentator:  Racette           , Carriere               , Cynthia                                    6/27/00

daughter was in the band-- how freaky was that! I was in the Vestal Band during the Washington, DC Band Tournament days when we won all those

trophies and when I went back into the band room-- whoa-- there they all were, stacked

on a shelf with trophies from other years gone by.

Attached is a picture my husband, Dick, took of me a few weeks ago as we

brought our cruiser up through the canals into Lake Champlain.

  Commentator:  Racette           , Carriere               , Cynthia                                    6/28/00

On the Band trip to Washington DC: I remember discovering duck pin bowling our first trip there and we did that every trip from then on. My purse was

stolen one of those trips to the alley and I had to borrow money from everyone the rest of the trip,

but everyone was generous.

 

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