All checks for members have been mailed for the fourth consecutive year as planned. Two members have now fully received their COM (cost of membership)! The entire amount of membership monies is held by the US Treasury in an account in the name of the Mathmatecum.
Knowing what to save as a bare minimum on a weekly basis for the least financially fortunate will take 14 weeks for savings accounts that demand first deposits of $100 or more. If you are able to open an account for less, do so immediately. These are monies meant not to be spent until many years in the future. Checking accounts should not be used as a depository. Online banking is not my suggestion. I would advise individuals to go to a brick-and-mortar institution which allows for a more personal relationship. For the more and most fortunate opening an account should be done now.
BIO
From 1949 to 1954 the years were spent nine months in Paterson and three months on Staten Island, Graham Beach. In 1954 we moved to New Milford, NJ. Things I remember from Paterson include going to St. Anthony’s Parochial School, walking to school, walking home for lunch, listening to my mom’s radio soap operas: The Guiding Light and Our Gal Sunday! Being an altar boy, I remember going to a Novitiate in Haledon for Easter week services. Three or four of us were picked up by cab and brought to the Novitiate around 6:00 AM and returned about noon. We also played punch ball in the streets along with what we called stoop ball. All played with a pink rubber Spalding high bouncer. We played marbles and used trading cards to flip or play closest to the wall. Somewhere in those years I recall going to Madison Square Garden with my father’s father to see the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus! I also recall going there to see The Rodeo. Because it was in the same town, and we lived across the hall from each other I went on a couple occasions with my mother’s father to the professional wrestling matches at the Paterson armory.
It was here that what seems like a lifetime of coincidences first started. My father had a bent towards celebrity and would, when he could, meet people of notoriety. He was quick to share these encounters with me. My first recollection was meeting and shaking hands with Primo Carnera, one-time heavyweight champion of the world. In checking on spelling I learned he knocked out more people during his career than any other heavyweight champion till this day – 72!
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