What are they doing now?

Ever wonder what are your classmates doing now ???

So what have you been up to, for these past 37 years?

Well, here is where we are going to tell.
Send pictures & articles of your accomplishments, or pictures of your wedding, your kids, your kids wedding, your grandkids, your pets, your house, your car, your hobby (just keep em' clean) for all to share.I can also accept CD's (those shiny records) with pictures on them, if you would rather mail your info., and let me know if you want your full name on it .

Just click on the above class smiley picture to Email me and I will send you my address.

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Julie (Girard) Marchetti

is sharing,
Wedding Photos of her daughter, Alesha.
click here:
http://aleshamontewedding.blogspot.com/

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Albert (Binx) Duarte

Unprecedented Operation; Liver and Kidney Transplanted Simultaneously from Two Living Donors Separate Living Donors Contribute to Multiorgan Transplants
BURLINGTON, Mass. · December 1, 1999

In a 14-hour operation, a 45-year-old man has received a kidney and 60% of a liver from two separate living donors — his nieces.The patient, Albert Duarte of Plymouth, Massachusetts, was expected to be released from the Lahey Clinic on November 23, by which time his nieces had already returned home and had resumed most of their usual activities, according to the clinic. The clinic referred to the procedure as unprecedented. It involved three operating rooms, six surgeons, and about 20 more health care professionals. The clinic said that Mr. Duarte had a rare liver disease that was destroying his kidneys, that Mr. Duarte was receiving dialysis six days a week, and that he "did not have enough time to wait for a cadaver liver."The procedure is one of fewer than 100 adult-to-adult liver transplants that have been performed with living donors since the operation was first used in the United States about two years ago.Roger L. Jenkins, MD, W. David Lewis, MD, Elizabeth A. Pomfret, MD, and James J. Pomposelli, MD, were in charge of the liver transplant. John A. Libertino, MD, and Michael J. Malone, MD, performed the kidney transplant. The clinic also acknowledged the participation of Fredric D. Gordon, MD, director of hepatology at Lahey Clinic.
Lahey Clinic Surgeons Perform Unprecedented Operation; Liver and Kidney Transplanted Simultaneously from Two Living Donors 23 Nov 1999
In an unprecedented 14-hour operation, doctors at the Lahey Clinic have transplanted simultaneously a kidney and a large portion of the liver from two living donors to save the life of a 45-year-old Plymouth man. The operation involved six surgeons, three operating rooms, and about 20 additional medical staff. Albert Duarte will leave Lahey Clinic today with a new lease on life. "I feel a thousand percent better," said Albert, as he prepared to leave. His two nieces, who each donated an organ, went home shortly after the operation and have resumed nearly all their normal activities. Karen Silvia, who donated 60 percent of her liver, is back working at a school for troubled children, and Roxanne Guisti-Lavoie, who gave one of her kidneys, is back with her four children and once again coaching track at a local high school. Duarte had a rare liver disease that was destroying his kidneys. At the time of the operation his kidneys had failed and he was on dialysis six days a week. He needed the double transplant to save his life, and he did not have enough time to wait for a cadaver liver, which sometimes can take years. The liver is one of the few organs that can regenerate, and, at this time, the livers of both the donor and recipient are almost full size,
according to doctors at Lahey Clinic. Although adult-to-child liver transplants have been performed for a decade, adult-to-adult transplants have only been performed in the US for the past two years. Less than 100 procedures have been done nationwide. Lahey's liver transplant team performed the first adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant in New England last December at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Although the only biological requirements for being a living liver donor are the individual's size and blood type, potential donors are carefully screened. At Lahey Clinic, psychologists, ethicists and social workers, as well as surgeons and specialists, evaluate each potential donor."We want to make sure donors have freely offered to undergo the surgery," said Pomfret, who directs the Living Donor Transplantation Program. Living donor programs developed as a result of a shortage of available organs for transplantation. Nationwide, almost 14,000 people are waiting for livers, and only 4500 will get them. In New England, more than a thousand wait for a new liver. Approximately, 25 percent of those patients will die while waiting for a liver.
Albert would like to help anyone in need of his counsel,send your name, email and phone number to:

email: acushnetclassreunion@comcast.net

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Rosemary (Niemic) & Billy Gonneville,