R L Thomas High School Alumni
Webster, New York (NY)
Kevin Brownell
R L Thomas High School
Class of 1966
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KEVIN'S PROFILE
| First Name | Kevin |
| Last Name | Brownell |
| Graduation Year | Class of 1966 |
| Gender | Male |
| Current Location | Hartford, CT |
| Relationship Status | Divorced |
| About Me | Life! "What a long, strange trip it's been." I pretty much grew up in Webster after moving there from Rochester into a house on Shoemaker Road in 1956. I started third grade in the old Webster Central School District when grades K-12 were all in the same 3-story, L-shaped, brick building near the center of town on South Avenue (Spry Middle School). Then, many of us were relocated to a new elementary school on Ebner Drive (Ridgecrest; Webster Town Hall) for grades 5 and 6. From there, we went back to the old high school annex on Sanford Street for junior high. Finally, I spent the first two years of high school at R.L. Thomas, when it was brand new. One of the "charter members" of the Mermen, the school's first swim team -- my only real sport. Unexpectedly, my family moved to Simsbury, Connecticut in August of '64 and I graduated from Henry James Memorial High School in June of '66. I went back "home" for a year at the University of Rochester, but didn't do well as an Electrical Engineering student, so I transferred to Ithaca College in the fall of '67 as a TV-Radio major and finally graduated in May of '72. For the next 15 years I worked in radio, doing mostly news and program management, somehow finding the time to fall in love and begin raising a family along the way. The raising the family part drove me to TV, where the paychecks were somewhat more meaningful. Spent eight years as an Assignment Editor at WFSB, the CBS affiliate in Hartford, a year as Assignment Manager at the competition, the NBC-owned WVIT, and then was promoted to Executive Web Producer for NBC30.com and Northeast regional news producer for MSNBC.com. Unfortunately, I fell victim to a system-wide round of layoffs at NBC in ’03 and have been working part-time, vacation relief or free-lance jobs in radio, TV and print ever since. Until our divorce last September (2015), my wife, Bonnie, and I lived in Avon, CT with our son, Rob (1987), daughter, Shannon (1990), two dogs and a cat, as well as a wide variety of other less-domesticated animals from time to time. In August of ‘14, Shannon's daughter, Pearl, joined the family...(read more) |
Class of 1966 Alumni
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Dan Groth
Class of 1968
Elizabeth Hale-allen
Class of 1981
Marvin Welch
Class of 1965
Ellen Reddy
Class of 1970
Alan Hargrave
Class of 1971
Daniel Berg
Class of 1974
Robert Lapoint
Class of 1979
Thomas Aloi
Class of 1967
Sandra Parker
Class of 1973
Sheree Thomas
Class of 1986
Denny James Pearston
Class of 1971
Mary Ellen Cahill
Class of 1967
Jim Behringer
Class of 1982
Kathleen Devries
Class of 1971
Kathleen Sippel
Class of 1989
Judy Silvestrone
Class of 1973
Marcia Ackerman
Class of 1967
Linda Anderson
Class of 1968
Beth Blose
Class of 1971
Diane Eggert
Class of 1972
Lynne Thran
Class of 1979
Jenna Auger
Class of 2002
Sally Schneider
Class of 1971
Jack Roschel
Class of 1965
Recent Class of 1966 Reunions
Plan a Class of 1966 Reunion for Free
Class of 1966 - 50 year Reunion
Invited Classes: 1966
Date: Oct 07, 2016
Description: Reunion will be Friday night, October 7th, 2016 for a casual get together. Location to be announced. Saturday night, 6:...(read more)
Class of 1983 30 Year Reunion!!
Invited Classes: All Classes
Date: Jul 27, 2013
Description: Casual event to get together with "old" friends! Open Bar and Appetizers will be available!