Newest Member of the Clan

Congradulations to Maureen Leonard she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on 3/31, weighing in at 7lbs 8ozs, name to be determined at a later date. Sean or Liam are the frontrunners.Maureen is the daughter of Frank and Teresa(Galvin) granddaughter of Paudeen and Catherine Galvin.Mother and child are doing fine as soon as i get a picture i will pass it along.

Patrick and Catherine

Ann McKenna has send a picture of Paudeen and Catherines 50th Wedding Anniversary.I wish i could make it bigger but i can't sorry.

News from Killorglin

Ann Marie has send a note to me with a picture of her dad ,Johnny taken just the other day.I have sent the e-mail to everybody, i hope with what she had to say.Thanks for the news he looks great.
Tommy

Niagara Falls

After putting all the information together that we gathered from the questionaires, and thank you Karen and Mary Mc Cafferty for doing such a grand job of it,i have already put up some information about Our Lady Of Victory Basilica and national shrine also known as Father Bakers.We will be going there Friday June 27th then after that we will head to the Falls.Transportation will be arranged for the trip.We will be going to Niagara Falls U.S.A. it is a five minute walk across the Rainbow bridge for those how would like to go there(passport required).There are plenty of things to do on the US side.Here is a web site you can check out with some of the things, we highly recommend The Maid of The Mist and the Cave of the Winds.The
site is www.niagarafallsstatepark.com.We will be in the falls approx. five to six hours ,the lines can be long to see the above attractions so bear that in mind.I will have information by next week on the transportation issue, we are almost done with making arrangements to gather you all up and get you to the hotel and then back to the airport so you can continue on with you holiday.Hope everybody is well any questions let me know just send it to galvinreunion2008@yahoo.com i will try to help.We wanted to go to the irish Famine Memorial in Buffalo but we could not make the time but you can go there at www.irishfaminememorial.com

Happy Saint Patricks Day
Tommy

Reunion news

We have just had a meeting of the minds(it was a short meeting) to put together the information on the questionaires, and we will have more information for you very shortly.We will also have links to check out things to do at niagara falls ex.Maid of the Mist, Cave of the Winds ,this will give you some idea as to what there is to do and the cost. Thats it for now.
Tommy

March Birthdays

Again this month we have only two birthdays

Mary Bogner,the granddaughter of Tom and Molly(Galvin)Weir,the daughter of Bob and Betty(Weir)Clark

Gus O'leary,the great grandson of Gus and Nora(Galvin)Shorten,the grandson of Buz and Alice(Shorten)O'leary and the son of Kevin and Georgie O'leary.

That's all i have if there are more send them to me at galvinreunion2008@yahoo.com and i will add them.

Kerryman of the Year

Joe Galvin has been named Kerryman of the Year by the Kerry Club of San Francisco.The event will be February 9, its about time we have know it for years. Congratulations Joe, fair play to you.Make sure we get pictures for the blog

Whats New

I can't belive it's been a month since i last posted but it has and i don't have a lot to report .The buffalo branch has had a meeting about the upcoming reunion and are getting very excited about it all.We are almost done with a questionnaire and will be sending it out very soon(when will you be coming in ? where? etc.)you get the idea.

Birthday greeting go out to Sean O'leary 1/6, Kathy Kinaci
1/9 ,Jackie Hotckiss 2/18, Maureen Galvin 2/23.

Sean,Kathy and Jacquie are the son and daughters of Buz and Alice(Shorten) O'Leary and the grandson and granddaughters of Gus and Nora (Galvin) Shorten.

Maureen Galvin is the wife of James Galvin and if you don't know who James is you probably should not be reading this.

I hear that Johnny Galvin is doing well think of him in your prayers and if your not praying you should be.

Thats all i can think of for now

Tom

January's Birthdays

Ok lets start out with a birthday i missed Kathleen Dillon's (Galvin) birthday was on 11/23 i got this one a little late,i'm sorry Kathleen i hope you had a great day.

Now Pappy Dillons b-day seems to have a little mystery to it as to the exact date but i am told he celebrates it on 1/1

John McLaughlin b-day is 1/14 Jonh is Carol Clarks husband Carol is the daughter of Bob and Betty Clark (Weir) and the grand daughter of Tom and Molly(Galvin) Weir.

CeCe Russo b-day is 1/23 Ce Ce is Tim Clarks significate other Tim is the son of Bob and Betty Clark (Weir) and the grandson of Tom and Molly(Galvin) Weir.

Thats all i have for January if there are more just send them to me to post

Tom

Happy New Year !!

Happy New Year to all may this find everybody well, i hope you all had a Merry Christmas.There hasn't been much to post and with the holidays and all,but now it's back to business.The reunion is only a little over six months away and we (the buffalo branch)have been working on a few things and will be sending out a list of questions shortly to help us plan the event,ex. who would like to go to the falls who needs transportation etc.I will be posting that information here and sending it to you e-mail address.thats it for now
tom