PERSONAL PAGE FOR James Griffin - 1963
BIO:
I got a B.A. from St. John's University and an M.A. from Wroxton College (Wroxton-Near-Banbury, Oxon. England) and in 1970 stumbled upon the most marvelous job which I have done more or less continuously ever since. For the NYC Bd of Ed I teach high school students who have a medical reason (which can be from a psychiatrist) to be taught at home. This is the perfect teaching assignment for me as we switch subjects every twenty minutes and I constantly get to meet new families.
SPOUSE:
I divorced some ten years ago and remarried two years ago. My wonderful wife is Irene Catherine Junge who grew up in Hicksville--or the sticks as we referred to such places at Delehanty's. Irene and I live on the twenty-third floor of a building in Forest Hills and could see Delehanty H.S. from our balcony were it not hidden by the surrounding buildings. Unfortunately we also could see the WTC from other windows and it was a depressing sight seeing the fires for days and days. Time goes on and let us trust that all will be well.
CHILDREN:
My son Benjamin Elijah Griffin lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife, stepson, and daughter--my granddaughter, Beatrice Rose Griffin, aged two. My daughter Emily Griffin lives in Middle Village, Queens (where Irene Catherine Junge was born before her family moved to the aforementioned sticks. I see Emily every Wednesday when we go to my parents' apt in Flushing for dinner (my father is now 97 and my mother 84).
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