PAX Centurion - Fall 2016

www.bppa.org PAX CENTURION • Fall 2016 • Page 27 er…some with not so much fondness and respect……We remember the MDC and the RMV police forces, both faded into history, but a few are still left as active State Troopers, believe it or not, as a result of being “grandfathered” for life, as long as they pass a physical (Good for them!) . I remember helping to saveAmerica from Mike and Kitty Dukakis in 1988 as a BPPA representative; one of my proudest moments was escorting Barbara Bush (with then-BPPA Officers Bob Guiney, Don Murray, Joe Brady and Steve O’Malley ) to our endorsement of George H.W. Bush at Lombardo’s in East Boston. With a smirk, she said in a slight Texas drawl, “Thank you boys … for the endorsement, …but …I do hope you know what they’re going to do to you here in Massachusetts for this??? I didn’t really know ID Name District/Unit DOA DOR 8771 Mayfield Holliday C6 03-02-83 08-30-15 7992 John Bolstad C6 06-27-79 08-31-15 8701 Kelly Maffeo Paid Detail Assignment Unit 07-10-85 09-11-15 1521 Joseph Browning Range 09-19-79 12-31-15 9207 Patti Ann Dalrymple A1 09-28-87 12-31-15 10045 Guy Bowens A7 09-28-87 01-01-16 50219 John Breen A1 01-01-07 01-02-16 9615 Vincent Stancato Technical Services Unit 06-09-86 01-04-16 7024 John McCarthy Family Assistance Unit 05-09-79 01-04-16 50668 John McGibbon E5 07-09-07 01-22-16 8329 Rhethia Stewart Hackney Division 10-31-79 01-31-16 11643 Brian Sullivan E5 03-20-96 01-31-16 8184 Kevin Woodside A1 09-19-79 02-02-16 10603 Angela Williams-Mitchell E5 11-27-89 02-05-16 10074 Ellen Deary Harbor Patrol Unit 09-28-87 02-05-16 8946 Maureen Parker Court Unit 07-20-87 02-29-16 11122 John Pyne Commercial Vehicle Unit 06-22-94 02-29-16 10572 Martin O’Malley Crime Scene Response Unit 11-27-89 03-04-16 9374 Mark Monroe B3 07-10-85 04-15-16 8866 Stephen Law D14 03-30-83 04-29-16 7441 Harold Gilbert B2 01-12-78 04-30-16 7373 George White A1 09-19-79 04-30-16 11445 Javier Perez E13 06-28-95 05-19-16 9607 John Ridge Peer Support Unit 05-03-86 05-31-16 9290 Francis Jankowski D4 05-15-85 06-10-16 1688 Roger Converse D14 05-15-85 07-06-16 50662 Donald Keaton A7 01-01-07 07-26-16 1430 Vincent Adduci D4 09-19-79 07-31-16 9275 Stephen Carrio Paid Detail Assignment Unit 05-15-85 08-31-16 EMS Name DOA DOR Virginia Famolare 08-15-90 01-04-16 Mary LaBelle 03-08-78 03-03-16 John Bilotas 04-14-42 07-02-16 BPPA 2015-2016 Retirees what she meant until several months later, in January of 1989, when an enraged democrat tried to run me off the road at Furnace Brook rotary in Quincy after seeing the inaugural “BPPA-7” license plate attached to my car. It was officially good for three months, but Mrs. Bush’s words were never truer than then. I could see the guy screaming at me in my rear-view mirror, his face contorted with anger upon seeing the license plate. I wonder what job he had lost in the never-to-be Dukakis administration because of us? Perhaps Kitty’s food-taster? He should have thanked me, it would have been a short-lived stint… There were still “cashies” for details, many banks and supermarkets and clubs where you’d get $60.00 cash for a 4-hr. detail at the end See Retirement Reminisce on page 28