John Castino

New Trier East

Played baseball for a few years - but then had 2 spinal fusions. So then went back to Rollins College to complete my degree and on to Graduate school for an MBA and entered the workforce.

So many stories - one in particular I’m not too proud of:

Bob Kenyon and I were partying harder and longer than we knew. We realized about 3 am we had a NTE day baseball game (batting practice at 10 am.
We realized we wouldn’t be sober enough by then, so we turned the hoses on and flooded the baseball field. All we wanted was a delayed start so we could sober up. And that’s what happened. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. I can’t remember who won.

Yes

Sports teams and going down state for Illinois state basketball championship. We came in 2nd in state and a big parade for us.
Someone told me to speak for the team at the celebration. I was surprised and nervous and was incoherent. So I learned to be prepared when public speaking.

Losing to New Trier West 21-0 in football game my senior year. coach Chicowski put the wrong offense in. He changed it after that loss to NTW.

After that humiliating loss, I told the basketball coach (Schneider) I am going to play running back (he originally talked me out of it cause he didn’t want me to get injured). I also asked Chicowski “I want to run the ball” and he said ok, and I was running back the rest of the season. Our team re-grouped with the new offense and we never lost another game.

Too many cute girls to pick one. Bobby Kenyon got all the cute ones anyway. But I found a nice one at NTW (Nan Weil). .

I’m a guy. I can’t judge men.

Yes, I was a bully one time (and hated myself for it). I poured a beer over the head of a NTW guy who dated my girl friend. He should have punched me in the face - but he was wiser and more mature than I was and just walked away.

I tried to get hold of him years later to apologize but I couldn’t locate him.

No

none of the above

No

No

Baseball, basketball and football.

I would take school more seriously. And I would have lifted weights, and played running back the first game my senior year. Then I think we would have beaten NTW INSTEAD of losing to them 21-0 (humiliating).
That may sound a bit boastful and a sore loser. I’ll admit they were a good team so it would have been a tough game. But we had no chance with that dumb offense for our first game.
But I/we got revenge by beating NTW in basketball a few months later. Joe Donnelyn was very tough guy on NTW.

Libertarian

none of the above

Yes

A jock who inhaled

exclusively heterosexual

No, I was never whiny

No

Playing for Illinois state basketball championship in 1973. We lost to a better team. But I didn’t play well which angers me to this day.

More goal oriented. And I try to be Kinder to others much more. But I’m not always successful at that.

No, it totally sucks, and I will be wearing a big nametag at the Reunion

I had no choice, there was nothing else I wanted to do

Joseph Sears (Kenilworth)

MBA

Kenilworth

Other Oliver Chapman threw a pie in my face at the cafeteria. I ran after him and learned that black men were faster than white guys.

The following classmates from New Trier East: Kenyon, Borre, Johnson, brother Tom, Guido.