Michael J. Crandall

 

 

Yearbook Saying

Newport  . . .  
U. of Mass - entering forestry  . . .  
likes rock music, concerts and girls  . . .  
hates the Archies and The Jackson Five  . . .  remembers Sr. Virginia's eyes  . . .  
pole vaulter  . . .  "Where's my bike?"  . . .  
"The darkest hour is always just before the dawn."

Activities: Indoor Track, Outdoor Track, 
Glee Club, Photography Club

 

 



 

Current Info

Mike and his wife Marie live in Stony Brook, NY where they are both teachers at a private college prep school.  Mike's wife speaks several languages and they have traveled extensively.  They periodically visit relatives in Middletown.

Left:  Picture of Marie and Mike.



 

Response to 2011 Reunion Invitation

"Thank you very much for all of your hard work in getting our 40th reunion organized!  I would definitely have come to it, but my wife and I will be in Italy this summer and cannot attend.

I would love to see pictures of it though. I hope some will be available later.  We are still teaching at The Stony Brook School in Stony Brook, New York (Long Island).  I hope everyone is doing well these days."

Sincerely, Michael Crandall

Left:  Picture of Marie and Mike taken in 2011.

 

Biography - August 2007

Dear Classmates,

After De La Salle, I went to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and received a Bachelor of Arts in Classics. Then I lived in Europe for fourteen months and participated in a Christian youth organization there.  

I returned to the US and attended a seminary outside of Chicago where I received a Master of Divinity degree in 1986. In those years, I met my wife, Marie Sandonato, who was a classmate of one of my younger sisters, and we were married in 1981. 

I then received a Masters Degree in Education in 1985 from Boston State College (now U.Mass Boston). I  taught at Boston University in their English as a Second Language program and also at English Language Services in Boston. 

My wife and I also taught at a private Christian high school in Brockton, Massachusetts: I taught English and Bible, and Marie taught French and Spanish. 

We then moved to Germany and worked with a linguistic organization called SIL International. There we did linguistic research and literacy work on a formerly unwritten Indo-European language of western Asia. 

We returned to the US in 2003 and moved to Stony Brook, New York where we now teach at a Christian college-preparatory day and boarding school called The Stony Brook School. I am teaching English as a Second Language again, and Marie is again teaching French as well as running a girls’ dormitory on the campus.

Sincerely,

Michael Crandall

Website Links

Stony Brook School - Prep school where Mike and Marie teach.

 
 

 

De La Salle Academy, Newport RI                                                                                                       Class of 1971