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Highland Park High School Class of 1963 - Reflections of Paul Garfield

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Body:	<i>In a message dated 4/10/2013 8:25:23 A.M. Central Daylight Time, steve@dalealan.com wrote: Paul Garfield was one of my best friends during high school and college. We stayed close to him during our early years of marriage and child-bearing, but after he moved to Hoffman Estates in the early 70's (at that time that was like driving to California :)) we lost touch. About 10 years ago, I reached out to him again-he and his wife were living in Barrington -and we reconnected. Then, he retired about 5 years ago and they moved to a small town in Northern Wisconsin called Mercer. They had bought a small cottage on a small lake, tore it down and build a home to live in. We lost touch after that. His wife called me about 3 or 4 years ago to tell me that Paul had died the previous November of lung cancer-he had been a lifelong smoker and when tell-tale signs of cancer started showing up, he refused to see a doctor until it was too late. Paul was a hurdler on the HPHS track team and convinced me to go out for the team freshman year. They didn't know what else to do with my talent (ha ha) so made me a miler. The most lasting memory I have of Paul is that I had gotten him a job the summer after we graduated from high school. We were driving home from Addison , IL where the job was, and listening to WLS radio when the news came on and the lead story was that Cyrus Garfield, Paul's father, had been murdered in his office. Paul found out about it on the radio because his mother didn't know how to reach him at work. His dad was a CPA but apparently had some underworld dealings with investments in parking lots and vending machines-Paul knew about the investments but didn't know about his underworld connections. Apparently Cyrus was murdered by the Chicago mob. Steve</i> *
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