Comments on: “Sully: The Words, Wit and Wisdom of Paul Sullivan” http://www.richardhowe.com/2012/09/23/sully-the-words-wit-and-wisdom-of-paul-sullivan/ Lowell Politics and Lowell History Tue, 21 May 2013 01:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Patrick Cook http://www.richardhowe.com/2012/09/23/sully-the-words-wit-and-wisdom-of-paul-sullivan/comment-page-1/#comment-16010 Patrick Cook Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:33:52 +0000 http://www.richardhowe.com/?p=16530#comment-16010 Glad you could join us there today, Marie, Tony and Dick. We had a packed house, a true testament to how many friends Paul had out there. It was an amazing trip down memory lane in the last couple of decades of Lowell history pulling these columns together. Any readers of your blog interested in purchasing a copy of the book can visit www.middlesex.mass.edu/SULLY or your neighborhood Market Basket! All proceeds from the sales of the book go to a new scholarship announced today by Paul's family! Glad you could join us there today, Marie, Tony and Dick. We had a packed house, a true testament to how many friends Paul had out there. It was an amazing trip down memory lane in the last couple of decades of Lowell history pulling these columns together.

Any readers of your blog interested in purchasing a copy of the book can visit http://www.middlesex.mass.edu/SULLY or your neighborhood Market Basket! All proceeds from the sales of the book go to a new scholarship announced today by Paul’s family!

]]> By: Marie http://www.richardhowe.com/2012/09/23/sully-the-words-wit-and-wisdom-of-paul-sullivan/comment-page-1/#comment-16008 Marie Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:10:07 +0000 http://www.richardhowe.com/?p=16530#comment-16008 For most of today's Sully event - I was pleased to sit chatting with former Mayor and former LTI professor M. Brendan Fleming. Sgt. Tommy Fleming and his Dad go way back with Paul - Tom and Paul were Sacred Heart School classmates together - and from the stories pranksters together as well!. We talked at length about another Sacred Heart Parish guy and Sully compardre - Chancellor Marty Meehan. The Mayor has a unique perspective on Marty and all was laudatory especially regarding UMASS Lowell. While I did very little smoozing - I did note Commissioner Davis, Michael Goldman, Dan Rea, Jon McQuaid, Joe Sciacca (I think he was also Paul's Austin Prep classmate), Nancy Donohue, Karen Bell and so many more. I was happy to talk with Kevin Sullivan and Ryan too - and especially Margaret Sullivan who reminded me of Paul telling her back when he was the proprietor of our neighborhood "grocery" store, that I marched in and told him I wouldn't be a customer until he removed a certain bumpersticker from his car... I've long forgotten the sticker (a GOP-er probably) but I'll never forget our long friendship - in some ways we mentored each other! He knew me well enough to... well I'll save that story for another time! For most of today’s Sully event – I was pleased to sit chatting with former Mayor and former LTI professor M. Brendan Fleming. Sgt. Tommy Fleming and his Dad go way back with Paul – Tom and Paul were Sacred Heart School classmates together – and from the stories pranksters together as well!. We talked at length about another Sacred Heart Parish guy and Sully compardre – Chancellor Marty Meehan. The Mayor has a unique perspective on Marty and all was laudatory especially regarding UMASS Lowell. While I did very little smoozing – I did note Commissioner Davis, Michael Goldman, Dan Rea, Jon McQuaid, Joe Sciacca (I think he was also Paul’s Austin Prep classmate), Nancy Donohue, Karen Bell and so many more. I was happy to talk with Kevin Sullivan and Ryan too – and especially Margaret Sullivan who reminded me of Paul telling her back when he was the proprietor of our neighborhood “grocery” store, that I marched in and told him I wouldn’t be a customer until he removed a certain bumpersticker from his car… I’ve long forgotten the sticker (a GOP-er probably) but I’ll never forget our long friendship – in some ways we mentored each other! He knew me well enough to… well I’ll save that story for another time!

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