FFH 13b

Pictures Were Taken And Sent To Me By James Divita.
For so many of us this will be a sad journey to what once was almost home:

Let's begin our journey at Shelton House...	And then continue by crossing over to the Administration Building, Newtown-Hall...
Here is Newtown-Hall again as seen by us as we walk over from Shelton-House...	Now we cross over the center-green to Woodbury-Hall which was a female dorm. The view is as seen from Shelton-House...
From Woodbury-Hall we go back to Newtown-Hall and make a right in the direction of Stratford-Hall, the small cafeteria where Mrs. Adams and staff as well as the office workers dined...	Passing to the right of Stratford-Hall, we end up at the male dormitory Norwalk-Hall...

Diagonally across Norwalk-Hall is Stamford-Hall which was a dormitory for married couples at first, before Watertown-Hall was built and then became a female dorm... This is the view from Cochran-House of Stamford-Hall...	Crossing over from Stamford-Hall, we get to the newest building, Cochran-House which was opened in the late 1950's. The view here is of the main entrance...The building has three floors and 12 wards....and even had it's own kitchen...
Walking from the back of Cochran-House we arrive at Canaan-House....	Diagonally across to the right we reach Greenwich-House which seems to have big construction going on. In the left-center of the picture we see a new building...
Here is Greenwich-House as seen from the street with the end of Canaan-House in back of us and with the main kitchen and dining rooms of Bridgeport-Hall to our left....	Greenwich-House as seen more from the right, with the Yale-Lab in back of us.... The new addition to Greenwich-House is straight ahead in our view....
Another view of Greenwich-House from the same perspective...	And now we look at Greenwich-House from the other direction with Kent-House in our back...

Having walked back towards Canaan-House, we come to the main kitchen and dining rooms for patients and employees, Bridgeport Hall. Shelton-House is just barely visible to our left and Greenwich-House would be on our right....	Another view of Bridgeport-Hall with the main entrance for employees under disrepair... It seems like there used to be an addition with bathrooms and a cloak-room through which one walked into the main dining hall...
View of female patient entrance to the patient's dining room at Bridgeport-Hall....	From Bridgeport-Hall we can see the Yale-Lab building which contained the morgue and autopsy rooms as well as the pharmacy (until 1970 when the pharmacy moved to Cochran-House. The building to the right is Canaan-House again...
Having walked all the way across, from Canaan-House, past Bridgeport-Hall, we come to a large activities field and see Kent-House from it's side viewed from Danbury-Hall... Kent-House and Canaan-House are identical looking structures...	If we turn around from facing Kent-House and the activities field, we face Danbury-Hall which was a dormitory for male employees. The residents at Danbury-Hall were mostly maintenance people, While Norwalk-Hall was mostly for Psychiatric-Aides...
Another side-view of Kent-House and the activities field as we walk past Danbury Hall onto a side-street on which a few maintenance buildings are located and which would head directly into the hospital's own power-supply-house....	Coming down from Danbury-Hall and walking down the street, we come first to the hospital's own fire-house. In the background we see Kent-House again...The fire station was made up of mostly volunteers working in maintenance or as psychiatric-aides...

Walking past the fire-station, we come past the main maintenance
shops building, which had separate electrical, plumbing and painting
shops...as well as many others, in it... On the left front, we see
the driveway entrance to the main garage building which was located
right across from the maintenance building...

Main entrance to the same shops-building...

Let us remember Fairfield Hills Hospital
With This Picture From A Better Time
All Around!

This picture was obviously taken after the closing of FHH. That's why threre are no cars visible and no people. Normally, when I worked there, the view would have shown a lot of activity.

Good old "Shelton-House" where the Director of Nursing
Rosa Lee Adams R.N. ruled with compassion and an "iron fist."
Her office was on the third floor along with her staff's.
This is also where Psychiatric Aide classes were taught.
The two stories below held four semi-geriatric wards.

Go to Page XIV
The Continuation of My Story from Page IX
Training on Greenwich-House 1A

Part I
Working at Fairfield Hills(State) Hospital - How I came to Fairfield Hills Hospital - Summation of my
immigration story - Arlington, Virginia and Washington, DC - Meeting Pete in Danbury, Connecticut - Mrs. Morrell's
Guest House - Working at Danbury Hospital - Hearing about Fairfield Hills Hospital - Getting a job there - Mrs. Adams
and Mrs. Schwaller - Central Linen Room - A Listing of Former Employees at FHH--People I Knew and Loved -

Part VI
Working in Fairfield House - 11-22-1963, I watch the Kennedy assassination
on television in Fairfield House - Having a shot of Bourbon with Jack Shanley - I want to join the Navy
before getting drafted into the Army - I pass the test and an angel in the form of a Navy corpsman
         tells me not to join - I take his advice - Soon the Army will be "knocking on my door" -
         I decide to visit my mother in Berlin before being drafted - I convert to Catholicism with the
           special help of my old mentor, the Jesuit Pater Manitius - Stopover in Amsterdam - Back in the USA -
          My draft notice is waiting for me - "You're in the Army now"! -

Part VII
1967, I return to Fairfield Hills Hospital after three years -
            My last days in the US Army - discharge troubles and Army bureaucracy - The General intervenes
   and makes things "right" with a phone call - Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, N.J. - Fort Hamilton, Staten Island, N.Y.
       - Pete, Ingrid, Pia and "uncle" John Kilpatrick - Return to Fairfield Hills Hospital in Newtown, Ct. -

Part VIII
Back at Fairfield Hills Hospital
A wonderful welcome from the "old-timers" there - John Kilpatrick
has a new Jeep "Wagoneer" (One of the first SUV's) - Back to classes - My new classmates - Gerold Brown is gone
from FHH, fired in what I believe was a set-up and malicious... - Also my good friend Jerry Hatchey is gone as well
as Mike Schengrian... - I am angry about Gerald Brown's firing from FHH -

Part IX
First day back in class - Mr. Bouton is droning on and on - Some of my new classmates:
Thelma Oliver - Kenny - George Gilligan - Bob Totten - My state of mind, -Herbert Marcuse,
C.Wright Mills, Mao's "little red-book", Ramparts magazine -
My mystical admiration of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his "New Deal",
Falling in love with Thelma. - Sage advice from my friend John Kilpatrick...

Part X
Picture Page courtesy of Beryl Carr
with pictures of Beryl Carr, Cliff Kearnan, Paula from the pharmacy, Florence Brown, Ms. Raeford R.N.,
Dover Seawright, Dr. Didios, Dr. Seanado, Tommy Ferrell, Andres Vaga, Flo Erickson, Carol Lockwood,
Lynn Wilson, Mary D'Agusta and many more employees.

Part XI
Various Pictures and Historical Articles from a Pamphlet
Issued to FHH Employees in 1983

Part XII
This Page Is Dedicated To The Loving Memory
Of Our Friend And Co-Worker At Fairfield Hills Hospital,
Evelyn M. Brown
With A Collection Of Pictures Sent To Me
By Her Loving Granddaughter Penny Lee. Group Photo From The Early-To Mid- 1970's
Probably Taken In Cochran House Basement O.T. Room.
Far Left Standing Is William "Billy" Lawlor, Center-Table Is Charlie Gallagher,
Second From Right, Standing, Is Kay Hodgman....
All The Others I Know And Worked With, But I Don't Remember Their Names.
Also Pictures of Dino Lopez, Georgia Lasorco, Kay Barkasy-Colgan and Frances DeManuel.

Part XIII
I Thought This Memorial-Page Would Be A Proper Place
To Put A Few Of My Own Pictures, Since
I Met My Wife, Donna, As A Co-Worker
At Our Beloved Fairfield Hills Hospital as well as my first wife Thelma
...Also Pictures
of Steve Hirst, Pete Wagner, John Kilpatrick, Bill Lawlor,
Jerry Haffke.

Part XIIIa
Pictures of Shirley Pavone, Rita Morton, Drs. Sonido
and Aurora Alcantara with Shirley Pavone.

Continuation of my story:

Part XIV
The Continuation of My Story
Training on Greenwich-House 1A - Thelma and I get married
Watertown-Hall

Part XVII
Jimmy Fowler and I become involved with
with Satguru Maharaj Ji and his Divine Light Mission.
The story is yet to be told.
On this page is a short summary of our involvement
and a very extensive article about the Divine Light Mission
from the July 1973 issue if "Ramparts" magazine.

Part XVIIa
This page is the continuation of the Ramparts article
from page XVII.

Part XVIII
The Jesus Movement
Fall 1973 - Fall 1974
Rev. Carew a Catholic Priest at St. Joseph's Church
In Danbury Started a Charismatic Jesus Group
and I was part of it for about one year.
This article is dedicated to Patty Stoops
a friend of Thelma's whom I met again at these meetings.
--This page contains an article by Bob Chuvala
whom I believe to be FFH employee Paul Chuvala's son.
The article is extensive but my own story
about being part of this group has not been told yet.