BUD PIRONE, 1939-2020 Through OHS Alumni Association, He Kept School’s Spirit Alive By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Even when William “Bud” Pirone was at Fox Nursing Home, Madolyn Palmer wanted to make sure he was still part of the Alumni Association he helped create. “He was still able to communicate with us about the program book,” she said. “When it was finished, I took it over to him, and he just grinned from ear to ear.”…
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FUNERAL AT BELDEN AUDITORIUM Family, Friends Bid Farewell To Bud Pirone Friends, family, colleagues and students filled the Belden Auditorium at Oneonta High School this afternoon where a service was held celebrating the life of William “Bud” Pirone, a beloved teacher, OHS principal and coach, who passed away on Jan. 13 at age 80. Retired Methodist minister Dick Breuninger gave the sermon, remarking, “If Dick saw paradise as a walk in the woods on a golden afternoon, the best way…
IN MEMORIAM Bud Pirone Funeral Is Saturday; Principal On OHS Wall Of Fame ONEONTA – William (Bud) Pirone, revered retired Oneonta High School principal and one of the founders of the active alumni association, died on Jan. 13, 2020, one day shy of his 81st birthday. He passed in peace at the Fox Nursing Home, where he had been a resident for a year following a series of strokes starting in September 2018. Calling hours will be this Saturday, Jan.…
AFTER VIETNAM WAR, NOTHING EVER SAME By JIM KEVLIN•allotsego.com Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 13-14, 2014 ONEONTA The worst came after Kent State, where Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four college students and wounded nine others when a May 4, 1970, protest against the Vietnam War turned violent. The next day, the SUNY Oneonta campus erupted, as did campuses across the nation. “Twenty-five to 30 of our kids went up for the demonstration,” recalled William “Bud” Pirone, then an Oneonta High…