Welcome to Episode 1 of The Aquinas 87/88 Podcast.  If you’ve stumbled in here, it’s probably because somewhere, down deep, either curiosity or nostalgia has gotten the better of you. 

This limited edition podcast series, featuring interviews with members of the 1987/88 graduating class of Brampton Ontario’s St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, attempts to answer the eternal question : Where Are They Now?

Warning : listening to this podcast may bring you back in time to a place where lockers were small, hallways were overflowing, absolution was general, every school assembly started off with a rousing rendition of Bette Midler’s The Rose and every school dance ended with the lights coming up in the middle of Stairway to Heaven.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you. 

Now sit back (or keep jogging, if you’re listening to this on your iPod at the gym), relax, and enjoy.

First up : Rob Gomes.

The Aquinas8788 Podcast, Episode 1 : Rob Gomes 
Host: Michelle Sullivan

Running time : 44:22

(0:45)  Intro

(3:04)  Walk down memory lane

(9:10)  Professional Rob

(11:07) Travels and tsunami

(32:21) The stats : single life and kids

(35:04) Waxing philosophical

(38:39) Closing

(40:58) Closing song : Apples, by Delhi 2 Dublin

Opening theme music is Lost in myspace, courtesy of David Cyr, and available through the Podsafe Music Network.  Merci David!

Download the podcast here : The Aquinas8788 Podcast, Episode 1, Rob Gomes.  Host: Michelle Sullivan

Thanks to Phil Sullivan, Dan Misener, Tod Maffin, Mark Blevis, Bob Goyetche, Donna Papacosta and Charles Hodgson for the encouragement and advice needed to get this podcast off the ground.

Big thanks most of all to Rob, for being our guinea pig.

Enjoy!