The next year I went to a brand new Junior High School in the Neshaminy School District and then to Neshaminy High School in 10th grade. We moved mid-year, and I was in 6th grade in a new school, but I don’t remember it being that hard. The new house had a big back yard, and we played outside all day long. Was moving to a different neighborhood a difficult transition for you to make? That house remained my parents’ home until we sold it last year. My parents had three kids by this point so in 1964 they bought a larger house in Langhorne and moved in. I also remember the ice cream truck from O’Boyle’s driving around the neighborhood at night. The streets didn’t have a lot of traffic, so we played all sorts of sports, including touch-football and baseball with a rubber ball, in the streets. What do you remember about growing up in Levittown?Įveryone moved to Levittown about the same time, and there were hordes of kids all about the same age. My dad was an illustrator first for an ad agency in Philadelphia then as a freelancer doing textbook illustrations for big publishers like Macmillian and Prentice Hall. My mother was an art teacher who taught at Friend’s School in Newtown, Bucks County. Levittown’s historical marker explains the significance of the post war development–via

We lived in that house until I was eleven years old. Houses in Levittown were relatively inexpensive My parents bought their house with a $50 down payment. My father was a World War II vet and part of the original wave of young vets who moved from Philadelphia to Levittown, a new community in Bucks County just being built. I was born in Philadelphia in 1953 the oldest of three boys and moved to Levittown, PA when I was just a baby. degree in Economics from Temple how a Philadelphia Inquirer classified ad led him to a temporary teaching position at West Chester University raising through the ranks of department chair, dean, and eventually interim president at the university and the importance he places on being a man of his word. Editor’s Note: This profile of Chris Fiorentino was originally posted in May of 2016.Īs he assumes the role of Interim President of West Chester University, Chris Fiorentino spoke to VISTA Today about growing up in Levittown and Langhorne landing a job washing windows at Acme when he was 16 years-old getting an undergraduate, Masters and then a Ph.D.

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