Richard O'Connor Thompson (1968)

Richard was born on May 31st, 1968 at Niagara General Hospital in Niagara Falls, ON, Canada. Richard was the first born child of Michael and Theresa Thompson and had one brother, Frank, and one sister, Kim.

Homes
1) Niagara Falls, ON from birth to early January, 1971, about a week after Kim was born 2) Burlington, ON for about a year 3) Riall St., Niagara Falls, ON for about 4 years 4) Westleigh Crescent, Alderwood, Etobicoke, Toronto, ON from April 30th, 1976 to July 23rd, 1977 5) Ash Crescent, Long Branch, Etobicoke, Toronto, ON from July 23rd, 1977 to May 1st, 1998 6) St. Clair East, Toronto, ON from May 1st, 1998 to April 2nd, 2001, except during some peroids while attending UW 7) Market Square, Toronto, ON April 2nd, 2001 to present

Elementary School
1) Mary Ward Catholic School in Niagara Falls, ON for kindergarten, grade 1 and most of grade 2 2) St. Ambrose Catholic School in Alderwood, Etobicoke, Toronto, ON for the completion of grade 2 3) St. Teresa Catholic School, New Toronto, Etobicoke, Toronto, ON for grade 3 4) St. Michael's Choir School (SMCS) in Toronto, ON for grades 4, 5, and 6 5) St. Teresa Catholic School, New Toronto, Etobicoke, Toronto, ON for grades 7 and 8

Richard's attendance at SMCS was highlighted by a 2 week tour of several Canadian cities and Milwaukee, WI in the spring of 1980. Richard also participated in the annual SMCS Christmas concerts at Massey Hall in Toronto, performing 3 concerts in each of the 3 years he attended the school.

High School
Richard attended Michael Power/St. Joseph's High School graduating in 1987. Here he learned the violin and participated in the school orchestra, chamber group, and the 1987 production of Damn Yankees. He also played banjo in the school's Dixie Land Band.

University
In the fall of 1987, Richard attended the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, ON, where he earned a Bachelors degree in Applied Mathematics with Physics Electives and graduated on May 30th, 1992.

RPM
On December 9th, 1992, Richard commenced his career as a sofware developer in the RPM department at Footprint Software in Toronto, ON. Footprint was bought by IBM on May 31, 1995, but on January 1st, 1997 the RPM department bought themselves away from IBM to form RPM Technologies Corp. where he continues to work to the present day as the Chief Software Modeler.

Baseball
Richard spent his summer evenings and weekends playing baseball, usually on as many as 3 teams each summer. He started playing fastpitch softball at the age of 9 in the Alderwood Softball League until he was 17. He played one summer in the Kismit Mens League before going off to university. In 1993, Richard joined the A's in the Toronto Financial Fastball League (TFFL) B Division for which he played for 10 seasons, leaving after the 2002 season. In 1994, he joined the Alderwood Chiefs in the Lakeshore Fastball League (LFL) until 2002 and returned for one season in 2005. In 1997, he joined McSorleys FP in the TFFL A Division where it won the league championship in 2002. Richard became McSorleys team captain prior to the 2004 season and renamed the team to the Longest Yard Cardinals and lead team to another championship in 2006 after which the team folded. Prior to the 2003 season, Richard joined left the Chiefs and joined the Bingos in the LFL where they played 2 more seasons in the LFL before moving to the Mississauga Sportsmens Fastball League (MSFL). In 2004, Richard joined the Marlins in the Scarborough Vintage Baseball League (SVBL) where they won back to back championships in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, Richard joined the Gators in the Mississauga Men Baseball League (MMBL) where they won the B division championship in 2007.

Children

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