PETER E. FLAHERTY

Mr.Flaherty! My favorite teacher! We should all play a game of risk the risk in his honor!

Mr. Flaherty was very influential as a teacher. He had the greatest 'one liners,' and the best sense of humor. I will always remember him fondly.

Mr. Flaherty's way of teaching left an indelible imprint. I can still so vividly remember those moments risking the risk in math class. I never enjoyed math more (and never as much since). He will be missed, but as such a dynamic and inventive teacher, his memory and his teachings will live on in his students' lives. His life touched so many... I send my sincerest condolences.

Mr. Flaherty was my favorite teacher. With his wry and whimsical sense of humor, his love of words and good storytelling, his math games (Risk the Risk), and his overall decency and goodness, he helped me develop during 5th and 6th grade, gently nudged me towards studying Latin, nourished my curiosity in learning about many things, and in no small part inspired me to become a teacher myself, though it would not be till years later that I recognized that influence. I hope that in some small...

Pete we will so miss your voice and Fancy thing from across the way. Or seeing you pull out of the driveway when the boys and I were waiting for the bus. The bus and my mooring routine have not been the same without you my friend. Thinking of you and your family.

I met Pete as a fishing guide the first weekend I moved to Cohasset. I knew next to nothing about fishing but learned plenty that day and over the next 11 years. Several charters with my dad, family, friends, and colleagues turned into my own boat and regularly following Pete around the rocks off Cohasset. Easily caught 200 macks for Pete's bait well with Forrest and Ethan on a foggy morning. Great laughs remembering watching Pete give the business to Lionel after he created a "bird...