Update 10-9-01    

Hi,

I'm not sure where we are on a reunion.

Last week I'd asked: Considering everything, do we all actually need to get together this spring?  My present feeling is Why not?  But, as usual, I leave it to your vote.

Only two people---Andy Dolich and Marilyn Horowitz Goldhammer---got back to me.  And they both said Yes, so that means 100 percent of the people responding voted to have a reunion, which is how democracy works.  But it also means that sometime next May, Marilyn, Andy, and I might have a nice intimate dinner together, probably in Maryland where Marilyn lives, since Andy and I are gentlemen, and will travel.

And that vote was before this weekend's air strikes on the Taliban, so who know what Marilyn, Andy or I even think now?

Meanwhile, in safer, virtual reunions:  Barbara Blitfield Pech's and Jean Cohen Oklan's grade and junior high school snapshots are finally linked to the South home page.  Because of a glitch on a disk, which sounds like something Dr. Seuss or Pam Stamph might have written, all the pictures aren't exactly where I'd like them to be.  There are shots of former Harbor Road folks mixed with the Forest people.  And Buck and Brooklyn Avenue and Harbor folks all run amuck.  But if you click on the links at the bottom of the South home page, then click on each title that follows on the various tables of contents, you'll eventually find pictures of us, younger, when only visions of duck drills danced in our heads.

Also, as soon as I rework the South home page, allowing me to add city and/or state names next to our e-mail addresses, I'll link Stu Borman's home page to ours, so it will be a virtual supermarket of nostalgia.  And, depending how bold you are, maybe we should follow Stu's lead and start posting recent pictures of ourselves.  You can either e-mail them to me as attachments, or send them to me in L.A. and I'll scan them into the computer.  (Hey, this is just a suggestion.  Don't throw old donuts at the messenger.)

Other news:

Steve Zuckerman wrote from Puerto Rico to say The Fantasticks is closing after 40 years in New York, and that he and his wife saw it 20 years ago.  If you remember, we did the first act of that musical as our winning one-act play entry in 1965, under the title The Romantics (yeah, well, we kinda didn't pay royalties).  As research, some of our cast went to see the off-Broadway version.  Asked if I wanted to go, I said, "Nah, the show's been running for 6 years.  It's probably ready to close."  (I supported Humphrey, too.)

From Denise Frango Baxter:  I have taken a new position and effective October 19th will no longer be using my current e-mail address (dbaxtermre@aol.com).  I will be working as the Executive Director of Cohasset Sunrise Assisted Living.  I have been with my present company, MRE, for twenty years.  I am very excited.  I will write again as soon as I have set up a new e-mail address.

Diane Fruzetti also changed her e-mail address recently, so you should check the home page if messages you've recently sent bounce back---or stay unreasonably unanswered for some time.

From Barnet Kellman, by way of Peggy Galinger Menaker:  I haven't located Jan Martin's parent's address yet.  What I remember is that his father's name is/was Tyr Martin (he is/was an architect I think) and they lived in Norkkoping, Sweden.  I don't know if that will help on the Internet.  (Rich, again:  If anyone can learn something from this information, it would be great.  Jan, if you remember, was the exchange student, senior year.)

Finally, from Janet Longmore Chakour '70 (Frank's sister):  I enjoyed your site.  I absolutely loved the photo from Brooklyn Avenue School.  I was able to pick out my brother's picture immediately, both from memory and from seeing the face of my own ten-year old son, John.  He looks exactly like his uncle, except that John has a better haircut.

http://hometown.aol.com/reunionclass65/myhomepage/profile.html


Rich