Update 12-11-01 
  
Hey,

Let's just cut straight to the letters:

From Terri Donohue Calamari:  Plans are well under way for our reunion planned for the last week in April.  I want to get a ball park head count.  If you are coming or are just mildly entertaining the notion of coming, please e-mail me.  This puts you under absolutely no obligation to attend.  I have been lucky enough to have been at our 10th, 20th and the impromptu Thanksgiving gathering. I always come away from these meetings with a variety of good feelings. I find being in a room with people the same age and sharing the same early frame of reference very comforting, and a reaffirmation of life in some strange way.  What is particularly interesting, is my closest friends during high school went to Hewlett and Central.  South was where I suffered through classes, waiting to go to after school activities.  Yet, there is something about being with those people from District 24 who graduated at the band shell on the village green on a warm June evening in 1959.  We were all notified about the Cuban Missile Crisis and JFK assassination by James J. Bergen.  We were 7 miles away from JFK when the Beatles landed (as I remember it, I think Barbara Brill cut and went to meet the plane).  We were there win or lose for the North-South game and much more.  We were young together and there is some kind of bond in that.  Please join us in April.
       Here is the beginning of an alphabetical list of people who are interested in/or are coming to the reunion.  We'll update it regularly and try and keep it accurate:
 00020000098300000626 97D,Michele Cohen Collins, Steve Davidson, Terri Donohue Calamari, Paul DeMartino, Rich Eisbrouch, Barbara Endy Ianniello, Alan Finder, Robert Fiveson, Diane Fruzzetti, Nancy Garfield, Rick Glickman Wall, Marc Goldberg, Judy Hartstone, Marilyn Horowitz Goldhammer, Ira Levy, Ira Mitzner, Allen Moss, Ellen Nudelman Davidson, Judy Peters Sylvan, Peter Rosen, Larry Rugen, Ray Staley, Dennis Shapiro, Linda Vicinanza Marrs

From Paul DeMartino:  I just thought I'd share this with you.  I sometimes use an airport shuttle service to go to and from LaGuardia.  It's Classic Airport Shuttle, and their phone number's 631-701-2092.  I called tonight and confirmed that the fare from either LaGuardia or JFK is $38 per person and $11 for each additional person ($49 per couple) plus tax & gratuity.  This is one way to the Wind Watch and is probably shared service.  This price is fairly typical and I know the service is reliable.  People can reserve in advance, or call from the transport information desk at LaGuardia or JFK and wait to be picked up.  They normally always have vans at the airport so the wait is not usually very long.

More from Paul:  I'm looking forward to the posting of the Thanksgiving Gathering pictures and the reaction.  I'm sure they will serve to stimulate interest in the bigger reunion.  Any response to the subject of reprinting or copying the yearbook?  Dennis Shapiro thought that it can be scanned and printed that way.  My concern is that a yearbook would have to be virtually ripped apart to do so. I certainly don't want mine to be so desecrated.  Any ideas?  Of course, if no one shows any particular interest, then forget the whole thing.  As far as the Islip Airport being inconvenient, let me set the record straight on that.  The biggest drawback is the lack of many direct flights.  There are many flights however, though one may have to stop or make a connecting flight somewhere.  As for Florida people, please let them know that they can access Islip easily by flying Southwest Airlines.  It serves Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, West Palm Beach and Jacksonville.  Actually right now there is a special from Ft. Lauderdale to Islip for $49!  I heard also from Robin Feit and Cynthia Ingolia and they are interested in attending another small New York gathering.  I'm thinking about sometime after the holidays, maybe January or February.  If anyone else is interested, please let me know.
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From Larry Rugen:  Not that anyone needs help, but if you have not tried this travel site please do.   http://www.orbitz.com/     I note, for instance, there is a one-stop flight from Miami to Islip (via Atlanta) on Delta.  I also checked Southwest and there are direct flights from Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, if those places are convenient.  Just a suggestion.  Not trying to tell others how to travel.

From Barbara Endy Calvacca Ianniello:  Just a quick note about the Thanksgiving mini-reunion.  It really was nice to see everyone, and luckily there was a yearbook handy -- thanks to Paul -- to check out our names and old photos.  My photo was unfortunately lost by yearbook company after a retake and was never posted.  I am not sure if that is good or bad.  In any case I enjoyed seeing the photos from Lily's on-line and was happy to see my photo posted -- finally!!!!  Even though my late husband Anthony Calvacca and I were king and queen of the prom we don't have a photo of that, either -- do you see a pattern?  If anyone should have a photo of us from the prom it would be wonderful to show my children and grandchildren a photo of Anthony and me in happy times.

From Ira Mitzner:  I don't need a boat ride, but if we're going to the trouble and expense of going to a resort, I think a DJ would be a good idea.  I'm in favor of paying for the teachers.  Thanks.

From Judy Hartstone:  I don't see any reason to get $100 from everyone.  How many teachers do you think will be there who have to have the Saturday dinner comped? Or were you comping the whole weekend for them?  If we get 50 people and everyone gives $100, that's some major bucks for a buffet dinner for a couple of teachers!!  Also, I've seen the on-line photos once, but am still having trouble getting them again without AOL quitting.
 00020000065F000016C7 659,(Rich:  The hundred bucks-or-so is just a volunteer donation for anyone who wants to kick in.  I was just thinking of comping the Saturday night dinner for the teachers, but don't know what other people were considering.  Some of the extra money will go to things like stocking the hospitality suite and possibly paying a (quiet) DJ.  As for AOL:  yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.  Ya just gotta be patient, especially with pictures.  Try slower times of the day or week.  Try entering, then backing off a step, then re-entering.  Silent prayers to deities and vicious threats also seem to work, but not with any regularity.)

From Linda Passaro Roberts Feeney:  The home page has been quite a walk down memory lane -- the last time I enjoyed seeing everyone was in June 1985!  At least I haven't suffered Carlo's fate at your hands.  I guess it was a "tripley -name" that stopped the search engine.  So, please add my name to the list: BLFeeney@aol.com   Cary North Carolina
       Short Bio -- many careers -- proudest of my first career as being a Mom.  Then banking, travel, marketing coordinator, and for the past six years at a pre-publishing company in Research Triangle Park in the IT department as Application Tester.  Pretty neat to be able to sum up 36+ years into one run-on sentence -- Toni Rea would be proud.  And I can still recite Stopping By the Snowy Woods, complete with the punctuation.  Also, please thank Terri for all her efforts to locate me!

From Fran Bellucci Johnson (by way of Nancy Garfield):  You beat me to getting to
your e-mail address.  I couldn't believe that you're in Topeka.  Thought I was
 000200000F6200001D20 F5C,the only person crazy enough to live in Kansas.  I'd love to get together with
you to catch up on the last 30+ years.
     I started teaching at Kansas State University again this fall, part time, in the Art department and the College of Education. Besides teaching a class for each, I'm the
advisor for Art ed. majors and I supervise student teachers.  I'm married, with three children.  The oldest is a girl, Lesley, then Stephen, and Heather.  Steve has a three-year old daughter -- they live here with John and me.  Lesley has been in New York (Ridge and Coram) for the last two years.  She went to do her internship in music therapy and met her husband there.  They've been married ten days.  The ceremony was here in Wamego.  For months, Les and I were doing long distance planning.  Now I'm trying to get all my grading done, as finals are next week.  So, if you want to share this message with the rest of the class, be my guest.

From Marc Goldberg:  I am in for Hoppalongpogue.  It sounds wonderful.  I can catch 9 holes with Fiveson in the morning, tennis with one of the 54 year old foxs in the afternoon, and go for a relaxing swim with you in the evening (ok so not you).  Locked up in a resort hotel with my memories for Christ sake -- will the boy be able to handle this?  You better have a psychologist on hand for this event.

A quick bio from Terri Donohue Calamari:  It's been wonderful hearing from all of you. Here's what I've been up to for the past 36 years. I graduated from St. Vincent's Nursing School in 1967 and was offered a full scholarship to the College of New Rochelle in exchange for staffing their infirmary.  I married in 1969, and have three grown children.  My oldest Marianne, 30, is a VP for a textile company.  Trish, 24, is in publishing.  My son, C.J., 22, is a petty officer on an aircraft carrier somewhere in the Middle East.  My work resume is that of a manic-depressive (not that there is anything wrong with being a manic-depressive, to paraphrase Seinfeld).  I have worked as an ICU nurse, a psychiatric research nurse, a make-up artist, and a fund raiser for the Archdiocese of New York.  In 1998 my husband and I amicably parted.  I packed my bags and headed for Charleston, leaving Centerport, Long Island where I had lived for the past twenty years in the dust.  While here I have worked as an art gallery rep., a grand dame of Charleston extra in Mel Gibson's The Patriot, a location casting director/associate producer on an independent feature film, and I recently finished producing a black and white short.  I also do special events for Charleston's Office of Cultural Affairs, and at present am hosting our month-long Christmas festival as Mrs. Santa.  Believe it or not, there is more, but that's enough for now.
  
Notes from Judy Peters Sylvan and Rob Kellman about their e-mail addresses:  So far the @home addresses still work in their areas, but they'll let us know when there's a change.  Meanwhile, Emily Ferber Sondheimer has a new e-mail address, replacing @home.  Nothing permanent yet from Ellen Epstein Silver.

Finally, again from Terri:  I have no idea why I am so compelled to do this reunion.  I have a great life here and great friends.  While I enjoyed the people I went to South with, my best friends went to other high schools in the area.
(Rich again:  As I just wrote Terri, yeah, a few months ago Paul DeMartino and I kinda guy grunted the same thing to each other from opposite coasts:  High school was fine, but we don't live in the past.  We have family, friends, and a good life.  But that's still no reason not to get together with old friends occasionally.)

Speaking of which, there are now three-dozen pictures of the New York Thanksgiving gathering on the home page.

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Rich