Update 4-9-02    


Hey,

Mess of letters first.

From Robert Buchsbaum:  This weekend, we made a somewhat startling discovery.  I've been celebrating Jewish holidays for the past ten years as a member of the same Havurah (group of friends who get together at our own houses as an alternative to going to a synagogue) with the same Carol Ganz who was in our class at South High
School.  Somehow the subject of our ancient history had never come up.  At one point, when the class of '65 reunion was getting organized, I thumbed through the year book and saw her picture and thought to myself, "That's funny, there's a Carol Ganz who looks an awful lot like the one I now know.  Funny coincidence isn't that?"  And Carol said that she recognized my name, but thought that there must be a number of "Robert Buchsbaums" around.  Somehow, we both had the impression that we had previously discussed our backgrounds and were each from someplace else.  Finally, this weekend at our Passover seder, I asked Carol where she grew up, and we rediscovered our shared history in Valley Stream.  Anyway, Carol lives in Wenham, Massachusetts, which is the next town over from me.  Her e-mail address is:  cabotganz@aol.com.  She can fill you in on more details.

From Carole Ganz:  As you've probably already heard from Robert Buchsbaum, we just discovered this past week, after a 10+ year friendship, that we were South High classmates.  I guess we never got around to playing Long Island geography before. Anyway, cross me off the MIA list because I'm back.  I'm hoping to drive down to the reunion with Robert and stay with Long Island relatives.  I'm kind of surprised at how glad I am that all this is happening.  And the mathematician in me is delighted to see the prime numbers finally getting the recognition they deserve in the reunion world.
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Rich (dumbly) to Carole:  So, like, you mean the 37th reunion?  And 37 is a (struggling to remember here)  prime number  (struggling harder)  because it can only be divided by itself?

From Carole again:  You are exactly right regarding the 37th as a prime year.  And thanks for getting the class info to me.  Robert had forwarded some of it, and I've begun the process of digging through it.  I love the photos.  If I can sort out how  to work my new scanner/printer/copier/fax (kinda like a "cafetorium") I will send a picture of Miss Clark's 3rd grade class to join the other Forest Road pix. You are standing in the back row next to Kenny Seelig.  Right now I can scan, but the image disappears into a black hole in my iMac.  I, too, have lost track of my South High year book and would love to see if there was some way to reproduce  it.  Even though it would be missing all those "Good luck at BU" messages, it would still be nice to have one.  Looking forward to the reconnections.

Rich, again:  Alas, poor Kenny.  He should have lived for this.  When he and I were probably in third grade, and pretty good friends, we were once exploring a creek bed near his house.  Suddenly, he started yelling, "Help!  Save me!"  He was standing on a bed of green moss he thought was quicksand (we'd been reading too many Hardy Boy books) and was positive he was going to die.  I reached out, grabbed his arm, and yanked him to safety, and for a week, he couldn't stop thanking me for saving his life.

From Roz Minsky Bobrow:  What a trip down memory lane, looking at all the photos.  Thank goodness every female is not a size six, and every male not a perfect, well... something!  I am really looking forward to the reunion.  What else are people bringing besides the obvious, i.e., good old pictures?  I have a bunch I just found during our last move.  Isn't it scary how much so many of us look like our parents?  Do you "girls" remember those wonderful slumber parties?  Do we have to drool over each other's children?  And grandchildren, too?  Oh well, so much of our lives does include them.  See you in 17 days!
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(Also, Roz has volunteered---isn't that a great word?---to make the name tags for the reunion.  As suggested earlier, she's scanning our yearbook pictures so we can all see what we looked like then and how much we've improved since.  No more page boys.  No more horn rims.  No more skinny ties and matched pearls (well, you can keep the pearls).  And nice, smooth---if somewhat droopy---skin.)

Speaking of which---and denying the above---from Barbara Blitfield Pech:  Not that I'm jealous -- quite the contrary as I grew up with "that face" since kindergarten.  But if we decide we need a Reunion Queen, I nominate Carol Ewig Duran.  Most beautiful  outside, and certainly within.  Ummm, Carol, what's your secret?  Please share it with us all.  Fast!

Also, from Barbara:  Actually, I've kept up with Carol over the years, and we try to get together at least a couple of times annually.  She's just naturally beautiful, and her parents are also incredible.  They're both in their 80's and still go to Colorado to ski every winter.  On a completely different matter:  I am so psyched!  The next few weeks are going to seem like the longest waiting time.  Are we doing any formal or informal fun stuff, like razzing, roasting, or updates on the Senior Will?

Rich:  I suspect that we're all going to be so busy catching up that we don't need to organize any activities.  And if we need a break, there's a golf course, and a pool, and tennis.  But I'm not a chaperon.  So if everyone else wants to reinvent panty raids, I'll be in the bar, with Myrna Loy.

From Jane Ruzow Tiell:  Okay, dress code suggestion:  Wear what will make you feel about thirty years younger and about twenty-five pounds thinner.  Black is a good beginning.
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From Don Faber:  Well, I just notified Paul DeMartino that I will be attending the reunion after all, if you can still tolerate my indecision.  So please include me on
the list, and reinstate my e-mail address (gfaber@earthlink.net), and we'll let the proverbial chips fall where they may.  See you all in a few weeks!

From Jim Lorey:  Guess it's time for me to face the fact that no matter how I try to juggle things around, I unfortunately won't be able to make the reunion festivities on Saturday or Sunday.  On a positive note, I am planning on attending the Friday evening reception.  On a totally different subject:  I don't know if anyone else has had a problem with this, but it seems that ever since the class list has been posted with our e-mail addresses, I've been receiving an increasingly large amount of unsolicited junk e-mail daily.  It seems as though every possible dot something, or other automatic mail service, has added me to their list.  Since it's not a secure site, I have to ask to have my e-mail address removed from worldly view.

Rich:  Yeah, I asked this question a couple of weeks ago, since I've been getting a lot of trash e-mail lately.  But I've only been getting it on ReunionClass65, not on my other listed address, and no one else has mentioned the problem.  But please let me know if there's a problem.

Some regrets:  Don Doubrava, Tom Velardi, Stu Borman and, probably Carmine DeSanto and Jean Cohen Oklan.

From Joa'nka K. Kaupu, Alumni Office, Worcester Polytechnic Institute:  Our database has no current information on Mr. Thomas Lewis Connelly.  His last known city/state of residence is Holebrook, NY.  Sorry I couldn't be of more service to you.
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From Jerry Bittman:  Do you have any idea how much a personal secretary earns?  Whatever the amount, that's how much Stuie Glasser owes me.  I feel like his personal secretary -- I'm getting e-mails from women all over the United States telling me to tell Stuie he better be at the reunion.  I just got off the phone with him, and he is going to try his hardest to get there.  His attorney is trying to get him a weekend pass since it is a minimum security prison.  Just kidding -- it's a maximum security prison.  Sorry, I forgot he got paroled.  Unfortunately, Glasser also remembered the reason he didn't attend our senior prom -- I hit him in the eye with a tennis ball. Fortunately, he forgot that I broke his collarbone playing football.  Ah yes, the good old days.  (And, yes, Robin Feit, I do remember you.  And Barbara Blitfield e-mails the funniest jokes.)

From Rick Glickman Wall:  What time is dinner Saturday night?  It doesn't seem to be listed.

Rich---again:  I seem to be ducking a lot of darts this week.  And, yeah, I suppose it would have been wise to list what time Saturday's dinner starts.  Terri and Paul inform me that it's at 7:30.  (Aren't you glad that there is a Terri and Paul?)  But they also said to remind everyone that the party starts Friday evening, around 6:00, and doesn't formally stop until Sunday noon, when those staying at the hotel have to check out.  The hospitality suite will remain open as much as possible from Friday evening through Sunday---as a place to gather, snack, and leave messages for each other.
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Which leads us to this week's business:

First, from Paul:  I hate being a nudge, and my real concern is that too many people might show up unannounced Saturday night, and the hotel might not be able to accommodate them, but my other concern is that out-of-state checks must be cleared in advance.  Even though no one from our class would ever knowingly give us a bad check, I don't want to go down that road at all.  So let's set Wednesday, April 17th as the final date for me to receive any checks.  That gives them five business days to clear before the 24th, when I have to give the hotel the tentative number of people attending Saturday's dinner.  After that, I will only accept cash---and please don't send it through the mail.  Anyone paying late can simply pay me the day they arrive, either Friday or Saturday.

More from Paul:  Last Saturday's gathering at Lily Flanagan's was attended by Dennis Shapiro, Robin Feit, Kenny Nolan, Danny Stellabotte, Barbara Endy, Louise Wiemer, Mike (Flomp) Floyd, his wife Lisa, and yours truly.  We had the usual great time, and everybody was glad to see new faces at the gathering.  Mike Floyd said that he's decided to come after attending the "mini-reunion," and Louise is already in the fold.

Still more:  One thing not to forget is that the voluntary contribution also includes the five teacher dinners, the jukebox at the dinner, the food and drink in the hospitality suite Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and whatever we work out about a video camera.  The money is not solely to fund a wild cocktail party on Friday night.
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Yet more:  I was unable to book the juke box last week due to the fact that the vendor is moving from Babylon to Farmingdale.  But he asked me to call him back this week to finalize, so I don't believe it will be a problem.  Also, Terri notes:  I was going to bring a boom box so we'd have background music in the hospitality suite, but I believe all the rooms have AM/FM radios, and I think putting on an oldies station will simplify things.  That way, no one can play the same CD over and over again.

And (not entirely from Paul):  Don Faber is recanvassing classmates we have contact information for, but really haven't heard from.  Still, of our class of about 300, we only have information on 220 -- which is kind of amazing, but still leaves out  80 people.  And we'd hate for some of them to hear afterwards about the party.  So if anyone has even a hint on how to contact someone from our class, please let us know. 

Repeat Information:

April Reunion Information:
When:  Friday evening, April 26th to Sunday afternoon, April 28th, 2002
Where:  Wyndham Wind Watch Hotel, 1717 Motor Parkway, Hauppauge, N.Y.
Phone:  631-232-9800
Cost:  Room per night: $109 (plus taxes, which can add 20%)
       Saturday buffet dinner: $45.00
       Saturday night buffet bar:  cash bar
       Hospitality suite donation (to stock it for the three days):  voluntary

Paul DeMartino's address:  (Please remember to make your check out to Paul DeMartino, note South '65 Reunion somewhere on it, indicate how many people it covers at $45 per dinner for Saturday night, and, if you wish, add a contribution toward the hospitality suite.)
 00020000065E00002F5F 658,  Paul DeMartino
  10 Saltaire Place
  Massapequa, New York  11758
Remember, if you haven't received a confirmation, your check has not been received.

The questionnaire:
   Name: 
   Home address (optional -- or city & state where you currently live):
   Phone number (optional):
   E-mail address (optional):
   Occupation (or how you spend your days or nights):
   Spouse/Partner's name (if you have one):
   Children and/or pets names (please distinguish):
   Hobbies or pastimes:
   Retirement plans:
   Attending the reunion?
   Anything else you want us to know:
Please send your answers to Nancy Garfield at NGarf1234@aol.com.  Or mail them to Nancy at 3741 S.W. Munson, Topeka, Kansas  66604  (More bios will be circulating soon -- we're up to 60.)

Our running totals:  So far 104 people have paid for their Saturday night dinners---that's a total of $4680 towards a cost that gets slightly larger with every additional dinner.  Plus, we have $2200 donated toward the hospitality suite.

Finally, an exchange of letters:
       From Barbara Blitfield Pech:  Caught a short news story in the Miami Herald a few days ago, that I thought might interest you:  the re-release of The Winky Dink Interactive Video Kit (includes 9 interactive episodes per video, a plastic drawing screen -- important if you don't want to get yelled at by mom -- and 6 crayons).   $14.95.  Seems like an inexpensive way to reach back to my inner child.
       From Rich:  Ah, yes, Winky Dink.  Always one of my favorites.  Though I never had the Magic Screen and just used crayons on the glass.  Good thing my mom wasn't Joan Crawford.
 000200000D3E000035B7 D38,       From Barbara:  Funny, how many of us didn't have the magic screen, but crayoned anyway.  Heard from some that mom was Joan Crawford.  Ouch.  Mine just taught me how to wash the crayon off -- something I did need to know for later in life. 
       Coincidentally, from The New York Times:  Louis "Deke'' Heyward, a writer and producer who created Winky Dink and You, a pioneering interactive TV show, died March 26 of complications from pneumonia.  He was 81.  Heyward wrote for many TV shows in the 1950s and was head writer for The Ernie Kovacs Show.  In 1953, he created a Saturday morning children's show with a twist.  Viewers at home could help the animated boy called Winky Dink and his dog Woofer by purchasing a 50-cent kit that included a "magic screen.''  The clear sheet of plastic was placed over the television screen so that viewers could help the characters cross a stream, for example, by drawing in a bridge with "magic crayons.''  The show ran for many years in syndication.

People currently coming to the reunion:

Joan Aires Cleven
Alison Altman
Irene Augustin Wehn
Fran Bellucci Johnson
Jay & Sharyn Berliner
Olga Berne
Jerry Bittman
Barbara Blitfeld Pech
Joan Bouza Koster & guest
Barbara Brill
Robert Buchsbaum
Tom Calise
RoseMarie Cassillo Digilio
Linda Chanes Abel
Marsha Churnin Soroka & Neil Soroka
Linda Cohen Kelman Greenseid
Michele Cohen Collins & John Stafford
Peggy Cooper Schwartz
Jerrie Clamp Rachoi & Mickey Rachoi
Steve Davidson
Grace Dibble Kincade & daughter Christy Kincade
Terri Donohue Calamari
Paul DeMartino
Andy Dolich
Richard Duncan
Wes & Mary Eddy
Robert & Veronica Eichinger
Rich Eisbrouch
Barbara Endy Ianniello
Ellen Epstein Silver & Alan Silver
Carol Ewig Duran
Don Faber
Alan Finder
Robin Feit
Emily Ferber Sondheimer
Marc & Val Fishman
Robert Fiveson
Mike Flomp Floyd (& Lisa Floyd ?)
June Forbes Tatelman?
Denise Frango Baxter & guest
Diane Fruzzetti
Henry & Susan Gabbay
Peggy Galinger Menaker
Carole Ganz
Nancy Garfield
Booker Gibson
Jay Gladky
Stuart Glasser
Rick Glickman Wall
Marc Goldberg
Steve Gootzeit
Linda Greenberg Zucker & husband
Neil Guberman
Art Halprin
Judy Hartstone
Mary Higgins Rosequist
Eric Hilton
Sharon Hoenig Barry & Thomas Barry
Marilyn Horowitz Goldhammer
Linda Iaquinto O'Hara
Cynthia Ingolia Kammerer & guest
Marc Jonas
Stu Kandel
Greg Kaplan
Barnet Kellman
Rob Kelman
Jay Kinder
Ralph Kramer
Ira Levy
David Licht
Jim Lorey (Friday night only)
Carlo Lucarelli
Bea Massa Brown
Rosemary Mercurio
Roz Minsky Bobrow & Alec Bobrow
Ira Mitzner
Jeryl Monsees Denois
Martha Morenstein
Allen Moss
Ken Nolan
Ellen Nudelman Davidson
Lynn Nudelman Villagran
Bernie O'Brien
Dennis O'Hara
Audrey Olsen
Judy Peters Sylvan
Dennis Pizzimenti
Toni Rea
Virginia Ressa Schmidt
Rachael Robinson Rizzo
Peter Rosen
Sam Ross
Larry & Joan Rugen
Jane Ruzow Tiell
Irene Saunders Goldstein
Bernie Scheidt
Paulinda Schimmel
Ed Schmidt
Robin Seader Cottmeyer
Dennis Shapiro
Robin Singer Taylor
Mary Sipp Green
Ray Staley
Benette Steindam Pizzimenti
Danny & Barbara Stellebotte
Jay Tuerk
Gayle Ulrich Ramesh
Linda Vicinanza Marrs
Louise Wiemer Beckert
Janice Williams Teewe
Jane Wolf Katz & husband
Paul Zegler
Barbara Zingman Braunstein & Jeff Braunstein

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Rich