Update 7-31-01    


Hey,

179 people kinda found.  I say "kinda" 'cause I've again expanded categories, and am now listing people who've contacted Classmates.com, but who haven't gotten back to us when I've blind e-mailed them.  They could just be curious about what people are doing, but not curious enough to let themselves be listed.  Or it could be someone else evilly using one of their names to check out the Classmates.com website (Now who'd do that, besides the guy listed as Joe Jones?)  Anyway, there's a good chance these people are still alive, and I figured you'd be happy to know that.  (Though Ken Seelig is still listed on Classmates, and despite the fact I've told them he isn't quite with us anymore, they insist he is.  Maybe they know a bit more about the future than we do.)

Anyhow, if you were a good friend of one of these people listed as Classmates.com, and want to contact them---and don't want to pay the 30 bucks to join that website---please let me know.  I'll contact them for you, and send your e-mail address, and we'll see if they get back to you.  I still believe most people are more receptive when  contacted by someone they knew well.

The same is true of the people listed as pending.  In almost every case, we have a phone number for them, and have left a message, and they just haven't gotten back to us.  But maybe a more personal contact would make them feel more comfortable.

In any case, Paul's now worked all the way through the yearbook, cross referencing it with the phone directory, so all the easy folks have been found.  The rest I think are gonna come through scraps of information each of you may remember:  a married name; where someone might be living; what they do; a relative's name.  That would give us more to sort through the often-multiple phone listings.
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I've also gotten a reunion list from the class of '60, which gives us names of some possible brothers and sisters of still missing folks from our class, and will soon start following that up.  The '61 list was less complete, so less helpful, and I'm in the process of trying for the '58 and '59 lists.  Like us, classes '62 through '64 are busy getting organized, but in a year John Willows ('60) found over 85% of his class, so there's plenty of hope if someone you want to see hasn't yet been found.

Also, I've forwarded all the suggestions you've sent to Peggy Cooper Schwartz, Michele Cohen Collins, and Irene Saunders Goldstein (I'm whipping off these double last names like I was in a Russian play.)  People seem to be heading toward a weekend party, with gatherings Friday night, Saturday, and early Sunday, plus plenty of free time to hook up separately with friends.  And Spring seems okay with everyone.  But as for where?  Well, I'll let the doubly-named people just above sort that one out.

Meanwhile, some other news from all around:

From Peggy Cooper Schwartz:  Graduated from GWU then moved to Philly to teach elementary school.  Met my husband Les  in Philly, and we've been married 29 yrs.  Les is a psychiatrist and practices in Cherry Hill, NJ.  We have 3 children, Suzanne, 27 getting married Sept. 2nd; David, an MBA  candidate at Brandeis and Sarah, a Sr. at U of MD.  I changed careers and now work as a pharmaceutical Rep.  Les and I will be relocating to Florida this fall, as Les has taken a position at the West Palm Beach, VA Hospital.  We're looking for a place from Delray Beach to Jupiter.  I'd love to connect with some old classmates--now Florideans
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From Irene Augustin Wehn:  As far as my life goes-I live in Miller Place-out in Suffolk.  I have been teaching since 1969-all except for the 10 years I stayed home to raise my children.  I've been married for 31 years to another teacher and we have 2 children. My son Mike's a chemist-married and living in Pennsylvania.  My daughter Mary's a teacher and is getting married next summer.  She just got a 4th grade position in my husband's school out here, but for the last two years has been working in Elmont and living on Mill Road in Valley Stream. She lived right near South High so I enjoyed visiting her and seeing what has changed and what has not in V.S.  And a favorite student of mine from my first teaching class now owns Mitchell's in Valley Stream so we go in there once in a while to visit her and have dinner.

From Zelda White Nichols:  I did not graduate from V.S. South but did attend through
9th grade. I then went to private school for the next 3 years in Jamaica Estates. I did however, recognize a lot of my elementary and Jr H.S. classmate's names.  I went to college in Boston and lived there for four years before moving to CT where I met my
husband. We moved to the San Diego area three years ago after living in Haverhill, MA for 21 years.  It's funny, it's been 25 years since I was in V.S. My folks moved to FL 24 years ago and I have no other relatives on the Island now.  I returned two months ago for my dad's funeral and was amazed how little has changed in all that time.  I immediately recognized everything.

From Jean Cohen Oklan:  About Brooklyn Avenue...Since the school celebrated
it's 50th Anniversary in 1958, it was probably constructed about 1908.  I felt compelled to walk into the school a few years ago when we were visiting my Mother in Valley Stream. I was looking forward to the earthy smell of wooden floors and walls.  What I found were ugly linoleum floors and your typical cafeteria smell.  But, there was wonderful artwork covering the walls and a totally different kind of energy!  I went into the main office and it was busier than I ever remembered it being.  I surprised the secretary when I told her there was a school song.  My father wrote it for the 50th anniversary.  I still need to mail it!  I believe I have some history on the school, but that may be a bit boring for most.

From Peggy Galinger:  As for Mr. Leist, the thing that stands out with clarity about him, (I was not a music student) is that at a South assembly, he screamed at the entire school for not singing the National Anthem. He talked about being a soldier, war, sacrifice, patriotism , etc., and that it was our responsiblity as Americans to proudly sing that song.

From Andy Dolich:  If anyone wants my rap sheet have them look me up on Google. com.  (Rich:  I did that, and learned a bit about Andy, his wife Ellen, his daughter, a baseball-playing college student at Tufts who I assumed is either his son or a nephew, Oakland, California politics, Vancouver, B.C. politics, baseball politics, basketball politics, and the Vancouver soon-to-be Memphis Grizzlies.  All this is good.  But there's no single paragraph about Andy I can simply copy into this update, so if you want to know more about him, just follow his advice, and go to Google.)

From Steve Gootzeit:  If you can believe it, I remember swimming in Mill Pond with Roy Harris, and how, at one time, he had a rowboat and used to row down to the candy store on Mill Road.  I wonder what's in that water now.

Finally, from Marc Jonas:  I remember a story about Don Fagen.  He built an electric go-kart which unfortunately had one limitation and flaw.  The length of the extension cord.


Rich