Update 9-10-02


Hi,

Just a moment, to remember where we all were nearly a year ago.

On a related matter, from Judy Hartstone:  L'shana tovah to all the Jewish members of our class!  Wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous -- and peaceful -- New Year.

Good news from one of our world travelers, Tom Romano:  My daughter and I both made the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and we arrived back in Southern California safe and sound.  Late October would be better for me for a San Francisco gathering as I will be in the hospital supervising 20 residents from mid-September to mid-October. And although I realize the gathering may not include that many classmates, I would still like very much to attend.  Let me know what develops.

This week's complications to the planned San Francisco gathering, from Lynn Nudelman Villagran:  Unfortunately, when Tom Romano is available in October, my husband and I will be in Paris visiting our daughter -- who just started a semester there through UC Berkeley.  But let's keep in touch and try to get a date when we can do this thing!

A cultural note from Mary Sipp-Green:  Since the class reunion, I've been crazy-busy
preparing work for two exhibitions.  In August, I had a show at the Granary Gallery on Martha's Vineyard, and this fall there's an upcoming solo show in Boston.  If any of you would like to be on the mailing list, please send me an e-mail at bstudio@berkshire.net with your "snail mail" address, and I'll forward it to the gallery.  Of course, if you're in the Boston area, the exhibition will be at the Arden Gallery, 129 Newbury Street for the month of November.  Please come if you can.
    Backing up a bit to last April, I've been wanting to say that you all look great!  I loved seeing everyone.  I think you're all incredible.

An observation, from Steve Gootzeit:  Toni Rea told me at the reunion that she felt our class had a dry sense of humor.  Was she singling me out?
   Also, I have found an activity that will keep me mentally alert in my golden years:  including overly-complimentary comments to Rich in my e-mails that I know he won't print, but predicting beforehand how he will paraphrase them for public consumption.

Further dog stories, from Zelda White Nichols:  This is for Allen Moss -- thanks Allen, you sound like a person after my own heart.  Did you go to William S. Buck?  I do remember you, but I can't remember if the memory goes back to Buck or if it began in 7th grade.  I, too, am a hater of puppy mills, and I am always on a soapbox about them.  I do, however, have pedigreed cats as well as shelter cats.  You live in one of my favorite states, Allen.  My husband and I lived in Haverhill, Massachusetts for 22 years and were only 40 minutes away from the Maine border, up Interstate 95.  We spent many weekends and vacations in Maine and New Hampshire.  Those two states are very much like Washington and Oregon, and I miss all of them.  Here, we bake instead, in Alpine, Southern California.  Still, I won't complain when winter rolls around.
      And that's even more reason to say that now is the time to have a reunion in San Diego.  Come on, all you North East Coast people -- Nebraska, too!  Don't you want to go someplace warm and fun this winter?

A dog-related story, from Robert Fiveson:  Please note, that while I maintain my glib and often incendiary personality from my youth, I am not as dispassionate as I would like to pose.  I have two little West Highland Terriers which I love very much.  No one that doesn't like dogs has a Snowball or a Buddy.  I just couldn't live another day with the old gang thinking I had progressed from a wise-ass kid to a wise-ass adult.  Hail, Satan.
Finally, from Satan's rep in Nebraska, by way of Jerry Bittman:  Hello, let me  introduce myself.  I am Mr. Inkwell's twin brother, Mr. Psychicwell.  Or, as some
people say, Mr. Psychowell.  Here is a list of predictions, as well as some things I shoulda predicted 37 years ago, for the Class of 65.  The only reason I left some people out is I can no longer remember all the names.
   Andy Dolich changed careers.  If he had pursued what I predicted for him, we would have been watching Dolich instead of Seinfeld.
   Judy Hartstone should become the national president of the S.P.C.A.
   Jim Karl shoulda become the starting fullback for the New York Giants.
   Larry Coleman shoulda been Jimmy Karl's pulling guard on the New York Giants.
   Linda Iaquinto O'Hara, with her charm, grace, beauty and devotion to her family should have a reign of 60 years as Mrs. America.
   Barbara Blitfield Pech should become the U.S. Ambassador to Cuba
   Steven Spector should be President.  Then, we would have an intelligent president with a great vocabulary.
   Terri Donahue shoulda landed the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
   Stuart Kandel should become a professional bowler.
   Barnet Kellman should win several more Emmys.
   Robin Feit inspired Rod Stewart to pen the song "Forever Young."
   Barbara Endy should become a model.
   Barbara Brill should also become a model, but -- because of her great smile -- for a toothpaste company.
   Peter Rosen coulda starred in An Officer and A Gentleman, but really shoulda been an NBA Shooting Guard -- because there was not a shot he didn't think he could make.
   Lynn Nudelman should become the CEO of a confectionary company -- because she is the sweetest woman I've ever known.
   Steve Davidson -- an NBA Point Guard.
   Ellen Nudelman Davidson, his agent.
   Richie Lobell -- the next Howard Hughes, who was also a recluse.
   Rich Eisbrouch should organize the next Olympics, to be held in New York, of course
   Robert Fiveson should become creator of a dot.com.
   Allen Moss should become a painter of New England coastlines.
   Denise Frango should become a dancer.
   Kenny Nolan should become U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.
   Richard Gordon should win a Nobel Prize in Physics.
   Andrea Gladstone and Barnet Zinger should star as the Cleavers in a remake of Leave It To Beaver -- since they were the All-American High School Sweethearts.
   Eddie Bonlarron shoulda been the original Doug Flutie and, along with Eddie Albrecht, a co-winner of the Mr. Nice Guy Award.
   Dennis Pizzimenti should own a pizzeria in partnership with Paul E. Zegler, in a company called PEZ-PIZ.
   Nancy Garfield should star as Dorothy in a remake of The Wizard of Oz.
   Jay Kinder should become the reigning World Wide Wrestling Federation Champion.
   Carmine DeSanto should become part of the great comedy team of DeSanto and Dolich.
   Jim LaChere -- with a name like LaChere, should become captain of the Montreal Canadians.
   The Late Bobby Friedman shoulda starred in the Bob Cummings Show, Love That Bob.
   Jerry Bittman shoulda become a casino croupier -- because when he was 9 years old, he was caught stealing a 49 cent box of plastic poker chips from Woolworth's.
   And finally my biggest disappointment:  America lost a great poet when Artie Halprin became a doctor.  It was Mr. Halprin who penned this classic poem, while still in high school:
   'Twas the night before Christmas
   And all was schmootzie.
   I took off my sox
   To smell my tootsie.

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Rich