Update 1-31-06

Hi,

A relatively light week for mail.  Heavy business news last week will do that.  It scares people away.  But a couple of non-business things.
   
    From Amy Miller ' 67:  I'm here in eastern Pennsylvania -- Bethlehem -- but I hadn't read about the lettuce litter arrest.  Glad to be on your list, receiving your class / South High / lettuce news!  Thanks for all your information.
   
    From Barbara Blitfield Pech to Jay Tuerk:  Jay, you are my hero.  I have gone through every initial and name to see what flies with Camhi, and you saved me by remembering and mentioning Morris -- of course, the only, and correct, name I missed.  Thanks!
        By the way, I always wondered:  Is your cousin Hy Tuerk, of budget missy dresses?
   
    From Amy Lieberman '69:  Wendy Feuer, class of '69, would love to be added to your weekly update, if that's easy.  She has a sister from the class of  '67, a brother from the class of '71, and she's into wanting to know about South of late.  You're the perfect
    way!  Thanks.
   
    [Rich -- Welcome, Wendy.  And your sister.  And your brother.  Also, while I've interrupted the flow:  Lynn Nudelman Villagran offered to resize and resend the photos Barnet Kellman had sent to me, but it turned out he also sent them to Emily Kleinman Schreiber, who had the technology to download them.  The shots were of two North-South game covers and of James Bergen in the stocks on a class trip to Williamsburg.  That one's been on our website, I think.  So thanks, Barnet.  Thanks, Lynn.  Thanks, Emily.  And if anyone's interested in seeing the North-South game covers, please ask Em.]
   
    Tom McPartland '64 sent on some alumni business stuff that everyone else has been circulating, but in that he managed to add on this personal note:  The 50th Anniversary weekend event is really starting to grow.  I plan to attend and hope to see many of my former classmates and teachers.  Hey, maybe we should have a bonfire!  And where are the Coolettes, the cheerleaders, the band, and the sports!
        Also, I'm doing fine.  I've been working in Minneapolis lately and commuting weekly back home to Pennsylvania.
   
    From Claire Brush Reinhardt '62:  I just returned home from the third meeting of the newly formed Alumni Association.  One of the main topics of discussion was the 50th
    Anniversary celebration on March 11, 2006.  I was sitting with Booker Gibson, and he is in charge of the entertainment for the concert for the day.  He would like to get in touch with any alumni who would like to perform on that day and is interested in contacting Larry Miller.  Does anyone have any contact with him?  Also, again, please send the word out that if there are people who would like to perform that day, they should get in touch with Booker at:  BGibson@optonline.net   And I'm sure you will get a copy of the minutes from this meeting when they are done, as Emily always manages to keep you informed.
   
    A later note from our resident party planner in Miami, Barbara Blitfield Pech:  A blast from the past.  If anyone is going to be in or around South Florida on March 29th, you are cordially invited to join us.  We just heard about -- and got concert tickets for -- "Hard Rock, Ft. Lauderdale," featuring Fabian, Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell.  RSVP ASAP.
   
    [Rich -- A tiny piece of Classmates.com background:  Emily Kleinman Schreiber and I were experimenting with its mailing system after I'd mentioned that sending notes to people listed on that site is pretty close to sending spam.  But Emily discovered that if these notes are from a paid-up member, the receiver can read them and respond to them for free.  This gives just a little incentive for someone in our class to bother paying annually for Classmates.com and being the class or school messenger.  Emily would, but she's already swamped with Alumni Association work.
        She also reminded me, as mentioned last week, that tickets for the 50th Anniversary lunch and concert are available through South.  For the appropriate forms, prices, and addresses, please write Em at:  cre8em@aol.com]
   
    And that's almost it.  Ray Staley passed on a long forward, which is funny but has also been around for a while, and parts of it have already been included in this newsletter.  The reason I mention it, in addition to thanking Ray, is he sent it in the way I can read it:  copying and pasting what was important into a new e-mail.  Unfortunately, as I've indicated before, I no longer open forwarded e-mail on my computer because of the problems with viruses.
   
    Finally, a mention that the playwright Wendy Wasserstein died this weekend.  She was 55, of our generation, and one of our voices.  She won the Pulitzer Prize for her play The Heidi Chronicles.