Update 3-13-12

Hi,

A quick scholarship report:

We got another $125 towards the Booker Gibson scholarship.  Added to the $215 we had, that gives us $340.

We got another $150 towards the Vince Tampio scholarship.  Added to the $200 we had, that gives us $350. 

$160 to go for Booker's fund.  $150 to go for Vince's.  Again, please make your checks out to me, Rich Eisbrouch, and send them to:  23030 Dolorosa Street, Woodland Hills, California  91367.  Please indicate in the bottom left corner of the check which scholarship you'd like to support, or if you'd like your money to be split between them.  Thanks.

In other news, first, from Evelyn Roedel Read:  I never enjoyed history until I read the information you included last week about the development of the Valley Stream area.  My family and I lived on Gibson Boulevard, just about 500 feet from the stores by the Gibson Railroad Station.  That's where my father played Santa Claus for many years for the Gibson Civic Association.  I don't recall hearing it called the Gibson/Hewlett Station, but maybe I just never noticed.  The trains ran right behind our house, and, as a kid, it felt like we had the biggest train set in our back yard.

Next, similarly, from Emily Kleinman Schreiber:  Thanks for lifting that bit of Valley Stream history.  It's interesting.  And thanks for mentioning the AA meeting.

[Rich -- That's AA as in Alumni Association.  It took me a moment.]

The best of several weekly links from Barbara Blitfield Pech:  Brooklyn roads and streets -- some great photos.  4shared . com/embed/1082570925/ed60ab66   (remove the spaces, of course)

Another note from Evelyn, though you'll have to search these names online for their photos.  Evelyn had them embedded, but not linked.  The text:
    Good News from the Kitchen!
    This woman is fifty-one years old.  She's TV health guru Gillian McKeith, who advocates a holistic approach to nutrition and health and promotes exercise and a vegetarian diet which is high in organic fruits and vegetables.  She recommends detox diets, colonic irrigation, and supplements.
          (Following -- a not particularly flattering photo of an obviously middle-aged woman.)
    This woman is also fifty-one.  She's Nigella Lawson, a TV cook who eats meat, butter, chocolate, and desserts.  And she washes them all down with wine!
          (Following -- a photo of beautiful woman who looks like she's about twenty-six.)

[Rich -- Now, see, I couldn't get away with sending this kind of stuff around.  I'd get attacked for being ageist and sexist.  But this was sent by Evelyn, class of 1959, so don't shoot the messenger.]

For those in Los Angeles who like jazz:  Billy Valentine will be singing this Friday, March 16th, in Santa Monica at the Casa Del Mar Hotel, and on Saturday, April 14th, at the Catalina Jazz Club on Sunset Boulevard.

Something someone in the class sent me privately, but I wanted to pass on anonymously.  From Andrew Sullivan's column The Dish in The Daily Beast:  A Visual History of the Timeless British Phrase, Keep Calm and Carry On.  andrewsullivan . thedailybeast . com/2012/03/still-calm-carrying-on . html  (take out the spaces, please)

And there's been no new news on ValleyStreamTimes . com, so that site may have gone defunct.  The Holy Name of Mary students are still being honored from last October.

Finally, I was going to finish up with a seemingly Frank Capraesque online story I'd been ignoring all day, but the headline ultimately got me -- Strippers Save Little League Season.  But the headline was a lot more interesting than the story.

The South '65 e-mail addresses: reunionclass65 . blogspot . com

The South '65 photo site: picasaweb . google . com / SouthHS65

You know about the spaces.


Rich