Update 2-3-15

Hi,

One more person has confirmed for the reunion, bringing the total to 32.  The present list:

Joan Aires Cleven                       Friday to Sunday             Hotel
Alison Altman                            Saturday to Sunday         Hotel
Jay Berliner                               Saturday night
Stu Borman                               Friday & Saturday                             and wife Elize
Barbara Brill Frohman                 Saturday & Sunday
Carol Bunim Okin                       Friday &/or Saturday       Hotel           and husband Bob
Peggy Cooper Schwartz             Friday to Sunday             Hotel
Rich Eisbrouch                          Friday to Sunday             Hotel
Mary Ferranti Khan                    Friday & maybe Saturday Hotel          and husband
Alan Finder                               Saturday & Sunday          Hotel
Henry Gabbay                           Friday & Saturday night
Peggy Galinger Menaker            Saturday to Sunday          Hotel
Les Glasser                              Friday & late Saturday
Neil Guberman                          Friday to Sunday              Hotel
Art Halprin                                Friday to Sunday              Hotel
Marilyn Horowitz Goldhammer    Friday to Sunday              Hotel
Stu Kandel                               Friday & Saturday
Ira Levy                                    Saturday & Sunday           Hotel
Laura Littner Fulton                   Friday & maybe Saturday
Martha Morenstein                    Saturday to Sunday          Hotel
Allen Moss                               Friday to Sunday              Hotel
Valerie Nelson Gillen                 Friday to Sunday
Lynn Nudleman Villagram          Saturday to Sunday          Hotel
Peter Rosen                             Friday to Sunday              Hotel
Larry Rugen                              Friday & Saturday
Irene Saunders Goldstein           Friday to Sunday              Hotel
Bernie Scheidt                          Friday to Sunday              Hotel
Dennis Shapiro                         Friday to Sunday
Ray Sinatra                              Friday (maybe) & Saturday

Mary Sipp Green                      Saturday & Sunday
Danny Stellabotte                     Friday to Sunday
Louise Wiemer Beckert             Saturday night

Next, about last week’s storm and yesterday’s:

Allen Moss writes:  Twenty-six inches in Brunswick, Maine.

[Rich – And that was before the possible added foot that came Monday.]

Andy Dolich writes:  Have you noticed that we now have "Storms of the Century" every month, no matter what the weather phenomena.  I'm sticking with the Blizzard of 1965.
    Also, was Betsy Pottruck's former husband David an executive of Charles Schwab?

[Rich – I don’t remember the Blizzard of ‘65.  Can someone remind me?  I remember hearing about the Blizzard of ‘47, as that was the one my parents compared everything afterwards to.  We were living in a basement apartment in Sunnyside, Queens, a reflection of the post-war housing shortage.  But I was less than a month old, so there’s reason for me not to remember.]

Emily Kleinman Scheiber writes:  Lots of snow has fallen during the night.  My flight to West Palm Beach was canceled, but, happily, Jet Blue changed my departure and returning flights.  I look forward to warming up.  I'll be staying in Boca Raton, but I'm sure my friend Allen and I will be bopping around the neighboring cities.

Joan Aires Cleven wrote asking that her e-mail address be added to the online class list.  I promised to do that soon and added I hoped she was staying out of the storm.  Joan replied:  Thanks.  I’m warm and safe and just relaxing.  Meanwhile, Joan’s address is:  jcleven47@gmail.com

Peter Rosen wrote:  Thanks to Art Halprin for setting me straight on Rich Lobell.  Art was correct in that I was thinking of Jessie Jupiter. Also, my apologies to Rich Lobell for not remembering he went to Harvard.  My bad.  I will buy Art a drink at the reunion, and if Rich Lobell is there, he will have one on me, too.  Again, looking forward to seeing everyone in just under three months.

Robert Fiveson confirmed:  The first movie at the Green Acres Cinema was Gone With The Wind.  As I’ve written before, Jay Tuerk and I were the third and fourth people to enter the new theater for the debut... and here's the big surprise... we were also the first and second people to be ejected that same night.  Now that I think of it, I have no idea how that film ends.

[Rich – And I don’t want to spoil it for you after all these years.  But I do need to acknowledge that 1959 was the twentieth anniversary of the film, not the thirtieth as I wrote last week.  I wasn't misremembering.  I simply subtracted 1939 from 1959 and got 30.  Nice.]

Robert also added:  As for Andy Dolich's prize of “A week at Casa Fiveson in Panama,” think of it this way – when most of you have your hands frozen to your cars’ steering wheels, like Flicks' tongue to the pole in the schoolyard, it will be 93 degrees fahrenheit here.

[Rich – I also have no idea who Flicks is.]

Les Glasser confirmed:  Ciro's in Hauppauge is the the Italian restaurant.  It has a pretty active bar area, usually packed on a Friday night, but it could be a good place to hang out.  Food is good, and prices are reasonable.  But we'll need cars to get there.

[Rich – We’ll continue to monitor the Saturday night reunion count to see if we need an additional restaurant beyond the one in the hotel.  Though if a group of people simply wants to go out for dinner, it’s good to know Ciro’s is well-recommended.]

About other kinds of food, Zelda White Nichols sent an article warning about dogs choking on inappropriately sized dog treats.  That was a surprise, as – based on the history of one of our dogs – I figured dogs would chew up most anything.  But it appears some of them gulp and swallow.  The article also had a link to one describing, “How to give the Heimlich maneuver to your dog.”  You can do an online search for that.

Finally, here’s the beginning of the article Marc Jonas sent and Amy Kassak Bentley posted on the Valley Stream Historical Society site. 

    Green Acres:  The Greatest Planned Community You’ve Never Heard About

    by Ted Orosz, AICP, and Sean Di Luccio
    Urban planners and urban designers are familiar with developments such as Radburn, New Jersey; Sunnyside, New York; and Greenbelt, Maryland. Another development of that era, also very important to the evolution of the profession, largely has been forgotten. This paper presents the history of Green Acres, New York, a neighborhood just east of New York City in Nassau County.
    Green Acres lies on the border of Queens and Nassau counties just south of Sunrise Highway, a major state highway that spans the length of Long Island. Although Green Acres is part of the Valley Stream Central High School District and is served by the Valley Stream Post
Office, it is not part of neighboring Valley Stream, a large incorporated village of about 37,000 people that borders Green Acres to the north and east. Instead Green Acres is an unincorporated part of the Town of Hempstead, which has an enormous population of 759,000 people. Green Acres is located in the hamlet of South Valley Stream, which has a population of about 6,000.
     Next to Green Acres neighborhood is a large shopping center called Green Acres Mall. When it opened in 1956, it was one of the largest shopping malls on Long Island and, due to almost continuous expansion, remains so today. In the early 1990s, the mall developed an unsavory reputation from several well-publicized incidents: a 1990 shooting at the movie theater (New York Times, December 27, 1990) and a dispute that led to a stabbing in 1994 (New York Times, August 16, 1994). Consequently, in the late 1990s the residents of Green Acres took a vote and renamed their neighborhood Mill Brook. So in this paper we will refer to the neighborhood as either Green Acres or Mill Brook.

[More of the article in coming weeks.]

The class of '65 50th Reunion:  Friday, April 24 through Sunday, April 26, 2015, Hyatt Regency, Hauppauge.

To make a hotel room reservation:  Go online and search out Hyatt Regency, Hauppauge.  With an AAA card, an AARP membership, or using several other organizational connections, you can get lowest price.  You can cancel the reservation if you need to.

The South '65 e-mail addresses:  reunionclass65 . blogspot . com  (please remove the spaces)

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


Rich