Hi,
The first twenty people who are planning to come to the reunion have tentatively confirmed that. They all presently plan to be there, but several have mentioned that "You never can tell what will happen between now and late April." Another six or seven had written in the fall, saying they planned to attend. But I'll wait till I get formal confirmations to add them to the list. The present list:
Joan Aires Cleven Friday to Sunday Hotel
Alison Altman Saturday to Sunday Hotel
Jay Berliner Saturday night
Stu Borman Friday to Sunday
Rich Eisbrouch Friday to Sunday Hotel
Henry Gabbay Friday & Saturday night
Peggy Galinger Meneker 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
Laura Littner Fulton Friday & maybe Saturday
Martha Morenstein Saturday to Sunday Hotel
Allen Moss Friday to Sunday Hotel
Lynn Nudleman Villagram Saturday to Sunday Hotel
Peter Rosen Friday to Sunday Hotel
Larry Rugen Friday & Saturday
Bernie Scheidt Friday to Sunday Hotel
Louise Wiemer Beckert Saturday night
Also, someone asked to be reminded about the reservation process at the hotel, and I looked up what I'd written last May. Here it is again. I made my reservation then and haven't checked back to see the current rate. But I hope the rate is still moderately low.
If you go online right now and probably for some time to come and search out Hyatt Regency, Hauppauge, and make a reservation with a AAA card or an AARP membership or using several other organizational connections, you can get that same room for $143 per night plus tax. And you can cancel the reservation if you need to. And there's no group $2400 deposit.
So if you plan to stay at the hotel, make your reservation soon. The price will increase as we get closer to April. It shouldn't go above $160 a night plus tax, but I can't promise that. Also, the sales rep mentioned that March and April are the new wedding season, since May and June are filled with proms, graduations, and other weddings. So the recently remodeled hotel may be popular.
Neil Guberman also mentioned: At this point, I'm planning to drive in from Pittsburgh on that Friday, so if anyone needs a lift anywhere between there and the hotel, I'll be glad to assist. 3 seats available at this fare, bags free! Thanks!
[Rich -- a number of people will be driving in and may make similar offers in the next few months, as their plans gel. I should be driving in from northern New Jersey early that Friday afternoon, so I may also be able to pick someone up.]
Some other notes:
From Joanne Shapiro Polner: Great sleuthing on the North-South game.
From Emily Kleinman Schreiber: Ray Erbig was in my class, and he died at a young age. I believe he had a heart attack. I can check with Jeanne Daly, who’d been his girlfriend at South.
From Donald J Steinert, forwarded from Facebook by Barbara Blitfield Pech: According to my brother, Warren, who was a quarterback at that North-South game, it was a tie game, and North fumbled. Richie James from South recovered. However, the referee called it a dead ball. North got the ball back and scored a TD with a pass. Although my brother said the pass completion was questionable. He also said the referee was partial towards North. My brother is Warren Steinert. And that’s why North won the game.
Related, from Andy Dolich: Here’s a Thorny Trivia question for Falcon fans. In addition to football, Chuck Drimal and Pete Blumenthal also played basketball. On the 1965 South team, 3 guys played a varsity sport in college. Name the schools and players.
Finally, also from Barbara Blitfield Pech, part of an article from the Long Island Herald, about what – I think – was called the Tulsa Diner in the ‘60s:
As 2014 drew to a close, the Concord Diner, a longtime Valley Stream eatery located on Fourth Street near Sunrise Highway, turned off its lights and locked its doors for the last time. The restaurant closed on December 31, the end of an era for a family of Greek immigrants who said they “lived the American dream.”
Athanasios Cheliotis started working there in the 1970’s as a cleaner. He eventually worked as a cook, waiter and host before purchasing the diner with Charlie Tsemplis in 1981.
“He really lived the American dream,” said Cheliotis’s son, Kostas. “He came to this country in the 1960’s with almost nothing, took a job at the diner scrubbing the bathroom floor and eventually worked pretty much every role in this diner before he finally bought it.”
The diner often served as a meeting place for local businesses and groups andenjoyed success in the community for most of Cheliotis’s and Tsemplis’s tenure as owners, Kostas said.
“They really liked owning a diner and working in Valley Stream,” Kostas said. “They really enjoyed the energy the area brought and they loved being a part of the fabric of the area.”
Athanasios died tragically in a car accident on Merrick Road in Bellmore in July 2013. He was 66. Tsemplis, now 62, was devastated by the death, and began to miss payments on the restaurant’s rent, Kostas said. The mounting debt became too much to overcome, and they were evicted from the property.
The link to the full article: liherald . com/valleys…/…/Concord-diner-goes-dark,62467 (please remove the spaces).
The class of '65 50th Reunion: Friday, April 24 through Sunday, April 26, 2015, Hyatt Regency, Hauppauge.
The South '65 e-mail addresses: reunionclass65 . blogspot . com (please remove the spaces)
The South '65 photo site: picasaweb . google . com/SouthHS65 (ditto)
Rich
Alison Altman Saturday to Sunday Hotel
Jay Berliner Saturday night
Stu Borman Friday to Sunday
Rich Eisbrouch Friday to Sunday Hotel
Henry Gabbay Friday & Saturday night
Peggy Galinger Meneker 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
Laura Littner Fulton Friday & maybe Saturday
Martha Morenstein Saturday to Sunday Hotel
Allen Moss Friday to Sunday Hotel
Lynn Nudleman Villagram Saturday to Sunday Hotel
Peter Rosen Friday to Sunday Hotel
Larry Rugen Friday & Saturday
Bernie Scheidt Friday to Sunday Hotel
Louise Wiemer Beckert Saturday night
Also, someone asked to be reminded about the reservation process at the hotel, and I looked up what I'd written last May. Here it is again. I made my reservation then and haven't checked back to see the current rate. But I hope the rate is still moderately low.
If you go online right now and probably for some time to come and search out Hyatt Regency, Hauppauge, and make a reservation with a AAA card or an AARP membership or using several other organizational connections, you can get that same room for $143 per night plus tax. And you can cancel the reservation if you need to. And there's no group $2400 deposit.
So if you plan to stay at the hotel, make your reservation soon. The price will increase as we get closer to April. It shouldn't go above $160 a night plus tax, but I can't promise that. Also, the sales rep mentioned that March and April are the new wedding season, since May and June are filled with proms, graduations, and other weddings. So the recently remodeled hotel may be popular.
Neil Guberman also mentioned: At this point, I'm planning to drive in from Pittsburgh on that Friday, so if anyone needs a lift anywhere between there and the hotel, I'll be glad to assist. 3 seats available at this fare, bags free! Thanks!
[Rich -- a number of people will be driving in and may make similar offers in the next few months, as their plans gel. I should be driving in from northern New Jersey early that Friday afternoon, so I may also be able to pick someone up.]
Some other notes:
From Joanne Shapiro Polner: Great sleuthing on the North-South game.
From Emily Kleinman Schreiber: Ray Erbig was in my class, and he died at a young age. I believe he had a heart attack. I can check with Jeanne Daly, who’d been his girlfriend at South.
From Donald J Steinert, forwarded from Facebook by Barbara Blitfield Pech: According to my brother, Warren, who was a quarterback at that North-South game, it was a tie game, and North fumbled. Richie James from South recovered. However, the referee called it a dead ball. North got the ball back and scored a TD with a pass. Although my brother said the pass completion was questionable. He also said the referee was partial towards North. My brother is Warren Steinert. And that’s why North won the game.
Related, from Andy Dolich: Here’s a Thorny Trivia question for Falcon fans. In addition to football, Chuck Drimal and Pete Blumenthal also played basketball. On the 1965 South team, 3 guys played a varsity sport in college. Name the schools and players.
Finally, also from Barbara Blitfield Pech, part of an article from the Long Island Herald, about what – I think – was called the Tulsa Diner in the ‘60s:
As 2014 drew to a close, the Concord Diner, a longtime Valley Stream eatery located on Fourth Street near Sunrise Highway, turned off its lights and locked its doors for the last time. The restaurant closed on December 31, the end of an era for a family of Greek immigrants who said they “lived the American dream.”
Athanasios Cheliotis started working there in the 1970’s as a cleaner. He eventually worked as a cook, waiter and host before purchasing the diner with Charlie Tsemplis in 1981.
“He really lived the American dream,” said Cheliotis’s son, Kostas. “He came to this country in the 1960’s with almost nothing, took a job at the diner scrubbing the bathroom floor and eventually worked pretty much every role in this diner before he finally bought it.”
The diner often served as a meeting place for local businesses and groups andenjoyed success in the community for most of Cheliotis’s and Tsemplis’s tenure as owners, Kostas said.
“They really liked owning a diner and working in Valley Stream,” Kostas said. “They really enjoyed the energy the area brought and they loved being a part of the fabric of the area.”
Athanasios died tragically in a car accident on Merrick Road in Bellmore in July 2013. He was 66. Tsemplis, now 62, was devastated by the death, and began to miss payments on the restaurant’s rent, Kostas said. The mounting debt became too much to overcome, and they were evicted from the property.
The link to the full article: liherald . com/valleys…/…/Concord-diner-goes-dark,62467 (please remove the spaces).
The class of '65 50th Reunion: Friday, April 24 through Sunday, April 26, 2015, Hyatt Regency, Hauppauge.
The South '65 e-mail addresses: reunionclass65 . blogspot . com (please remove the spaces)
The South '65 photo site: picasaweb . google . com/SouthHS65 (ditto)
Rich
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