Update 1-20-15

 

Hi,

 

Another 10 people joined the tentative reunion party list, bringing the present total to 30.  That also breaks down to 20 for Friday evening and 27 for Saturday, with a couple Friday people possibly adding in Saturday, depending on their schedules.  The updated 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 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
Ira Levy                                    Saturday & Sunday           Hotel
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
Irene Saunders Goldstein           Friday to Sunday              Hotel
Bernie Scheidt                          Friday to Sunday              Hotel
Dennis Shapiro                         Friday to Sunday
Mary Sipp Green                      Saturday & Sunday
Danny Stellabotte                     Friday to Sunday
Louise Wiemer Beckert             Saturday night

I glanced over the class mailing list again and counted another dozen people who’d informally written that they were hoping to come.  But – as I said last week – I won’t add any names until I get confirmations.

 

In other mail, first, from Peter Rosen, in answer to Andy Dolich’s trivia question last week:  Didn’t Pete Blumenthal play at Penn, Chuck Drimal at Maryland, and Richie Lobel play soccer at Brown?

 

Similiarly, from Art Halprin to Andy:  Richie Lobell - Soccer Harvard; Pete Blumenthal - Football Penn; and Chuck Drimal - Football Maryland.

 

[Rich – I’m pretty sure Art’s right about Rich Lobell going to Harvard.]

 

Bernie Scheidt sent the link to this 50's slide show on YouTube, commenting “This should be our reunion theme.”  The title:  Lost In The Fifties – Another Time, Another Place.  The description:  This is a 3-minute video slide show, worth the time it takes to watch.  If you lived during the 1950s, you will recognize pictures and not need captions (since there are none).  A  little nostalgia, some good memories, and some not.  Enjoy.
 The link:  safeshare . tv/w/FEDEwZHZXu   (please remove the spaces)

 

Allen Moss sent something similar, but the photos were embedded, and there was no link.

 

Amy Kassak Bentley posted some early ariel photos of the old section of Green Acres on the “I Grew Up In Green Acres” page on Facebook.  If you’re interested in Valley Stream history and are on Facebook, it’s worth it to look at that page occasionally.

 

Finally, Barbara Blitfield Pech forwarded this article about another Valley Stream landmark:

    Green Acres Mall Getting $162 Million Makeover     by Jacqueline Birzon
     Long Island Business News     December 31, 2014

 

     The 1.8-million-square-foot Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream will soon undergo a $162-million top-to-bottom renovation that also includes the demolition of a nearby movie theater.
     Construction on the 58-year-old shopping center is slated to begin in the spring of 2015 and could take up to 10 years to complete. The mall will remain open during construction, said Edie Longo, deputy executive director and chief financial officer of the Hempstead Industrial Development Agency, which will provide tax breaks for the project.
     Renovations as part of the $79-million project include improving the food court, mall seating, roofing, security systems, escalators and lighting. The renovations will create 30 direct and 15 indirect construction jobs, and the property owner, Valley Stream Green Acres, LLC, has promised to retain the 2,774 full and part-time jobs presently held at the Valley Stream mall, creating another 45 jobs over the course of the timeline. Valley Stream Green Acres, LLC, is seeking roughly $50,000 in sales tax exemptions over a 10-year period from the Hempstead IDA, in addition to property tax breaks.
     The former Green Acres Cinemas building will also be demolished as part of the plan, replaced with an $83-million, two-story, 323,000-square-foot retail facility. Longo said the developer has agreed to create 570 new jobs at the retail center in its second year, while contraction work in the interim will add 180 jobs to the area. The developer is seeking sales and mortgage tax breaks and a 15-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement on the 22.3-acre parcel, Longo said, although actual numbers could not be provided.
     IDAs are typically prohibited from providing tax breaks for retail purposes; however, Fred Parola, executive director of the Hempstead IDA, said the Green Acres Mall will see roughly half of its traffic come from Queens, allowing the mall to be considered a tourism generator. Retail projects can receive tax breaks from IDAs if they promote tourism from one region of the state to another; in this case, Green Acres would bring customers from the New York City region to Long Island.

 

 

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