Update 10-29-13

 

Hi,

 

Now the 50th reunion of the class of '65 is a year-and-a-half away, so don't get too excited, or everyone will have lost interest by the time it gets there.  Some people have already written thinking it's this coming April, but it's not.  It's Friday, April 24th through Sunday, April 26th, 2015.  Eighteen months away.  And there have been some additional thought as to the location.

 

From Betsy Fels Pottruck:  I'm a member of the Penn Club, and we were going to have my daughter's wedding rehearsal dinner there, and it's costly.  Also, you have to be a member or a guest of a member to stay there, and it's not that large.  The last time I stayed, it was $200-something for members, and I believe $330 for non-members.  Just wanted to let you know.

    Also, your best bet is to work with a travel agent to get you a group rate somewhere.  I've used Jackie Drucker Roberts for both of my children's weddings, and she got us great group rates at great hotels.  Just a thought, and I know this isn't even my class.

From Alan Finder:  My college fraternity held a reunion a few years ago at the Cornell Club in midtown Manhattan on a Saturday afternoon.  The rooms were spacious and pleasant, and the event was a big success.  I honestly don't remember the food at all, I guess because your attention is so focused on the people you haven't seen in years and the conversations you get involved in.  Personally, I don't have a preference on where we have the reunion, but the Cornell Club had plenty of virtues.

 

From Mary Sipp Green:  On Long Island -- the scene of the crime.  That always has a nostalgic back-to-school feeling.  That's good, right?

 

From Larry Rugen:  There's a new -- 5-year-old -- Marriott Courtyard in Farmingdale at Republic Airport on Route 110.  This is on the Nassau/Suffolk boarder, just 1 mile north of the Southern State, exit 32, a half-hour from JFK, LaGuardia, and MacArthur airports.  Of course, add time for rush hour.  Only a few commercial flights come into the airprot, so the hotel should be fairly quiet.  This area was the home of Fairchild Hiller, an important WWII defense contractor.  Down the road is a shopping center that has TGIF Fridays and other restaurants, if one wants to schedule a group meal out.  They probably have much better prices than at the Marriott.

 

From Barbara Blitfield Pech:  Yotel near Times Square -- one of New York's best budget hotels, with an amazing roof top place.  Double room per room/night from $189.  There are so many equally priced hotels in the city, and now downtown brooklyn, that I will gladly research.

 

From Steve Zuckerman:  I read what Peggy Cooper Schwartz said about interest in the Garden City Hotel.  I attended a very nice company Christmas party there in the early 70s, held by the Electronic Stereo Systems Company that I worked for as a shipping clerk in Garden City Park.  The hotel, as I recall, was pretty elegant, it had a magnificent ballroom, and it's very historic.  Most likely, it may have had renovations over the years, since it dates back many years.  I believe the only American president who lived on Long Island was Theodore Roosevelt, and he either stayed at the hotel or received a visiting foreign diplomat there at one time.

 

In non-reunion planning notes, first from Amy Miller Cohen:  I mailed the $300 in checks for the class of 63's contribution to the Booker Gibson/ Vince Tampio scholarships.  Also, here's a better link for both of Bill Zuckerman's fabulous youtube videos:  youtube . com/channel/UCOEi8-ruw5fOwAWRrYUsXAg

 

[Rich -- The checks are welcomed and have been deposited.  Thanks again to all.]

 

From Ryki Zuckerman:  I looked up the movie about Robert Duran that Robert Fiveson said he will be in.  It's being filmed by HBO in Panama, and, yes, Robert De Niro and Usher are in it.  It's called Hands of Stone.

 

And from Robert:  Sure, you can have Stu Borman post that photo of me as a priest on the class site.

 

[Rich -- Thanks.  I'll forward it to Stu later.]

 

From Ellen Epstein Silver:  Relighting an Upstate Broadway: It's Time to Rebuild the Catskills with Casino Gaming.  From a blog:  stevenkurlander . com and published in the Huffington Post.

 

From Amy Bentley Kassak:  Does anyone remember Robert Dibble?  He went to South, I believe, and graduated sometime in the mid-to-late 60s.  The Dibbles are a very old Valley Stream family.  They were one of the originals.  I'm researching the Pagan family -- Robert Pagan named Valley Stream -- and Marshall Dibble married Robert Pagan’s younger daughter, Helen.

 

[Rich -- I don't know if Robert was related to the late Grace Dibble Kincade from the class of '65.]

 

Finally, Happy Halloween.

 

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

 

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

 

 

Rich