Update 3-25-14

 

Hi,

 

See, this is what worries me when we're collecting money for the scholarships:  a week when no checks arrive.  Maybe I should have started with the fundraising report last week, but I got distracted by the earthquake.  In any case, we still need $125.  Currently, we have $875 of the $1000 needed for this year's awards, which is terrific.  We just need the last 125 bucks.

    Again, if you're interested in helping, please send your checks to:  Rich Eisbrouch, 23030 Dolorosa Street, Woodland Hills, California 91367.  The checks should be made out to me, and please indicate in the bottom left corner of the check which scholarship you'd like to support, or if you'd prefer your donation to be split between the two.  Thanks

 

In other notes, first from Larry Rugen:  I just watched Amy Kassak Bentley's Valley Stream video on YouTube.  Wow, what memories.  How about a bus tour of Valley Stream as part of our 50th reunion?

 

From Ed Albrecht:  It amazes me how Californians take the quakes with a kind of grain of salt.  Do they have ways of notifying people if a "Big One" is on the way?  A client of mine way back when was in LA I believe years ago when a 7.something quake hit.  He and his wife were in a store and dove under a table.  They said they were scared out of their minds.

 

[Rich -- Unfortunately, the first warning is the first tremor.  Then we all seem to wait, to see how long it lasts.]

 

From Jay Berliner:  It seems your dog Rocky is quite smart.  Hope the chicken bones didn't do any damage.

 

[Rich -- Fortunately, it was a boneless breast.  Though some dogs' diets include uncooked chicken bones, which apparently do no damage.  Only the well-cooked bones splinter.]

 

From Paul Zegler:  My wife, Becky, and I have been quite busy raising two Sulcata tortoises.  A patient of Becky's was too old to take care of them -- she's 86.  Sulcata tortoises grow to be the third largest in the world, they live to be 100, and can weigh up to 200 pounds.  Our are 5-years-old and already weigh 80 pounds each.  If they step on your foot, it hurts.  But we love them.

    Also, I just got cast in a play that will be part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.  It's a comedy called Survivor's Guilt, and it involves the publishing industry.

 

From Helen David, about Daylight Savings Time being revoked after WWII:  As I recall, during the war, we stayed on Daylight time all year.  Then in the summer, we went on double Daylight Savings time.  What was revoked was the doubling.  I don't remember whether the double Daylight Savings time went on for more than a year, but it was the year when I was working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the Materials Laboratory as an engineering assistant.  That was before I began my studies to be a biology and general science teacher.

 

From the police blotter, by way of Barbara Blitfield Pech:  Two teens face charges after allegedly writing threatening messages on a bathroom wall in Valley Stream South High School reported Nassau County Police.  A 16-year-old and an unnamed juvenile were charged Friday morning with making terroristic threats and graffiti by police.  Detectives said the two went into a first floor bathroom and wrote a threatening message against the school on the wall Monday.  An investigation led police to the two defendants, who were arrested at the school and charged at 8:19 AM.  Friday, officers reported the 16-year-old will be arraigned at First District Court in Hempstead.  The unnamed juvenile was released on a desk appearance ticket and is scheduled to return to court.

 

Finally, from Marc Jonas:  Would you please mention for those who might remember her that my mother, Dorothy Jonas, passed away on Saturday at almost 96.  She had been in failing health, but I have a video of her at the 90th birthday party we gave doing stand-up comedy at a microphone, to the delight of those in attendance.  An expert in the craft of Jewish guilt,  the first thing she would say when we arrived for a visit was, "So, when will I see you again?"

 

Marc followed with this:  Dorothy (Dottie) Jonas, nee Ziselman, passed away on Saturday, March 22, 2014, at Applewood Estates, Freehold, New Jersey, after a long illness.  Born Dvoira Ziselman in 1918 in what was then the Bessarabia region of Romania, she emigrated to this country in 1920.  Dottie grew up in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, over her father's kosher butcher shop.  A bright student, she graduated from New Utrecht High School at the age of 15.  Her agile mind was evident throughout her life including when she adopted computers, the Internet, and e-mail in her 80s.  She celebrated her 90th birthday with microphone in her hand, entertaining family and friends.
    While she would likely have attended college had circumstances been different, instead she worked as a bookkeeper for businesses in the garment trade.  Always stylish, as a young woman she bore a strong resemblance to a young Bette Davis.  She married Charles Jonas on March 23, 1941.  Moving from Brooklyn in 1951, they raised three children in the Green Acres neighborhood of Valley Stream, New York.  Dottie and Charlie were quite the couple on the dance floor.  Although neither of them had the opportunity for higher education, the education of their children was a priority.  All three of their children graduated from college, with son Marc graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and then the University of Pennsylvania Law School and son Jeffrey from Amherst College and Harvard Medical School.  Dottie was tragically preceded in death by her beloved daughter, Susan Jonas Koren, a graduate of Queens College.
    Dottie was devoted to her family and provided loving care to her husband, Charlie, until his death from complications of Alzheimer's disease.  She is survived by sons Marc and Jeffrey, daughter-in-law, Claudia McCarron, grandchildren, Susan, Serena, Zachary, and Zoe Jonas, and by step-grandchildren, Meghan, Alex, and Meredith McCarron.  The family invites contributions in Dottie's name to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.

 

The class of '65  50th Reunion dates:  April 24 through April 26, 2015

 

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

 

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

 

 

Rich