Update 3-26-13

 

Hi,

 

Happy Passover and Happy Easter, since they arrive in that order.  Don't eat too much, and go light on the salt.

 

A quick correction:  last week I said that the Booker Gibson and Vince Tampio scholarships were mainly supported by former members from South's classes of '62 to '69.  Previously, I'd said ''62 to '71.  Actually, support stretches back to the class of '58, so I'd inadvertently made several people several years younger last week.  When I wrote them and apologized, they said they didn't mind.

 

Emily Kleinman Schreiber wrote saying:  How about mentioning the fact that people can receive the Valley Stream South High School Alumni Association BULLETIN if they contact me at:  cre8em @ aol . com  (please take out the spaces).  I also posted that on the Valley Stream South Alumni Facebook page.  We have 320 alumni there.

    By the way, Linda Kettering announces that she presents the awards on behalf of the class of '65.

 

[Rich -- I thanked Emily for letting me know that.  Again, we'll see if we can swap the word originated in there.]

 

Emily added that there's an Alumni Association meeting at South on Thursday, April 11th, at 7:15 in the library.  As always, everyone is welcome.

 

Several people wrote to say they were surprised the scholarship money was raised before they had a chance to donate this year.  I thanked them and asked that they save the money and please double it next year, when we may need it more. 

 

Several other people wrote asking if my mother was OK, since I mentioned I was sorting through her books.  She's fine, thanks.  It just took a hurricane to finally get out of Green Acres / Mill Brook and into an apartment that's safer.

    Also, about the books:  I had about a hundred feet of them that I was looking to donate, but a librarian at one of the places I asked said that Brooklyn University had recently been trying to donate 25,000 books to anyone interested, and the university finally ended up recycling all of them.  I recycled my Mom's, too, except for five cartons of her art books and five cartons of some of my design research books.  I found free homes for those through Craig's List.

    Now if anyone would like to look at a dozen, petite, never-worn, Neiman-Marcus and Macy's, fur ski jackets of my neighbor's -- which have been in Beverly Hills cold storage since 1980, and are selling for half their original prices -- just let me know.  Yeah, I know:  fur.

    Technically, they're mink, fox, and skunk -- though I'm told that skunk is more politely termed serena.  I wonder how Shakespeare would feel about that?

 

Joanne Shapiro Polner wrote:  I was just reading the latest Bulletin that Emily sent out, and I suggested that the Association initiate a Fashion Show by girls and guys from South -- current students -- to showcase Vintage Clothes from the '60s and maybe '70s.  I have some good condition garments and shoes of my own from those years.  Probably the class '62 -- which had a recent reunion -- and the class of '65 -- a together class -- could look in their closets and storage places and come up with some distinguished pieces of dressy, special occasion, or just nice-to-go-out-to-dinner-with-your-parents clothing as well as loved-to-wear pieces of informal clothes -- that-I-can't-throw-out -- that the current students at South could model.  The show would be a fundraiser to benefit the whole school in some way.  I just mailed off my idea to Emily.

 

[Rich -- I wrote Joanne that I thought it was a great idea -- without selfishly mentioning my neighbor's lonely furs.  I did, however, find a battered, cheap black felt derby in my mother's basement, with a Falcon's pin attached.  Did we once have something called Derby Day, or am I hallucinating?]

 

Barbara Blitfield Pech forwarded this note from Linda Bazerman on Facebook:  I am looking for South 1963 graduates.  We are planning a 50th reunion to take place in October 2013 and need your e-mail addresses, Facebook names, or other contact information.  My e-mail address is Lbadvocate @ aol . com  (take out the spaces).  Looking forward to hearing from you and seeing you soon.
    Barbara added that Linda seems open to hearing from people in earlier and later classes, too.

 

Amy Lieberman wrote that Billy Valentine is singing three sets for Easter Sunday champagne brunch at Preston's Restaurant next to the Hollywood and Highland complex in Los Angeles, if you happen to be around.  According to the restaurant's web site, brunch goes for thirty bucks or less, and it's from 11 AM to 2 PM.

 

Eric Hilton wrote that Sheryl Rosov still has some of her dad Hy's South yearbooks, if people are interested.  Again, Sheryl's e-mail address is:  Morahsher @ yahoo . com  (remove the spaces), and we don't want these to be recycled.

 

Finally, according to Facebook, Jerry Bittman was in New York last week, and Valerie Nelson Gillen went to the Metropolitan Opera.  But they weren't together.

 

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

 

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

 

 

Rich