Update 4-7-15

 

Hi,

 

First, Happy Easter, Happy Passover, and happy any other holiday I’ve missed.

 

Next, from Ed Albrecht:  Please pass this on to Donald Faber for me.  First, Hi.  Second, I was e-mailing back and forth with Mr. O'Brien for quite awhile, but I haven't heard from him in some time.  He was very spiritual and had pleasant things to say.  I really don't think he remembered me, but he was polite about it.

 

Third, from Rich Wyeroski:  Sorry to hear about your health, Mr Gibson.  You were cool when we were in school.  I had your class, and I remember you loved to drink Coca Cola.  One day, you had to empty the closet in your classroom of all those empty bottles.  It took a shopping cart to do it.  Funny the things one remembers.

 

Fourth, from Helen David:   It’s remarkable what can be gleaned from your newsletter:  Green Acres.  Radburn.  Both appearing in the same paragraph.  Both built on the same plan.
    In the 1920s, dear friends of my parents moved to Radburn, which is near Patterson, New Jersey.  Radburn was labeled as the "Town of the Motor Age."  There was but one street to cross.  It was all park.  One walked.  Each home’s single car garage was out of the range of the pedestrian.
     My parents and I made frequent, week-long visits there.  It was a remarkable change from our apartment near Ebbets Field, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Brooklyn Museum.  I even learned how to swim in its pool.  In the 51 years that we lived across the street from Green Acres, I had no idea that its original section was in any way related to Radburn.
     Ironically, at 85-years-old, our by-then-aged friend became profoundly deaf and was killed by a car on the only street that one had to cross in order to get to the shopping area.

 

From Zelda White Nichols:   About what Jeryl Monsees DeNoie said when she noted that “only the smart, successful and probably thin kids are attending the reunion.”    Although I am no longer sitting on the beach in a bikini and was a poor student in high school, I was successful in my career and am proud of where I am today.  Some of us are unable to attend the reunion for health reasons, and that, unfortunately, includes me.  Traveling is difficult.  I’m sure other people may have family or previous obligations that prevent them from attending, so I will speak up for those of us who are not slackers and are not attending.
    Also, The Fantasticks is coming to Charlotte in three weeks, and I'll be seeing the show then.  I, too, often have “Soon It’s Gonna Rain” running through my head.  It’s been stuck there since I was 19.

 

From Georgene (Jeanie) DeGennaro Utter:  Will there be any mention at the reunion of classmates who have passed?  If so, please include my sister, JoAnne DeGennaro Phidd.  She passed in 2013.  Thank you.

 

[Rich – as I wrote Georgene:  I don't have an answer to your question.  Since it's going to be such an informal weekend, I'm not sure anyone will be making speeches.  We'll have to see.]

 

From Jane Wolff Katz:  You are breaking me down.  I’m going to try to reserve my room and come.  I’ll be in Nairobi for the two weeks preceding the reunion but will try to be there.  I arrive back in the States late Wednesday, the 22nd.  Hope to see you all soon.

 

Mark Yetman also forwarded the message that he’ll try to be there Friday or Saturday night.  But Gayle Ulrich and Tom Romano sent their regrets. 

 

From Judy Hartstone: First, please give Mr. Gibson my best regards.  The experience in his classroom was as memorable as it was informative.
    Second, it looks like an increasingly good turnout for the reunion.  I wish I could be there, but with my upcoming move from Santa Barbara back to Bainbridge Island taking place in June, it doesn't look like it's going to be feasible for an April trip.  I hope there are lots of videos shot at the reunion.  Phones make that so easy, and I hope people can post on Facebook or link them through the newsletter.
    Also, I wanted to forward this link to a really nice article from Sunday's Los Angeles Times about Johnny Mathis.  His music was very much a part of our adolescent experience.
    latimes . com/entertainment/la-et-ms-ca-johnny-mathis-20150329-story.html#page=1  (please remove the spaces)

 

From Stu Borman: Unless I've missed something in the weekly updates, it would be very helpful to have a brief summary of where in the hotel and when people are intending to actually get together at the reunion.  Maybe things are very flexible, but I just thought I would ask if there is a schedule of some kind.

 

[Rich – It’s always useful to repeat this kind of information.  The only reunion schedule is this:
    Friday night and Saturday night, I’ll be in the restaurant just off the hotel lobby at 6 PM.  As people come in, we’ll grab tables.  The more people who come in, the more tables we’ll grab.  This worked very well for our 45th reunion, when there were 20 people there on Friday night.
    If, after a while, people get tired of sitting in the restaurant, there are other places in the hotel to move off to and socialize.  There are couches in the adjoining hotel lobby, and there are chairs and tables on the downstairs patio, if the weather holds.  We also have about 20 hotel rooms.
    If people get tired of the hotel restaurant food, they can move on to nearby restaurants of their choice.  I’ll stay in the hotel restaurant with a sign-in sheet of people who are there and their contact numbers.  If people come in looking for people who've temporarily gone away, I'll help them connect.

    I was also thinking of setting up a separate online site for just the weekend, listing the cell phone numbers of people who’ll be at the reunion, but I’m not sure how people feel about that.  Please tell me.
    Also, I was just asked if the e-mail address list of the former South classmates could be made public, so people could contact other people about the upcoming reunion.  I guess I have to remind everyone that this list is always available online, and the link is almost always at the bottom of every newsletter, along with the link to Stu Borman's class photo archive.

 

The updated reunion count:  38 class members, 8 spouses, and at least one guest.  The current 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          and husband Les
Rich Eisbrouch                          Friday to Sunday             Hotel

Ellen Epstein Silver                    Friday to Sunday             Hotel
Mary Ferranti Khan                    Friday & maybe Saturday Hotel          and husband Bashir
Alan Finder                               Saturday & Sunday          Hotel 
Henry Gabbay                           Friday & Saturday night 
Peggy Galinger Menaker            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 
Barnet Kellman                         Friday to Sunday              Hotel

Ira Levy                                    Saturday & Sunday           Hotel
Laura Littner Fulton                   Friday & maybe Saturday

Roz Minsky Hahn                     Friday & Saturday                            and husband
Martha Morenstein                    Saturday to Sunday          Hotel

Jeryl Monsees DeNoie               Saturday                                        and husband Bayard
Allen Moss                               Friday to Sunday              Hotel 
Valerie Nelson Gillen                 Friday to Sunday
Dennis Pizzimenti                     Saturday & Sunday          Hotel        and wife Benette

Peter Rosen                             Friday to Sunday              Hotel 
Larry Rugen                              Friday & Saturday 
Irene Saunders Goldstein           Friday to Sunday              Hotel       and fiancé Jerry
Bernie Scheidt                          Friday to Sunday              Hotel 
Dennis Shapiro                         Friday to Sunday 
Ray Sinatra                              Friday (maybe) & Saturday

Mary Sipp Green                      Saturday & Sunday 
Danny Stellabotte                     Friday to Sunday

Jay Tuerk                                 Saturday to Sunday           Hotel

Jane Wolff Katz                        Friday to Sunday               Hotel

Mark Yetman                           Friday or Saturday

 

So far, no one's responded to Barnet Kellman's question about playing tennis.

Finally, from Andy Dolich:  Look what I found on Trulia.  Wanna buy a house?  This started with me telling Elizabeth and Christopher about the bars in the basements of both of our grandparents and ended with this link.  If anyone was interested in picking up my old family home for sentimental purposes, they missed their chance for now.  If you’re interested in seeing the property:
trulia . com/homes/New_York/Valley_Stream/sold/1000026763-13-Forest-Rd-Valley-Stream-NY-11581

 

The class of '65 50th Reunion:  Friday, April 24 through Sunday, April 26, 2015, Hyatt Regency, Hauppauge.

To make a hotel reservation:  Go online to hyatt.com, click on reservations, choose Hauppauge, and enter the reunion dates.  With an AAA card, an AARP membership, or using several other organizational connections, you can get the lowest price.  You can also cancel some reservations 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