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Name: | Ricky Millman
(millmanr@yahoo.com)
| | Date: | 12/27/2005 12:27:22 PM | | Subject: | class of '65 | | | This is so exciting...to read all about many of you and to share a bit of me since we last left off. I'm terribly sorry that I missed this event. I had a dream about a month ago, something about an addition into the parking at the school--which we did not use--and then I added 40 years from our graduate date and oy, there it was, 2005.
But I hear that we are planning a 41st reunion--rather unprecedented in the reunion business--- but, nevertheless, I'm in for sure.
I graduated the U. of Cincinnati in '69, lived in NYC where I worked at CBS Evening News, then sold photographers and commercial film companies services to Madison Ave. ad agencies, got involved with a feature film, then assembled an off-(way-off)Off Broadway play--a satire on the Borschet Belt. I tripped around Manhattan wearing only yellow and white while hanging with swamis and other holy and holey men, eating only vegetarian but strangely played smashmouth football in Central park where I broke my shoulder and had a woman named Rainbow--really--come into my life. She had started the first vegan co-op in Haight-Ashbury (when it was The Haight), and helped found the Rainbow People's Party in Oregon while ending the Vietnam War almost single-handledly. I knew this would be a ride.
We moved to Seattle, did some interesting things there, then back to NYC in the early 80's---a very hazy time indeed. We were trying to raise her daughter there, eventually had our own daughter, Laya, and moved to rural Michigan (better to read about it than to live it!) where I reviewed movies for the Greenville Daily News. I then ran a repertory movie theatre in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where we would live for 20 long years--a true desert experience. I performed media work for a large automotive supplier and then was able to secure The Kelloggs Company to sponsor a literacy and film program that I had presented at the movie theatre years earlier and I now took it to large urban school districts around the country. We had a second child, Maxx to go along with his older sister and, as they grew my soul clamored for its own re-birth which then led to stints with christianity, chabad-ism(?) and an eventual life in Israel, Jerusalem to be precise, where we currently live--and love.
If I may propose here that the next reunion--next year I believe I heard--happen here in Jerusalem, the most beautiful city on earth (don't believe what you read in the papers). This will be good for our class's collective minds and souls and wonderful for Jewish and non-Jewish people.
Thank you for getting this far to those of you who have and blessings on everyone. | | | | | |
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Name: | Frank Curnow
(fcurnow74@hotmail.com)
| | Date: | 12/2/2005 12:58:31 PM | | Subject: | Class of 1965 | | | I left my address in entry # 87 in case any of my "intelligent, gorgeous" classmates want to go on a world cruise! | | | | | |
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Name: | Frank Curnow
(fcurnow74@hotmail.com)
| | Date: | 12/2/2005 12:26:19 PM | | Subject: | Class of 1965 | | | I regret missing the last 2 reunions, but got a feel for the great fun enjoyed through the pictures (we all know who the "ringers" were!) I tried to make it but it's a long story - thanks for your help Hal and Barb! Hopefully I've been removed from the "missing" list.
Just a quick rundown as I wasn't there to fill you in. After Annapolis and driving Navy ships for a few years and Rutgers Business School, I did the big company scene in Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Diego, and a few dreadful rural spots. Retired early, got bored, and returned to Human Resources consulting in D.C. working with the Executive Branch, which is my current gig. I'll probably work until I die unless I run into a nice, intelligent lady to take world cruises with, who can also put up with my libertine ways. I've traveled a bit, like to Nepal, India, and Israel on soul searching missions - and to Vegas - to unwind. I plan on doing alot more traveling in the future, God willing.
I loved CHS (and SOJH). Baseball, football, the challenging and fun academics, and of course the intelligent, gorgeous young ladies I was too shy to pursue. That changed and changed again. Hope to be frisky enough to make the next reunion - I guess they are every ten years?
4301 S. 16th St. #2
Arlington, VA. 22204
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Name: | CHUCK AND MIMI BARRELLI
(barrelli@sbcglobal.net)
| | Date: | 11/22/2005 12:08:35 PM | | Subject: | CLASS OF 65 | | | WOW IT WAS SO GOOD TO SEE EVERYONE..I REALLY BELIEVE WE GREW UP AT THE BEST OF TIMES, IN THE BEST PLACE, WITH THE BEST PEOPLE, AND I GOT LUCKY MARRYING THE NICEST AND MOST DEVOTED LADY, MIMI. THE WHOLE EVENT WAS KIND OF OVERWELMING. FOR THOSE WE DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH, SORRY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE YOU ! FOR THOSE OF YOU WE DID SPEAK WITH, WE JUST DIDN'T HAVE ALL THE TIME WE NEEDED. WE CAUGHT UP WITH SO MANY, PLEASE STAY IN TOUCH, YOU ARE REALLY IMPORTANT TO US. LOOKING FORWARD TO THE 50TH REUNION AT THE MAPLEWOOD COUNTRY CLUB! | | | | | |
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Name: | Ellen Penn Weinerman
(eweinerman@comcast.net)
| | Date: | 11/22/2005 11:29:33 AM | | Subject: | A weekend to remember | | | What a wonderful weekend of memories! Renewing old friendsips and even making new ones (we DID have a big class (not to metion "the best"!
The reunion made me reflect on the people who had a very definite influence on who I am today. Both wonderful, bitersweet,and some sad memories all contributed to unforgettable moments for me.
I know I am being redundant in expressing my gratitude to Tommy, Hal, and Ellen, but without them, nothing of this caliber would ever have come to fruition.
Love & hugs to all....be well, safe & stay in touch!!!
xxoo
ellen
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Name: | Cheryl Weinstein Harlan
(@cheryl.harlan@verizon.net)
| | Date: | 11/21/2005 5:42:16 PM | | Subject: | Looking Backward - Looking Forward | | | Reconnecting with classmates across 40 years plus, indeed 53 years of time, was interesting and heartwarming. For me, attending the reunion was an act of courage, curiosity and comfort; an accounting of various life phases in
what has become a most intriguing journey. The reunion was more than a chance to recall high school days and to catch up to the present. It was also an
opportunity to share vintage K-6 photos and memories from Fielding, Maplewood
Jr. High and Columbia, through a kaliedescope of perspectives, from then until now. To all of you, thanks for the memories and the chance to look bacward together and also to look forward to the next reunion. | | | | | |
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Name: | jane wasserstrom
(@jane.glucksman@lebenthal.com)
| | Date: | 11/21/2005 5:14:37 PM | | Subject: | Our 40th Reunion | | | What a fun night. Toby, if you're reading this ,thanks for making me laugh, Andy,Jack and Bob,
thanks for the dance. Audry you look beautiful and not a day older. Jim and Marvin, I didn't want to say goodbye. Thank you Hal and Tommy and everyone responsible for this wonderful event. I had a smile on my face the whole way home. | | | | | |
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Name: | jane lohman
(@jane@jelcoventures.com)
| | Date: | 11/20/2005 8:48:06 PM | | Subject: | class of 1965 | | |
currently living in woody creek colorado just outside of aspen
graduated u of wisconsin 1969
married john jellinek 1969 moved to chicago, highland park illinois
raised 2 children there jill 34, jimmy 31
both aare married jill in chicago 2children 6 and 4
jimmy in brooklyn baby 6 months
owned a small bookshop for long time in glencoe illinois
head of the aspen writer foundation now
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Name: | Rita Losch
(@rslosch@hotmail.com)
| | Date: | 11/19/2005 4:51:22 PM | | Subject: | Reunion review | | | Thank you to Hal & Tommy & all the people who made this such an elegant reunion! Not only was the food delish (though I was gabbing so much, I didn't get to have my money's worth) and plentiful (a cornucopia appropriate to this thanksgiving time of year) and the venue classy (tho I distinctly remember it being blatantly anti-Semitic in the mid-sixties...), but the Reunion party was truly FUN. Seeing how everybody looks, speed-chatting to find out what everybody's been up to, etcetera -- a total blast. I personally found the experience to be also very revealing/meaningful/significant: I was able to connect some dots from my adolescence, to understand better why I/we am/are the way I/we am/are and was/were. I also got to (finally) appreciate the rich beauty of the trees, the homes, the community of Maplewood/South Orange. Continue being cute, everybody! | | | | | |
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Name: | Barbara Schwartz Cowen
(cjrlawyers@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/18/2005 9:19:26 PM | | Subject: | Thanks for the memories | | | I did not know what to expect last week. I am sure that you all wondered the same thing. I was overwhelmed by the sheer pleasure of uncovering a treasure trove of memories evoked by the warm greetings of so many of you. I have encountered both personally and professionally many people over the years. Yet, there are very few with whom I can share the memories of the joy and angst of growing up. It was particularly poignant to share the memories of our parents many of whom are now deceased as are mine. A special thanks to Hal, Tommy, Audrey, Ellen, Alan (and son) and everyone else who put themselves out to give us all a wonderful experience. I wish everyone continued love, health and prosperity. | | | | | |
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Name: | Alan Soschin
(@cardship@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/17/2005 7:51:50 PM | | Subject: | More thoughts | | | The weekend was a blast, a real trip down memory lane. Only wish I had had more time to speak with more people. There were plenty of old friends to whom I barely got a chance to say anything more than "hello", which is a seems like a corny thing to say to someone whom you haven't seen in 40 years. I know my father and brother appreciated the dropins by Alan Dubrow, Hal Kaufman and Andy Feinstein at separate times during the weekend. We were really blessed as youngsters. How much we appreciated that then is hard to know. Be well and let's stay in touch
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Name: | Alan Soschin
(@cardship@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/17/2005 7:33:45 PM | | Subject: | Comments, snide and other ...... | | | I just showed my wife, Nancy, the photos that Hal posted. Her comments in no particular order:
1. You are more interested in these than you were in the photos from any of the kid's bar mitzvahs or weddings.
2. Your guy friends look old and grey. (Sorry Hal, Andy, etc.)
3. Hal looks good, although I would not have recognized him. (Referring to Harold Garwin who fixed Nancy and I up in 1969)
4. That one - he's really cute - referring to John Dios (John always was competition -- see yearbook page 101)
5. The girls look much better than the guys.
6. No you won't. (Said in response to pointing out Michelle Orwin who works one block from me in DC and who I told I will take to lunch.)
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Name: | Susan Lowenstein Tufo
(@Zenartizen@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/17/2005 11:43:47 AM | | Subject: | What a FABULOUS Night!! | | | Sorry if you missed this night!! This was better than Desperate Housewives!! It was a wonderful, surreal experience!! I must say, our class looked great, and seems very content. What more can we ask for? After Saturday night, I am still trying to explain to my husband why getting older IS getting better! Thank you Hal (you look great) and Tommy (you're pretty cute too) Audrey, Ellen, Alan's genius son, and whoever else helped!! It was an amazing feat! The setting was superb, the food was just perfect, especially the hor d'oeuvres. The band was great and you could retreat to other rooms for a quiet interlude. Ellen, you did a great job with the handout. Thank you for your efforts. I will never forget the excitement of seeing old friends after 40 years. It brought back so many fond memories. Thank you everyone for one fabulous night!! | | | | | |
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Name: | Patti Gordon Lesser
(@PG36c@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/16/2005 7:30:30 PM | | Subject: | Fantastic! | | | Thank you Hal and Tommy for putting together a fantastic 40th! All your hard work is so much appreciated. It was perfect--I loved seeing everyone, and you all looked wonderful. What a remarkable class! | | | | | |
| 75 | |
Name: | harold Hal Garwin
(@hgarwin@chlp.org)
| | Date: | 11/16/2005 3:15:59 PM | | Subject: | the weekend | | | it was wonderful seeing everyone on saturday . to the crew who made it happen many cheers , especially Hal and tommy .
It was great to see my old wrestling buddies and so many old friends and people I remember.
I guess even after all this time and space one still can feel the emotions of the past - mostly good ones. So to all who greeted me as little Hal or the little wrestler - thanks for the memories. see you all in a few years ( right hal) | | | | | |
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Name: | Alison Ehrlich Wachstein
(alison@alisonwachstein.com)
| | Date: | 11/16/2005 10:51:10 AM | | Subject: | How great was THAT!!!!! | | | Thank you Hal, for creating the buzz and organizing and Tommy and Ellen and Alan (and your son Dan) for all the hard and excellent work and time you spent putting together such a fabulous weekend. I'm still high on it. :)
It was wonderful to reconnect. It was so much fun seeing and talking with so many from CHS, SO Jr, and even So Mt and Newstead! Sunday was quieter and I could hear more, but missed some people I didn't get to talk w/ Sat who weren't there on Sunday. I can't wait 10 years for the next one. How about 2010?
Thanks so much everyone. No clicks, just a bunch of peole comfortable w/ themselves and each other. Been there, done that, I'm OK, you're OK. | | | | | |
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Name: | Rick West
(fwest@cardiologyassociates.info)
| | Date: | 11/16/2005 7:25:46 AM | | Subject: | SATURDAY NIGHT | | | I was great seeing everyone with a special thanks going out to Tommy and Hal for organizing a wonderful night. Even though nobody could see or hear it was wonderful reliving such an important time in our lives. It was special seeing Jerry Witchel, Tommy B, Andy Feinstein and Jeff Marias.
Is the next one that far away? I am so glad I was able to attend and never would have forgiven myself if I didn't go. | | | | | |
| 72 | |
Name: | Judy Hochman James
(jehj33@comcast.net)
| | Date: | 11/15/2005 5:55:29 PM | | Subject: | Saturday Night | | | Kudos to Hal Kaufman and the rest of the people who helped put this event together! It was a memorable evening and I'm so glad I attended. For me, it was especially great to see Rita Losch, Jimmy Gerstenzang, Bobby Shulman, Nancy Fine, Miriam Frank, Kathy Ruby, Linda Robbins, Ellis Chase, Chantal Berry & Jane Glazer, most of whom I haven't seen since graduation! It's amazing how you can just take up where you left off... Hal, please put the photos up on this site asap & thanks again. | | | | | |
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Name: | Kathy Rantze
(@krrrantze@hotmail.com)
| | Date: | 11/15/2005 10:30:25 AM | | Subject: | "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World" | | | I am so appreciative to all of you, for everything that each of you did to make our reunion one of the highlights of my life.
I am pleased to be journeying along the passages of life with such a wonderful, remarkable "band of brothers". The unexpected deeply felt emotions that have surface have been at times almost overwehelming.
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Name: | Ron Krouk
(RonKrouk@alumni.brandeis.edu)
| | Date: | 11/15/2005 10:04:41 AM | | Subject: | Great to see you -- thanks again to Hal Tommy Ellen and the rest of the team | | | So much fun to see everyone and to catch up. I was especially happy to talk to so many people from Tuscan School days. (by coincidence I met another Tuscan alum at a dinner I came back to on Sunday night!). After high school I really enjoyed college at Brandeis. I felt a part of it like I never had felt part of CHS. Went to Europe for the summer after sophomore year where I met (and fell in love with)Christina at a youth hostel. We corresponded, traveled back and forth and got married in 1970. Did leather work for a year to earn a living (sandals, belts, vests, hats etc) and then moved to Sweden for a year so Christina could finish school. Came back and worked for the Division of Drug Rehabilitation in MA on evaluating the effectiveness of drug treatment programs. From there went back to school for an MFA (School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts) in painting and printmaking while working part time at Software Arts (they invented VisiCalc). That job grew to full time as I painted less and less. Software Arts was bought by Lotus where I got very much into quality programs, large spreadsheets and diversity in the workplace. Lotus was bought by IBM in 1995 or 6 and I've been in Human Resources/Talent/Diversity at IBM since then. Jason was born in 1979 and is finishing school now in engineering. Johanna was born in 1981 and just graduated in anthropology and is looking for work. My dad and mom, whom many of you know, are 91 and 87 and doing quite well so I guess I better start planning for the next 35 years or so. It is great to still have them. We see my sister Leslie and my brother Ivan often (some of you have siblings their age I know) but my brother Steve died of Leukemia in 1993 at 40. | | | | | |
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Name: | Mel McDavit White
(Duplexlady@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/14/2005 2:05:25 PM | | Subject: | Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes | | | My motor mouth has finally stopped long enough for me to breathe, and to reflect on the fun I had on Sat. night and at the brunch, and here's my theory -- we are old enough now to have lost parents, had children move out, gone through job upheavals and divorces and whatever, not to mention 9/11 and other stuff -- and perhaps we have all figured out that we're all on the same trip, it's a short one, and it's time to learn how to be kinder to each other. I'd love to hear from anybody I talked to at Reunion -- and anyone who couldn't make it who'd like to catch up. I also think that this committee should run the Reunion from now on -- since this was clearly the best one! Love to all -- Mel White | | | | | |
| 68 | |
Name: | Vic Di Chiara
(vdichiara@nac.net)
| | Date: | 11/14/2005 1:41:59 PM | | Subject: | thankyou | | | It was absolutely marvelous!I can truly say I would not forgive myself if I missed it.The range of emotions it brought out in me in some cases I thought I had forgotten.Thankyou to all for making it happen.Please keep in touch FRIENDS.We are each others link to our youth.VIC | | | | | |
| 67 | |
Name: | Marleen Stern Corner
(mwcorner@msn.com)
| | Date: | 11/14/2005 12:41:31 PM | | Subject: | sorry missed reunion | | | Sorry I missed what must have been a great party. If anyone wants to contact me for any other local gettogethers: still in the area, at 23 Autumn Drive, Mine Hill, NJ, 973-361-4551 or by email mwcorner@msn.com | | | | | |
| 66 | |
Name: | Ellen (Polkowitz) Kleiner
(@blessingwy@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/14/2005 12:44:15 AM | | Subject: | Love to all! | | | Uh-oh, I think I missed the festivities and would love to catch up in 2015. Can we do it? Till then, you’re all invited to fiesta in Santa Fe, where I’ve been rooted in an older-than-us adobe house since 1975, raising children, vegetables, and books. My sons -- Jordi, a 32-year-old learning disabilities specialist and violinist in Chicago, and Dev, a 30-year-old sustainable architect and watercolorist in Seattle – are both married, so now I have spectacular daughters-in-law too. The veggies, well, they’ve been eaten, at least till next summer. The books, on the other hand, are ongoing. After working as an editor in book publishing for 15 years, and then as managing editor of Mothering Magazine for 10 more years, I started my own company, Blessingway Authors’ Services (blessingway.com), where I’ve been happily pledged to indentured servitude for the past 12 years. Do come visit … there’s a hammock in the backyard and lemonade in the fridge. (Ph: 505-983-2649) | | | | | |
| 65 | |
Name: | Carol Bloom (Levin)
(levin_carol@yahoo.com)
| | Date: | 11/13/2005 1:45:08 PM | | Subject: | A fantastic reunion! | | | A truly fun party last night - thanks to all who made it happen. I'm updating the blurb from the good booklet, but this time, including my contact information that I forgot the first time around. The new version begins with ---- levin_carol@yahoo.com / 21 Garden Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201 / 718-237-0161.
And now, the blurb: I have lived in Brooklyn Heights for 31 years with husband Jack Levin, an attorney and writer. We have 2 children and a 17-month-old grandson. After many years as a professional artist affliliated with galleries in Brooklyn and SoHO, a teacher of drug abuse awareness to grade school kids and literacy to homeless adults, and the author of a children's book, "A Rosh Hashanah Walk", I have become an historian. I am currently documenting Kane Street Synagogue's 150 years with archivres and personal accounts, and will produce a symposium on Brooklyn Jewry in March 2006. | | | | | |
| 64 | |
Name: | John Rotrosen
(john.rotrosen@med.nyu.edu)
| | Date: | 11/12/2005 10:17:27 AM | | Subject: | looks like my earlier attempts to post this didn't fly ... see you all tonight!! | | | Here’a quick rundown. After CHS went to Rutgers in New Brunswick and shared a couple of old rundown houses there with Jim Gerstenzang. At least one of them was condemned and demolished immediately after we left. Then NYU School of Medicine, followed by a year wandering around Europe and North Africa, then a research residency in psychiatry / pharmacology at NYU and Bellevue. NYU has been good to me so I’ve stayed there and have been heading up a research group that studies disorders associated with dopamine dysfunction – schizophrenia, movement disorders, addiction and ADHD. I’m married to Marilyn DeLuca, the love of my life, she’s a critical care nurse who moved into hospital and medical systems management, then went on to get a PhD in public administration and now does health care consulting. We have a 26 year old daughter, Jen, also the love of my life, who is at Columbia in the MPH program,. And two big dogs, a yellow one and a red one, and we love them too. We live in a very old house in the Gramercy-Stuyvesant area. We like to travel a lot. My folks are remarkably healthy, they moved to NY quite a while ago and share their time between the city and Amagansett. My sister and brother are also well, both married with kids, Jeanie lives in Tenafly, Danny in Chevy Chase. Look forward to seeing you all. | | | | | |
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Name: | Jessie Schwartz Auerbach
(jlauerbach@snet.net)
| | Date: | 11/11/2005 8:09:26 PM | | Subject: | Have a great time! | | | So sorry I can't make it this weekend. Will miss you all. I'm a fiction writer living in Ridgefield, Connecticut. One of my novels (Sleep, Baby, Sleep) became an ABC movie which was terrific fun. Many more people watch TV movies than read books, I discovered. I've just published a memoir, Writing in Chocolate, about a year I spent working in a chocolate shop and everyone should go on Amazon and buy it and tell their friends to buy it and then maybe I'll finally get famous and everyone who is CHS 65 will be able to say they knew me when.
I've been married since a week after I graduated from college, I have two daughters who I admire and respect, a granddaughter, and another grandchild expected any second.
Jessie
Jessica Schwartz Auerbach
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Name: | Ray Maudsley
(@exit11fish@yahoo.com)
| | Date: | 11/11/2005 5:39:13 PM | | Subject: | What happened !! | | | 40 years,no way. After high school I did 2 years with the Army.1 year in the states,advanced infantry training & jungle warfare.1 year in Vietnam with the 1ST Air Calvary,infantry.Hey, we were winning when I left!!
I have been married to my very understanding wife Carol for 37 years.We have 2 great kids, Jill 35, Robert 32, 1 grandson Matthew 1 1/2.All live in AZ where Carol & I plan on retiring.
Carol & I live in Holland Twp. west of Clinton, N.J.
I spend my spare time fly fishing & touring the East & Southwest on my BMW motorcycle.
Take care,and stay healthy,
Ray | | | | | |
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Name: | Beth Hind (Fellows)
(beth.fellows@aua.com)
| | Date: | 11/11/2005 1:49:47 PM | | Subject: | 40th reunion | | | 40 years since graduation!hard to believe - I graduated from Douglass College as French major/ worked for Pan Am for 22 years - seeing the world (the best job!)married in '83 to Herb Fellows - no kids - now work for Austrian Airlines. have lived in NYC for 35 years. I still love the adventure of seeing new places and will always love this city - am looking forward to this weekend visit to Maplewood and seeing old friends. | | | | | |
| 60 | |
Name: | Neil Willner
(neil@neilwillner.com)
| | Date: | 11/11/2005 6:37:59 AM | | Subject: | Hello Everyone! | | | It was a fun surprise to read these posts. I hope we can keep the site up after the reunion and maybe add pictures etc. Reading the posts (and then looking through the yearbook) brought on a wave of wonderful nostalgia. Anyway, after UVA and then transferring to Boston University, I moved to L.A. and have been here ever since. Met Eve 33 years ago here in L.A. (she’s originally from Philadelphia) and we’ve been happily together ever since – married 30 years. I have two great kids – Dave and Jessie. Dave works with me and we have two grandchildren! Our daughter, Jessie, 13, is a great artist, singer and actress and brings us joy every day. I’ve been involved in investments, insurance and financial “stuff” for 26 years and now financial sites on the internet. Thanks to Hal Kaufman and the crew for putting this together and I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone.
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| 59 | |
Name: | Jane Glucksman Wasserstrom
(@jane.glucksman@lebenthal.com)
| | Date: | 11/10/2005 9:31:49 PM | | Subject: | 40th Reunion | | | I'll try again. The last sentence got mixed up. Imagine what I'd do with your finances!
For those who remember and are wondering about Linda LaScala Turner, we have remained close
friends since Columbia and see each other as often as our busy schedules allow. Unfortunately, she's on a cruise this week and will not be able to attend. | | | | | |
| 58 | |
Name: | Jane Glucksman Wasserstrom
(@jane.glucksman@lebenthal.com)
| | Date: | 11/10/2005 9:06:58 PM | | Subject: | Our 40th! | | | It's impossible! Can't tell any of the folks at work, they're almost all at least ten years
my junior. Work by the way is Lebenthal, an AXA Financial Business soon to be swallowed up
by Merrill Lynch where hopefully I'll retain my title, VP! Graduated from Temple University then NYU and taught in New York City before the change in career which may explain why I married for the first time at the ripe old age of 38 Dr. William Wasserstrom a neurologist. We have a beautiful daughter Cara, who will be 16 years old and driving in just a few short months so stay off the roads in and around the area of North Brunswick New Jersey where we have lived for the past 20 years! Cara is the love of our lives, of course,a true
Renaissance Woman in the making, who attends Rutgers Preparatory School.
Didn't think I would attend, but thanks to Janice Raab Tully's coaxing, who I haven't seen in 17 years, I'd love to come with my $100 dollar check in hand of course
least 17 years
been close with since age 13, couldn't make it, in hand of course. | | | | | |
| 57 | |
Name: | Doug Darlington
(@darlingtons@telus.net)
| | Date: | 11/10/2005 8:30:51 PM | | Subject: | one more thing | | | this is a bit old but what the hell. Drop me a note if you'd like.
http://www3.telus.net/darlingtons/ | | | | | |
| 56 | |
Name: | Doug Darlington
(@darlingtons@telus.net)
| | Date: | 11/10/2005 8:18:54 PM | | Subject: | trying again | | | Sue and I live on a little 5 acre place on Vancouver Island. It’s got some nice woods, fields and a big garden. We’ve grown some really scary habanero peppers which I made into “Dougies Humiliator Sauce” . We keep some around for those special people in need of some humility. I’ve got a workshop here and build nice wood kitchens and do a bit of boat finishing work as well. We’ve raised three kids here and have a fourteen year old grandson who comes for a weekend now and then. The kids and I are “Canankees” now. We’ve done a lot of skiing and snowboarding over the years. They call me “grey on a tray”. We keep a forty foot motor sailer down at Maple Bay and do a lot of cruising around the gulf Islands and the West Coast, gathering clams and oysters, catching crabs and prawns and the odd fish. We like Cedric the autopilot and Nobletech the navigator. Nothing points upwind quite like a diesel and we consider the sails are mainly for emergency use. Last fall we took off on a six month trip around the world (not on the boat). Figuring it’s best to do places like India before we get too old and crotchety to enjoy it. Flew to Hong Kong, Bangkok, Delhi, Paris, London, NY and home. Travelled with our packpacks on trains and buses throughout SE Asia, India and Nepal. What a great friendly part of the world we saw. We were in Laos for the Tsunami, but had friends who barely survived it.
Sorry I can’t make the reunion but it’s nice to hear what people have been up to. Love to all, Doug Darlington
PS What’s with Bush, eh?
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Name: | PAUL ROBERT GOLDBERG
(PAULRGOLDBERG@AOL.COM)
| | Date: | 11/10/2005 6:55:03 PM | | Subject: | REUNION | | | 40 YEARS LATER, WHERE DOES ONE BEGIN?,ATTENDED COLLEGE IN ALABAMA AND FINISHED UP IN MIAMI, MARRIED, LIVED IN LIVINGSTON, TILL 1980 HAVE 2 WONDERFUL AND BRIGHT CHILDREN ADAM 35 YRS OLD & MARRIED AND WE ARE IN BUSINESS TOGETHER IN FLA. ALI DANIELLE 30 YRS AND SOON TO MAKE ME A GRANDFATHER,MY FORMER WIFE AND I PARTED " HATE THE OTHER WORD" IN 1980 WHEN I MOVED TO FLA, SHE FOLLOWED IN 1982 AND WE HAVE STAYED FRIENDS TO DATE. TRIED MARRAGE AGAIN IN 1992 AND ENDED IN 2002. I LIVE IN BOCA RATON FLORIDA, CAN BE REACHED AT MY OFFICE 800-914-5003, CELL 305-505-5655 OR 954-588-0023, IN SHORT SHORT LIFE HAS BEEN GREAT, | | | | | |
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Name: | Vera Idel Gierke
(verag420@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/10/2005 3:13:26 PM | | Subject: | Reunion | | | 40 years in a few sentences (is that what life comes down to?) Graduated from Connecticut College, marrried, followed my husband to the Detroit area, and yes I guess love is blind because had I looked I might not have gone to Detroit! Took a long time to have kids, and enjoyed the life of DINKs with sailing and traveling. Moved a few times, am now in RI as a widow, ready to start a whole new phase of life kidless (last one is a college freshman) and spouseless, enjoying "freedom!" See you Saturday. | | | | | |
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Name: | Ellen Lefkowitz
(Ariadne217@aol.com or ellenlefkowitz@earthlink.net)
| | Date: | 11/10/2005 5:07:32 AM | | Subject: | Apologies for not attending, I would love to connect. | | | I am alive and well in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I have had a private psychotherapy practice here for 30 years and it continues to be a learning experience. My son, daughter-in-law and five month old grandson, Adam are in San Francisco. I still have family in New Jersey and I know what it means to be sandwiched in. "Will you still need me, will you still feed me," at least we are not 64. I would love to hear from you. Please call or write.
home: 505-982-5691 office: 505-9840895 cell: 505-660-6140 | | | | | |
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Name: | Ellen Lefkowitz
(Ariadne217@aol.com or ellenlefkowitz@earthlink.net)
| | Date: | 11/10/2005 5:07:30 AM | | Subject: | Apologies for not attending, I would love to connect. | | | I am alive and well in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I have had a private psychotherapy practice here for 30 years and it continues to be a learning experience. My son, daughter-in-law and five month old grandson, Adam are in San Francisco. I still have family in New Jersey and I know what it means to be sandwiched in. "Will you still need me, will you still feed me," at least we are not 64. I would love to hear from you. Please call or write.
home: 505-982-5691 office: 505-9840895 cell: 505-660-6140 | | | | | |
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Name: | Margaret Nussbaum Lederer
(lederer1@cox.net)
| | Date: | 11/9/2005 8:10:40 PM | | Subject: | Reunion | | | After a BA in history from Carnegie-Mellon Univ. I spent a year in Italy (Florence) at Pius XII Institute for Graduate Study of the Arts studying art history. Upon my return to the US I worked in NYC in art galleries. I left NY when I married Bert Lederer (CHS ’63) and moved to the Boston area. I worked at the DeCordova Museum heading their Corporate Membership Program where I became to really enjoy the business aspect of what I was doing. So, when we moved to LA I went to UCLA and got a MBA. When we returned to the east coast (Rhode Island) I became a banker…a radical departure from my earlier endeavors. Then there was the period of my life as a stay-at-home-mom until our son, Jacob, went to boarding school. I spent the next 2 years as student at Johnson & Wales Univ. earning a degree in baking and pastry arts. That led to my having a custom order small pastry business and teaching home bakers. I gave up the business, but continue to teach, write, food style and test for others. At the same time I have begun working at RI School of Design as the coordinator for the lifestyle and culinary courses in their continuing ed. Dept.
Regretfully, a situation has arisen and I need to be in RI early Sunday AM, so I will be missing our 40th ….but look forward to seeing some of you at the 50th!
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Name: | Janet (Cheech) Masucci
(janetmasucci@verizon.net)
| | Date: | 11/9/2005 7:23:56 AM | | Subject: | the check is in the mail... | | | see you all there! | | | | | |
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Name: | Janet (Cheech) Masucci
(janetmasucci@verizon.net)
| | Date: | 11/9/2005 7:23:54 AM | | Subject: | the check is in the mail... | | | see you all there! | | | | | |
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Name: | Janet (Cheech) Masucci
(janetmasucci@verizon.net)
| | Date: | 11/9/2005 7:23:53 AM | | Subject: | the check is in the mail... | | | see you all there! | | | | | |
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Name: | Myra Lesser Leven
(@MyraLeven@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/7/2005 10:45:56 PM | | Subject: | trying this again as last posting not posted | | | 40 yrs real quick...married to Larry (who was a roommate of Mark Reisenberg's)who I met in college, will be celebratng 35 yrs this Dec. Now living in Little Falls having down-sized so the kids couldn't move back in. Lived previously in Parsippany and N. Caldwell (claim to fame; lived in the neighborhood where the Sopranos is filmed). Was a teacher before the kids were born. Meredith, 29, married and living outside of Cherry Hill, Rachel,27, to be married on April 1 of '06 who lives and works in NY, and Eric, 24, living and working in Los Angeles. Teaching, again, in Caldwell, completed a Master's Degree in Reading/Literacy and working on a Supervisor's certificate along with a another Master's. Planning on teaching on the college level when we "retire." Hate the fact I can't be at the reunion but thanks to the message board have reconnected with Marlene S. Have a great time and raise a toast to the class of '65 for me. | | | | | |
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Name: | Marvin Israelow
(marvini@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/7/2005 9:35:56 PM | | Subject: | reconnecting | | | Hi classmates---After CHS I went to school in Philadelphia where I met Dorian (now married for 31 years) and we moved to Boston and then to NYC before settling down in Chappaqua, NY. Parenting three teen age boys was a real challenge and we are now blessed with three healthy and very interesting young men (Jacob-26, Asher-22 and Ben-22). I enjoy my organizational consulting work and still love traveling and Bob Dylan and skiing. I'm beginnning to think about the passage from 50's to 60's and look forward to finding out how others are approaching this transition. See you this weekend!!! | | | | | |
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Name: | Erica Blaine Robbins
(@momer55@msn.com)
| | Date: | 11/7/2005 2:49:44 PM | | Subject: | The last 40 years | | | Hi everyone, Sorry I can't come to the reunion. I'll try to pack 40 years into a few sentences. After CHS I went to art school at BU for 2 years and then I spent 2 years at NYU art school from where I graduated. I thought I might be an Art Historian and I went to Hunter and completed everything but my thesis. Marriage and travel intruded on my education. I got married and lived in New York, Lincoln, Nebraska, Paris, back to New York and finally to Poughkeepsie where I still reside. The marriage ended but I have two wonderful children, Matthew age 27, who works at UBS and Jessica, age 24 who is a graphic designer in Morristown and lives in Hoboken. I had to earn a living after my divorce, so I went back to school and became a Social Worker. I have worked in Special Education for 17 years as a school social worker. I met a wonderful man 14 years ago. Life has been good. Hope you all have a wonderful time. | | | | | |
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Name: | Janet (Cheech) Masucci
(janetmasucci@verizon.net)
| | Date: | 11/7/2005 8:04:51 AM | | Subject: | Hoping to come | | | After leaving CHS, I got a BA in Art Ed. at Montclair State and taught at Iselin Jr. High. Soon after I moved into an old farm house on Rte 10 in Livingston with a bunch of hippies. To get an idea how much they welcomed us to the neighborhood, I got busted for selling clothes on Sunday at our tag sale to raise money for the "Dirdie Birdies" jug band. By 1976, I was craving privacy and moved to an old carriage house on "Round Valley Ranch" in Lebanon. My buddies started migrating West as well, and we rented ½ of a Victorian house in Flemington and started a cooperative Art Gallery, "Lake of Dreams". When we were done with that we rented a space in Lambertville and created "The Life Center", a cooperative holistic health center. In 1980 I bought a little house in Glen Gardner and quit my job to teach classes and practice hypnotherapy.
Soon, I met Jim Mateer, we got married and moved to Western MA in 1982. Jim and I bought an old gas station/country store where I still practice acupressure massage and counseling. After 10 years Jim decided life having a job was too stressful. He left to "live on the road ". I’ve put a lot of energy into community building here in the Pioneer Valley, helping grow our food co-op, producing a health show on local radio and then community TV. Since this May, I ended a LTR, and my Dad passed away as well as, my dear friend, from Montclair State, Helen Cruise. I’m now spending most of my time helping Helen’s kids dispose of her estate and helping my Mom downsize into a Condo. I hope I can make it to the reunion, I’m looking forward to life getting a little "lighter".
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Name: | Jim Wulach
(Jwulach@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/6/2005 2:59:34 PM | | Subject: | What I've Been Doing | | | For the past 20 years, I've been living in Maplewood, with my wife Sandra, and two daughters, Suzanne and Laura, and enjoying our town! Laura is now a college graduate living in Chile while teaching English; but she will return home in January. Suzanne is a sophomore at Barnard College, perhaps majoring in American Studies. They both loved CHS. Professionally, I'm a psychologist and a bit of a lawyer. I've been a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, for the past 25 years, with a psychology practice in Millburn. About 10 years ago I passed the NJ bar exam, and now also consult about legal issues with fellow psychologists & social workers. | | | | | |
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Name: | Miriam Frank
(@mf5@nyu.edu)
| | Date: | 11/6/2005 7:53:28 AM | | Subject: | looking forward to seeing all of you next week! | | | I've been living in NYC and teaching Humanities at New York University for over 23 years. Before that I took my Ph.D in German at NYU and lived and taught in Detroit for 10 years, also Berlin Germany and the Bay Area. My partner Desma Holcomb and I are looking forward to a civilization that will permit our marriage; meanwhile we're paying our mortgage, protesting the war and raising Ruth, our teenage daughter.
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Name: | Andy Feinstein
(ahf7@aol.com@)
| | Date: | 11/5/2005 4:49:06 PM | | Subject: | 40 years in a paragraph or two | | | After graduating from Lehigh with a journalism degree I moved to New York City where I began a career in advertising, marketing and sales that has spanned over 30 years. Moved to Edgemont/Scarsdale where I've lived for the past 20 years. In the early 80’s I was the director of marketing for the XIV Olympic Winter Games, which were held in Sarajevo. Great experience. For the past twenty years I have worked for TeleRep, a division of Cox Communications.
While my professional career has been rewarding what really makes me happiest is my family. I met the love of my life, Sara, in 1971 and we’ve been married for 32 years. Sara taught for many years and now works part time at Neiman Marcus. We have two great kids, Rick, 30, and Katie, 24. They both live in NYC. Rick, University of Michigan class of ‘97, owns a co-op on the Upper East Side and commutes to Stamford, where he is a director with UBS. He and the love of his life, Gabbi, recently got engaged and are planning to be married next summer. Katie, Emory University class of ‘03, lives in Greenwich Village and is currently a media planner at OMD, a division of Omnicom.
Much of whatever spare time I have is spent playing golf, an addiction I picked up a few years ago.
Thanks to Hal, Tommy, Audrey and Ellen for their time in helping to organize The Event.. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone next week.
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Name: | Judy Hochman James
(jehj33@comcast.net)
| | Date: | 11/5/2005 12:43:12 PM | | Subject: | 40 years in a hundred words or less! | | | Oberlin. Finished college in London. Met a great guy there. Married him there. Lived many years there. Came back to South Orange-Maplewood. Two great kids: Katie, 25, Special Ed teacher and Matt, 21, senior at Emerson College in Boston doing New Media and comedy on the side. Husband, Peter, is an architect in Morristown. I am Associate Director of the South Orange-Maplewood Adult School, which is housed in Columbia High School. So, I still go to CHS every day! Life is strange and wonderful. Looking forward to the reunion (my first) and seeing you all... | | | | | |
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Name: | Alison Ehrlich Wachstein
(alison@alisonwachstein.com)
| | Date: | 11/4/2005 5:57:45 PM | | Subject: | Oops! Forgot to include my maiden name in my message, but how many 58 year-old "Alison's" do you know? | | | See you soon. | | | | | |
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Name: | Janice Raab
(@jtully@branchburg.k12.nj.us)
| | Date: | 11/4/2005 3:23:33 PM | | Subject: | Just a really good life and I love it! | | | Doesn't sound as exciting as some of your past 40 years but----
Since 1970 I've been very happily married to my still wonderful husband, Drew Tully. Between teaching jobs, I took 12 years off to raise our kids, and so in May 2006 I will have the 25 years I need to retire. We're so fortunate that our 3 sons ages 30, 28, and 26 each graduated from college on time, have good jobs, and bought their own home within one hour drive from us. We're also lucky that my sister, Karen, lives so close to us and so does my mom. We love the ocean and spend every summer in Seaside Heights. We are presently building a home in North Myrtle Beach and will spend our winters there. Soon we will downsize our house and 2 acre property. An active adult 55 and over communmity in NJ or very close by sounds good to us. Any suggestions? | | | | | |
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Name: | neill ackerman
(acky_1998@yahoo.com)
| | Date: | 11/4/2005 11:38:27 AM | | Subject: | Hi everyone! | | | For the past 22 years I have been living in Scranton a little shtetl in eastern Pa playing songs from Fiddler on the Roof on the piano. ........
Shortly after high school graduation my beloved 60 yellow Fury convertible's engine caught fire and in August my father bought me a new 65 Chev Impala convertible to commute to Upsale College in EO, which I never sold and still use today as a 2nd car.........
I moved to Bethlehem Pa to attend Lehigh and began to use a bicycle as my main means of daytime trransportaion and still do ( Tom Ruggeiro the SOJH gym teacher said to us in 7th grade ,pick a sport in your twenties and keep at it and you can do it even when your hair turns grey and white.....he was right!!!!!)..........
I got a Ph.D in math in 1974 and followed in the footsteps of my favorite teachers Mr.Vitale and Mr Podesta and went into the teaching profession..........
During a trip in the summer of 1981 to the land of Israel I met my wife ,Michele,ma belle,from Paris France( I knew I should have taken French instead of Latin, sorry Mrs. Young and Mr White) and was forced to spend many summers on the French Riviera at Canne visiting her parents........
We have two children .till 120 ,Tziona 20 and Yochanan 18, who were brought up on old rock'n' roll music and put to sleep as babies with "Lowenstein stories" ----my experiences and adventures with Dick Lowenstein and many of you..........
I am involved in recycling projects and enjoy gardening,stamp collecting,piano and playing tennis and basetball and reminiscing about the good times we had in South Orange........
Ps. If anyone is interested in a football game or basketball game or tennis on Sunday let me know. I will have the equipment in my car......
Looking forward to see you in a few days.....
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Name: | Jacqueline Friedrich
(jacqueline.friedrich@wanadoo.fr)
| | Date: | 11/4/2005 7:07:12 AM | | Subject: | ps | | | Forgot this: I am desperately seeking Mr Shafer (Ronald, English teacher) or any information about him. If you have any info, please share it with me. | | | | | |
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Name: | Jacqueline Friedrich
(jacqueline.friedrich@wanadoo.fr)
| | Date: | 11/4/2005 7:04:50 AM | | Subject: | maybe next time | | | I'm sorry I won't be able to be at the reunion. I'm living in France now, splitting my time between Paris and the Loire Valley. I came to France in '89 to write a book on the wines and foods of the Loire and I'm still here. (This, after having been an anti-war and civil rights activist, which led me to become a lawyer ...) Anyway, I'm currently writing a comprehensive guide to French wine and have a tight deadline. So I can't wander too far away from my ibook or from a French wine region. Let me hear from you: you know who you are! | | | | | |
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Name: | Alison Wachstein
(@alison@alisonwachstein.com)
| | Date: | 11/3/2005 8:35:24 PM | | Subject: | Looking forward to seeing you | | | Graduated Northwestern University 1969. Worked as staff photographer
for the Aspen Times and taught skiing at Aspen Highlands. Moved back to
NJ. Met and married Bob Wachstein (CHS 60). We lived in West Orange for
5 years. I worked as photographer for Worrall Publications (SO/Mpd
News-Record, Orange Transcript, WO Chronicle, EO Record) and opened my
portrait and freelance studio. Also taught photography at Seton Hall
Univ and Fairleigh Dickinson and had a book, Pregnant Moments published
by Morgan & Morgan.
We've been in Weston, CT for almost 26 years. Have a 20-year-old
daughter, Liz who's a freshman @ University of Delaware, majoring in
fashion merchandising. Bob works at home for IBM. I still have my
portrait studio, love to travel, garden, and recently created a pro bon
2006 calendar of breast cancer survivors w/ all proceeds going to the
cancer center at Norwalk (CT) Hospital.
Also involved in various philanthropic organizations.
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Name: | Kathy Rantze
(@krrrantze@hotmail.com)
| | Date: | 11/3/2005 7:29:33 PM | | Subject: | Rocky Mountain Attidude | | | Wow...the idea of going to my 40th reunion really makes me nervous....wasn't I just 29 a few years back??? Have lived in the west since 1973..Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. Did the higher ed stuff and got my doctorate...from Colorado State. Spent 30 years teaching etc and have retired ...but haven't figured out what to do next (BlackJack dealing didn't work out). I have two grown sons and two grand kids....they are in Germany with the AirForce. Never quite figured out how to marry the "right" guy for me when I was younger. Now I am happily doing the "Demi Moore" thing with a slightly younger college professor in Houston. Looking forward to seeing everyone...just wish jeans and hiking boots were NJ attire. | | | | | |
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Name: | Ellen Glazer
(EllenGlazer@verizon.net)
| | Date: | 11/3/2005 4:05:46 PM | | Subject: | need short messages and addresses for booklet | | | Hi Message Board Classmates,
I am doing the reunion booklet and am afraid some of you will assume that your message board reply will go in the booklet. I need you to send me an email directly with your address and phone number and a brief (maybe 2 sentences or so) message for the booklet.
Thanks! | | | | | |
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Name: | Nanci Lieberman
(NKrausPT@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/3/2005 2:57:33 PM | | Subject: | Reunion | | | Hi everyone! Here's a little about me. I've been married to Steven for 24 years (second husband) He is a gem! Lived in Guadalajara, Mexico with the first one while he was going to Medical school and then had enough of that! I have 2 fantastic kids: Matt is 21 and a 4th year student in Northeastern University's 5 year coop program in Boston. Lauren is 16 and a junior in high school. (SAT's, college stuff and just driving, gasp!)
I have been a practicing Physical Therapist for 36 years. My speciality is Orthopedics. (anyone have their hip or knee replaced yet?) I am working much less and now fill in at a couple of offices and treat a few private patients. About 8 years ago I started learning how to make jewelry and have sold at various places in various cities. I also teach jewelry making to adults through Continuing Education here in Chappaqua. I love it and get to use my hands in a different but creative way. (keep your dirty thoughts to yourself!!!) Now here is something really great: My husband and I are building a vacation home in Jamaica in the West Indies. It's at the Tryall Club about 20 minutes west of Montego Bay... it's a slice of heaven...great golf, tennis, beach, house with pool and staff and will also be for rent. It's just the most divine place and I'm willing to share it ! That's all for now...to be continued next weekend. Harvey Cohen and Pat Leardo I will be looking for you!
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Name: | Marvin William Lax
(mwlax@cox.net )
| | Date: | 11/3/2005 1:40:40 PM | | Subject: | A little about Me. | | | I cannot beleive it is 40 years already. After graduation from CHS, I went to Rhode Island for college and have never moved out of R.I. I started at Bryant College { now University} and then graduated from Roger Williams College {now Universeity}. Married my wife, Rhonda, in June 1970. We have one son, Ryan, who is married to Maggie and they are expecting our first grandchild on February 2nd, 2006. I cannot wait for this new chapter to begin.
I have been in the insurance and investment financial planning arena for almost 35 years, and my son joined me in business two years ago and that has been working out well.
My wife and I have had a wonderful 35 + years of marriage, and look forward to many more years ahead. Life has been basically very good, and we are very lucky. I have kept in touch with a few of our classmates during the years, but do look extemely forward to seeing everyone.
See you next week,
Marvin | | | | | |
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Name: | Alan Soschin
(cardship@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/3/2005 12:00:39 PM | | Subject: | 40 years is a long time | | | Hi everyone. Greetings from Northern Virginia. First, thank you to Hal for taking the bull by the horns and turning what likely would have been a ho hum reunion with few people in attendance, to, at the minimum a ho hum reunion but with many old friends and acquaintances present which will, as a consequence, make this anything but ho hum, especially if the Vodka is any good. Also, thank you T. Bass, Audrey and Ellen for getting caught up in the excitement and giving your time to our reunion.
As for me, it’s hard to condense 40 years – there been many ups but some significant downs as well: Lehigh, Georgetown Law and a solo legal practice in DC and Northern Virginia for nearly 33 years; with an emphasis on representing bad people doing bad things (criminal defense) and good people acting badly (divorce). Perhaps based upon my professional experiences, I have managed to stay out of jail and out of divorce court – married to the same wonderful women for 34+ years. We had three boys, one of whom, sadly, has died. Two daughters-in-law, but no grandchildren (did get a puppy yesterday). Have lost my hair, but found a beard as well as 50 pounds. Had coronary by pass surgery in 1989 at the tender age of 42, but still don’t exercise like a should. I do expect to make it to my 40th high school reunion. Cool.
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Name: | marlene statfeld shapiro
(marandchet1@msn.com@)
| | Date: | 11/3/2005 11:30:27 AM | | Subject: | where did all the time go??!! | | | Hi everyone!! I can't believe that we are all closer to the big 60 than the big 30. THAT's a scarey thought....After graduation I attended and graduated from the Univ of Cincinnati. I got married and moved to Phila Pa. I'm still here but the husband is not. We're divorced. 35 years ago I went to work for the Dept of Public Welfare as a caseworker.I'm still with the department but have worked my way up to Deputy Executive Director and will be retiring VERY soon. Then life will begin!!I can't wait! I'm sorry to say that I will be missing this great event but want to give kudos to Hal ( aka Rosita) for pulling it all together. Feel free to email me and let me know how it was . Susie - if you are reading this, email or call me.. | | | | | |
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Name: | Charlotte Mathias Covington
(charlotte.covington@vanderbilt.edu)
| | Date: | 11/3/2005 11:08:09 AM | | Subject: | Reunion Update | | | I've been a nurse for 35 years! Spent 18 years working in ERs, now am a Family Nurse Practitioner, getting my MSN 20 years after my undergrad. I've lived in Nashville, TN for 25+ years, working at Vanderbilt - first in the hospital, now at the School of Nursing, where I am Associate Professor. I practice 8 hours a week at a local Domestic Violence shelter.
My husband Joel and I have been married 36 years, have 2 kis in their 30s (I remember my 30s too well to have kids that are that old!), and 2 grandchildren - I love being a Nana. My daughter just got married in Chapel Hill, NC, so I won't be able to get to Reunion. My dad still lives in the house on Dunnell Road, and I visit often; my mom, who some of you may remember from the Guidance Dept, died in 2000. I'd love to hear from anyone who can take the time.
Have a great evening, I'll be thinking about you! | | | | | |
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Name: | NANCY FINE KLOTZLE
(@dklotzle@bestweb.net)
| | Date: | 11/3/2005 9:22:21 AM | | Subject: | Life since Columbia | | | Hi everyone! I too have finally gotten the courage up to write this slice of life. Here goes!
“Attended” Emerson College for one and a half years. it didn’t start out too well, as they still had “hazing” for Freshman. Guess who was one of my“Hazing Masters?” Henry Winkler ..... who was leading us in some pretty weird excersises...like rolling pennies with our nose or something. So I said to Henry “This is INSANE! ”As well as some other expletives, the equivalent of “bite me!” (actually it was quite a speech, but I can’t remember it )and spent that week hanging out in Harvard Square with my roommate. I met my husband one wild wintry night when same roommate and I drove to Goddard College to see her friend David. We’ve been together ever since......which is more or less the story. We lived in East Cambridge (Mass.) for several years. I picked up some courses at Boston University, and studied silkscreen at the Brattle Center for the Arts....okay, I did drop out, tune in and turn on, didn’t anyone else?
We moved to Southern New York in the seventies, living in a cottage in the woods. I worked in Title VII as Community Organizer for WIC program as well as Gardens For Nutrition (Community Gardens) establishing several sites. I then opened “Winterberry Studios” in “79 and started to sell my Silkscreen Graphics at Outdoor Art Shows throughout New England. I’ve been a working artist ever since ( about twenty six years. ) I changed my medium to oil painting in the Impressionist style (my real love) and this year has been my best to date.
My husband, David is a Teaching Naturalist for many schools in the area, as well as lecturer on Native American History ( He does not sugar coat it!) He is also wetlands Inspector for the Townships of Carmel Garrison ,&Cold Springs NY. We live on a hilltop overlooking the Hudson River and have a large organic garden (temptation for many deer and woodchucks.)
To all of the “beat” crowd who attended parties at my house senior year as well as old friends from Fielding School and Emerson Cronies....Can’t wait to see you! | | | | | |
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Name: | Deborah Heyman MacGillis
(debjhm@aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/3/2005 8:38:55 AM | | Subject: | Looking forward to seeing you...can't believe it's 40!! years | | | 40 years!! First 10.. Started at Goucher..Graduated from NYU, Married a Dr.,Got an M.A. from NYU as Guidance counselor, Divorced a Dr.,Teacher, Guidance Counselor, enough of this stuff..boring...
Next 10...Looked for job in business..ended up at McKinsey as researcher..learned tax and accounting stuff..met fabulous man David MacGillis, got MBA at NYU, got married at best wedding ever in Greenwich village cooking school, worked for NYC Mayor's Office of Operations and other agencies, traveled lots, had lots of fun...Next 20 Josh...now age 19 at Temple University, lead guitar and songwriter for "Mission Failed", gorgeous and loving... and Jamie...a daughter, now age 17, applying early decision to Johns Hopkins(fingers crossed).. sent to Governor's school for her poetry and, science minded as well! David, my husband, can always count on him. My mother and my sister Karen and Richard also are good.Looking forward to hearing your stories and seeing you. Here's to the next 20! | | | | | |
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Name: | Susan Lowenstein Tufo
(@Zenartizen @aol.com)
| | Date: | 11/2/2005 6:54:03 PM | | Subject: | Life Is Good | | | After reading a number of entries, I got the guts to write this blurb. After CHS, burned my bra at Washington Square Park while attending NYU.Worked on Bleeker Street making jewelry and looking very hip in the sixties! At graduation, got a job teaching elementary school in Harlem. Met my husband, very straight laced accountant at one of the big four, and got married in 1976. We have two great kids that worked harder in high school than I did. Jason, who is 25 just graduated from Cornell Law practicing Intellectual Property in New York. Our daughter, Andrea, is 23 and working for a production company in Chelsea. I have been teaching pottery to kids for 18 years now. It is very mellow and I wouldn't have done anything differently.Our shetland sheepdog, Lacie, has replaced the kids and we now, after settling the kids in their New York apartments, will hopefully have time for ourselves!!Looking foward to seeing everyone!! | | | | | |
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Name: | Kathryn (Kathy) Ruby
(kathryn.ruby@mountsaintvincent.edu)
| | Date: | 11/1/2005 12:05:27 PM | | Subject: | Hi folks, count me in for Saturday night. Hope to see you there. . . | | | For the Rogue Reunion: I'll be coming by car from Upper Manhattan with my husband, Paul Roth. It's hard to compress 40 years into a blurb but here goes. . . The basics: Paul and I have two sons: Peter, a journalist (29) from Paul's first marriage (his first wife,Joy is deceased) and Scott(13), our son together, an eighth grader at Ethical Culture Fieldston School (ECFS). We live in Castle Village (that's our retaining wall that fell on the West Side Highway, my apologies if you live in the area. . ) I'm now working as the Grants Officer for a local college. Before that was Development Director for a few NYC nonprofits; and before that was PR person for a divison of NYC gov.. . that gig lasted, in various forms, over 20 years, from Lindsay through Beame, Koch, Dinkins and "retiring" under Giuliani. . .(That's where I met Paul, who was Dep. Commissioner for the City's Medicaid program; he's now an administrator at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York) Creatively, I've done some writing and some art along the way, though frankly not much recently . . . edited a book in the 70's of women writers, ran a poetry series briefly at EAR INN, lived for lots of years in the Village, picked up BA/MA degrees in Eng. at NYU. . . You get the drift. . .Hope to fill you in more when I see you. There are many rogues and regulars I'd like to catch up with... you know who you are. . .
All the best, Kathy | | | | | |
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Name: | Ellen Sarasohn Glazer
(EllenGlazer@verizon.net)
| | Date: | 11/1/2005 8:48:11 AM | | Subject: | looking forward to seeing people | | | I think my "test message" went through so I will try again with the real thing...
I am looking forward to seeing everyone in less than 2 weeks. Life since CHS has been good to me. My three parents are all reasonably well and active and I have a wonderful (second) husband, Dan and two daughters, Elizabeth, 24 and an emergency room nurse, and Mollie, 22 and a college student. My career is in the field of reproductive medicine, as a counselor, consultant and writer. In my free time, I write freelance articles on all sorts of subjects, run, walk and swim. | | | | | |
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Name: | Ellen Sarasohn Glazer
(EllenGlazer@verizon.net)
| | Date: | 11/1/2005 8:44:33 AM | | Subject: | trying again. | | | My first posting didn't go through. This is a test run... | | | | | |
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Name: | Carol Cregar (Gruber)
(@Carolgru@gmail.com)
| | Date: | 10/31/2005 7:40:26 PM | | Subject: | 65 Class Reunion | | | I'm living in West Palm Beach and recovering from Hurricane Wilma. Before moving to Florida, I taught school in Westfield. I met my husband in Karate class and we celebrated 30 years of marriage this past summer. We have two sons, David working on his PHD at the University of Denver and Brian, who works for the Palm Beach Gardens Recreation Department. I have been an elementary teacher here for 17 years. I just visited my family in N.J. so I won't be able to attend the reunion. I also have to make up all the days we are missing because of the hurricane clean-up. | | | | | |
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Name: | Bill (Barry) Kievning
(@TeamKievning@aol.com)
| | Date: | 10/31/2005 11:18:16 AM | | Subject: | See you soon. | | | Leaving CA for NJ to say hello to all. In NY and NJ the week before for business. | | | | | |
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Name: | Harold (Hal) Garwin
(@hgarwin@chlp.org)
| | Date: | 10/28/2005 3:44:57 PM | | Subject: | just a hello and see you in november | | | quick update, graduated rutgers law and I have practiced public interest law forever. First a legal services attorney, then with the state and now run a firm that represents persons with disabilities. divorced for 14 years , but out of the dust came two wonderful girls , leigh ( 29) and stef(25)and the most wonderful 9 year old grandson Drew. I lived in South orange for 26 years and now in a nice condo with stef in west orange. Oh yea-- started the MPD-So JR. wrestling program in 72 and then coached frosh and JV at CHS , now a volunteer coach with the varsity. Lastly, love tennis and play at Berkley tennis club in orange on wonderful red clay (good to an old man's legs). looking foward to seeing all of you - some more so like tim , bobby. craig and also jack, and Hal , andy and bob again. | | | | | |
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Name: | Mel McDavit White
(Duplexlady@aol.com)
| | Date: | 10/28/2005 12:20:09 PM | | Subject: | Special PS to Jack Heinowitz | | | Pushed the wrong button! Here it is:
OH JACK OH JACK I'M IN DISTRESS --
DON'T BE A MAYBE -- BE A "YES"!!! Love, Mel | | | | | |
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Name: | Mel McDavit White
(Duplexlady@aol.com)
| | Date: | 10/28/2005 12:19:10 PM | | Subject: | PS | | | Forgot to give you the basics -- 2 sons, one married, living in Kalamazoo MI with wife and son Jason 2-1/2 (a genius of course); the other living in NJ with a solid 5-1/2 years clean from his heroin addiction; more about my music by going to www.smilingheartmusic.com or www.cdbaby.com/melwhite6 (at the latter you can hear all cuts from all 6 CDs) -- 2nd time married, lived in Maplewood from 1985-March of 2004 when we moved to West Orange right near the S.O. border. Still feel Maplewoodian though. Looking forward to seeing all of you, but I would espec. love to see (for specific reasons) Merry Jo MacKinnon and Peter Mercuro -- and here's a special PS to Jack Heinowitz:
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Name: | Rita Losch
(rslosch@hotmail.com)
| | Date: | 10/28/2005 2:22:17 AM | | Subject: | 40 years later! | | | It feels so bizarre to be excited about flying back to New Jersey for our 40th reunion in less than two weeks.
Immediately after high school graduation, I made a beeline out of the suburbs. I spent the next decade in the New Brunswick area: got my BA in English/Art from Douglass, got a quick MA in English from SUNY-Stony Brook, returned to the Brunswick area to teach English at Middlesex County College for the next decade or so. In the late 70's, I emigrated out of Jersey altogether, and spent 3 hedonistic years taking in the night-blooming jasmine, lemon and avocado and palm trees in Santa Monica and beachcombing in Venice.
Having used up LA, I moved up to San Francisco, where I have lived for about 23 years. Recently, I got my MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Two years ago, I achieved my lifetime career-goal: I retired! I am now FREE, writing poetry, making sculpture, doing a bit of part-time tutoring, living a happy and healthy little life with my dachshund Frankie and my view of San Francisco's Twin Peaks, and all my new possibilities.
When I learned of the sad death this year of my best friend from high school, Cindy Rigas, I grew interested in reconnecting with you guys (as we say in California). I am especially looking forward to seeing Patti Gordon, Mel McDavit, the Cooper twins, Bobby Shulman, Judy Hochman, Nancy Fine, and more.
Also, I have been trying to find out if Jo McFarland is still alive and, if so, how I can contact her to tell her how formative she was in my life as a writer/artist.
Save the last jitterbug for me.
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Name: | Norm Kidder
(atlatl1@aol.com)
| | Date: | 10/28/2005 1:30:34 AM | | Subject: | Greetings | | | Graduated Antioch College - BA Biology/Art. Trained as a Naturalist with Audubon Society. Got job as Naturalist near San Francisco Bay. Married Naturalist Jan Southworth. Stepson Daniel now 31, Ph.D Molecular Bio from Johns Hopkins, married. Daughter Emily now 25, Ph.D candidate Anthropology and Linguistics, U of Arizona. Specialize in California Indians and stone age lifeways- see website www.primitiveways.com. On the Board of the Society of Primitive Technology (www.primitive.org). Retiring in December after 33 years with the East Bay Regional Park District as Supervising Naturalist at Sunol Wilderness. Live in Silicon Valley (Fremont, CA) with wife and three dogs. Waiting impatiently for grandkids. Make fire, weave baskets, play drums. | | | | | |
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Name: | Barbara Hansen Smith
(stone27@direcway.com)
| | Date: | 10/26/2005 8:50:48 PM | | Subject: | 40 YEARS ALREADY!!!!! | | | After CHS I attended Simmons College in Boston and Rutgers Univ. graduate school where I studied nutrition. While working several summers in Vt. I met my husband Burgess. We tried to escape NJ, but lived there 15 yrs before moving to NH and now to Brownfield, Maine. I worked as a dietitian at various hospitals and nursing homes and recently have become a diabetes educator and work with outpatients in North Conway, NH and Biddeford, Me.
We love hiking and canoeing and cross county skiing. Snow already is in the mountains!!!!!
We have one daughter and one grandson living in NH.
I love to have people visit us in Maine.
Barbara | | | | | |
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Name: | Dr. Jerome "Jerry" A. Slavitt
(@jaslavitt@comcast.net)
| | Date: | 10/26/2005 4:47:35 PM | | Subject: | 40 years? No Way! | | | Hello everyone. Since CHS, graduated Fairleigh Dickinson University, B.S. Biology, four years of medicine, surgical residency at Lutheran Hospital of Maryland and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Private practice in Baltimore going on 27 years, owner with five office locations. Most recently, patented a new bone screw for the hand and foot. Selling all aver the country and next year in Europe. Having fun lecturing and instructing surgeons throughout the country. Unfortunately got divorced in 2000, howver have two gorgeous girls, Samantha "Sam" 19 and Amanda, "Mandy" 17, the loves of my life. Family still lives in NJ. I miss Joe's Pizza (Springfield Ave and Vaux Hall), Jimmy Buff's, Bunny Hop! Anyone remember Hy's Cheesecake in Maplewood, if so ask me why? See you all soon. | | | | | |
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Name: | Marleen Stern Corner
(mwcorner@msn.com)
| | Date: | 10/26/2005 11:59:28 AM | | Subject: | Update | | | Hi! Graduated Univ. of Denver, NYU & College of NJ with degrees in Education.
Taught at NYU, Freehold and Newark.
Married and live in Mine Hill, NJ. Wes and I have 2 silky terriers. Did a lot of skiiing, and now trying dance. See you soon! | | | | | |
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Name: | Barbara (Schwartz) Cowen
(cjrlawyers@aol.com)
| | Date: | 10/25/2005 7:21:17 PM | | Subject: | 40 years - how did that happen? | | | I hope that this note finds everyone in good health and content. I married Stephen Cowen (CHS '61) in 1967, transferred from Rutgers and followed him into the U.S. Public Health Service stationed in Cincinnati (it beat Saigon!). I graduated from the University of Cincinnati and attended Temple Law School while Stephen was getting his MBA at Wharton; he is a former partner of Leonard Stern at Hartz Mountain and continues as a real estate developer and hockey team owner. We have two sons, Aaron (33; married) and Andrew (30; married). They are both Wharton and MIT graduates and are partners at hedge funds in NYC. I am the senior partner at Cowen, Jacobs & Rothman, a law firm in Hackensack. My family has resided in Tenafly for 31 years. I have warm memories of many of my CHS classmates and look forward to seeing everyone. | | | | | |
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Name: | Mel McDavit White
(Duplexlady@aol.com)
| | Date: | 10/25/2005 2:58:34 PM | | Subject: | Concert on the 13th!! Hoping you can come! | | | Hi all -- I will see you at the reunion -- I have been doing my music on a professional level for years, and on Sun. Nov. 13 at 3 pm there will be a concert featuring me & my stuff and some other vocalists and instrumentalists, and 100% of the proceeds are going to Katrina Relief -- I really hope that some of you will come to the Baird Center in South Orange at 3 pm on Sunday of our weekend, catch up a tiny bit with my music, and help this worthy cause! I will bring pictures of my babies (one grandson, two Shih Tzus) to the reunion and I am hoping there will be a piano there too. Love to all! | | | | | |
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Name: | Sanford "Sandy" Block
(cigarsandy@comcast.net)
| | Date: | 10/25/2005 12:32:47 PM | | Subject: | Cheers | | | After CHS I entered the automobile business. I was a sales represenative for thirty years during which time I sold just about every domestic brand there is (or was)! Retired from sales in '95 and began writing about automobiles and became an Automotive Journalist, having written many published articles in the Star Ledger Newspaper as well as various automotive-related magazines. I even penned a book, for which I won the prestigious "Golden-Quill Award".
Married for the first (and only) time at 36; Karen & I have one son. Matt is a Sr. at Rider University in Princeton in the C.P.A. program.
We live in a big old house in Bloomfield (NJ) with NO pets, and are "empty nesters" as they say, but with 6 highly collectible cars in the garage, and one "on the way" ~ Karen says, "Sandy's pregnant...again"
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Name: | Thomas Elwood
(telwood@greylockcapital.com)
| | Date: | 10/25/2005 11:50:13 AM | | Subject: | addendum | | | Forgot, Married Catherine Kubida Columbia (68)for 32 years have 3 kids. | | | | | |
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Name: | Thomas Elwood
(telwood@greylockcapital.com)
| | Date: | 10/25/2005 11:47:04 AM | | Subject: | Reunion | | | Graduated University of Dayton, Rutgers Graduate School of Business and New York Law. I live in Bedford, New Hampshire and work in NYC for a hedge fund manager. I cannot attend the reunion because I will be in Belle Chasse La., since I neglected to quit the National Guard after I avoided the draft in 1969. Will miss seeing how everyone looks. | | | | | |
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Name: | Janice Moster Arenofsky
(jarenofsky@cox.net)
| | Date: | 10/25/2005 11:17:24 AM | | Subject: | Catch up time... | | | Hi Everyone, Graduated with a BA in education, taught 3rd grade for five years, found out I disliked kids and quit. Oh yes, in between hating kids and working on a new resume, I got married. Got an MLS at Rutgers, worked at several local libraries, then pulled up stakes and moved to Phoenix area in 1979. Been here ever since--now live in Scottsdale. Was acquisitions librarian at the State Library until I got bored, then went into freelance writing. I write essays, profiles and features for national magazines--you can google me and read if you're so interested. You guessed it--no kids but three dogs and a cat. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion in November! | | | | | |
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Name: | Hannah (Harriet) Wiss Rose
(@davidhrose.@comcast.net)
| | Date: | 10/25/2005 11:09:13 AM | | Subject: | Since 1965 | | | Hey, I am really sad to miss the reunion this time, but hello to all! Since '65, I graduated Penn and NYU Law and headed straight to California. Was a prosecutor for a couple of years, found my way and became a public defender for more years and now practice consumer law for the California Dept. of Justice. Married and had 2 wonderful boys, divorced for 15 years while I changed my first name and raised the scholar/football players. They both coach now and one is teaching high school at his alma mater as well. Once they were in college, I met my great love right in my office. Married again and we live happily in a great old house with creeks, trees and waterfalls in Berkeley. Children live within "visiting"distance, one married, no grandkids. David and I ski and landscape, and then hunt for warm places where we scuba dive and snorkel, and play golf. Knees said "no!" to tennis a few years back. | | | | | |
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Name: | Sue Salisbury
(beachmimi23@hotmail.com)
| | Date: | 10/25/2005 7:47:09 AM | | Subject: | Life since CHS | | | Attended Davis and Elkins College (WV)where I met and married my husband of 38+years. He was in the USAF for 25 years so we lived around the country and in Germany and Panama. Finished my BA at Grove City College (PA), MEd from Oklahoma and worked as a teacher and Reading Specialist until I retired 2 years ago. Now living in Jacksonville, AL (where George is a history prof at JSU) with our 2 cats and 3 dogs. We have 2 children, Kim who lives in Houston and is mom to our 3 grandkids, and Kenny who owns a construction firm in Montgomery, AL. Just reading the list of who's coming brings back so many great memories...wish I could be there. I hope everyone posts a 'catch up' to this website so those of us not attending can feel connected. Cheers! | | | | | |
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Name: | Hal Kaufman
(kaufbon@sbcglobal.net)
| | Date: | 10/20/2005 11:00:58 AM | | Subject: | Columbia High '65 Reunion | | | My life in a nutshell...Graduated Northwestern in '69...Peace Corps for 4 months in Turkey...loafed/travelled for 4 years...back to Northwestern for Grad School in Advertising (where I met my future wife)...went to New York and worked at some big ad agencies for 10 years (married Barbara and had my first daughter Laura)...got fired from Doyle, Dane, Bernbach and moved to Los Angeles in 1984...been here ever since with my wife, two daughters (second is Bonnie)...various Dogs, cats Tree Frogs and a millipede..spent 15 years doing advertising for Universal Studios Theme Parks in California and Florida...currently trading stocks working with Nardi Levine's younger brother Richard...more in person | | | | | |
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Name: | System Administrator
(postmaster@chs65reunion.com)
| | Date: | 10/19/2005 8:33:55 PM | | Subject: | Welcome | | | Hello and welcome to the CHS Class of 1965's 40th Reunion Message Board.
Please post a comment to lest us know what you've been up to. Be sure to add your contact information if you wish to have your classmates get back in touch.
Thanks! | | | | | |
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