Digest #22

This digest contains the following messages:

1. RE: Chuck Fleming Re-Elected!
by: Jim <Jimk@starkaywhite.com>
2. Re: Chuck Fleming Re-Elected!
by: Susan Drinkard <textornado@hotmail.com>
3. Movie Screening Reminder
by: Alan Fine <>
4. Go to the class site now!
by: Hastings Class of '75 <hastings@art-cetera.com>
5. RE: Go to the class site now!
by: Sinatra, Patricia <Patricia.Sinatra@abgenix.com>
6. RE: Go to the class site now!
by: Steve Bass <sbass@wnpt.net>
7. Dance Class
by: Susan Klubock <sueklu@hotmail.com>
8. Re: Dance Class
by: Lynn Harbin <lharbin@swbell.net>
9. Re: Go to the class site now!
by: David Walters <dwalters@igc.org>
10. Re: Go to the class site now!
by: JAMES SHILLINGLAW <jshillinglaw@advanstar.com>
11. Re: Dance Class
by: <JaneGaughran@aol.com>
12. Re: Dance Class
by: <DMcQuickly@aol.com>
13. 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"
by: Alan Fine <>
14. Re: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"
by: Sinatra, Patricia <Patricia.Sinatra@abgenix.com>
15. Re: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
16. RE: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"
by: J Sidebotham <jsidebotham@holychild.org>
17. RE: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"
by: Alan Fine <>
18. Re: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"
by: <Sasaverino@aol.com>
19. Re: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"
by: <DMcQuickly@aol.com>
20. Re: Re: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"
by: Alan Fine <>
21. (no subject)
by: <rjpaletta4@aol.com>

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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 05:38:29 -0500
From: "Jim Katzenstein" <Jimk@starkaywhite.com>
Subject: RE: Chuck Fleming Re-Elected!

Congratulations on your victory Chuck. Does this mean I get that no-show
village job by getting all those Mount Hope Cemetery residents to send in
write in votes in your behalf?

Jim

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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:15:41 -0600
From: "Susan Drinkard Heady" <textornado@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Chuck Fleming Re-Elected!

Hi there to everyone who gets this. Some of you might remember me, Susan
Heady - I sign on to the class web site a couple of weeks ago and have
enjoyed reading all your emails. It been a long time since I have seen any
of you, but it makes me smile to see all the names that come up from our
class. I am living in Texas for the last 3 years, remarried and having a
wonderful life.

Regards to ya'll :-)

Susan Drinkard (Heady)

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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 6:58:02 -0500
From: Alan Fine <>
Subject: Movie Screening Reminder

Just a reminder for those of you who picked up free passes to DreamWorks and Chris Rock's "Head of State" screening: it is Thursday night; please arrive at least an hour early as seats will go fast.

For those who did not get a pass, but will be in the Lincoln Center area Thursday and wish to attend, please email .

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:07:49 -0400
From: Hastings Class of '75 (and then some) <hastings@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Go to the class site now!

From Amy Farber:

Former classmates: get off your email now and go to www.art-cetera.com/hastings.
Click on Dave Virrill's painfully funny piece about 7th and 8th grade dance class.
You won't be sorry. I had totally forgotten about the gloves, but Dave Virrill REMEMBERS.

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:29:27 -0700
From: "Sinatra, Patricia" <Patricia.Sinatra@abgenix.com>
Subject: RE: Go to the class site now!

I remember dancing with Mr. Terraforte. I guess I wasn't too popular back then.....

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:31:57 -0500
From: "Steve Bass" <sbass@wnpt.net>
Subject: RE: Go to the class site now!

Dave's recollection of detail is nothing short of amazing. I couldn't
remember the teacher's name but it all came back.

I can also proudly boast (?) that I was named the best boy dancer in the
8th grade class. But I can't remember much of anything about the
Foxtrot and only remember the waltz because it's in 3/4 time.

Thanks for the blast from the past.

Steve Bass

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Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 16:42:54 -0400
From: "Susan Stein Klubock" <sueklu@hotmail.com>
Subject: Dance Class

Cute article Dave. What prompted you to remember all this?
Here is what I remember:
1) Thank g-d the girls had to wear gloves. Do you remember how incredibly
SWEATY most of the boy's palms were? I won't even go there.
2) I actually learned to dance there, and have carried it forward in my
life. I also took years of dance classes at Mrs. Cogdales, and never missed
a step. However, dancing seems to be on par with foreign language for many
of our classmates: Some never internalized any of it.
3) My favorite dance partner was Larry Ebel: He was smooth, he could lead,
and he was tall!
4) I do remember that in 8th grade dance class everyone was more relaxed,
and there were more males. Wasn't it more fun?
5) I wish my daughter could have taken a class like that before all the Bar
Mitzvahs. The kids now-a-days don't know how to dance any of the old dances,
Except of course for Emily: I taught her how to dance, and she never
misses a step either. So much for genetics!
Sue

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:17:30 -0500
From: "Lynn Harbin Marquard" <lharbin@swbell.net>
Subject: Re: Dance Class

Sue,
I can't believe the first thing on your list was the thing I remembered the
most too! I also remember that by the 8th grade that some of the boys
really wanted to win 'best dancer' and would race each other to the girls
they thought would give them the best chance to win, not necessarily the
girls they liked the best. My most embarassing moment was during the waltz
when we were learning one of those variations that would let us move around
the room instead of just inside our own little box. We had to turn
diagonally, or some such thing, girls going backwards of course, and we were
all having trouble. For some unknown reason, Mr. Richards asked me to dance
it with him in front of everyone. He felt twice as tall as I was and
practically had to carry me, but we got through it. I thought I would die!
Isn't it funny how something that stands out in your memory probably isn't
even remembered by anyone else?
Lynn

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Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 16:16:09 -0700
From: David Walters <dwalters@igc.org>
Subject: Re: Go to the class site now!

Yes, truly amazing! Dave should of, could of, written the scripts for the
Wonder Years on TV 10 years ago, his memory is that good.

I remember those classes, too. Boys on one side, Girls on the other...Mr.
Richards announces "Get you partners"...and the rush was on to ask the girl
you 'like the best' before the guy next to you grabbed her...now THAT was
terror...I can't imagine what it was like for the girls with all those
skinny, zit-faced not-quite-fitting suits making a bee-line to you...the
nostalgia sends shivers up my old spine.

Now...what got me to raise an eye brow was seeing Stephen Bordy's name there
on the web site...Red hair? Black pants slightly too short? White socks and
black shoes? Right? Same guy?

Then the 8th grade pictures. One, in particular, my "first girl friend" (OK,
first KISS!)...Anne Kapher!(or spelled with a 'C'). This web site is like a
time-machine!

David

PS...Pat S, duh, how long has it been since we got together? My fault, I'm a
rat.

PPS...for those that follow politics, I came within 4 feet of getting shot
at the Oakland docks yesterday. Don't ask...just watch the news.

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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 12:46:43 -0400
From: "JAMES SHILLINGLAW" <jshillinglaw@advanstar.com>
Subject: Re: Go to the class site now!

Steve,

That's just because you were following Amy's lead! Right?

Jamie

"Hastings Class of '75 (and then some)" wrote:

> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:31:57 -0500
> From: "Steve Bass" <sbass@wnpt.net>
> Subject: RE: Go to the class site now!
>
> Dave's recollection of detail is nothing short of amazing. I couldn't
> remember the teacher's name but it all came back.
>
> I can also proudly boast (?) that I was named the best boy dancer in the
> 8th grade class. But I can't remember much of anything about the
> Foxtrot and only remember the waltz because it's in 3/4 time.
>
> Thanks for the blast from the past.
>
> Steve Bass

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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:58:34 EDT
From: JaneGaughran@aol.com
Subject: Re: Dance Class

Remembering dance class is almost as scary as the idea of someone finding
actual photo's which are not instantly destroyed.

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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 01:50:10 EDT
From: "Greg Vaughn" DMcQuickly@aol.com
Subject: Re: Dance Class

I didn't get to do dance class with anyone in Middle School. I moved to
Hastings before 8th grade, and had done dance class at my old school in Great
Neck during 6th grade. Reading about that awkwardness brought it all back to
me...and worse...because of course in 6th grade boys hate girls but are
fascinated by them. Then they stick us all together in a gym and tell us to
ballroom dance. I know for a fact that this is where acne starts. Within
one minute and four seconds of the beginning of the waltz music, every single
one of us boys was sporting gleaming pimples. I am thankful that we had
playground recess afterwards. But, now that I'm teaching, the few times that
I've gone across the street to our Middle School and chaperoned one of their
afternoon "dances" I have a new perspective on it. Those dances--not dance
class, but regular dances--are misnamed. They aren't Middle School Dances.
They are Middle School Stands. That's all most of them do, stand. Often they
sway back and forth from one foot to another, and there's always a couple of
guys willing to bust a move or two, but mostly they stand.

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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 12:40:34 -0400
From: "Alan Fine" <>
Subject: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"

It looks like this is going to happen, so if you are in the NY area, please
reserve

5PM Sunday, 4/27/03

to participate in the second reading of my full-length play "Fountain of
Youth" at

The Neighborhood Playhouse
340 East 54th Street
between 1st and 2nd Avenues
(plenty of Sunday on-street parking, but it is also near the 51st Street 4,
5, & 6 subway stop)

It is a two-act play with an intermission, so the event should be over by
7:30.

For more information or to see a mock "movie" trailer about the show, please
visit www.art-cetera.com/fountain.

I would love to see you there, and I could REALLY use your support, if not this
reading, then the next one.

Okay, here's my pledge. If you show up, I promise to visit you at your work
and laugh and clap in all the right places.

Thanks so much,

Alan Fine
914-588-7062

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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:47:06 -0700
From: "Sinatra, Patricia" <Patricia.Sinatra@abgenix.com>
Subject: Re: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"

We wish we could make it alan. Karin and I give our best. We may give you a call.

Regards,
Pat
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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 22:55:36 EDT
From: "Julie Blasberg Spencer" JEBWILK@aol.com
Subject: Re: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"

Alan-
I love the "trailer" and highly recommend it to the mailing list. What a
premise! Can't wait until you're rich and famous and I can tell everyone I
knew you when.............

Best of Luck with the readings-
-Julie

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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:34:39 -0400
From: "J Sidebotham" <jsidebotham@holychild.org>
Subject: RE: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"

I thought Alan WAS rich and famous. Alan, I wish I could be there. Any
material from "In Between"? (Is that what it was called?)

From the HASTINGS CLASS OF '75
(give or take a couple of years)
EMAIL BULLETIN BOARD
www.art-cetera.com/hastings
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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 22:55:36 EDT
From: "Julie Blasberg Spencer" JEBWILK@aol.com
Subject: Re: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"

Alan-
I love the "trailer" and highly recommend it to the mailing list. What a
premise! Can't wait until you're rich and famous and I can tell everyone I
knew you when.............

Best of Luck with the readings-
-Julie

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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:55:57 -0400
From: "Alan Fine" <>
Subject: RE: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"

Thank you Julie and Jan, but I am SOO not rich and SOO not famous.

Wait... I take that back. At the risk of sounding sappy, I have friends,
and as we learned even while in Hastings, true friends are as hard
to a make and keep as riches and fame. I often feel like Harry Bailey
from "It's a Wonderful Life." One life touches so many others.
(I just wish we had more time to do it.)

As for "InBetween," I forgot about that show, but not the creative lessons
it taught, which I are still reflected in all I do. Wow. I bet no one else remembers
"InBetween." You were great in it. Didn't we win some award and
the chance to perform it at a national convention in DC?

alan

From the HASTINGS CLASS OF '75
(give or take a couple of years)
EMAIL BULLETIN BOARD
www.art-cetera.com/hastings
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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:34:39 -0400
From: "J Sidebotham" <jsidebotham@holychild.org>
Subject: RE: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"

I thought Alan WAS rich and famous. Alan, I wish I could be there. Any
material from "In Between"? (Is that what it was called?)

Alan-
I love the "trailer" and highly recommend it to the mailing list. What a
premise! Can't wait until you're rich and famous and I can tell everyone I
knew you when.............

Best of Luck with the readings-
-Julie

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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:36:01 EDT
From: "Anthony Saverino" Sasaverino@aol.com
Subject: Re: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"

Alan,
I'm curious to learn about the changes you have made to the script.
Sorry that I can't be there for the " 2nd Reading." Good luck and best wishes.

Mr. Saverino

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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:05:54 EDT
From: "Greg Vaughn" DMcQuickly@aol.com
Subject: Re: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"

Everyone, Alan doesn't need a testimonial from me, you all know what a good
writer he is...but I've had a chance to read the script and it is funny and
poignant. Can you say "Neil Simon"?

Good luck with it Alan, I wish I could be there. I'll be thinking of you
though and might even read through it again that night in vicarious support
of you.

Greg

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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 0:30:07 -0400
From: Alan Fine <>
Subject: Re: Re: 2nd Reading - "Fountain of Youth"

Mr. Sav, I think you'll like the changes, but let's hold that discussion offline, as my peers are too old to start cutting your class again.

And Greg, I appreciate what you -- and other classmates -- have written, but now I really just want to slink into the background again please.
Thanks everyone, and hope to see some of you on 4/27.

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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 08:38:33 EDT
From: "Ray Paletta" rjpaletta4@aol.com
Subject: (no subject)

to all my friends, i would like to wish every one happy holiday

Ray Paletta