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1. Re: (no subject)
by: <faheyfam@optonline.net>
2. Re: (no subject)
by: Nicole Cirrincione <ncirrinc@hotmail.com>
3. Re: (no subject)
by: <dmcquickly@comcast.net>
4. [Fwd: Re: Wicked]
by: <afine@art-cetera.com>
5. Holiday Message from Dave Richter
by: <afine@art-cetera.com>
6. From Rick Wester
by: <afine@art-cetera.com>
7. Unknown
by: <dmcquickly@comcast.net>
8. Re: From Rick Wester
by: Steve Jones <stevej_fish@yahoo.com.au>
9. Re: Unknown
by: <faheyfam@optonline.net>
10. Greg's cell phone is live
by: <dmcquickly@comcast.net>
11. Your vote is needed
by: Glenn Martin <gmartin@adelphia.net>
12. Re: Your vote is needed
by: <dmcquickly@comcast.net>
13. Re: Your vote is needed
by: Barry Symonds <BarryHome@rochester.rr.com>
14. RE: Your vote is needed
by: Wayne T. Anthony <Wayne@G-and-Z.com>
15. Re: Your vote is needed
by: <faheyfam@optonline.net>
16. Re: Your vote is needed
by: <JaneGaughran@aol.com>
17. A very Wicked Anniversary...
by: <afine@art-cetera.com>
18. RE: A very Wicked Anniversary...
by: lfrancis <louise.francis@comcast.net>
19. Impromptu Holiday Gathering
by: <afine@art-cetera.com>
20. RE: Impromptu Holiday Gathering
by: lfrancis <louise.francis@comcast.net>
21. Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering
by: Jeff Feinstein <Jeff.Feinstein@cox.net>
22. Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering
by: <peter.hazou@hsbc.com>
23. RE: Spam:Impromptu Holiday Gathering
by: David Virrill <dvirrill@lbsnylaw.com>
24. Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering
by: Rick Wester <rick_wester@mac.com>
25. Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering
by: <psinatra@comcast.net>
26. Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering
by: <JaneGaughran@aol.com>
27. Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering
by: <psinatra@comcast.net>
28. (no subject)
by: <NYCFD1@aol.com>
29. Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering
by: <Captmando@aol.com>
30. RE: Impromptu Holiday Gathering
by: Amy Farber <farberamy@hotmail.com>
31. merry christmas
by: Steve Jones <stevej_fish@yahoo.com.au>
32. holiday gathering at maud's
by: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
33. RE: Impromptu Holiday Gathering
by: Patricia Sinatra <psinatra@comcast.net>

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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:01:14 -0500
From: faheyfam@optonline.net (Anne Kapfer Fahey)
Subject: Re: (no subject)

Hi everyone! As you know I didn't make it to the reunion, but want to wish everyone
and very happy and safe Thanksgiving and holiday season!

All the best,

Anne (Kapfer) Fahey


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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:27:43 +0000
From: "Nicole Cirrincione" <ncirrinc@hotmail.com> (Niki Michaelides Cirrincione)
Subject: Re: (no subject)

And I would like to be the third.  Happy Thanksgiving! 

David, could you send me the stuffing recipe?  It sounds so good.  Niki

Nicole


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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:00:52 +0000
From: dmcquickly@comcast.net (Greg Vaughn)

Hi classmates! Add my wishes for a happy and healthy Thanksgiving.

Greg Vaughn

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 1:42:11 -0500
From: <afine@art-cetera.com> Alan Fine
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Wicked]

Dear Louise and friends,

Yes, we did receive the "Wicked" tickets. We're so excited, we're listening to the music over and over and I just requested the Westchester Library deliver the novel on which the play was based to the Hastings Library for me.

How wonderful this all is. I mean, if Chinese food were delivered to me and the fortune cookie said I would celebrate my twentieth wedding anniversary with the help of all my classmates, I would have said these damn things are never accurate.

But actually, truth is much stranger than all but one of the dishes I order.

If you guys are not sick of me, I intend to thank you again after the event to let you know how it went.

Meanwhile, I would like to join the other well-wishers before me by saying "gobble gobble gobble."

(The last gobble was from Teri.)

Alan

> >
> > From: "lfrancis" <louise.francis@comcast.net>
> > Date: 2005/11/23 Wed AM 12:58:14 EST> To: <afine@art-cetera.com>
> > Subject: Wicked
> >
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > Did you receive a UPS package with the tickets? Let me know. It was
> > supposed to arrive Monday, before 7 p.m.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Louise
> >
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> >
> > K. Louise Francis
> >
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> > <mailto:louise.francis@comcast.net> louise.francis@comcast.net
> > <mailto:s@comcast.net>
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> > 510-334-9211
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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:27:33 -0500
From: <afine@art-cetera.com> Alan Fine
Subject: Holiday Message from Dave Richter

Please visit our website to see a holiday message from Dave Richter and a short video of him doing great things in Cambodia.

www.art-cetera.com/hastings

Alan

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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:30:28 -0500
From: <afine@art-cetera.com>
Subject: From Rick Wester

Dear Dave:

Just saw your message on the class website and was really glad to hear
some news from you. Hope all is well with you and that your efforts are
effective and satisfying. I very much understand the impulse to do what
you are doing and have tried to contribute in whatever ways I can over
the years. Over the past few years I have helped, on and off, an
organization called Friends Without a Border, which runs the Angkor
Hospital for Children's in Siem Reap, by volunteering as an auctioneer
for their annual photography auction. The next one is coming up in
December - here's the link: http://www.fwab.org/Pages/engindex.htm. I
wish I could come help you build houses - it's actually something that
sits in the back of my mind as something I'd like to contribute to at
some point - but the timing doesn't work well at all.

I think there is something that a lot of us learned from living in
Hastings about helping others. Maybe it was the era, maybe it was our
parents, maybe it was something in the water but it seems to be a
consistent thread among our former classmates. Keep up the good work
and if you come East at all, let us know. We'll throw a prodigal son
party for you.

All the best,

-R.

Rick Wester & Jennifer Garvin
12 'B' Clinton Avenue
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522

(914) 479-0110
(914) 479-0383 - fax
(917) 518-1330 - cell

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Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:05:22 +0000
From: dmcquickly@comcast.net (Greg Vaughn)
Subject: Unknown

Ack! The rigors of living in West Michigan and its lake effect snowbelt: I dropped my cell phone last night in a slush puddle in a parking lot. By the time I realized I'd dropped it, it was toast. It isn't working, so I have temporarily suspended my phone service while a new one is shipped to me. It'll be the same number, but until I reactivate that number (whenever I get my phone--Verizon was good about getting me a decent price and it's being hurry-shipped this week) my phone service is off. I wanted to tell you all so when you call and get the "that number is temporarily out of service" message, you won't worry.

I'll email again when I'm up and running. Expect that to be early next week.

Obviously, this does not affect my wonderful Comcast internet. So emails will get through.

Happy holidays...stay away from slush!

Greg


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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 14:50:45 +1100 (EST)
From: Steve Jones <stevej_fish@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: From Rick Wester

last yeas my daughter went to mexico with about 30
other young people to build simple houses for homeless
families and i don't know if inspiration came from our
generation, our parents or enlightenment in our kids
generation but i'm just thankful to hear of people
caring enough to put in the effort. keep up the good
fight guys and the world will see a difference. steve


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Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 07:22:37 -0500
From: faheyfam@optonline.net (Ann Kapfer Fahey)
Subject: Re: Unknown

Greg, at least you didn't drop it in Lake Michigan! Anyway, sorry for the mishap but don't feel bad - I lost a cell phone at the movies once. When I got home and noticed it missing I understood why a "polite" teenager had held the door for me and then bumped into me! Hope you get your new phone soon.

Anne


-------------------- 10 --------------------
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:59:06 +0000
From: dmcquickly@comcast.net (Greg Vaughn)
Subject: Greg's cell phone is live

Thanks for all the words of condolence all! I picked up my new cell at the FedEx office yesterday afternoon. I'm back on. Unfortunately, my old cell phone didn't die instantly upon hitting the slush. I found it when I came back out of the store, but in that time, according to my Verizon account, the slush had had time to make a call to Frosty the Snowman and for some Chinese delivery. That must have been semi-frozen moo shu veggie I stepped in, there in the parking lot. No harm done, though.

For those of you yet to shop, good luck and remember the root word of the season: Piece. As in, "I"ll have another piece of turkey, please."

That joke sounds better than it writes.

Greg


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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 07:54:23 -0500
From: "Glenn Martin" <gmartin@adelphia.net>
Subject: Your vote is needed

Hello classmates and friends!

We have a silly but important request to make. Important for Nancy's daughter Keri that is. She is in a Senior Survivor contest where she had her senior portraits taken and is trying to get to the next round. To get there, all she needs is votes. Just when she was running out of resources, a lightbulb went on......our class website!

Please go to www.housdenphoto.com then click on Senior Survivor and place your vote for Keri. Once your vote is completed, you'll be able to see the results. The voting for this round ends Friday morning 12/9.

On behalf of Keri.......we thank you very very much!

Glenn and Nancy Martin

PS: Feel free to pass this on to your internet friends


-------------------- 12 --------------------
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:37:25 +0000
From: dmcquickly@comcast.net (Greg Vaughn)
Subject: Re: Your vote is needed

In the inimitable words of Richard Daley, vote early and often! lol We gotta get Keri past Rachel. Oooh, that Rachel. She'd do anything to win. :-)

Good luck Keri!

Greg


-------------------- 13 --------------------
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:08:05 -0500
From: "Barry Symonds" <BarryHome@rochester.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Your vote is needed

Just voted from home. The site is smart enough not to let you vote twice
from the same computer so I'll vote from work tomorrow. Good luck to Keri.
Latest tally at 7:00 on Wednesday is Keri 267, Rachel 206. Keep it up

Barry


-------------------- 14 --------------------
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:30:28 -0500
From: "Wayne T. Anthony" <Wayne@G-and-Z.com>
Subject: RE: Your vote is needed

Nancy:

I must say, I certainly see a lot of you in Keri! It certainly leaves
no doubt that she's of your blood.
Being that she attends 'Wayne'sboro, there was little doubt in my vote!
Please wish her all the luck in the world from me.

Sincerely,
Wayne T. Anthony, CDP
Senior Systems Analyst
G & Z Systems, Inc.
22 Saw Mill River Rd.
Hawthorne, NY 10532
wayne@g-and-z.com
(914) 345-5600 - phone
(914) 345-5686 - fax


-------------------- 15 --------------------
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:34:59 -0500
From: faheyfam@optonline.net (Anne (Kapfer) Fahey)
Subject: Re: Your vote is needed

Go Keri! You've got our vote!

Also, Merry Christmas and all the best in 2006, Nancy, Glenn and Family! I was hoping to see you folks at the reunion - it's been so long, and also want to send belated wedding congratulations - what a lovely couple and family you make. I'm so glad you found each other!

All the best,

Anne (Kapfer) Fahey

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hastings Class of '75 (plus or minus a few years)" <hastings@art-cetera.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 5:16 pm
Subject: Your vote is needed

> From the HASTINGS CLASS OF '75
> (also including teachers and other classes)
> EMAIL BULLETIN BOARD
> www.art-cetera.com/hastings
> ---------------------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 07:54:23 -0500
> From: "Glenn Martin" <gmartin@adelphia.net>
> Subject: Your vote is needed
>
> Hello classmates and friends!
>
> We have a silly but important request to make. Important for
> Nancy's daughter Keri that is. She is in a Senior Survivor contest
> where she had her senior portraits taken and is trying to get to
> the next round. To get there, all she needs is votes. Just when
> she was running out of resources, a lightbulb went on......our
> class website!
>
> Please go to www.housdenphoto.com then click on Senior Survivor
> and place your vote for Keri. Once your vote is completed, you'll
> be able to see the results. The voting for this round ends Friday
> morning 12/9.
>
> On behalf of Keri.......we thank you very very much!
>
> Glenn and Nancy Martin
>
> PS: Feel free to pass this on to your internet friends
>
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-------------------- 16 --------------------
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 15:17:54 EST
From: JaneGaughran@aol.com
Subject: Re: Your vote is needed

what are we voting for? jane

-------------------- 17 --------------------
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:50:33 -0500
From: <afine@art-cetera.com> (Alan Fine)
Subject: A very Wicked Anniversary...

Dear Classmates,

I want to thank you and tell you about your lovely gift of theater, but I must set the stage first. My life always has more drama than necessary, so here is a small example.

I was -- and still am actually -- very sick with... well we don’t know what, because I never had the time to go to a doctor. Still fighting my way into the city to DreamWorks everyday (a whole other story) and two days before my anniversary, my pharmacist father heard that my cough burned like fire throughout my lungs and put me on strong antibiotics. My sickest day must have been the day BEFORE my anniversary.

On my anniversary, how could I possibly enjoy a play at the end of a day where I had to get up at 4:30AM, trudge through biting cold and the snowy Aqueduct to the Greystone Train Station (the one just south Hastings), help with a presentation in the city at 7AM, work the morning and part of the afternoon at DreamWorks, visit a client in Chelsea, get back to Grand Central to meet Teri with a single rose, but not before dragging myself to THREE florists on what should have been a simple quest. (No one would break up a dozen, and a dozen in a crowded Broadway theater would not be a welcomed gift.)

Laryngitis had set in by dinner, and as the holiday office parties started to get louder at our Midtown pub, Teri and I found it hard to communicate. Ordinarily we would have walked to the theater, but I was worried about my health (for the first time), so we took a cab.

There, the stage is set for a horrible evening, wouldn't you say?...

So Teri and I walked into the theater and from that moment on, I was no longer sick. Our world was transformed.

The walls were decorated with maps of OZ. Dragons were perched as were flying monkeys. As we mounted the grand staircase, I looked back; above the doors to the street, signs in the same lettering as the maps warned, "Straight ahead to reality."

Two hours and forty-five minutes later, we were very sad to have to use those doors. And in a way, we didn’t, as the play -- and especially the music -- is still with us. In fact, I will be reading (actually listening to an unabridged book on tape when I walk between appointments... who has time to read) the book upon which the play was based, so I can revisit that place.

Teri and I are theater-going people. We have seen good plays and bad. Simply put, we had one of the best theater experiences ever on that night. (Teri might even put it above the night we saw Nathan Lane and Mathew Brodrick stray far from the script in "The Producers.")

Young at heart adults and parents with families should consider making this a destination when visiting Manhattan. The story of the witches of OZ shakes up your belief in who was really good and who was really wicked. I will never be able to watch the movie or read the original book again without thinking about this alternate version running alongside.

It is very clever, very heartfelt; a story of friendship between women, a Harry Potter empowerment story for girls, and with enough action and special effects for boys.

I do not know how others like to spend their birthdays or anniversaries, but Teri and I love a good show. You -- my friends -- gave us a wonderful anniversary.

Thank you all,

Alan

PS. Dinner at Harvest will occur before New Year. Rather than email again, please allow me to thank you here for that as well. And now that many of you have actually been there and seen it, you know what a good time we will have. Thank you all again.

-------------------- 18 --------------------
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:01:10 -0800
From: "lfrancis" <louise.francis@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: A very Wicked Anniversary...

And thank you Alan for a wonderful description of your experience. I
felt like I was there with you. I'll have to make it there, when the
boys and I next visit NYC. Please do take care of yourself and slow down
to rid yourself of what ails you. A lot of people need you, healthy.
Have a wonderful holiday all,
Louise


-------------------- 19 --------------------
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:38:42 -0500
From: <afine@art-cetera.com> Alan Fine
Subject: Impromptu Holiday Gathering

Rumor has it classmate out-of-towners will be in town between the holidays.

So...

12/29/05
Maud's
8:30PM

Email the group here if you can make it.

Count me in.

Who else?

Alan


-------------------- 20 --------------------
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:00:34 -0800
From: "lfrancis" <louise.francis@comcast.net> Louise Francis
Subject: RE: Impromptu Holiday Gathering

I won't be east this Christmas/New Year. Perhaps next year.
Happy Holidays all,
Louise


-------------------- 21 --------------------
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:38:53 -0500
From: "Jeff Feinstein" <Jeff.Feinstein@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering

I'm in (and looking forward to it).

Jeff


-------------------- 22 --------------------
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:38:22 +0000
From: peter.hazou@hsbc.com (Peter Hazou)
Subject: Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering

Sadly!!! I go back on the 28th and will now miss ANOTHER class event. I enjoy following vicariously though. The pictures of the autumn reunion were great (we all look like our parents incidentally). Haz.
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----- Original Message -----
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Sent: 22/12/2005 04:46
To: "Hastings Class of '75 (plus or minus a few years)" <hastings@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Impromptu Holiday Gathering

From the HASTINGS CLASS OF '75
(also including teachers and other classes)
EMAIL BULLETIN BOARD
www.art-cetera.com/hastings
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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:38:42 -0500
From: <afine@art-cetera.com> Alan Fine
Subject: Impromptu Holiday Gathering

Rumor has it classmate out-of-towners will be in town between the holidays.

So...

12/29/05
Maud's
8:30PM

Email the group here if you can make it.

Count me in.

Who else?

Alan


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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:59:01 -0500
From: "David Virrill" <dvirrill@lbsnylaw.com>
Subject: RE: Spam:Impromptu Holiday Gathering

I can do it. d


-------------------- 24 --------------------
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:00:39 -0500
From: Rick Wester <rick_wester@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering

Pending family stuff, I'll be there too!
Sinatra: is it YOU?????
-R.


-------------------- 25 --------------------
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:10:26 +0000 GMT
From: psinatra@comcast.net (Pat Sinatra)
Subject: Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering

We are here now but return on the 27th. If we don't see any of you have a happy holiday and. Healthy new year.
Pat
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.


-------------------- 26 --------------------
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:02:33 EST
From: JaneGaughran@aol.com (Jane Gaughran)
Subject: Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering

Entertaining family etc -- but wishing everyone relaxing
(occasionally joyous?) holidays and the best for 2006 -- jane

-------------------- 27 --------------------
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:00:39 +0000 GMT
From: psinatra@comcast.net (Pat Sinatra)
Subject: Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering

Rick
I am already here but return on the 27 in the eve
Pat
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.


-------------------- 28 --------------------
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:42:46 EST
From: NYCFD1@aol.com (Ray Paletta)
Subject: (no subject)

must have missed the date------- When?
ill be there-- merry christmas

ray


-------------------- 29 --------------------
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:33:42 EST
From: Captmando@aol.com (John Capuano)
Subject: Re: Impromptu Holiday Gathering

i would love to "pop" in...does anyone know if sidebotham is around town for
the holidays?....and what about mayfield?.....hopkins?......anyway,i am going
to try and make it..if i dont...happy holidays to all, and a great healthy new
year!...you......john capuano

sent from my wired casaba desktop.......hi pat!.......

-------------------- 30 --------------------
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:48:35 -0500
From: "Amy Farber" <farberamy@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Impromptu Holiday Gathering


I will try very hard to be there.

Amy F.


-------------------- 31 --------------------
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:14:04 +1100 (EST)
From: Steve Jones <stevej_fish@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: merry christmas

to all my classmates of a couple of teenagers
lifetimes ago, sounds better than 30 years, i pray
that God may richly bless each and everyone of you
during this festive season. enjoy the family
commitments, the rest from work for those with time
off,the joy on children's faces with the expectation
of recieving good things and my ideal for you is that
this coming new year may be filled with the hope and
excitement of a child recieving presents. reality is
that we'll all face some challenging times, some more
than others, so i urge you all to continue
communicating and uplifting eachother through whatever
means available. alan, thank you for this website and
i'm sure the care expressed by people is a benefit not
only to those directly involved but also those like
myself who are encouraged by just tapping in to this
site. have a great time at maud's for those who can
make it and those who can't have a great time with the
ones you are with. merry christmas and a happy new
year fom the land of sweltering heat (oz and not the
land of the wizard) steve

-------------------- 32 --------------------
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:21:41 -0800 (PST)
From: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
Subject: holiday gathering at maud's

Sorry . . . I won't be at Maud's that night, but I'm
pretty sure Heather Schmeltz will be . . .


-------------------- 33 --------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:07:43 -0800
From: "Patricia Sinatra" <psinatra@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: Impromptu Holiday Gathering

Just missed you guys. Have a great time tomorrow evening. Pat