Digest 50

This digest contains the following messages:

1. RE: Thanks to all
by: Mckirgan, Irene <irene.mckirgan@Vanderbilt.Edu>
2. RE: Re: Thanks to all
by: Hastings Alumni Email Forum <hastings@art-cetera.com>
3. reunion feedback
by: Amy Farber <farberamy@hotmail.com>
4. elmira photo
by: <ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com>
5. Class of 77
by: <Sselklub@aol.com>
6. address request
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
7. Re: elmira photo
by: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
8. Re: reunion feedback
by: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
9. Re: Re: elmira photo
by: <afine@art-cetera.com>
10. Re: elmira photo
by: <ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com>
11. class of '76 boys
by: susan craft <bitlit4858@hotmail.com>
12. Re: Re: elmira photo
by: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
13. Re: class of '76 boys
by: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
14. Re: elmira photo
by: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
15. Re: elmira photo
by: <ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com>
16. RE: elmira photo
by: Keith Kelley <keith_a_kelley@hotmail.com>
17. Re: elmira photo
by: David Walters <dave.walters@comcast.net>
18. RE: elmira photo
by: Patricia Sinatra <psinatra@comcast.net>
19. Re: elmira photo
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
20. GReenleaf 8 (Capital 'R' in GReenleaf)
by: <PeterJHazou@aol.com>
21. Re: elmira photo
by: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
22. Re: RE: elmira photo
by: <faheyfam@optonline.net>
23. Re: elmira photo
by: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
24. Telephone trivia - WAS: elmira photo
by: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
25. telephone numbers - WAS: elmira photo
by: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
26. Re: telephone numbers - WAS: elmira photo
by: <faheyfam@optonline.net>
27. RE: telephone numbers - WAS: elmira photo
by: Patricia Sinatra <psinatra@comcast.net>
28. Re: telephone numbers - WAS: elmira photo
by: <abelarge@optonline.net>
29. Re: telephone numbers - WAS: elmira photo
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
30. RE: telephone numbers - WAS: elmira photo
by: Patricia Sinatra <psinatra@comcast.net>
31. Phone #'s
by: <Sselklub@aol.com>
32. Re: using old telephone numbers
by: Alison Rempel <cmfuzz-alison@yahoo.com>
33. Contacts for a West Coast Reunion
by: <afine@art-cetera.com>
34. Re: using old telephone numbers
by: <dave.walters@comcast.net>
35. Re: Contacts for a West Coast Reunion
by: <DOUGNOLAN@aol.com>
36. Re: using old telephone numbers
by: <ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com>
37. Re: Contacts for a West Coast Reunion
by: <ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com>
38. Re: using old telephone numbers
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
39. Re: using old telephone numbers
by: <abelarge@optonline.net>
40. Re: using old telephone numbers
by: <ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com>
41. Re: elmira photo
by: <dmcquickly@comcast.net>
42. Re: GReenleaf 8 (Capital 'R' in GReenleaf)
by: <dmcquickly@comcast.net>
43. Re: Telephone trivia - WAS: elmira photo
by: <dmcquickly@comcast.net>
44. Re: using old telephone numbers
by: <dmcquickly@comcast.net>
45. Analogue Ringers (or, a.k.a.: How to beat telephone stories to absolute death)
by: <PeterJHazou@aol.com>
46. Re: elmira photo
by: <ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com>
47. Please forgive the intrusion...
by: <afine@art-cetera.com>
48. Now our thoughts go to Ray Paletta
by: <afine@art-cetera.com>
49. Re: Now our thoughts go to Ray Paletta
by: <faheyfam@optonline.net>
50. Thank you for your thoughts and wishes
by: Barry Symonds <bsymond1@rochester.rr.com>
51. A good cause
by: Josefa Mulaire <josefamulaire@verizon.net>

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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:22:32 -0500
From: "Mckirgan, Irene" <irene.mckirgan@Vanderbilt.Edu>
Subject: RE: Thanks to all

I also wanted to express my thanks to everyone who helped organize a great weekend! I really enjoyed seeing everyone and being 'home.'
Keep in touch
Irene

Irene McKirgan, CHES, BS
Administrative Manager
Ph.D. in Nursing Science Program
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
603C Godchaux Hall
461 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37240

(615) 322-7410
(615) 343-7505 (Fax)
Visit our Web site at:
www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/nursing

Internal Address
School of Nursing
603 Godchaux Hall (8411)

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When you want to email me, please use afine@art-cetera.com. This message would have gone out to 130 people. I'm going on vacation, so after this, messages to hastings@art-cetera.com could slip though to everyone.

The "R" person is Ray Paletta.

Alan

Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:52:08 EDTFrom: ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.comSubject: Re: Thanks to all

it was a letter to pat re the light show, signed R. </HTML>

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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:43:01 -0400
From: "Amy Farber" <farberamy@hotmail.com>
Subject: reunion feedback

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Alan asked for feedback: OK
The boat club was very good.  There was lots of room.  We could have had twice as many people show up and there still would have been plenty of room.  The price was right - but remember: the price was right because somebody was KILLING himself to make sure we had a good time - Billy!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
The birthday party/reunion was fun, exciting, interesting and uplifting.<o:p></o:p>
Thanks to Alan for all his time, energy and ideas and ESPECIALLY to all the people who showed up that haven't been seen for awhile and to the people who had to drag themselves over distances to make it.  Attendance is everything.
Amy F. </DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From:  Hastings Alumni Email Forum <hastings@art-cetera.com> Reply-To:  Hastings Alumni Email Forum <hastings@art-cetera.com> To:  Hastings Alumni Email Forum <hastings@art-cetera.com> Subject:  Please send your pictures! Date:  Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:06:07 -0400 >       From the HASTINGS CLASS OF '75 >(also including teachers and other classes) >            EMAIL BULLETIN BOARD >        www.art-cetera.com/hastings >--------------------------------------------- >Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:54:51 -0400 >From: <afine@art-cetera.com> >Subject: Please send your pictures! > >Pat
Sinatra sent the first small batch of pictures from the weekend. They arrived today and I posted them this evening. Thank you, Pat. > >Those of you with pictures, please try to send them as soon as possible. I would like to post them by the weekend as I'm going on vacation next week and I'd like this project finished before I leave. > >Congratulations, Billy on a tremendous event. Right before the end, things got rough and you told me, "I should have kept my big mouth shut," but if you had, we wouldn't have the new set of memories we're going to carry with us always. Thank you for that. > >Thank you everyone who participated. And those who did not, we missed you. > >Alan > >PS. Please consider writing your impressions of the weekend and I'll compile them and add them to the page with the pictures. Using the website to look back,
events with people's writen impresssions are more vivid to me than the events without them. >-------------------------------------------------------- >This message has been sent to -- and seen by -- 130 classmate, >teacher and friend email addresses! > >To unsubscribe, please send an email to >hastings@art-cetera.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject. > </BLOCKQUOTE></div> <hr> <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMBENUS/2746??PS=47575" target="_top">More photos, more messages, more storage—get 2GB with Windows Live Hotmail.</a> </html>

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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:53:47 EDT
From: ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com
Subject: elmira photo

jan's elmira photo really brings back memories - even tho i wasn't there! in
addition to the people she mentions, i can also identify (from left to rest)
jane wasserman, "doc" rowell, nora balaban, amy melnick, vivienne heston,
debbie lee, emmett trevan, dan lessing, gary becker.. and my sister jean (behind
emmett). who are the rest of these good samaritans? </HTML>

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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:26:56 EDT
From: Sselklub@aol.com
Subject: Class of 77

Is anyone interested in joining me at the Class of 77 reunion Friday night,
August 17th?

Soooo many of you actually have SIBLINGS in that class. They are probably
taller than us now too!

Let me know.
Alan- I finally recuperated from the last 2 weekends. Is this what it feels
like to be 50??

Billy- You did a superb job on Friday night. Many thanks.

I am out of town the next 2 days. If anyone really wants to join me, write
to my work email:

_sklubock@gastonassoc.com_ (mailto:sklubock@gastonassoc.com) .

Thanks. Sue

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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:53:45 EDT
From: JEBWILK@aol.com
Subject: address request

Sorry to trouble the whole class with this, but:
Jeff Edelman, can you send me Pete's address (home that is). My brother
asked for it.
Thanks-send to _jebwilk@aol.com_ (mailto:jebwilk@aol.com) .
-Julie (Blasberg) Spencer

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:56:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: elmira photo

When I first sent the photo, I tried to identify everyone from the class of '75 (since, at the time, the people checking out the website were from that grade. Since then, Alan has converted people from other classes to the cult of HHS). Anyway, here are some names of other folks in the photo: Eric Stern '73, Susan (?) Jelinek (class?), Kathy Sachar '73, Susie Baker '73 (Brian Baker's sister), Georgia Brillis '73, Tom Fischer '73, Jennifer ________ (Barnes?) '76.

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:00:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: reunion feedback

I couldn't say it better than Amy has said it, and I want to second everything she says, with a nod again to Alan, Billy, and Tom.
I wish I'd been around for Saturday night: very sorry to miss Mr. Wagner and the three cool dudes whom I will always think of as "juniors": Jeff, Clint, and Danny.
I cringed when I saw the picture of me doing the karaoke thing, but I have to say I have ALWAYS wanted to sing "I will survive" with a mic in hand, and surely, the safest place to do that was among you all. (I DID want to do it before I was fifty, but a week late is okay)

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 9:46:30 -0400
From: <afine@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Re: Re: elmira photo

I am on vacation, but want to make sure all this work identifying people does not go to waste. When I get home, I'll try to collect all the names and put together a caption, then ask you all to take another stab at the blanks.

What a nice project. Even though we are apart, we can still have fun together AND preserve a piece of history. Who would have thought?...

Alan

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:32:21 EDT
From: ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com
Subject: Re: elmira photo

Can I suggest that once you finish the caption you should give a print to the
Hastings Historical Society? You can reach them 10-2 M & Th @ Greenleaf
8-2249.
Eric Stern's the guy with the ski hat. I remember playing poker with him and
my brother back in the day. </HTML>

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:38:25 -0400
From: susan craft <bitlit4858@hotmail.com>
Subject: class of '76 boys

Thanks for all the wonderful pictures and especially the captioning. For me to see that great shot of Jeff E., Clint D and Mark B. was a real (wonderful) trip down memory lane!

Sue Craft

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:03:17 -0400
From: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
Subject: Re: Re: elmira photo

That is Barry Gonder in the top row next to Hazou.

Did anyone mention that that is Dave Heston below and stage right of
Gonder?

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:42:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: class of '76 boys

yes, and oops, I meant to include Mark in my email about the "juniors."

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:32:48 -0400
From: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
Subject: Re: elmira photo

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 13:43 -0400, Hastings Alumni Email Forum wrote:
> Can I suggest that once you finish the caption you should give a print to the
> Hastings Historical Society? You can reach them 10-2 M & Th @ Greenleaf
> 8-2249.

How do you dial "Greenleaf" LOL

That is Dan Lessing ('76) with the 'fro standing up in the back stage
left.

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:30:21 EDT
From: ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com
Subject: Re: elmira photo

Technically, Danny "The Flash" Lessing.

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:35:46 -0400
From: Keith Kelley <keith_a_kelley@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: elmira photo

Jan,
That's Nancy Jelinek (not Sue) class of '74 (same as my sister).
Laura

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:39:36 -0700
From: David Walters <dave.walters@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: elmira photo

Gaaawwwwddd! "Greenleaf-8" When DID that go away? How old AM I???!?!??@?#?#?

David

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:00:47 -0700
From: "Patricia Sinatra" <psinatra@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: elmira photo

Remember OWens-3 for Dobbs Ferry and Ardsley? How about Murray Hill in NY?
My aunt's number used to be 212 SH 3 - 0093 in Brooklyn. Funny how you
remember this stuff.....

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:31:26 EDT
From: JEBWILK@aol.com
Subject: Re: elmira photo

Well it is the Hastings HISTORICAL Society, it's only fitting that they keep
the historic phone number. I remember Dobbs was Owens-3. Anyone remember
any others?
-Julie

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:32:59 EDT
From: PeterJHazou@aol.com
Subject: GReenleaf 8 (Capital 'R' in GReenleaf)

One of the things I came across in cleaning out my mother's house is an
original Bell Telephone (c.1958) pamphlet which gives all the original dialing
codes in the area and how to reach them (and do you recall "Party Lines"??).
I still use -and have always used- GR8 when giving my number. (even if
lately it has required more and more explanation!). It is the number which was
issued to me and I see no reason to change it. Indeed, we still have only
rotary phones at home; there being nothing quite like the true analogue
pleasure of the way its rrrrRRRRIIIiiinnnnnnnnnnnnng.... fills the house when
somebody calls. Kids, scoot over with your iPhones and all that gadget creep.

I intend to donate the Bell pamphlet and other memorabilia to the Hastings
Historical Society (bravo Eddy Weinberg!)... including a group of family
(Red) pool tags dd 1965, (the first year of operation), plastic late '60s Centre
Restaurant menu covers, Boy Scout commencement programmes (Craine Stookey,
Eagle Scout!), &c., &c., Boy did we as a family save a lot of stuff over 50
years, most of which we managed to shift at July's all-town TAG sale.
Highly successful that: We even sold the spare refrigerator shelves from two
refrigerators ago! But I kept back the stuff for the Historical Socienty.

So I too would just like to add my thanks to all those who organised and
participated in our 50th birthday bash at the yacht club. I am so pleased I was
able to attend and to catch up with so many old friends from the fog of our
childhood.

Sincerely, Haz.

(and P.S., I am not a Luddite, I merely prefer the simplicity and pure
calculus of Analogue over the incomprehensibility of our increasingly Digital
world).

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:28:43 -0400
From: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
Subject: Re: elmira photo

Mount Vernon was MO and Yonkers was both GR or YO, depending on what
area. When my business was in The South Bronx it was KI for Kilpatrick.
The funny thing is we have one of the old deco style phones sitting in
a display cabinet. Anyone want to place an order to 212
KIlpatrcik-2-1450? The area code sticker is newer than the the number
in the center of the dial.

When my kids were younger I brought an old dial phone up to where the
computer was kept. My kids had no concept of how to use a dial because
they had only been exposed to touch pads!

Jim K

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:15:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: faheyfam@optonline.net (Anne Kapfer Fahey)
Subject: Re: RE: elmira photo

Remember when Yonkers was Beverly 7 for 237? And there was a song, I can't remember how it started but it went something like "my number is Beverly ( or whatever ) 8-2749, and you can call me up and have a date, any old time. I think the same musician that sang Soldier Boy sang it, but I'm not sure.

Great reunion pictures as always, so much fun to see-I'm so happy for all of you that made it and so sorry I couldn't.

Anne

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:58:27 -0400
From: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
Subject: Re: elmira photo

Our old number 478-3244 came out to be I-SUE-BIG. No, my dad was not a
lawyer.

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:22:38 -0400
From: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
Subject: Telephone trivia - WAS: elmira photo

White plains was WH. Greenburg should have insisted that GR=GReenburg.

The funny thing is that technology has changed. Soon you my use voice
over IP to dial people by name@company...we already do for email,
jimk@starkaywhite.com!

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:10:18 -0400
From: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
Subject: telephone numbers - WAS: elmira photo

Marvolettes sang BEchwood 4-5789 (you can call me up for a date any old
time) Marvin Gay and others wrote it.

Another song
Tommy Tutone - "Jenny" subtitled "867-5309" went on Ebay a few years
ago...turned out to be a hoax.
http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2004/02/jenny8675309_fo.html

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:04:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: faheyfam@optonline.net (Anne Kapfer Fahey)
Subject: Re: telephone numbers - WAS: elmira photo

That's right, it was the Marvolettes! Thanks for clearing that up for me, that's the type of thing you wake up and remember at 3:00 am (or at least I do!)

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:33:07 -0700
From: "Patricia Sinatra" <psinatra@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: telephone numbers - WAS: elmira photo

A lot more creative than 867 5309 (Jenny, I got your number on the wall....)

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:08:41 +0000
From: abelarge@optonline.net (Andre Belarge)
Subject: Re: telephone numbers - WAS: elmira photo

As you all look back on our's and other's old #'s, all I can remember is our one phone hung on the dinning room wall and we were allow to make 30 second calls. If my father was home he stood there to make sure you did not go past your half min.
Andre
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:49:55 EDT
From: JEBWILK@aol.com (Julie Blasberg Spencer)
Subject: Re: telephone numbers - WAS: elmira photo

Andre-
That's pretty funny because I remember talking to you on the phone for what
seemed like hours at a time. Back in those days there wasn't call waiting
either. My parents got so tired of me tying up the phone, that they got me my
own phone and phone number. I don't remember that number, but the digits of
our family's phone number are what my parents use to this day for locks on
luggage, garage door combination, etc.
Thanks all for the walk down memory lane. Even if we all remember it
differently.
-Julie

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:26:26 -0700
From: "Patricia Sinatra" <psinatra@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: telephone numbers - WAS: elmira photo

Man, I wish I had my own phone!!! My parents would just unplug ours.

Ah....the long lost busy signal. It's gone the way of the dial and princess
phones with the three pronged outlets.

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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:21:11 EDT
From: Sselklub@aol.com (Susan Stein Klubock)
Subject: Phone #'s

Well, Mt. Kisco is MO 6, or 666.
Some would say it's the sign of the devil....

Sue

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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:49:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alison Rempel <cmfuzz-alison@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: using old telephone numbers

I, too, use our old Hastings phone number for locks and passwords- especially voice mail. It's great because I'll never forget it, but it isn't written anywhere.

My fingers still remember the pattern since the Waterous' household got a touchtone (princess, I believe) way before we did. I made the daily call home from Nancy's to tell Mom where I was. Of course, I had to learn a new pattern when converting the number for use on a keyboard, LOL

Nancy and I met for lunch yesterday and we believe it's time for a West Coast, or at least northern Cal reunion/birthday. I'd be happy to host (in Los Altos) since I think we're spread from Novato to Santa Cruz. I don't have a kitchen right now, so we can plan for late Oct/early Nov or just do pizza in the yard.

The folks I know about (not sure who's on this maillist) are:
Dave Walters, Ellen Crack, Louise Francis, Pat Sinatra, me (Alison Krafft), Nancy Waterous, Doug Nolan and Rachel Dewey.

Anyone know others? Anyone planning a trip here for business or pleasure?
Regards, Alison Krafft Rempel '74

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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:52:58 -0400
From: <afine@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Contacts for a West Coast Reunion

Of your list of people, all are on the email list except Ellen Crack and Rachel Dewey. If you have their email addresses, I'll add them. That will bring us to 132.

Alan

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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:34:22 +0000
From: dave.walters@comcast.net
Subject: Re: using old telephone numbers

Hey, I'm ready! BTW...Zach also lives out here.

David
Pacifica

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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:51:26 EDT
From: DOUGNOLAN@aol.com
Subject: Re: Contacts for a West Coast Reunion

OK I have finally reached de-lurker status.

It sounds like everyone had a great time at the 50th Birthday bash. I
would like to have been there, but scooting across the country for the weekend
was not in the plans.

A west Coast get together could be fun. The sooner we set the date the
better, so that I avoid committing to a band booking. We are booking October and
beyond at this point.

The Hastings folks I know living in the Bay Area are Tim Brazil, Richard
Gippner (74), Joe Curtis, and Sasha Manzella (78?). I have contact info for all
of them.

Doug

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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:22:50 EDT
From: ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com
Subject: Re: using old telephone numbers

fyi Zack's # is 415 312 2237 a/o 415 370 9874 </HTML>

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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:26:06 EDT
From: ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com
Subject: Re: Contacts for a West Coast Reunion

Doug, can you please send me Sasha's contact information? We used to live
across the street from each other on Overlook Drive by virtue of which I reckon
he was my very first friend! So I have often thought of reconnecting. Thanks, &
rgrds,
pcz </HTML>

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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:01:06 EDT
From: JEBWILK@aol.com
Subject: Re: using old telephone numbers

I forwarded this email to Alison Hickey who is in touch with other Hastings
and Dobbs people. She lives in Redondo Beach, CA.
-Julie

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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:17:52 +0000
From: abelarge@optonline.net (Andre Belarge)
Subject: Re: using old telephone numbers

Yes Julie, when my father went bowling we had longer access. Can you please forward Alison's e-mail to me.
Thanks Andre

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:11:50 EDT
From: ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com
Subject: Re: using old telephone numbers

Did i really start this firestorm about old telephone prefixes? Hate to say
it, but you '75ers are a real bunch of nerds! I should probably stick with my
old class - the wiseacres. </HTML>

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:43:56 +0000
From: dmcquickly@comcast.net (Greg Vaughn)
Subject: Re: elmira photo

A couple of years ago I happened to mention in one of my English classes that I still remember all the phone numbers from my childhood. Pyramid 8-4296, (I'll skip a bunch here for the sake of brevity--let it never be uttered that I'm not breve), Greenleaf 8-0008...and being the alert teacher I am, I noticed the Look of Dumb on their faces.

"What's the matter?" I asked them.

"What does 'Greenleaf' mean, Mr. Vaughn?"

"Well, it's...er...ah..."

How does one explain the quant but, on an objective level, completely pointless telephone prefix?

I made a pathetic but brief attempt to explic the inexplicable. "That's why there are letters associated with each number on a telephone dial," I finished, hoping to distract them from the black hole of an explanation I'd just given them.

"Isn't that for text messaging?" someone asked.

I merely hung my head and wept quietly.

Old? I don't feel old. However, occasionally I do feel like I'm from somewhere else--a planet circling Syrius, for instance. Then again, there may not be much difference between old and alien.

I'm so sorry I wasn't there to see you all. Hopefully nothing so monumental will happen the next time it's time to meet up with you all. I recall that the attendance at the bachelor party for my first marriage was significantly circumsized by the cleanup efforts after Hurricane Gloria. Such is the weave and warp of my life. But it looks like you had a great time and the visitations from students of semesters past and future must have added an almost surreal feeling to the whole thing.

Greg

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:47:34 +0000
From: dmcquickly@comcast.net (Greg Vaughn)
Subject: Re: GReenleaf 8 (Capital 'R' in GReenleaf)

I'm with you on this, Pete--it took me a while, but I found a very authentic-sounding analog rrrrrrrringngngngngngngngngngng online and downloaded it to my cell phone. It loses a lot in the low-fi of cell phone technology but it's still fun.

Greg

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:49:48 +0000
From: dmcquickly@comcast.net (Greg Vaughn)
Subject: Re: Telephone trivia - WAS: elmira photo

And Ed, I'm Skype-ing with several friends from college these days. You're so right!

Greg

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:56:00 +0000
From: dmcquickly@comcast.net (Greg Vaughn)
Subject: Re: using old telephone numbers

Just envisioning this spreading virus finally touching every person who's ever gone to a school with an "H" in it.

Seriously...Alan has to be nominated for some honorarium, preferably with an endowment, for starting what has to be the most aggressive, lively, and far-reaching class contact project in the history of the internet. For everything that old school peers go through, mean to each other, and cause to happen in each others' lives, Alan's email forum has reanimated those things in all of us. From a personal growth and mental health point of view, there is little that a person can do that exceeds the potential benefits of connecting with people who knew us when we were becoming adults (and were agents, good and bad, in that process).

Greg

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:33:13 EDT
From: PeterJHazou@aol.com
Subject: Analogue Ringers (or, a.k.a.: How to beat telephone stories to absolute death)

Howdy Greg. It has been a long time since we have met up and I was hoping I
might see you at the reunion. Alas. Next time.

Interesting observation by your students that letters on keys are put there
for texting. It shows a continuum of ingenuity from why they were put there
in the first place (as an aide memoire, because phone companies assumed that
too many numbers were too many to remember)... into dropping the letters
altogether, into... let's use those old letters for something new: Texting! I
wonder what your students think of the downlaod of the old fashioned
'rrRing' onto your cell phone as that too would have no context as to its
derrivation (two bells clanging with exclamantion that a call is incoming!)? In
digital terms, today's phone ring may as well be the guitar riff from
Innagoddadavida, or some pre-programmed techno jive, or my favourite: dot dot dot, dash
dash dash, dot dot dot... Which few might recognize as morse code for S-O-S,
but which fewer still kid mobile phone users on today's play ground will
associate with 12 April 1912 - the night which it was first used emphatically by
the wireless operator on the Titanic, demanding "LISTEN: I'M CALL YOUUU!".

Context, (I got this from Rittner - as well as the propper way to spell
Parl'i'ament) is the essential launch pad for future learning... but at the end
of the day it is the fertile minds of our youth who will determine where to
take developments in the digital age. As with most developments, I am not sure
that those initially responsible would have envisioned how their passing
decisions would morph into such mind shaping developments (or these emails for
that matter);... how some Bell "management by committee" meeting in 1951
came up with BEverly 7 (because his daughter was born that month), or GReanleaf
8 because Frank was bored and staring out the window....

Sigh.

10-4, Haz

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:31:27 EDT
From: ZIMMERMANPetez@cs.com
Subject: Re: elmira photo

Greg - do you mean circumcized or circumscribed? There is a difference.
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:34:23 -0400
From: <afine@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Please forgive the intrusion...

This is not a general class email. It is a special bulletin. Our classmates Barry and Rebecca Symonds just lost his father. See below for what was written in Variety. (Please note: Barry and Rebecca will not receive this email, will receive all others, but condolences should probably be sent to them directly at either BarryHome@rochester.rr.com for Barry or bwoold@nc.rr.com for Rebecca.

Variety, 8/27/07

Robert Symonds, 80, actor

Appeared in 'MASH,' 'Exorcist,' 'E.R.'

By VARIETY STAFF

Theater, film and TV actor Robert Symonds, who was associate director of the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center in NY for 8 years, died from complications of prostate cancer Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 80.
During the 1950s and '60s, Symonds was a member of the San Francisco Actor's Workshop, where he performed in avant-garde dramas by Bertold Brecht, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet. He often co-starred with actress Priscilla Pointer, who was married to the workshop's co-founder, Jules Irving, who left to head the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater in 1965.

Symonds joined Irving in New York and and served as the company's associate director until 1972, and Pointer and Symonds married in 1981 after Irving's death in 1979.

Symonds had recurring roles in "Dynasty" and "MASH" and appeared onscreen in "Catch Me If You Can," "Primary Colors," "The Exorcist," "Micki and Maude," "Rumpelstiltskin," "And Justice for All," and "The Ice Pirates." He appeared on dozens of TV shows including "Quincy M.E.," "The Rockford Files" and "E.R." and won acclaim for his appearances as Benjamin Franklin in "The Adams Chronicles," as Robert E. Lee in "The Blue and The Grey," and in the PBS presentation of Ibsen's "Enemy of the People."

In New York, Symonds appeared onstage in "Cyrano de Bergerac," "The Miser" and "Caucasion Chalk Circle." Off-Broadway, he premiered Harold Pinter's "Landscape and Silence." He served as guest director at the Alley Theatre in Houston and appeared at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, and Los Angeles theaters including the Mark Taper Forum, Matrix, Odyssey, Coronet Theatre, and LATC.

In Los Angeles, he appeared in productions including "Night of the Iguana," "Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia," and at the Matrix Theatre in "The Tavern" and "The Seagull." He performed at the Fountain Theatre in "The Road to Mecca," and before that in "Fighting Over Beverly" and "Park Your Car In Harvard Yard."

Born in Bristow, Okla., he served in the Army in Seattle during WWII and appeared in local theater productions. He studied acting at the U. of Texas at Austin and began performing in theaters around the West. He was invited to join the Actor's Workshop after appearing in a Shakespeare performance in Ashland, Ore.

In addition to his wife, Symonds is survived by his children Vicki Morrison, Barry Symonds, and Rebecca Wooldridge and six granddaughters; three stepchildren, David, Katie and Amy Irving, the actress, and five step-grandchildren.

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Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 2:22:06 -0400
From: <afine@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Now our thoughts go to Ray Paletta

Justin Angelo Paletta, 79, of Danbury, CT, died Thursday August 30 at Bethel Health Care, from complications related to cancer. He was a truly fantastic man who touched the lives of all he met with his infectious smile and winning personality.

Mr. Paletta was born July 20, 1928 in the Bronx, NY, to Tullio John and Adelina DiBucci Paletta. He served as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps from 1945-1947. He married Louise Lombardozzi on Sept. 10, 1948, and together they raised their two sons, aRtie and Raymond, in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. Mr. Paletta was the owner of Dera Interiors, a custom framing and upholstery business. The Palettas retired to Brewster, NY, where Justin was an active member of the Fieldstone Pond Condo Association, even serving as president for eight years. He was a skilled photographer and an avid reader.

Mr. Paletta is survived by his loving wife, Louise in Danbury, CT, as well as his sons and daughters-in-law, aRtie and Irene of Raleigh, NC and Raymond and Mary Jane of Carmel, NY. He is also survived by his six grandchildren, Laura, Eve, Kimberly, Billy, Alyssa and Samantha, and his great-granddaughter, Jasmine. In addition, he is survived by his sisters, Patricia O'Reilly and Margaret Cichetti, and his brother, John Paletta.

The viewing will be held at Adams Cordova Funeral Home, 15 Church St. in Carmel, NY on Monday and Tuesday between the hours of 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. The funeral mass will be held at St. James Church, Rte 52 Carmel, NY on Wednesday at 10 a.m.

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Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:38:23 +0000 (GMT)
From: faheyfam@optonline.net (Ann Kapfer Fahey)
Subject: Re: Now our thoughts go to Ray Paletta

Just wanted to express sympathy to Barry and to Ray, and their families. My thoughts and prayers go out to you.

Anne Fahey

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:05:24 -0400
From: "Barry Symonds" <bsymond1@rochester.rr.com>
Subject: Thank you for your thoughts and wishes

All,

I just want to thank all of you for your thoughts and condolences about my
father. Although it's been a tough couple of weeks it's good to hear from
you all. There were a few of you that knew my father.he never lived in
Hastings. Those who have met him would probably say that he made everyone
feel important and special. He was interested in everyone's life story.

I'd like to relate a story about my father. About 3 months ago Dad and
Priscilla were asked by some USC students to be in a short movie they were
doing for class. It was about a elderly man and woman meeting at Union
Station (the title). My father played the part of a carefree adventurer of
a sort. Priscilla played the part of a sad and lonely woman who had just
come from her daughter-in-law's funeral. They become friends in a short
time and my father asks her to go to the hot air balloon fest in
Albuquerque. She is too nervous to go but is tempted. In the end he has
to catch his train; says goodbye and leaves. Just as he gets to the door he
turns and smiles. Although it is tough to watch now without breaking down,
I know in a short time from now I will treasure this film.

Once again, thank you for your thoughts.

Barry

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Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:55:13 -0500
From: Josefa Mulaire <josefamulaire@verizon.net>
Subject: A good cause

Alan,
I am on a mission!
I've been trying to convince the powers that be, at the Farragut
Middle School, that the area of the playground which was recently
reallocated for parking should be given back to the kids. And that
it's time for some loving attention be paid to this sadly neglected
playground. (Since our day it has gone from bad to worse.)
I'm searching for some photo evidence--proof that this new parking
lot stands on ground that was once home to swings and a slide. Sadly,
the Hastings Historical Society doesn't have photographs of the
playground from our day. I'm asking for help. Does anyone out there
have photos of the middle school playground of our youths? I am
especially looking for the area on the corner of Farragut and
Hillside, but any photographs of the playground would be welcomed.

Thanks,
Josefa