Digest 57

This digest contains the following messages:

1. Tunney Maher
by: caroline lupo <carolinelupo@hotmail.com>
2. RE: Columbus homecoming
by: Keith Kelley <keith_a_kelley@hotmail.com>
3. Tunney Maher
by: caroline lupo <carolinelupo@hotmail.com>
4. RE: Curling
by: Keith Kelley <keith_a_kelley@hotmail.com>
5. RE: Curling
by: lfrancis <louise.francis@comcast.net>
6. Re: Curling
by: <bsymond1@rochester.rr.com>
7. Re: Curling
by: Rick Wester <rdw12bc@verizon.net>
8. Re: Unknown
by: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
9. Re: Tunney Maher
by: Mark Lesly <marklesly@verizon.net>
10. Re: Curling
by: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
11. RE: Curling
by: Patricia Sinatra <psinatra@comcast.net>
12. Re: Tunney Maher
by: Mark Feaster <mfeaster@optonline.net>
13. RE: Tunney Maher
by: Mary Dalton <daltonm@vschsd.org>
14. FW: Due to the funeral of longtime resident Eugene "Tunney" Maher
by: Laurel Kiorpes Parker <lkp5@cornell.edu>
15. Re: Tunney Maher
by: cheryl becker <blessame56@optonline.net>
16. Keith Olbermann video
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
17. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: Salvatore A. Saverino <s.saverino@yahoo.com>
18. Only four more days to vote for Lori's car!
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
19. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: <JaneGaughran@aol.com>
20. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
21. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: Mark Lesly <marklesly@verizon.net>
22. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: Patricia Sinatra <psinatra@comcast.net>
23. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: Patricia Sinatra <psinatra@comcast.net>
24. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
25. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
26. RE: Keith Olbermann video
by: caroline lupo <carolinelupo@hotmail.com>
27. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
28. Email Bouncebacks
by: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
29. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: Nancy Waterous <nwaterous@gmail.com>
30. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: David Walters <dave.walters@comcast.net>
31. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
32. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: <smb9220@comcast.net>
33. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: janegaughran <janegaughran@aol.com>
34. RE: Keith Olbermann video
by: Barry Symonds <bsymond1@rochester.rr.com>
35. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
36. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: Ralph Maggi <rrmaggi@verizon.net>
37. steve bordys shoes
by: <NYCFD1@aol.com>
38. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
39. Re: steve bordys shoes
by: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
40. Re: steve bordys shoes
by: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
41. 143 Members
by: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
42. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: <bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net>
43. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: <lbsear@aol.com>
44. RE: RE:
by: Hastings Alumni Email Forum <hastings@art-cetera.com>
45. A show of support...
by: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
46. RE: Keith Olbermann video
by: Ann Zanette <azanette56@hotmail.com>
47. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
48. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
49. H2O
by: Patricia Sinatra <psinatra@comcast.net>
50. Re: H2O
by: Ralph Maggi <rrmaggi@verizon.net>
51. Re: H2O
by: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
52. Re: H2O
by: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
53. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: <JaneGaughran@aol.com>
54. Greetings!
by: John Fischer <jo_fisch@Culinary.Edu>
55. Re: Keith Olbermann video
by: <lotsoffish@aol.com>
56. Re: Greetings!
by: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
57. Re: H2O
by: Ralph Maggi <rrmaggi@verizon.net>
58. Re: H2O
by: Patricia Sinatra <psinatra@comcast.net>
59. Re: Greetings!
by: <barry.symonds@kodak.com>
60. Re: Greetings!
by: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
61. Re: Greetings!
by: <bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net>
62. Re: H2O
by: Rick Wester <rdw12bc@verizon.net>
63. Re: Greetings!
by: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
64. Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: edward caccia <ewc58@optonline.net>
65. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
66. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
67. Re: Greetings!
by: <bsymond1@rochester.rr.com>
68. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
69. Re: Greetings!
by: John Fischer <jo_fisch@Culinary.Edu>
70. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: Mark Lesly <marklesly@verizon.net>
71. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
72. Re: Greetings!
by: David Walters <dave.walters@comcast.net>
73. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
74. RE: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: Barry Symonds <bsymond1@rochester.rr.com>
75. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
76. Teacher memories
by: Alison Rempel <cmfuzz-alison@yahoo.com>
77. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
78. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: <abelarge@optonline.net>
79. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
80. Westrell
by: Mark Lesly <marklesly@verizon.net>
81. RE: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: lfrancis <louise.francis@comcast.net>
82. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: John Fischer <jo_fisch@Culinary.Edu>
83. another cherished memory
by: <JaneGaughran@aol.com>
84. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
85. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
86. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell
by: edward caccia <ewc58@optonline.net>
87. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell
by: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
88. Re: Westrell
by: <bsymond1@rochester.rr.com>
89. Re: Westrell
by: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
90. Re: another cherished memory
by: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
91. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell
by: edward caccia <ewc58@optonline.net>
92. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
93. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell
by: edward caccia <ewc58@optonline.net>
94. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell
by: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
95. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell
by: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
96. Re: another cherished memory
by: <JaneGaughran@aol.com>
97. Re: Greetings!
by: <barry.symonds@kodak.com>
98. Re: Greetings!
by: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
99. Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell
by: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
100. Re: Westrell
by: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
101. RE: Westrell
by: Laurel Kiorpes Parker <lkp5@cornell.edu>
102. HASTINGS EMAIL - CLARIFICATION OF POLICY
by: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
103. Re: Westrell
by: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
104. RE: Westrell
by: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
105. Reunion Date
by: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:35:23 -0500
From: caroline lupo <carolinelupo@hotmail.com> (Caroline Forcheskie Lupo)
Subject: Tunney Maher

Just wanted to let everyone know that Tunney Maher passed away. I don't kn=
ow any details about arrangements made. I will keep you informed. =

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:49:05 -0800
From: Keith Kelley <keith_a_kelley@hotmail.com>(Laura Tellekamp Kelley)
Subject: RE: Columbus homecoming

Ray

wow=2C no=2C I don't remember that at all. Funny though!!

Laura

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:57:03 -0500
From: caroline lupo <carolinelupo@hotmail.com> (Caroline Forcheskie Lupo)
Subject: Tunney Maher

I just spoke with Donny Maher who told me that Tunney passed away last nigh=
t at around 10:30pm with all his family around.

The wake will be at the Edwards Funeral Home in Dobbs Ferry on Thursday & F=
riday and the Funeral on Saturday.

Donny thanked us all for our thoughts & prayers.

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:58:59 -0800
From: Keith Kelley <keith_a_kelley@hotmail.com> (Larua Tellekamp Kelley)
Subject: RE: Curling

I remember going to watch it with Steve Kane at I think the Ardsley Country=
Club (could be wrong about that though) and I found it both addicting and =
amusing. They really take it all so seriously.=20

How about the biathlon=2C skiing and shooting=2C that's just strange.=20

-------------------- 5 --------------------
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:00:54 -0800
From: "lfrancis" <louise.francis@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: Curling

And the skipper can be graceful.

I can't understand the moguls -- bobble-body skiing. A radiologist friend
described how these skiers knees will be disintegrated and nothing but
reconstructed tendons and ligaments before they are 30. I wanted to drive to
Vancouver and protest the sport for cruelty to teens. To paraphrase 10cc --
what some people do for sport!
Louise

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:14:47 +0000
From: bsymond1@rochester.rr.com (Barry Symonds)
Subject: Re: Curling

Curling is very much like watching paint dry. Although I can be occasionally amused watching the sweepers.
Barry

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:24:07 -0500
From: Rick Wester <rdw12bc@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Curling

Being built for comfort and not for speed, I find it exhilarating.

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:25:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Unknown

Curling is my second-favorite Olympic sport...and when I was teaching in Mi=
chigan, about a dozen of my male students got the fever and went so far as =
to set up a club.=A0 It fell apart when they graduated,=A0I guess (I moved =
before they graduated from high school) but if you like strategy games and =
micro-inch precision, there isn't a better game.=A0=20
=A0
Beats watching ice dancing.=A0 :-)=A0 (That was intended as an "eye of the =
beholder" statement, by the way.=A0 My daughters want to know why dancing a=
nd competitive cheerleading isn't an Olympic sport and I have no legitimate=
answer for them, other than, "If softball isn't an Olympic sport, then che=
erleading isn't going to be.)
=A0
Greg

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:50:47 -0500
From: Mark Lesly <marklesly@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Tunney Maher

Most of the postings lately have been from the class of '75 and have been a lot more fun than the sad postings that preceded them, even for a youngster like me who graduated in 1977. There's a special bond for those of us who grew up in Hastings, and a little deeper level of that bond for those of us who were in the same grade for so many years in school. Tunney Maher was in my grade.

I've been struggling to find the right words to write about Tunney Maher. When I look back on our high school days, I think of the various cliques...the greasers, the stoners, the jocks, the artists, the academics...and while some of us traveled in more than one of them, I can't think of a more universally liked person than Tunney Maher. I also can't think of anyone who so perfectly represented the fabric of Hastings like he did...I think he would have fit right in with the WW I generation, the WW II generation, the Vietnam generation, and he certainly fit in with our generation. There was something timeless about his good nature and I feel we are all diminished by his passing.

Damn.

He deserves more than I can come up with. Here's to Tunney...I didn't really know him well, but I loved him.

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:15:37 -0500
From: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Curling

Yes, it probably was the Ardsley country club. I visited there as well.
They had a rink for it down the hill from the club house, the opposite
direction from the pool (sort of near the 10th hole).

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:23:58 -0800
From: "Patricia Sinatra" <psinatra@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: Curling

Ouch. That is not something to look forward to.

It's like climbing up Mt. Everest. I ask "why" turn into a frozen piece of
meat when you can buy a steak at the A&P, cook it, and enjoy it with a full
glass of wine---.

Um...did I say that?

-------------------- 12 --------------------
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:51:26 -0500
From: Mark Feaster <mfeaster@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: Tunney Maher

Mark,
You are absolutely spot on!
He was a freelancer amongst all the for mentioned cliques, liked and
respected by all.
I too didn't know him well, but he was extremely kind, a fine sense of
humor, and real, I liked him.
He adored this little village of Hastings and involved himself in it fully,
he will be sadly missed.
My thoughts and prayers go out to Tunney and his family.
Mark F.

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:13:17 -0500
From: Mary Dalton <daltonm@vschsd.org>
Subject: RE: Tunney Maher

Mark L. and Mark F. you both said it beautifully. Tunney was one in a million and will be missed by so many. I taught at St. Matthew's School (1979-1981) and Tunney would stop by after school to chat before CYO basketball practice. I will remember his laugh and his smile and most of all his dedication to the kids of Hastings who he was still working with all of these years later. Special thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
Mary

-------------------- 14 --------------------
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:01:40 -0500
From: Laurel Kiorpes Parker <lkp5@cornell.edu> and Caroline Forcheskie Lupo <carolinelupo@hotmail.com>
Subject: FW: Due to the funeral of longtime resident Eugene "Tunney" Maher
to be held on Saturday February 27, 2010 at 9:45 AM at St. Matthews Church,
there will be temporary parking re strictions/ road closures in the Hastings
downtown.

Dear Residents,

The Hastings on Hudson Police Department mourns the loss of longtime reside=
nt Eugene "Tunney" Maher. The funeral will be held on Saturday February 27,=
2010 at 9:45 AM at St. Matthews Church.

Accordingly, because of the size of this funeral there will be temporary pa=
rking restrictions/ road closures in effect.

Warburton Avenue may be closed for brief periods between 9:30 AM and 12 N. =
There will be funeral parking only from 9 AM to 12 PM in the Post Office Pa=
rking Lot, on part of Maple Avenue and on Warburton Avenue from the Post Of=
fice Parking Lot -North to Broadway. Further, from 9AM to 12 PM there will =
be no Parking on North Street. In addition the north side of Villard Ave fr=
om Warburton Ave to Whitman St will be designated handicapped parking from =
9AM to 12PM. Finally, there will be no meter enforcement on this day until =
after 1PM.

Residents attending the funeral may use the St. Matthew School Parking Lot =
for parking.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Lt. David Dosin
DDosin@hastingsgov.org<mailto:DDosin@hastingsgov.org>

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:11:23 -0500 (EST)
From: cheryl becker <blessame56@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: Tunney Maher

My sincere condolences to all family and friends I will always remember
his sweet and smiling Irish eyes! With Love Cheryl

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:30:51 EST
From: JEBWILK@aol.com (Julie Blasberg)
Subject: Keith Olbermann video

Keith Olbermann's powerful video (my apologies to those who already saw
this on facebook):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/24/keith-olbermanns-emotiona_n_475973.html

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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:19:29 -0800 (PST)
From: "Salvatore A. Saverino" <s.saverino@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Pain makes man think; thought makes man wise;and wisdom makes life endurable. (Teahouse of the August Moon. by John Patrick.)

-------------------- 18 --------------------
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:11:39 EST
From: JEBWILK@aol.com (Julie Blasberg)
Subject: Only four more days to vote for Lori's car!

Only four days left - please vote once a day. Copy and paste the link
below. The ones with the most votes will move to the next round.

Here's the link again:

http://www.sponsafier.com/#/gallery/view/41049

Thanks-
Julie

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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:49:32 EST
From: JaneGaughran@aol.com
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Thanks for that, Julie, it was well worth watching -- with my two young
adult daughters.

When I had breast cancer in 2008 I had the best of care --- top NYC
doctors, the means to cover expenses when my insurance stiffed our family for
many thousands - and my prognosis is as good as it can get for a metastatic
disease, damn good.

If I weren't lucky, I'd be dead. It shouldn't be this way in America.

-------------------- 20 --------------------
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:20:46 -0800 (PST)
From: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Okay, Sinatra, you enchantress, are you in charge of inviting Mr. Olbermann=
to the reunion?

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:40:11 -0500
From: Mark Lesly <marklesly@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Maybe if you all promise not to beat him up?

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:13:53 +0000
From: "Patricia Sinatra" <psinatra@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

You know, Sidebotham, I spoke with Keith when his mother passed away. I stopped by to see his Dad-it was shortly after I admitted my mother to the hospital the beginning of April of last year; while his Dad and I were chatting Keith called on the cell phone and we spoke briefly.

I would say that I have no more leverage than any one else. If they still have the house on Fenwick, we could send a written invite there and hope he gets it. I don't know how to reach him at work--i used to have his contact info at ESPN but that was a long time ago.

My sense was that Theo was not long for that house.

As I come off Cobra, I hope that I can get health insurance myself and am strategizing ways to do so. Getting a job is one, but I have worked for the evil biopharma industry and start up ventures and we, like other sectors, have been hammered.

This can happen to anyone now--no one is immune.

Anyone need an " admin?"

Pat

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:21:59 +0000
From: "Patricia Sinatra" <psinatra@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Dear Mark,

I think you hit the nail on the head. The reality is many kids made his life at Hastings miserable ---

He was always on the edge with his intellect, his level of maturity/age, and his opinions. He did have friends, but overall he was not a popular boy and was often mercilessly teased. I always had a fondness for him.

These are attributes may have helped yield his (relatively recent) success.

Pat

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:27:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

I won't beat him up.

Greg

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:29:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Hope you are doing well Jane.

What amazes me, when I talk to people down here in conservative Florida about this issue, is how many people resent those with good insurance plans.

Isn't that the way we should ALL be insured? I ask them.

This idiotic "if I don't have it it's bad" mentality will ruin our society.

Greg

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:02:55 -0500
From: Caroline Forcheskie Lupo <carolinelupo@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Keith Olbermann video

Join the crowd . . . I've been a year on unemployment . . . being my age doesn't help:( . . . Once I got off COBRA, I signed up with Healthy New York (Oxford) - altho they have others. It was less expensive than COPRA!!! And all my Docs accepted it! Worth Checking out! www.healthyNY.com

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:10:56 -0500
From: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

It would probably be a good experience for Keith to come back and be
treated differently. I think a lot of us would like the chance to
thank him for his public voice of righteous indignation. If he
doesn't attend, maybe we could send him a thank you card signed by the
class.

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:32:42 -0500
From: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
Subject: Email Bouncebacks

Could use some help. Our email server needs email addresses
for the following who forgot to inform us of a change, so with each
email out, we get a bounceback in return:

nnt@optonline.net Nicky Topilnycky
tcollins@haifire.com Tim Collins
Salesmgr@optonline.net Brian Maleska
lwhitehead@mgslawyers.com Linda Whitehead
robert.carpenter@credit-suisse.com
robert.carpenter@csfb.com
Alan.Kulsha@am.sony.com

Thanks,

Alan

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:34:07 -0800
From: Nancy Waterous <nwaterous@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

I have Keith's contact info. Once we have a firm date, I'll let him know.

Nancy

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:43:35 -0800
From: David Walters <dave.walters@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

I was unemployed for 18 months. We paid $800/month from my wife,
Elizebeth's county job. COBRA was WAY too expensive. I'm not working in
the heart of Silicon Valley, outside my profession, as an assembler in
one of those mammoth electronic factories in and around San Jose for
less than half what I used to make (union vs non-union). 10 hours a day,
6 days a week, no rights at all.

As for Keith, I have a lot of respect for his integrity and willingness
to speak truth to power, something rare these days, or, rather,
something that is an extremely mutated form of what the Fourth Estate is
supposed to be about. I don't always agree with him (his bashing of the
recent Senatorial victor from Massachusetts is a case in point) but
overall he is an asset to "opinion journalism", something created in
large part by right-wing populist Lou Dobbs on CNN.

As I may of noted here, I was *forced* to go to two or three of his
birthday parties when I was around 11 years old. This was 1967 and 1968
when many of us were adopting, or rather adapting, too, the rise of the
counter-culture. Keith obviously had one thing in his life: baseball. He
adapted to nothing. Everything else was subordinate to that. Ergo he
came off nerdy. I remember when his mom passed away and he ran a home
movie of he and his family off to Yankee Stadium: there was Keith,
EXACTLY as I had remembered him: shorts, with a short sleeved button-up
shirt *tucked in*!!!, dark shoes, white socks (remember we used to give
Stephen Bordy all that shit for those white socks and black shoes he
used to wear?), all eye-brows, running from the parking lot under the
"L" to the stadium. He was nerdy. Joke's on us then, I guess.

Of course all that was water under the bridge when he came to the 20th
and we could actually TALK with him.

I'm hoping he will take time out to get to the next reunion, if I can't
make it. I would *suggest* Alan try to contact him via Alan's show-biz
connections...plus Alan works about 8 blocks from Rockefeller Center,
where Kieth works.

David Walters

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:33:38 EST
From: JEBWILK@aol.com (Julie Blasberg)
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Nancy-
Any further word on his dad? My thoughts and prayers are with him.
-Julie

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 01:22:49 +0000 (UTC)
From: smb9220@comcast.net (Steven Bass)
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Keith showed up at one of our reunions. I think it was in 1995 as he was still with ESPN.

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:05:10 -0500
From: jane gaughran <janegaughran@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Thanks for the good wishes, Greg -- but I offered my own story to echo Keith Olbermann's point -- his father eventually got compassionate and responsive care (as I did) but many thousands will not. Access to competent heath care shouldn't devolve to connections, privilege, and dumb luck.

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:00:59 -0500
From: "Barry Symonds" <bsymond1@rochester.rr.com>
Subject: RE: Keith Olbermann video

Dave, like you, I remember Keith in middle school (at least I think it was
middle school...seems so long ago). Keith did have a passion for baseball.
He carried a Baseball almanac around and I believe he memorized every page.
It was quite impressive. Yes, he was a little quirky and nerdy...but
weren't we all in our own way. I, myself, buttoned my shirt (also tucked
in) to the top button. Keith made quite a metamorphosis.

Barry

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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:51:54 -0500
From: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Keith was at our 20th and didn't make a Federal Case out of the past so
why is everyone making a big deal about it now?

Jim K

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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:10:04 -0500
From: Ralph Maggi <rrmaggi@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Wow, these email strings brought back quite a few memories. I remember Keith loving in addition to Baseball... Walnetto's. Does anyone remember those? Caramel with that nuclear center I believe. Occasionally, I used to buy them at Mandricks (when I had the money) and shared them with Keith, I got a kick from his reaction... Walnetto's he said, in his low pitched voice. Keith was quite a character but beneath it all (nerdy or not) he was cool in his own right.
Oh yeah... no one picked on him when Vinny Potenzo and I were around (the River Rats lived backed then !!... products of our neighborhood were we)

Success comes in many forms, but being valuable as a person not only to our jobs but to society, to share such an experience with so many is hard to come by ... Keith achieved that

Ralph

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 22:27:33 EST
From: NYCFD1@aol.com (Ray Paletta)
Subject: steve bordys shoes

dave
as i remember, steve bordys shoes were a rust color short ankle with a
strap buckled at the side, but i may be wrong

ray

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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:12:06 -0500
From: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Hi Ralph!

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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:17:40 -0500
From: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: steve bordys shoes

Do you remember our classmate with the leg brace from polio? I've
forgotten his name, but I recall his face with freckles and his brush
cut haircut. Now I remember, his name was Eric? Talking of Steve's
shoe reminds me of him because his brace went through the heel of his
shoe, so shoe was always the same. He often sore a blue long sleeve
shirt with a black band at the collar. I'm sure he's in some of our
early class pictures. Can we find him?

-------------------- 40 --------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:29:17 -0500
From: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: steve bordys shoes

Possibly his name was Eric Mitchell.

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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:49:37 -0500
From: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
Subject: 143 Members

Right now, we have 143 (up from 138) teachers and classmates participating from the years around 1975. Do you know people who might like to subscribe? Please ask around and have them send an email to hastings@art-cetera.com with "subscribe" in the subject. It would also be helpful if they could put in the body of the email a short description of who they are, their class and/or their affiliation to Hastings please.

The more, the merrier, especially with different class reunions and 50th birthdays coming up.

Thank you,

Alan

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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 05:07:01 -0600
From: bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net (Heather Schmeltz Grimm)
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Ralph,

What nice memories and great sentiments

Heather

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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:06:24 -0500
From: lbsear@aol.com (Lubia Maicovski Bergold)
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Hey Ralph,
Don't know if you remember me, I am Lubia Maicovski, class of "74. Just wanted to let you know that I appreciate hearing stories from childhood. They bring back wonderful memories.

-------------------- 45 --------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:14:06 -0500
From: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
Subject: A show of support...

Friends,

Follow classmate Caroline Forchskie Lupo could use some support. She is
licensed & has 10 years experience in Laser Hair Removal Treatments.
She is willing to offer classmates and friends of classmate HUGE
savings, and with the summer coming, this might be something you or
someone you know could use. Please consider emailing her at carolinelupo@hotmail.com

Alan

-------------------- 46 --------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:43:43 -0500
From: Ann Deragopian Zanette <azanette56@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Keith Olbermann video

I have been reading this string of emails and have been thinking of an appropriate response to the discussions going on about Keith. Personally I don't remember him from school days however I am a huge supporter.

When the class of 74 was planning our 10th reunion many years ago, my Mom ran into another classmates Mom at the A&P in Hastings. She asked Mrs "_" if her son was planning on attending the reunion. Her response was "no one treated him nicely in school back then, why would he want to attend now"? I have to tell you, my heart sank when my mother called me to tell me this. I truly hoped I was not one of the people she referred to. Well - this classmate did come - and when I saw him - I approached him immediately with a warm welcome and hug and sat and spoke with him for a while. Actually I spoke with him more that evening than I had ever spoken to him in HS. I found he had matured into a very nice guy (or maybe I did) - yes quirky - but still a nice guy. Others felt the same way. He came to a few other reunions but we have lost touch with him now - but we are still searching for him.

Our class of 74 I think is extremely unique (or should I say most classes from HoH). I think if you asked any of our classmates they will say the same thing. We actually have grown even closer over the last few years. (Of course FB has has been a great tool for this). Maybe it's just old age setting in or maybe our kids are mostly grown and beginning their own journey into adulthood which leaves us with more time to socialize with each other. But what is most clear to us and we speak about it often - although we ran in different circles and may not have been in the same "click" we have now matured into adults and whether it be our quirky natures or our interests back then - it does not seem to matter in the least bit. We just love to be around each other and try to see each other as often as possible.

What I'm trying to say is - it doesn't matter what your preferences were in high school. If you were a Hastings classmate...you are part of our famiy. We are all adults now and I'm sure you will all agree - we are supporters of each other. Whether it be to vote for a childs art project or come together for prayer for a family member or just to be there for a good laugh or shoulder to cry on. There are not many people you will meet today that can say the same about their High School classmates. Most of my associates and "outside" friends are always suprised about how close we are.

I know that many of you were there for me then...and are still there for me today. I thank all of you for the memories and the future ...

Ann (Deragopian)

ps: thank you Alan for this forum!

-------------------- 47 --------------------
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:54:27 -0500
From: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Well said. We were all lucky to have grown up in such a progressive town.
That small part of our lives pales in significance to the rest of our
experiences, yet it still forms a large part of how we see the world (and we
are better people for it). We were just kids then, and did things that we
would never consider now (how stupid I was!). However, for all the ups and
downs I might have had there, I never regretted any part of the experience.
It's funny how IMPORTANT trivial things seemed back then. No one should
ever feel unwelcome at any reunion. At the last 1976 reunion I went to, we
had people from lots of different classes and cliques gathered around, some
talking for the very first time. Yet, even if you had never spoken with
them before, they remembered things about you back then that you found
surprising. There is some unspoken connection between people who have had
the "Hastings" experience.

Who remembers the "do the right thing" speech that Mr. Rittner gave at the
end of his history class? I can only echo the wisdom he was trying to share
with us then. Having experienced the current educational system here for
many years, I can't even imagine that happening. We had some really good
teachers back then. Too bad we weren't always the best students.

-------------------- 48 --------------------
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:02:03 EST
From: JEBWILK@aol.com (Julie Blasberg)
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

Very well said, Ann. I posted this video for two reasons. First and
foremost, because a friend of ours was going through a tough time and I thought
he could use any support we could offer. Second, because I thought his
view of the healthcare crisis was well presented. I didn't anticipate that
it would cause the reaction it did concerning memories of Keith, as if he
didn't deserve our concern and prayers for his father. I thought it would
foster discussions like Jane's personal experience. Thanks for sharing, Jane.

-Julie (Blasberg)

ps thanks to Alan too

pps Voting closed for Lori's car. If hers is in the top 10, on April 1st
there will be a "vote off." THEN you will hear from me again, begging all
to vote! Thanks to those that did vote. Thanks again to all that sent
birthday wishes to Lori too. You all give testimony to Ann's post that we are
all there for each other! One day I may even share what happened and why
I request support for her.
Love to all!

-------------------- 49 --------------------
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:30:47 +0000
From: "Patricia Sinatra" <psinatra@comcast.net>
Subject: H2O

Yes..we were indeed fortunate. I cannot express enough how truly grateful I am to have remained close to so many after all these years.

This would not have been nearly as possible without Alan.

Thanks, dearie.

-------------------- 50 --------------------
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:53:12 -0500
From: Ralph Maggi <rrmaggi@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: H2O

I whole heartedly agree that all of us from HoH are truly fortunate to have this bond after all these years. I believe that until one has the experience of sharing good times and tough times with classmates such as all of you, a part of their sole remains unawakened.

Alan, Thank you for restoring some fond memories and providing this place to gather !

-------------------- 51 --------------------
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:11:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: H2O

Amen to that, Alan, whatever other terrific and humble things you have accomplished in your life, providing a place for people to feel part of something is probably the most significant. Thank you.

By the way...this H20 subject line is weird...because just this morning on my way to work, for no good reason whatsoever (this random, racing-thought mind of mine), I wondered: Is water technically called di-hydrogen oxide? Or something? Strange coincidence this subject line shows up--just as randomly--in the email tonight.

Greg

-------------------- 52 --------------------
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 20:58:44 -0500
From: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: H2O

Yeah Ralph, pretty good coming up with that H2O. I bet the town will
use it now.

-------------------- 53 --------------------
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 21:51:50 EST
From: JaneGaughran@aol.com
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

And thank you for getting my intention, Julie. I don't necessarily declare
my story - especially in such a public fashion - but after watching Keith I
wondered if we - the HHS crew - could give each other a forum for
respectful discussion about health care. God knows there's enough hostility and
invective and posturing already, but we might share enough good will to
entertain differences without bitterness and contempt..maybe even finding ways
to find common ground. This has to be possible in our nation, despite the
paralysis and cynicism of most of our elected officials.

-------------------- 54 --------------------
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:01:09 -0500
From: "John Fischer" <jo_fisch@Culinary.Edu>
Subject: Greetings!

Hello Hastingsites;

Just a quick note from Hyde Park, NY to thank Alan for adding me to this list. For those who don't remember me, I'm John Fischer '77--younger brother of Tom '73 and older of Mary '81. I'm now teaching at the Culinary Institute of America, my second 'college' after Swarthmore.

I look forward to being on this forum with all of you and maintaining my Hastings connection. Frankly, I think we should have a 'Hastings Family Reunion' with all the clans from our era. Even if only the Richards attend, we'd still have a good turnout.

I look forward to hearing more and welcome any questions. After all, I'm a wine instructor here as well as a trained professional cook.

Cheers,

john

John W. Fischer; M.S., CHE
Associate Professor
The Culinary Institute of America
(845) 451-1609

To learn about the greatest cooking school on Earth, go to www.ciachef.edu

-------------------- 55 --------------------
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:27:55 -0500
From: lotsoffish@aol.com (John Capuano)
Subject: Re: Keith Olbermann video

jane...mott the hoople.."sweet jane"....i hope you are doing well

... there are 2 things destroying any possibilty of a successfull healthcare system..those living in this country...ILLEGALLY.. expecting a free ride...and malpractice.. we are.the SUE EVERYBODY country dontchaknow.......fix those 2 things and we are on track....we gotta lock up our borders and lock up our pockets....love, john cap

-------------------- 56 --------------------
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:46:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Greetings!

Welcome John!=A0 My brother Jeff was in the class of 77 until they moved to Mystic, CT in 1975.=A0 I had some close connections with that class of '77!

Greg

-------------------- 57 --------------------
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:53:36 -0500
From: Ralph Maggi <rrmaggi@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: H2O

Corey,

Hey, wish I can take the credit but I believe it was Pat S. who had the H2O in her subject line. I'm simply not that clever to come up with things the town would use...

Pat, see what you started ! Now I'm thinking through this "water thing" and joining in the ranks with Greg. So I ask, isn't it technically dihydrogen monoxide?

The use of numerical prefixes is typical nomenclature for compounds formed by covelant bonds, which are present in water. The prefix for the first named element is often dropped if the elements involved commonly form only one compound, however, two hydrogen atoms combined with other elements (i.e. carbon) can form multiple compounds so the numerical value for the hydrogen element stays. The mono- prefix is often dropped for the second-named element if it is the only common compound the elements form. Since O with no numerical value is too unstable and only O2 can bond to form the water molecule the numeric value is dropped.

I need a life, I need a drink ! And probably not H2O !

-------------------- 58 --------------------
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 06:37:33 +0000
From: "Patricia Sinatra" <psinatra@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: H2O

Well, other than water it is
Dihydrogen Monoxide (you are correct) or
Hydroxylic acid
Hydrogen Hydroxide (HOH)-probably the best abbreviation for hastings on hudson, but glad someone figured the H2O out!
P

-------------------- 59 --------------------
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:34:03 -0500
From: barry.symonds@kodak.com
Subject: Re: Greetings!

Welcome John,
There were quite a few connections between the class of '75 and'77. My
sister, Becca, was in '77. It seems there was a lot of cross dating
between the two classes. I was one of them. I could probably name at
least a dozen others.

Barry

-------------------- 60 --------------------
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:19:17 -0500
From: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
Subject: Re: Greetings!

Hello John,

My brother Ben, HHS Class of 76, is a CIA alumnus.

Jim K

-------------------- 61 --------------------
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:59:23 -0600
From: bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net (Heather Schmeltz Grimm)
Subject: Re: Greetings!

Dear John,

What a kick, one of our co-workers at our restaurant is attending
CIA, her name is Dani Cardella and she just finished her AA is going
on to get her bachelors............she just finished the wine class a
couple of weeks ago and said it was really hard. We are so impressed
with her feedback on the school. Do you mind if I send your name
along to her? I think it is so valuable to have a strong network at
that school, although I think she's doing really well!

Well welcome John, don't know that we were in school together at the
same time I was such a short timer.

Heather (Schmeltz) Grimm

-------------------- 62 --------------------
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:47:19 -0500
From: Rick Wester <rdw12bc@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: H2O

I once had an argument with Mr. Bennett where I insisted that H20 was "the perfect salt." I can still remember the way he rolled his eyes and called me a huckleberry or something like that. Man, he was a sweet guy with a lot of patience.

-------------------- 63 --------------------
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:39:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Greetings!

It did get quite confusing at times...I think Barry actually dated my brother accidentally a couple of times.

THAT was embarrassing!

Greg

-------------------- 64 --------------------
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:41:40 -0500 (EST)
From: edward caccia <ewc58@optonline.net>
Subject: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

But Ricky, Mr. Bennett was easy compared to Big Bob Nelson. A very good
teacher, and much more patient than Mr. B, who could often be seen
rushing from class to the 3rd floor pay phone lest he miss the 7th at
Aqueduct... But Bob Nelson was a disciplinarian, and possessed a very
effective deterrent capability. He lays claim to THE most painful
college-ring-head-knock-giver ever. Dude must've worn like a size 15
ring with a 3 carat gem. He'd turn it stone side in, cruise the aisles
as he taught class, and would basically drop his thick finger (adorned
with said deterrent device down) down onto your head if you did anything
but pay close attention. It hurt like hell. And God forbid your mouth
was open when that damn rock dropped onto your cranium: the sound was
straight out of a cartoon and would pass thru your mouth and resonate
througout the entire classroom. Emmm-barrassing! And freakin' hilarious
too- - any of our brothers and sisters lucky enough to have heard that
marvelous sound is grinning if not laughing right now at this auditory
memory... If you were gonna talk, doodle, pass notes, window gaze,
chick gaze, whatever, you simply had to know where in the room Mr.
Nelson was. Even that was no guarantee of safety, as he'd see you and
circle back on ya later when you least expected it. Damn stealthy for a
big man.

Isn't it great that stuff like that could happen back then without a
Federal case being made out of it? No big story on News 12, no teachers
getting canned, no lawyers involved. No one was a victim. Dear God, do
we have too much of that crap now or what?

Back in the day, most of our parents were happy to let our teachers do
whatever. I know mine did. Well heck, they knew me :-) And they knew
most of our teachers cared and really were worthy of their trust. But
sometimes, even they got it wrong. When we were in 3rd grade together,
Ellen Gunther Fioro victimized me at a water fountain on the second
floor of Hillside school. We laugh about it to this day. We were fooling
around and someone got wet or something. In an extremely rare instance
where I was NOT actually to blame, Ellen was. But our teacher (Mrs.
Apple), figured I had to be the evildoer (I guess Larry Nichol was out
sick :-), and actually stepped forward and slapped me square across the
face. This was no love tap, let me tell ya. I still remember the sting.
I guess I should have been shocked, but back then? Not really. You just
went on with the day.

"Hi Mom, I'm home. Today at school, Mrs. Apple slapped me across the
face so hard I think her hand print is still there, see it? I didn't
even do anything!" "Well Edward (the serious name), you'll probably do
something bad this week, and this way, Mrs. Apple has simply paid it
forward"... I mean, I guess it had to be something like that, right?

Good times! Any other good teacher stories out there? This could be a
fun thread...

Warm regards,
Eddie Caccia
'76

-------------------- 65 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 04:53:07 -0500
From: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

I remember Mr. McGuiness in seventh grade gave me the big old slap on the
face for fooling around in class. Back then it was really just embarassing,
no question about telling anyone about it. I got out of line and probably
needed a good slap at the time. You are right, now there would be a federal
case about it.

At hillside, I though Mrs. Polk had it in for me in second grade. I got
detention twice. First time for running, I probably deserved it, but the
second time was for getting pushed and falling down...talk about zero
tolerance!

Never had Mr. Nelson, but you are right, that dude commanded respect.

-------------------- 66 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 04:59:56 -0500
From: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

Another story that comes to mind is Don True's physics class. He would stop
in the middle of class almost every time to chase some kid he saw outside
the window that was taunting somebody (he was dean of students and I guess
the one who had to do discipline). He would be in mid-explanation and all
of a sudden rush out of the room and down the stairs. Then he would be back
and pick it up without missing a beat.

-------------------- 67 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:23:37 +0000
From: bsymond1@rochester.rr.com (Barry Symonds)
Subject: Re: Greetings!

Well it was confusing...he had really long hair. Wait...I think that was you, Greg.

From the HASTINGS CLASS OF '75
(also including teachers and other classes)
EMAIL BULLETIN BOARD
www.art-cetera.com/hastings
---------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:39:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Greetings!

It did get quite confusing at times...I think Barry actually dated my brother accidentally a couple of times.

THAT was embarrassing!

Greg

-------------------- 68 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 07:56:47 EST
From: JEBWILK@aol.com (Julie Blasberg)
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

I had Pete Westrell for Science, next door to Mr. Nelson. I have never
forgotten how an amoeba eats - "like Mr. Nelson at Thanksgiving dinner" and
Westrell would put his arms out around the imaginary turkey, potatoes,
stuffing, green beans and all of the other food on the table and swoop it all
toward him. Stuck with me all of these years!
As far as Mr. Bennett goes, he decided, for whatever reason, that I was too
smart for his class so he never made me do any work and had me act as his
assistant almost when we had class experiments and such. Funny, he came to
me as a senior and asked me how I did in Science after his class and I
told him I always had straight A's, and he said he was relieved. He had
always worried that he should have made me do something in his class. Like you
said - that couldn't happen now, especially in Florida where they have to
"teach the test" and never deviate.
Like you, Ed, I'm sure there are many more memories out there.
-Julie

-------------------- 69 --------------------
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:46:03 -0500
From: "John Fischer" <jo_fisch@Culinary.Edu>
Subject: Re: Greetings!

....but enlightening, I'm sure.

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:39:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Greetings!

It did get quite confusing at times...I think Barry actually dated my brother accidentally a couple of times.

THAT was embarrassing!

Greg

-------------------- 70 --------------------
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:35:39 -0500
From: Mark Lesly <marklesly@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

Brian McGuiness was also the 7th & 8th Grade Wrestling Coach. I weighed about 90 pounds in 8th grade and he used to beat the #$!#$#@ out of me in practice. Four years later as a senior, I weighed 130-135 and could bench press 225. McGuiness came into a HS Wrestling practice and decided to wrestle me. Years of pent-up aggression came out in one vicious cross-face and I put him into a neck brace for several months.

Just so you all know, I got many of us some pay-back!

As for Barry and the 1975-1977 connection...I never did get any payback...just a LOT of punishment from him in practice! (LOL)

ml
(Class of '77)

-------------------- 71 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 10:41:55 EST
From: JEBWILK@aol.com (Julie Blasberg)
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

Thanks Mark! McGuiness failed me on an open-book final exam, after I had
completed it, had it face down on my desk and was leaning back in my chair,
for cheating and wouldn't recommend me for honors Science. You're my
hero, even if it was 30 years ago!
-Julie

-------------------- 72 --------------------
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:23:08 -0800
From: David Walters <dave.walters@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Greetings!

Back to a message from last week for Barry S. I don't remember you ever
wearing button up, short sleeve shirts. What I remember...very
oddly...is that you were the polo-shirt guy. In fact, LaCoste (?)
shirts, the one w/the little alligator.

David

-------------------- 73 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 11:47:31 -0500
From: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

Ha! Now that's a good story of Karma in action!

-------------------- 74 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:31:32 -0500
From: "Barry Symonds" <bsymond1@rochester.rr.com>
Subject: RE: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

As long as we're talking about wrestling, it was Pete Westrell who was the
varsity wrestling coach. Here's a man that new virtually nothing about
wrestling but decided to learn it quick. Probably the best coach I have had
of any sport and a good man besides. I heard he had some health
problems...is this true? By the way, I have to thank Dave Virrill and Alan
Fine for introducing me to school sports. There's peer pressure and then
there are peers who help others...I like the latter.

Barry

-------------------- 75 --------------------
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:33:24 -0500
From: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

Did the coach use a pingpong paddle or a squash paddle on our fannys?

-------------------- 76 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:35:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Alison Krafft Rempel <cmfuzz-alison@yahoo.com>
Subject: Teacher memories

I still think the Time, Space and Matter class I had with Mr Westrell (7th? 8th?) was one of the best classes of my life. It was much more about how to think and solve a problem than learn content.

Miss Barton, singing and dancing along with the Christmas carols on the PA system "Do you hear what I hear..."

Mr Riggs pronouncing his name - "It's not Wrigglewits its RigLAYvich."

Mrs Dowd's arms quivering when she wrote on the board - the image inspires me at the gym to work triceps and try to stave off the dreaded "math teacher arms."

Too much chatting in 7th grade English caused Mr Eckleman to assign 100 word essays on a poster on his wall. "Use kind words in abundance." I dug out the thesaurus and came up with over 80 of positive adjectives "Dear, sweet, kind, considerate...... Mr Eckleman. Since I have used kind words in abundance, please give me an 'A' on this paper." It worked!

One of my favorite teachers was Mrs. Klidjian. She had a baby after 9th grade, but since I went to Dobbs, I don't know if she returned. Does anyone know anything more about her?

-Alison Krafft Rempel

-------------------- 77 --------------------
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:35:48 -0500
From: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

Peter "Rabbit" Westrell and "Hotpants" Nelson?

I have Westrell's email address. I think he is in Dobbs now.

--
Edward J. Weinberg
203-610-4799

-------------------- 78 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:36:33 +0000
From: abelarge@optonline.net (Andre Belarge)
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

Barry,
I have to agree with you, Pete did not know the most about wrestling but beat basics into you and then made you believe in yourself. The best coach I have had.
Andre

-------------------- 79 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:57:41 -0500
From: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

Ed,

Please email Mr. Westrell, tell him what's being said about him and
ask if he would like to join the teachers on this forum.

Alan

-------------------- 80 --------------------
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:02:40 -0500
From: Mark Lesly <marklesly@verizon.net>
Subject: Westrell

Funny, my recollection is of you and Barry "beating" the basics into me...

-------------------- 81 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 16:21:59 -0800
From: "lfrancis" <louise.francis@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

Julie,
Thanks to my mother, I have proof that you were not the only one of us who
had a beef with Mr. McGuiness.

My Mom, Rose, had a tradition of creating a memory album for each of our
40th birthdays. She kept all sorts of things -- from report cards and school
class photos, to letters from camp and even pages from a scrapbook I made in
7th grade and thought I had thrown out in high school. She presented it to
me when I went to visit her in May, 1997 (the last time I saw her, but I
didn't know that at the time). The McGuiness part came after I looked
through the whole thing and we had a wonderful trip together down memory
lane. She then handed me a piece of paper -- she must have gotten it out of
my pants pocket when she did the laundry. When did we have McGuiness -- 7th
grade; 8th grade? Anyhow, she gave it to me saying: "This is a mystery paper
that was in your pile, but I must have made a mistake, it must be Judi's." I
confessed it was mine.

It was a group poem at least 2 of us wrote -- 2 lines each -- entitled "A
Poem for Mr. M." Is it mean and crude -- a classic adolescent item. Rose and
I had a good laugh together over how, even when I was 40, she didn't think I
had ever cursed or done anything mean. The first line has "J" written next
to it -- hence my mother's thought it was my sister Judi's. The third line
has an "M" next to it. I don't recall who the "J" was who started it.
Perhaps you? Perhaps Jean -- she did try to make me tougher back then. "M"
might have been for "me" -- don't know. I do remember why I had it. When he
turned back from the board, we stuffed it into the open cubby of the lab
table, where I sat. I forgot something when I left class. I went back to the
classroom and saw Mr. McGuiness sitting in my chair reading it. I left the
room again, made noise, re-entered, said I forgot something, got the book or
purse I left, and grabbed the note, which he had placed back in the cubby.

It remains tucked under the pink, quilted, lacy cover at the back of Rose's
album of my childhood, a tangible reminder of the transition that is
adolescence.
Louise

Louise Francis
louise.francis@comcast.net

-------------------- 82 --------------------
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:18:21 -0500
From: "John Fischer" <jo_fisch@Culinary.Edu>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

What is Mr. Westrell's e-mail address? He was one of my favorite teachers. I'll always remember the back-and-forth 'fights' between he and Nelson, through the collapseable wall between the classrooms.

Of course, Mr. Bennett amused us to no end when he would wake up a sleepy student by igniting a large bell-jar full of hydrogen right under their desk.

My lord, we were lucky to have these crazy, brilliant and motivating teachers. And no one has mentioned Aschmann yet!

-------------------- 83 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:45:21 EST
From: JaneGaughran@aol.com
Subject: another cherished memory

Lou Capuano taught Sonia Senkiwsky an original song about Ms. Dowd which
she then taught me. I will sing it to any one of you, but it is unprintable.

-------------------- 84 --------------------
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:15:11 -0500
From: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

Already did! :-)
A few years ago Mrs. Matzura (mom of Dave and Steve and almost a second
mom to me) took some sort of an adult intro computer class he taught and
I found out how to contact him.

-------------------- 85 --------------------
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:15:41 EST
From: JEBWILK@aol.com (Julie Blasberg)
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson

Oh my gosh, Louise! Somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind, there is a
spark of remembrance of that "poem" and event! I don't want to take
credit, but wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't me. Funny thing, though, I swore
it was me and David Riggs that were failed when he asked me for a pencil,
but at our 50th birthday party (attended by Mr. McGuiness, by the way) he
said it wasn't him. So, maybe it was Wicky Rudd?
In any event, what an awesome gift and story and how special your last time
together was!!!! Thanks so much for sharing!
-Julie

-------------------- 86 --------------------
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:10:39 -0500 (EST)
From: edward caccia <ewc58@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell

Wow, reading all of these stories and reminiscenses today has been a
blast. I hope they keep coming, it seems that one begets another.

Like others who've commented about him, I loved Pete Westrell and had a
special relationship with him. A brilliant teacher who could reach
anyone, and as Andre said, a natural as our Wrestling Coach. I've been
fortunate to run into him many times over the years, but it's been a
couple since the last. I know he's local, I do think he lives in Dobbs.
Last time we spoke he told me he was helping put together Hastings/Dobbs
Curling team in a league that started in Westchester. He always keeps in
good shape, looked great when I saw him last.

As you may recall, back in the day Pete drove a VW Beetle. What I
remember most about it was how cold it was in the winter... Pete wanted
to help me wrestle, so he used to drive me home after practice. This was
during the depths of winter and his veedub evidently had no heat. But
hey, it sure beat walking from HS to Marianna Drive at 6pm in February.
I was blessed to be wrestling at 155lbs on the varsity team as a
freshman. At 14 years old, this was only 5 years out from open heart
surgery. That's the blessed part. Getting to hang with the Belarge
twins, Nicky McMaster, Chris Squillante, Donny Maher, Joey Pagan, Kit
Ryan, George Morabit, Allan Fine, Chris Griggs, and the rest of the team
as lowly freshman? Well, that part was just magical. Some of the best
fun I've ever had, and all with Westrell at the helm.

-------------------- 87 --------------------
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 05:03:51 -0500
From: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell

Wait a minute...you had open heart surgery at 19? I am so sorry you had to
endure this at such a young age. You are ok now right?

-------------------- 88 --------------------
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:09:27 +0000
From: bsymond1@rochester.rr.com (Barry Symonds)
Subject: Re: Westrell

Mark,
I don't remember "beating the basics into you" but I do remember teaching you some very valuable and skillful wrestling skills.

Speaking of teachers...sort of...does anyone remember Mr. Tucker. He was in his heyday talking about Watergate.

Barry

-------------------- 89 --------------------
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 10:23:42 -0500
From: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Westrell

I never had him as a teacher, but he help to run the conservation club along
with Mr. Rittner (or maybe that was only some of the time, since I seem to
remember it was mostly Mr. Tucker at the meetings). Mr. Tucker was
definitely unique and spirited. The causes we got involved in were very
much in the spotlight at the time (migrant worker rights, flood relief work,
clean up work at the park near edgar's lane). The class of 75 site has a
picture of the elmira trip with him in it. It's sad he passed away
recently.

-------------------- 90 --------------------
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:10:09 -0500
From: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: another cherished memory

> Lou Capuano taught Sonia Senkiwsky an original song about Ms. Dowd
> which she then taught me. I will sing it to any one of you, but it is
> unprintable.

Louis Joseph Capuano commented on your wall post:

"Thats not the point. I dont remember any words. I vaguely remember
considering a basson arrangement while Ms Dowd was discussing conic
sections. It was an uptempo piece I thought appropriate for Fields
Bastwani Marimba Band. And it goes like this..."

-------------------- 91 --------------------
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:29:51 -0500 (EST)
From: edward caccia <ewc58@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell

Earl, yeah, I was born with 2 congenital heart defects, a "VSD" and a
pinched artery that reduced the flow of blood out of my heart. They
knew from the day I arrived. Serious defects but they had to wait until
I was 9 years old to correct them- - being genetic they could've
reappeared if repaired before the heart matured. It happened during 2nd
grade. My teacher Mrs. Weitzner was so nice to me during the whole
year, what a sweet and caring lady she was. She actually arranged to
have most of the class come to visit me in the hospital, something quite
a few old claasmates tell me they still remember. As do I.

The day I woke up from the operation, I saw my parents staring anxiously
at me through the walls of an oxygen tent. In a faint whisper, I asked
them if I'd been hit by a truck :-) Quite an experience for a young
kid, and life shaping. I learned at a very young age that I am
resilient as hell, and could hang with the best of 'em when things got
truly hairy. Within a few years, doctors who knew me only as sickly kid
really could not believe their eyes. I was operated on by a great
pediatic heart surgeon named Dr. Maum, famous now as a teaching Doctor
who went on to train literally hundreds of young cardio surgeons who no
doubt went on to help kids just like me go on to live normal, healthy,
long lives. Like Jane in her battle against Cancer, I was lucky to have
had the very best care, the best of everything. My dad worked for IBM
and like most big companies back then the medical plan was top notch,
and cheap. I shudder to think about trying to go through open heart
surgery now, and from so many standpoints. Happily, my heart defects
weren't passed on to either of my 2 daughters, something I'd always
remained concerned about until I knew for sure they were ok.

Luckily mine were fixable defects and I've never had any heart disease.
While there at the pedatric cardio unit of Babies Hospital in 1967 (for
almost 2 months), I got to know lots of other kids, including 2 other
boys who were not nearly as fortunate as I. Some including these 2 had
defects or disease way beyond anything I suffered. Some did not go home
again.

However in my own case, within just a year of the surgery Mrs. Apple was
OK to slap me silly at that 2nd floor water fountain at Hillside School.
Talk about your miraculous recovery :-) I guess it's true that what
doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. If you let it.

-------------------- 92 --------------------
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 13:46:20 EST
From: JEBWILK@aol.com (Julie Blasberg)
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell

And me too, Ed, remember? Wrestling team scorekeeper? I even have a
Varsity Letter to prove it!
-Julie

-------------------- 93 --------------------
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:23:13 -0500 (EST)
From: edward caccia <ewc58@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell

I sure do Julie, sorry to not mention you in that line up too!

-------------------- 94 --------------------
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:38:55 -0500
From: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell

Wow, I was counting in the wrong direction. I always remember you as a
strong guy, it's hard to remember you ever being sickly, but I can't
remember that much from hillside anyway, but I do remember that Mrs Apple
was tough!

They must have taken the pupil discipline classes at St. Matts. :-) I never
went there, but my old friends used to tell some stories about it.

-------------------- 95 --------------------
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:45:55 -0500
From: Corey Shaff <cshaff@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell

I remember you went through that, my mom told me. Glad you're OK.
Weren't there water fountains in the back of every class in Hillside?
I remember the one between the bathrooms on the 2nd floor, but I also
think I remember sinks in the back of the classrooms possibly with a
water fountain.

-------------------- 96 --------------------
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:27:54 EST
From: JaneGaughran@aol.com
Subject: Re: another cherished memory

Lou - I don't remember the melodic accompaniments, but the words are
immortal.

-------------------- 97 --------------------
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:21:28 -0500
From: barry.symonds@kodak.com
Subject: Re: Greetings!

Dave,
It was only after my transformation that I started to wear the Lacoste
shirts. No in 7th and 8th grade I was painfully shy. I even called the
girls by their last name. OK, now that you all know, I will have to kill
you.

Barry

-------------------- 98 --------------------
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:39:28 -0500
From: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Greetings!

Like that condition was unique...it was endemic among the young male
population. Some recovered sooner than others.

-------------------- 99 --------------------
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:43:57 -0500
From: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
Subject: Re: Mr. Bennett Vs. Mr. Nelson Vs. Mr. Westrell

Ed,

I do recall your heart operation but it didn't stop you from kicking my
ass one day. You were a little bull.

Jim K

-------------------- 100 --------------------
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:47:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Westrell

Ah, Mr. Tucker.

He's one of my teaching models--I still use the Tuckerism "I would suggest to you..."

I don't teach as well as he does but that's what models are for, to give us someone to aspire to.

Greg

-------------------- 101 --------------------
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:02:19 -0500
From: Laurel Kiorpes Parker <lkp5@cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: Westrell

Mr. Tucker and Mrs. Schifano came to the Class of '78's 25th reunion in 2003. Neither one had changed a bit! Great teachers...still interested in their students after all those years.

Laurel

-------------------- 102 --------------------
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:05:46 -0500
From: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
Subject: HASTINGS EMAIL - CLARIFICATION OF POLICY

As you can imagine, in the ten year history of this email forum,
people have subscribed and unsubscribed. Invariably, the unsubscribing
happens when members hold private chats in public. That is happening
now. As a result, I have received multiple annoyance complaints, both
from members and my Internet Service Provider. To build a strong
membership base and keep people from withdrawing, I have promised to
state/reiterate the mission of this email forum...

The purpose of this forum is give us a safe, private place to quickly
and easily communicate with a large group of friends, teachers and
classmates. It allows for very immediate calls-to-action. In this way,
we can rally together in good times and bad, and maybe do a little
group healing when needed after the bad times (as in the recent
reminiscing about our lives in Hastings; I intend to move these to our
website as part of David Virrill's "Hastings Memories" and "Teacher
Tributes" at this link:
http://www.art-cetera.com/hastings/memories ).

This forum was not designed for chit chat among individuals. Facebook is far more suited
for that. (Also Facebook has a "hide" button which we do not have.)

That said, please remember new members are joining who don't know the ropes here yet, so
it would be great if more seasoned members could be tolerant. Hopefully we all realize over time it is better to delete
unwanted emails and stay connected than to withdraw from so much friendship and goodwill.

As long as I'm writing, I would like to mention we can get rid of weird characters like "=" and "=20"
if we send messages as "PLAIN TEXT." If your email comes through with those characters, please
investigate this.

Also, please delete any messages below your own when you post, otherwise
I have to remove them myself or the string of messages keeps repeating
when viewed in the online forum archive (http://www.art-cetera.com/hastings/messages)

A SIDE NOTE: My Internet Service Provider informed me I'M ONLY ALLOWED TO SEND 1000
EMAILS AN HOUR (7 emails x 143 members = 1001 emails) OR BE CUT OFF AS A SPAMMER.
That bothered me because I HATE spammers and I'm just trying to provide a
service for my friends. Regardless, please spread the word about this forum so our membership continues
to grow. If it does, I'll figure something with my ISP, because I am very proud to be a part of this group and
I will do whatever I can to help it thrive.

And finally... I want to say I truly appreciate the thanks people have expressed here.

-------------------- 103 --------------------
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:11:57 -0500
From: Earle MacHardy <uggman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Westrell

I have to admit that Mrs. Schifano was a favorite of mine...I loved her
photography class.

-------------------- 104 --------------------
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:22:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Westrell

Who was with me when we asked Westrel who would win the Super Bowl (we were=
working on the paper)?=A0 I can't remember--but we were polling students a=
nd teachers who would win the Super Bowl.=A0 Mind you, this was in the days=
when the Giants weren't very good.=A0 But he said, with a somber but strai=
ght face, "The Giants."=A0=20
=A0
Loved that.
=A0
Greg

-------------------- 105 --------------------
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:18:44 -0500
From: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
Subject: Reunion Date

Shoot... I just realized I can't fade into the background just yet. I
was waiting for the mood to shift before continuing the discussion
about a class of '75's reunion date (but all will be welcome). To
recap, we only have 10 votes (see below). Our email database contains a
mix of classes and has gaps, so please reach out to your friends via
email and Facebook. Please ask them for a reunion date recommendation
and convince them to join this email forum if not already enrolled.

Thanks,
Alan

EMAIL RECAP:

Ralph Maggi - July 4th or any other will be fine with me
Nancy Waterous - Homecoming weekend
Ray Paletta - Homecoming weekend
James Shillinglaw - Homecoming weekend
Karen Korenko O'Mara - Homecoming weekend
JaneGaughran - In the Fall
Wayne Anthony and Alan Fine - whatever the majority wants
Patricia Sinatra - Homecoming weekend
Julie Blasberg - 3-day weekend, like Labor Day or Columbus Day

Laurel Kiorpes Parker said in 2003, Homecoming weekend WAS Columbus
Day weekend.
Mr. Saverino and Nancy Waterous said this year, Columbus Day will be
celebrated on Monday the 11th of Oct.