From: Gdanski, Martin: to Steve Lieberman:

*Sent:* Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:38 AM*Subject:* RE: Bronx High School of Science 40th Reunion

Hello, Steve. I confess also to having the dubious distinction of having graduated from both JHS 141 and BHSS - it has all been downhill since then!

Alas, I will not be able to attend the reunion but I see that others will fly the flag for us poor souls.

If any of you were also members of the chorus, I do hope you will, for old time's sake, sing "Science Evermore", interspersing the obligatory "Oh baby" before the last verse and using the unadulterated last line!

Best regardsMartin Gdanski martin.gdanski@nortonrose.com Paris, France_____________________________________________________Hi Martin,How about people from elementary school PS 11? ;-) It was great to see your name again, although we didn’t hang out much at Science.

I don’t think I’ll be able to make it to see everyone at our 40th, although I did make the 30th reunion. Martin, maybe my husband and I can stop and see you sometime in Paris on the way to visiting my daughter (who lives in Italy). Meantime, have some smelly cheese for me! (Comme les pieds des anges.)

Shelly (Michelle Goldstein) Schneider shelly@softest.com_____________________________________________________Greetings all,

I have been in Anchorage, Alaska since 1976 and am pretty sure that I will be able to make this reunion. And yes, I have met Sarah Palin, and no, I won’t talk about her here. But when I do see all of you, I might!

I am currently the Chair of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly, even though I was elected less than a year ago, and am very busy with this public service position and all it entails, but Memorial Day weekend with Bronx Science friends would be a blast. And I’ll bet I will be coming from about as far away as anyone else!

I do have a 1969 Bronx Science yearbook and will dig it out and either bring it with me or ask about classmates in a future email. Meanwhile, I have changed my email personality so you will recognize me as Harriet Anagnostis. I do have a Facebook page, under Harriet Drummond, and Bronx Science is listed as a public item. So visit and ask to be friends. And if anyone is creating a Facebook page for our class, I am all in!

Looking forward to time in Da Bronx,

Harriet (Anagnostis) Drummond harrietdrummond@alaska.com ___________________________________________________(To Harriet Anagnostis Drummond):

Although I don't think I will be able to make this reunion (I was at the 20th), I believe we were in most classes together from the 5th grade at PS 95 (when I moved from PS 122) and all through JHS 143. I heard 143 was closed about a year ago. After Science, I went to NYU and CCNY, and lived in NJ for 23 years; I have now settled in Charlotte, NC.

Jay Parton ______________________________________________________

JHS 143 here! PS7 anybody? I went on to Lehman, class of '73. I was Alumni Board of Directors president; am now on the Foundation Board. Anyone from Lehman out there in cyberspace?SusanSusan E. Greenberg, PresidentArt Advice Corporate Art Consultants LLC200 East 33rd Street, 24th FloorNew York, NY 10016ph: 212-683-5611fax: 212-683-1356http://www.artadvice-ny.com ___________________________________________________Hi Susan.

I went from BS to the Univ of Puerto Rico for a a year and a half then transferred to Lehman. I graduated in 74. Small world!!!

BTW, I was JHS 133 and PS 62.

Ismael Lezcano IsmaelLezcano@aol.com203-253-2048________________________________________________________Hi All,I've been in touch with several of you directly, but I thought I'd add my voice to the emails flying across the country (and the world - you know who you are Martin Gdanski). My story - short version - , PS7, JHS 143, Science, Lehman BA '73, CCNY MA '79; married 30 years, Evan Schneider (http://www.projectcontrolgrp.com) ) two daughters, Rachel, Brandeis '04 and Emily, Cornell '08 (photo attached); own an art consulting firm in Manhattan, _www.artadvice-ny.com_ (http://www.artadvice-ny.com) . Live in Manhattan, weekend house at the Jersey Shore. A good life, far away from the Marble Hill projects where I grew up. I do make it up to the Bronx on a regular basis though, as I was on the Lehman Alumni Board of Directors for six years and am now a Director on the Foundation Board there. Haven't been inside Science since the last day of school in 1969. Just came back from a week in California, where I met up with Roger Wapner in San Francisco for a cup of coffee (see photo). After comparing notes and names and thumbing through the yearbook we realized that we were in the same EP class in JHS 143, both played violin in the orchestra, and that he was popular in high school and I wasn't! Any one interested in touring the school on the Saturday afternoon of the reunion? Any one know how we could go about setting that up,Tom, Sandy? I think it would be an amazing walk down memory lane. Looking forward to seeing everyone in May. All the best, Susan Greenberg ____________________________________________________Hi All;Like many of you, I can't remember many faces and names writing here, but I love all the great energy flowing through the emails.

Here's some of what I've been doing for the last 30 years:

Went to Lehman, MA in cinema studies, NYU (while trying to get an MA inEnglish at Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury simultaneously -reading 6 Victorian novels in as many weeks and being in two MA programs intwo states just didn't last - I finished at NYU). I have worked in advertising for the past 25 years.mostly in pharmaceutical, life

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sciences,and IT (before that I was on the team that launched the Acura car - I've never owned a car but that doesn't seem to have hurt the sales of Acura).

12 years ago I started my own company www.holtzmancom.com <http://www.holtzmancom.com/> and I write, speak and publish aboutmarketing (my book is called Lies Startups Tell Themselves to Avoid Marketing) and Intellectual Property. I'm currently the Chair of the NY Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society, one of the founders of a new org called CleanTech Corridor, and on the Board of Directors of The Open Eye Theater (founded by Joseph Campbell). In my spare time I bowl on a league in Brooklyn (imagine Laverne and Shirley and you have an idea of where I bowl),hike with the Appalachian Mountain Club and the American Littoral Society and travel to lecture (ok so Rochester and Winnipeg in the winter weren't so appealing.but Shanghai and Jamaica were). I never married but have been in two very long term relationships (if you were at the last reunion, my last significant other attended with me). Would love to hear more from everyone on the list.Best,Sandy Sandra Holtzman" <sholtzman@holtzmancom.com ______________________________________________________Dear all,It's such a pleasure to read these emails and see what we've all been up to. We're such an accomplished bunch. I don't remember most of the names but I do recognize many of the photos in the yearbook, at least. The only person from Science I've stayed in touch with it Sandy Wohl, now Sandy Wolman.I never left New York: After Science I went to City College and Brooklyn College. I got my MLS (Master's in Library Science) at Pratt in Brooklyn and worked for New York Public and Brooklyn Public, and then, after my son was born, moved to the NYC Board of Ed. I've been a middle school librarian in Sheepshead Bay ever since. I've had two biographies for children, on Oprah Winfrey and Stephen King, published, and a short story I wrote won the Adria Schwartz Award for Women's Fiction, given by the English Dept. of City College of New York. I got married in 1972 and divorced in 2008 (the first too early, the second too late). My son is now 23, a graduate of Hofstra, and an ice hockey coach and referee. I am currently enrolled in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at City College, and I've discovered yoga.Did anyone from our class become a literary agent or a publishing house editor? I've been looking for one.I'll be at the reunion, and I'll be bringing Sandy with me. Anne Saidman - but at Science I was Anne Gottlieb, so for this I'll sign off as

Anne Gottlieb Saidman. PALFFY85@AOL.COM_________________________________________________Okay guys... this is Steve Budabin… here is my two cents worth. I too have enjoyed reading all of the E-mails and remembering Science. I have only recognized several names out of a graduating class of 980 (I think it was 980). I remember Harriet A being in my physiology class with Mr. Galasco.

After Science, I attended Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New Jersey and majored in Biology. I then went on to obtain a Master's in Physiology at NYU, Washington Square. I moved to Miami Beach in 1978, and got a job as a Medical Technologist at the Miami VA Medical Center and worked there for about 3 years. Following that, I transferred to an Air Force Base in Utah and became the Chemistry Supervisor there for 5 years. Then in 1986, I transferred to the Washington DC area and worked in the Special Chemistry section at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In 1990, I transferred to the Food and Drug Administration where I work as a Consumer Safety Officer, which is

basically enforcement of the medical device and quality system regulation. It's a combination of a regulatory/scientific position.

I was married to my beautiful and smart wife Judy in 1996 (today happens to be our 13th wedding anniversary). We have no children but we do have a loving and cute 5-year old Labrador/Beagle female who we love dearly.

If anyone remembers me, please let me know how you are doing. Iprobably won't be able to attend the reunion, but my thoughts will be with you.

Steve Budabin Steve.budabin@fda.hhs.gov

Vascular & Circulatory Support Devices BranchDivision of Enforcement BOffice of ComplianceCenter for Devices & Radiological HealthFood and Drug Administration240-276-0291______________________________________________________I guess I’ll throw my hat (or e-mail) into the ring. My name is Andy Hano. I was a 4 year “super senior” who commuted everyday from Manhattan (IRT #2/6). I look at my graduation picture and ask “Who is that 10 year old kid?”. I eventually got taller (and older). I didn’t really participate in anything at Science but now I like to run, golf, scuba and my main extracurricular activity, lead guitar and vocals in a classic rock cover band. I am amazed at how little I remember of my years at Science. I have more memories of the subway rides from Manhattan than I do of classes or teachers. I wasn't doing anything to burn brain cells in those years and I maintain an excellent memory now! I remember Julius Beckenstein the health teacher and Judy Engel, the math teacher. I would like to know the whereabouts of Tony Gallagher and Bob Hartmayer.

I went to Northwestern University then med school in Iowa and post-graduate training in Detroit. I have been practicing Hematology/Oncology the last 25 years in the Tampa Bay, Florida area (near Clearwater). I have been married nearly 30 years and have two sons; the younger just graduated UNF in Jacksonville and is now a UCG (unemployed college graduate). The older went to UF (GO GATORS!!). He now works for the American League champion Tampa Bay Rays (FEEL THE HEAT, RAYS!!). I have had essentially no contact with anyone since graduation but I am entranced by the flurry of e-mail activity and I am considering flying up for the weekend. Will I know anyone?? Not sure if it matters, but might be nice. I added a recent picture of me and my wife just for fun….a dramatic difference from the yearbook picture (but whose isn’t ?) Life is good here and I wish the best to everyone!Andy Hano drno@tampabay.rr.com ______________________________________________________Hi Everyone!My turn. I'm Sarah Sherman (Poncz). I've really enjoyed all the e-mails and look forward to attending the reunion. A special thanks to the organizers! After City I married and relocated to Philadelphia where my husband Morty and I finished grad school, raised our girls and still reside. (In the suburb of Wynnewood.)At some level I never finished high school because I am there on a daily basis as a math teacher. No surprise that I'm about to enter my 35th year as a mathematics educator. The last 25 have been spent as the Department Head at Roxborough High School in Philadelphia.While attending many professional conferences over the years I often ran into Miss Engel. She was exactly the same as I remembered her from 11th grade. I also was in touch with

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Mr. Binghi for a while.I'd love to correspond with any of you, but especially my fellow graduates of JHS 135- Frank D. Whalen Jr. High- Cheer, cheer for 135- where are you guys? P.S. 121? I lived across the street.Lately we visit Brooklyn at least once a month the see our one year old granddaughter. Coming from Pelham Parkway, I didn't even know what Brooklyn looked like when I lived in the northeast Bronx! Keep those messages coming. I can't (won't) join Facebook because I don't want to enter a world where my students rule! Maybe when I retire.Take care,

Sarah Sherman (Poncz). _______________________________________________________At the risk of sounding pathetic, I don't think anyone will remember me, but I need to give it a shot.

I was in the class of 1969 for 9th grade only. I went to Hunter College Elementary School 58-64. My father was a writer for Jackie Gleason's TV show, which then moved to Miami. After 7th grade there, he left the show and we moved back to NYC. I took the test, skipped 8th grade and got into Science. So I knew nobody when I arrived.

My father couldn't find a TV writing job in NYC, so we moved to LA after a year. Then I went to Caltech, Stanford and I'm finishing 30 yrs ofprofessing math at the University of Illinois. Been together that long with Robin, a computer scientist/classical singer/equestrienne from New Jersey who would have fit into Science as well as I would have. My high school in LA (Uni) was good -- it had four Caltech acceptances -- yet I regretted not being at Science. To this day, I much prefer the sharp New Yorker's vowels to the honking Chicagoan or the laid-back Angeleno.

So I was younger than the rest of you, and I was completely a math kid in my interests, bumped up to algebra-trig, where the classmates were mostly from the class of 1967. I do recall a group of five of us walking to the train going south and there were at least three guys named Bruce. If you actually do remember me, please drop me a line, off-list. My web-page, with jokes, is below the sig.

Bruce Reznick reznick@math.uiuc.edu http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~reznick/ _____________________________________________________Well, after reading these incredible string of emails, I thought I'd throw my name and a bit of history into the mix. This is Les (known as Leslie in 1969) Rudner, living happily for the last 23 years in Fort Collins, Colorado (I saw some other Coloradoan emails earlier). I am currently visiting my mother in New Jersey so I don't have my Science yearbook which I will need to look at faces though alas, most of the names thus far are unfamiliar (of course my memory being what it is, I may have known many of you). On the other hand we had what, 980 kids in our graduating class, so at this rate the emails will continue to arrive, to enlighten and confound. Stu Solomon, Laura Holtzman and Miccio ring a bell and of course Dennis Zezas, who emailed me and will visit me tomorrow while I am in NJ (first time seeing each other in approx 27 years). Prior to Science I attended PS 64, and JHS 117 (Wade) (anyone else?), and at Science I played on the baseball team and along with Eugene Schwartz (we are still in touch) and Eric Cohen (are you out there Eric?) regularly attended basketball games with our cow bell in hand (remember?). Howie Fuchs and I trade emails-mostly jokes- (Howie you weighing in here?) but has anyone heard from Ralph Salvietti? I then attended Brandeis and University of Pennsylvania (MSW). After time in Denver, upstate NY and Florida, my wife and I and our 2 kids settled in Colorado. My career has been in social work with various social service agencies and

for 21 years with state Probation in Colorado. I am now happily retired and working part time as a Starbucks Barista (a wonderful change), Alas, I most likely won't be at the Reunion BUT I have been enjoying seeing all of the words of encouragement as well as emails from all over the place catching everyone up. To be continued I imagine but all of my best regards to all of you.

Les Rudner LJJRSC@aol.com ______________________________________________________Hey Les,How are you? Another NY'er transplanted to CO.I've been in Co since '02 and have been teaching at the Sturm College ofLaw since then as well. Prior to that I was on faculty at Albany LawSchool, where I started the Family Violence Clinic and taught as amember of the clinical faculty. I came to teaching after working as anADA in the Bronx and after founding the first legal services center inthe US for battered women (Center for Battered Women's Legal Services ofSanctuary for Families). Law is a second career of sorts-I was acollege prof. and taught political theory and women studies. I went toAntioch Law School for the JD and then to Columbia Law School for myLL.M and J.S.D. It's been a good life and I enjoy my family (daughteris 21, studying to be a Chef, partner is a senior account exec. and an artist) and the amazing hiking, skiing that CO has-I've even taken up flying. Who would have thought a Bronx kid would be into nature and flying?

Unlike so many of my Science compadres-I went to Our Lady of Refuge Grammar School and was a "Super Senior." The off to Marymount College of Fordham U, SUNYA (MA) and then the law schools. Anyone know how to contact Toby Luria, Joan Friedman, Helen Leffler, Judy Leiman, Fay Koutrolis, Peter Galderisi?Regards to all.

Kris (Gaye) Miccio kmiccio@law.du.edu G. Kristian Miccio, LL.M, J.S.D. kmiccio@law.du.eduAssociate Professor of Law Sturm College of Law University of Denver 2255 East Evans Denver, Colorado 80208 303.871.6361 303.871-6001 Fax ___________________________________________________Kristian- Funny you should mention Judy Lieman. As my name is Lieberman, you may recall that homeroom was assigned alphabetically so for three years I sat next to her. For three years all i heard about was the beatles. Judy is now living in Israel and is teaching at Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus. She teaches biology.I spent a day with her and her husband about three years ago when I visited Israel. Glad I remembered someone and could be of help

steve Lieberman <Steven1713@aol.com_______________________________________________________Hi Everybody!I was enjoying reading all the e-mails and then all of a sudden my name popped up in Kristian Miccio's letter. Then Steve Lieberman answered her and said that he found me in Israel a few years ago. I've been living in Israel for 31 years and have 4 sons (ages 29, 26, 24 and 17). I have a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the Weizmann Institute and have been doing research (not teaching as Steve wrote) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1984. I won't be able to come to the reunion but I usually fly to New York for a couple of weeks every year or two to visit friends and family in case anyone would like to get together.

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By the way, Helen Leffler is now living in Arkansas and Fay Koutroulis is in ???

Judy Lieman hurwitz@013.net judyhurwitz@gmail.com_____________________________________________________More complete bio from Kris Micchio (sent a few months after the above entry):

I don't think I sent a bio so here goes:After Science I went to Marymount College where I earned a BA in Philosophy and Politics. Then on to Rockefeller College, University of NY at Albany where I studied for an MPA. After that I was the Assistant Director of Continuing Education at Hudson Valley Community College, where I developed one of the first returning adult women's programs in the US. Following HVCC, I taught politics and women studies at SUNYA and SUNY New Paltz.

Went back to school for a JD at Antioch Law School in DC. After graduating I went back to the Bronx as an ADA in Mario Merola's DA's Office. After 3 years there, I founded the first and now largest public interest law office for battered women and their kids-The Center for Battered Women's Legal Services of Sanctuary for Families. In 5 short years we litigated numerous precedent setting cases in criminal and family law, wrote and had passed cutting edge legislation in NY, trained hundreds of cops, judges, mental health professionals and members of the bar--and were awarded numerous awards from legal, women's, judicial organizations. When I left in '93, we had 3 full time lawyers, 150 volunteer lawyers (started the 1st pro bono project in the US on DV) and an operating budget of over 1.3 million. And we started with me, 12 law students 40K and a dream. The Center now has 23 lawyers.

Following that, I started the Family Violence Litigation Clinic at Albany Law School. Another marvelous experience where I worked as a Visiting Professor of Clinical Law. In 1997, I went back to school at Columbia where I got an LL.M and JSD.

I have been a law professor at the Sturm College of Law, where I am tenured (yea!) and have received a Fulbright to study, teach and research on male intimate violence in Ireland, a European Union Fellowship (2009-10) to teach law at the University of Granada and University of Bologna. I have been writing up a storm since'95, and have been published by Harvard, Georgetown, Washington and Lee, Texas, Columbia, Iowa, Rutgers and Houston Law Schools, to name a few. I am currently working on a book on conceptions of care and empathy as part of Justice. At SCOL, I teach criminal law and procedure, family law, jurisprudence and a seminar on the Holocaust.

I also joined the USAF-CAP (Dennis Fichtel will die when he sees this!) where I am attached to the Colorado Wing, Black Sheep Senior Squadron as the Legal Officer--I am training to do search and rescue as a Mission Scanner/Observer and working up to becoming a flight officer/pilot. I have been commissioned as a Captain and I love it!

I live with my life partner (Laurie) and our beautiful daughter Tammara (22) who is studying to be a chef at the amazing culinary school-Johnson & Wales. My mother (94), Lucille Miccio, former para at BXHSS, lives in an assisted living residence a few miles from us, here in Denver. My incredible father passed away in '01 and my brilliant beautiful sister, Vita Miccio Olds, Class of '67, died May 7, 2008 from ovarian cancer. We miss them both so much.

We love Colorado. Where else can you ski until May, have sun 333 days out of the year, play tennis outdoors almost all

year 'round and have a view of Pike's Peak from your school office? And the parks--amazing.

I have had an amazing life--so far. It has been filled with such joy, wonder, growth and love. I am grateful for this life and have been blessed. SO what else can there be? In a few weeks I will start as a commentator on AM 760, Progressive Radio; who knows--another career in the future?

I wish you all well and hope to make the next get together of the Class of 1969.

Kind regards,Kris (Gaye) Miccio kmiccio@law.du.edu _______________________________________________________To my overachieving class of '69 classmates. I felt inadequate when I attended Science and now that I'm reading what you have all been up to, I can see my feelings was well founded.

This is Karen Kessler (now Pike) living in Belmont, Massachusetts (I'm a live long Yankee fan living in Red Sox Nation). As everyone seems to be giving a chronology of what they have been doing, I will join in, too.After Science I attended Lehman college and graduated with a degree in Accounting. I moved to Massachusetts in 1974. After working in public accounting for a while, earning my CPA, I realized it wasn't my life's calling. I attended Northeastern University and got my MBA. I then went to work for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for around 8 years. In the meanwhile I had 3 kids. I left DEC in 1989 and became a full-time mom. In 1996 when I realized I might actually have to pay for my daughter's college education, I decided to change careers and become a financial planner. So, I am now a Certified Financial Planner. If you live in the Greater Boston area, I would be happy to assist you on your financial journeys.

Anyway, my son, Michael graduated from college recently with a degree in Chemical Engineering but has had no success in finding related employment (he now works at H&R Block). He's a good kid looking for that first job. If any of you have any ideas or contacts, I would be ever so appreciative.BTW, does anyone know what happened to Marlene Siegel?Lastly, I will be leading services at Beth El Temple Center, 2 Concord Ave, Belmont, Ma. on Friday night, Feb. 20th and Saturday morning, Feb. 21st. If you will be in the neighborhood it would be delightful to see you.

Karen Kessler 617-484-6165 napnapnap@aol.com______________________________________________________Good morning and Happy Valentine's Day, Classmates,

Though I have been enjoying the memories, I had been holding off writing until someone I hung around with at Science responded ( a couple are on the list, but no one from my groups has written in yet). What prompted me to write today was reading the email from a classmate (Karen Kessler Pike) who lives one town over from where I live and work. I'm in Arlington, Massachusetts.I haven't been to any Science reunions yet (and don't think I'll be able to make this one) but I have been to a reunion of three classes (1963, 1964 & 1965) from my Bronx elementary school (P.S. 46, the Edgar Allen Poe School). One of our Science classmates also attended at the Manhattan Children's Museum in July of 2007: Jerry Weiner, who's now a cardiologist.

During my first couple years at Science I hung out mostly with my PS 46 or JHS 45 classmates (Eugene Schwartz, Jerry Weiner, Robert Altman). During the second half of junior year and most of senior year, I hung out mostly with Pablo Rivera, Louis Portiansky and my girlfriend, Amy Bernstein.

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I went out once with Julie Fein. I had a date planned with Dana Silver but I got cold feet and called in sick - was going to take her to the Annual Meeting and Banquet of the New York Zoological Society (where I was a member because of having donated two iguanas that I had convinced my mother to let me buy for a non-existent science project during 9th grade at 45). I don't remember who I sat with at lunch, except for several lunches that Louie, Pablo and I snuck out for and went to some area sandwich shop or other for lunch.

I don't think I was particularly memorable at Science and felt like one of the underachievers amongst overachievers that someone else mentioned in an email. But Don Schwartz changed my life. I was a hawkish member of the American Patrol Corps of Naval Cadets since I was about 10 years old and was on my way toward a career in the Navy. I had an appointment to the US Naval Academy and had only applied to other colleges with NROTC programs. The day after the big anti-war demonstration on the Lehman field, next to Science,Mr. Schwartz gently confronted me in class. He said, "Michael, you were one of the counter-demonstrators, what was your goal?" I couldn't answer. As I thought about that interchange over the next few months, I realized that I appreciated the Constitution more than the military.

I decided not to go to any of the colleges that I had been accepted to, stayed in NYC, got a job as a dividend clerk in a small brokerage firm on Wall Street and went to CCNY nights. By 1970, I grew my hair long, grew a beard, attended the March on Washington and was a marshall at a peace demonstration in Central Park. After 4 years as a night student and an unsuccessful attempt to unionize the brokerage firm at which I worked, I transferred to days at CCNY.

I met my wife during my first day semester, Spring 1974: Betty Gitlin of P.S. 40, Baldwin, Elizabeth Irwin class of '70. We got married in January 1975, graduated from CCNY together in Feb. 1976 and moved to the Boston area for me to attend Law School. I graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 1979 and moved to Morehead, Kentucky, for a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship with Northeast Kentucky Legal Services -- talk about culture shock!

We had our first son, Joshua Gitlin-Rich (now 27), in Kentucky (though he prefers that his friends remain unaware of that). We moved back to Massachusetts and I hung out a shingle as a solo, general practitioner from our 1-bedroom apartment in 1982. When he was 3, we bought a 2-family in Arlington, Massachusetts (a northwest suburb of Boston) with my mother-in-law who had also, by then, moved to the Boston area (Belmont, actually, Karen; you may have known her brother, Alan Ziskind, who had a pediatric practice on Concord Ave in Belmont from well before then untilabout 1992). Josh is now a musician and deli delivery guy in Boulder / Nederland, CO. He's actually playing at Steamboat this week – Colorado. Classmates, be sure to check out Smooth Money Gesture, if you get the chance.

We had our second son, Travis Rich (now 20) here in Massachusetts - the only Townie in our family. He's a junior in computer engineering at Boston University.

In 1996 we took in our now famous (infamous?), unofficial foster son, Belarussian asylee, Peter "Zebbler" Berdovsky. You may have seen me on national TV with him during the January 2007 Boston Area Aqua Teen Hunger Force terror scare. I was also on national TV during the summer or fall of 2003 as the poster child for the rebelling Massachusetts

indigent defenders. Peter is a 2006 graduate, with honors, of the Massachusetts College of Art.

I have since gone back to being a primarily children's and family lawyer, still as a solo, still from my home office in Arlington. See more about that on my website or blog, linked below or in my linkedin or avvo.comprofiles.

In addition to Mr. Schwartz, I have fond memories of Mr. Falk, math; Mrs. Silverstein, bio, & Mr. Luria, guidance; and not-so-fond memories of Mr. Glickman, English, and Madame Gerton, French. (When under stress, I have a recurring nightmare that either I have to go back to Kindergarten because I didn't pass French or that I failed the Bar Exam because I forgot to study for the French portion.)Best wishes and keep those memories coming,

Mike Rich____________________________________________________Just a crazy memory here...Does anybody remember the assembly we had which ran the beginning of the film Gold Diggers of 1933 (one of those Warner Brothers/Busby Berkeley far-out films, with music by Warren/Dubin--drugs? Who needed drugs while watching one of those films??) with Ginger Rodgers singing one of the hit songs from the movie, "We're In The Money," both in English and ....Pig Latin!! (Not a surprising choice of films to show us during those hallucinogenic late 1960s!) :)

Tom Colicino TOMBOCHI@aol.com______________________________________________________I don't remember that assembly at all. The only one I can recall is the one right after Dr. King was shot. That was incredibly emotional.On a lighter note,,,, I remember Mr. Jenny very well but I can't remember the name of the young blond french teacher, who was actually french, who I had for advanced french junior year. She was terrific but left Science before we graduated. She invited several of us to her home in Red Bank NJ after she left Science and had a party for us. I can't believe I forgot her name. Does anyone remember her name?My clearest memory of Mr. Heitner in 9th period physics lecture is him starting a sentence and then just gazing out the window . W'd be looking at each other like "OK, What now?" His son Vlad, was a top notch geology major at Queens College who graduated just before I got there.Dr. Taffel - The day after the night that RFK got shot, I ended up in Taffel's office, crying uncontrollably. He was super nice to me but no one could get me to stop crying. Years later, I met RFK's son, Joe Kennedy, at a forum here on campus, and talked to him about how much I had loved his Dad.In spite of all the political and emotional turmoil we grew up with, I treasure growing up in NY at that time in history and being at Science. I come across so many students who come from small towns and their coping skills are nil compared to what we developed.Mary Arvay Sohn2nd entry from Mary Sohn: I have been enjoying 'lurking" in the background and enjoying these emails tremendously. Just want to wish HAPPY VALENTINE to all on the list and special thanks to Sandra and Tom for taking the time and effort to set up this reunion. I remember Sandy from BHSS very fondly so it is no surprise to me that she makes the time to do this in spite of a very busy schedule. I was not lucky enough to run into Tom. Reading these emails makes me wish I had gotten to know each of you on this list.

In what seems another life, I "was" Mary Arvay. Got married as an

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undergraduate to a Brooklyn Tech graduate and have been Mary Sohn since 1972. My faculty profile is below if anyone wants to see what I've been up to lately. It's interesting how many of us are university faculty. But then we had the best teachers in the world. I'm still inspired by Mrs. Irene Shapiro who taught us AP Bio in her basement rec room during the teachers strike senior year. I often think of her when I deal with my students.

Best wishes to the best class of the best HS ever,

Mary Arvay Sohn msohn@fit.edu] _______________________________________________________Hello class of 69. I am certainly enjoying reading these e-mails. Not sure if anyone remembers me, but I do remember some of you. First of all, I remember Tom Colicino, and apparently he is still the same nice guy that he was in high school. Thanks so much for doing this for all of us, Tom. And Lily Din--I was the person on the other side of you during exams: the order was Linda Di Motta (me), Lily Din, David Diner.

Just a few random observations and memories:Coming out of Catholic grammar school, BHSS was a startling and exciting experience, and the best academic experience I had. I greatly appreciate my four years there. And since I was there for four years, it seems I remember the "super seniors" names better than others.It appears that Nathan and Leroy were the best-known people in our class, based on the number of people who mention them!

Best teacher: Joe ScavoneCreepiest teacher: Dr. BobrowskyTeacher who underwent the greatest transformation: Donald Schwartz. Those of you who were in Science as 9th graders might remember Mr. Schwartz before he lost weight, grew a beard and became a radical.Most fun substitute teacher: Dr. Gluck, teaching Swahili.

Kris Miccio: I remember you as well as Kathy Mulvihill and also would like to hear from or about her. I would also love to hear about Jarrettia Adams, Sally Abravanel, and my friend from St. Raymond's, Marguerite Holt, who was living in Brooklyn the last time we were in touch. Update on my life: I have been married for 27 years, living in Jersey for 24 years and have a 21-year-old daughter who is a junior at the University of Maryland. I have had three careers, the first in the music industry, the next one in medical transcription (my mommy track career where I was able to work at home for 18 years), and lately as a medical editor. Not as high-powered as so many of you, but satisfying.Not sure yet if I will be able to attend the reunion, but keep the e-mails coming. It has been great fun reminiscing.

Linda Di Motta Kramer______________________________________________________Dear Scienceites: Like many of you, I also don't recognize most of the names here but am enjoying the memories and the connection. But we did share classes and hallways even if we don't remember who we all are. Here's some random memories (names, facts & spellings gladly corrected!): STL.....Harris field....demonstrating against the war while the police let some Clinton boys through a few times to take a swing at somebody.....the teachers strike in our junior year which lasted from about the 2nd week of school until Thanksgiving......(I spent most of that time at the Fountain in Central Park ,,,,WNEW even put on a free concert at the bandshell w/Spooky Tooth & Traffic headlining).....extended school days afterward the strike...seniors freaking about getting into college.......Mr. Karpf for history...his former student Stokely Carmichael speaking in the cafeteria.....Mr.

Glickman (?) for some humanities-type course. (I forgot the title).....Don Schwartz, our beatnik/hippie teacher who wore turtlenecks and dark glasses to school (there were rumors about why the dark glasses).......Mr. Mufson's Spanish class...... I hope no one has just had harmful flashbacks reading this. I have the Science yearbook and being a pack rat, even have copies of the NY HS Free Press and Sans Culottes stored away. I live in San Francisco & am undecided about going to the reunion but if I do, will bring some of this paper w/me. There were those of us who hung out on the corner after school. Those who went to see the Dead when they played the Fillmore for a week at midnite and blew off school to get ready for the next night! (You know who you are.) I was the enterprising guy who sold records to people at school. Mr. Glickman (?) was a big customer & would give me lists of all the new LPs on index cards that he wanted to buy. I wonder where that collection is now! After graduating Science, I went to CCNY for a year and then SUNY/New Paltz where I majored in Sociolgy but got my education outside class. (I was more of a liberal arts student but given the state of NYC public schools at the time, couldn't pass BHSS up.) I spent several years in prolonged adolescence and wound up in SF where I eventually went to law school. I've been an attorney for 20 years now. Was married, now divorced w/a teenage son. I've been in contact w/some fellow grads over the years but this recent email activity has been the most I've had to do w/BHSS since I graduated. Keep those emails coming!

Jeff Hurwitz jahurwitzhome@cs.com _______________________________________________________Hi all, I love reading all the emails and do recognize many of your names. I actually stayed in the Bronx for my college (Lehman '73) and post graduate education (Einstein Medical '76) -- am I perhaps the only person who went Kindergarten through post graduate all in the Bronx!!! But then moved to Manhattan for internship and residency in Pediatrics I was lured to Virginia (near DC) by my husband to be ( aStuyvesant grad) in 1983. Left Medicine to start a family in 1990 but I keep up my medical license. My daughter is now 16 --and like Marjory (who I remember) I too am working Part time at the Jewish Comm. Ctr of No. VA as a coordinator for senior activities (I went from kids to seniors). Who out there remembers Mr. Littman's social studies class?? You were almost certain to get at least a 99, he played "Love is Blue" before each class and had a green furry foot shaped rug (Green Giant?). Where is he now?? I actually was told by a female PE teacher (? Mrs. Feuerstein or something similar) that I was too short to do gymnastics!! I was so relieved as I was not athletic and really didn't want to do the exercises anyway but to be told too short????!!!!! Had to laugh when Mary Lou Retton won Olympic gold!!! and gave a sigh of relief that I wasn't encouraged at all!! I kept in contact with French teacher Mr. Fuhrman until his death about 10 or so years ago. Can't say for sure if I'll be at reunion but I loved the 20th. I have met many a Bx Sci grad here -- many from other years. I saw a VA license plate that said Bx Sci '80, waited for the person to come to their car and indeed she was a grad.Best to all -- so great to hear about everyone.

Michele Owrutzky Birder47@aol.comBurke, VA , married name Endick_______________________________________________________ I thought I'd throw in a few more teacher reminiscences:

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- Agnes Dragnet - English - Used to pick a student the first day of school and make a bad example of them, sending them to the dean. Unfortunately, I was the bad example my freshman year. (Didn't write down things like "Do your homework" and "Copy everything on the board"). Used to like to wear mini-skirts. - Joe Scavone - English - Let you pick any book you wanted for book reports, and if he hadn't read it, he would before returning the paper - Mrs. Weiss - English - Integrated Simon & Garfunkel's The Ballad of Richard Cory with the poem to make things more interesting - Mr. Karpf - Social Studies - The Forum. I still remember the annual lectures by Roman Vishniac - Alexander Taffel - Drunk as a skunk at at the senior prom - Mr. Katz - Hebrew - My parents wouldn't let me take Russian - The chemistry teacher (name forgotten) who used his tests at some night school a couple of days before we got them. Someone figured this out, so we always knew the questions in advance - Dr. Silver - School store - Did he ever teach classes?

It's really odd that I remember so many English teachers, since I didn't like English as a subject, while I loved Biology, and don't remember any names there.

Ben Klausner klausner@frijoles.net_____________________________________________________Hi Ben,

I don't think it's any surprise about the English teachers. So many of them were so good. Here are three more with some reminisces:

Mr. Nadel (I know someone mentioned him earlier) what I got from him was a love for the etymology of words. I found that a lot more interesting than writing about Shakespeare.Mr. Greene, and our production of the Caucasian Chalk Circle, how he didn't go all gray with us, especially when Dave (last name help please!) fell off the car he was sitting on just before the show (the car was moving at the time).Mr. Rosove, sitting cross legged on the desk in the classroom during the strike. I've got the book he wrote about it somewhere.

Two of the characters from other departments:PhysicsMr. Joseph Heitner - "What is a watt?" Tony Gallagher, Allan Rosenwasser (Rosie), throwing paper airplanes with his back turned. And innocent me having to use my fingers to connect the current on a motor while he turned the generator by hand.

SpanishMr. Littman - who used to assign each of us a nickname within the first few days of class. My excellence in Spanish was rewarded with the moniker "Nemesis" Nahmias

Thanks for mentioning Roman Vishniac and the Forum. It was amazing to listen him talk about his work at the Rockefeller Institute and to see the photographs he would take inside the human body. It was even more amazing years later to see the pictures he took of 1930's Europe in "A Vanished World".

I also remember Sam Levenson at the Forum challenging a later comer to produce an absence note before sitting down.

A culinary question for everyone out there. Does anyone remember the roach coach that used to park on 205th

Street? He used to make hot dogs and rolled them up inside something like eggroll dough. Never found anyone else who made them that way, and forty years later I'm still waiting to eat another one.

Victor Nahmias vnahmias@aol.com_______________________________________________________A number of people have mentioned Mr. Scavone, so I thought I'dcontribute my memories. He was definitely one of my favorite people. I did take his English class, I think as a senior. Rena Robbins (I think I saw that she's reading this, so please amplify, Rena!) and I and one or two other people used to get on the same train up to Science. Scavone, Rena and the others were all coming from lower Manhattan, but my journey originated in the Bronx. Since I was on the east side of the Bronx and the city planners couldn't conceive of the idea that someone might want to get from the east to the west side of the burrough, I had to take a train to Manhattan and then catch the westside train back up.

Anyway, we had a great time talking to Mr. Scavone on that train.

Your story reminded me of an incident involving myself. My name (the "love" portion) has always made me the target of childish behavior, and Scavone wasn't above doing some of that himself. So he asked a question about some story we were reading and called on a classmate. He answered to the effect that the character behaved as he did because he was falling in love. Mr. Scavone walked over to me, toppled over and fell into my lap proclaiming, "I'm falling in love!"

I'm sure I did learn a lot about lit in that class, but its anticslike these that form long lasting memories.

-- Jack Love Jackflove@yahoo.com _____________________________________________________When Scavone spoke of "Chicken Legs" it was me - can't believe Iactually had the guts to wear shorts then..... Never has a class withhim, but we had this ongoing thing senior year. I finally presented him with an egg (in May I believe) and he was upset because he thought it was hard boiled (it wasn't).... To which I responded - do chickens lay hard-boiled eggs?? A crazy fellow paisano if I ever met one.....

Joe Mingalone joemingalone@hotmail.com______________________________________________________Okay, here we go. This is David Lovler. I haven't yet sent mygeneral catch-up over the last 40 years, but I might as well writehere about teachers I remember.

In 10 grade (my first year) I had Mr. Primack for geometry. It wasan easy subject for me; I felt as if I didn't have to memorize any theorems or proofs--I could derive them during an exam as needed.When I told Mr. Primack that I discovered a theorem that wasn't in the text, he asked me if I could generalize it. [Given a right triangle, the height dropped from the right angle equals ab/c. Generalization: Given any triangle, the height dropped from angle C is (ab sin(C))/c.] Given who we are, I thought this is appropriate to write.

A lot of people mentioned Joe Scavone. My clearest memory of him was when he was on a rant which must have involved Italians and oil or grease. Then he banged his head against the chalk board and left a stain.

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I remember Beatrice Gardner. I didn't enjoy English class that much, but I will never forget this line that she repeated often: "Intelligence is the ability to learn through experience." I think I have this right. In Biology there was Miss Jacobson who married and became Mrs. Robinson. While I went on to study Physics in college, my only biology and chemistry classes were at Science. I took blood and urine analysis after basic biology and enjoyed it very much. I still appreciate what I learned in bio and chem back then.

I'm sure I will think of other teachers to write about. That's all for now.

David Loveler howitallvegan@yahoo.com._______________________________________________________Stanley Littman was a social studies teacher. The Spanish teacher with the nicknames was Mr. Mufson. I was class secretary, so my name was "Mama Bardin", and Bill was "Zip Zimmerman". I remember Linda Zeccola was "Zip Zeccola" and Susan Baer was "Susan Oso". When we protested for girls to wear pants to school (we were the first HS in NYC to have the rules changed) I was sent to Dr. Taffel's office with a group of girls from Mr. Mufson's class. We made our case to Dr. Taffel and he relented. Mr. Mufson, however, could not cope with girls wearing pants in his class. When I returned to his class he took me out to the hallway and he began to sob, begging me not to come to his class in pants. I felt sorry for him, and so I brought a skirt to school and changed in the bathroom every day right before his class. I decided it was okay to wear a skirt to his class because it was my choice, not a rule.

Lauri Bardin Zimmerman thezim@cloud9.net ______________________________________________________Does anyone remember Mr. Beckett, who taught English? He was from South Dakota and had been in the Peace Corps. He seemed very exotic to me since I'd never been exposed to non-urban teachers. And Mr. Kligman, who taught physics and History and Development of Science.

I majored in English in college, got a doctorate, taught, and now am an editor. I am definitely a liberal arts person, but I learned methodology at science that still amazes me. I learned to experiment and to eliminate extraneous details. I still like reading about science and medicine.

Mr. Mufson called me "Alegria."

Mr. Littman gave us worksheets to answer history questions; he would hand them out on mimeo paper early in the week.

Joyce Rappaport rappapor2001@yahoo.com______________________________________________________Hi Rich,

Long time! Charlie was one of the few teachers that allowed me to address him by his first name (probably because we associated outside of school at his Amateur Radio club in Westchester). The others were Jerry Holtzman (AP Physics?) and Manny Harrison (who was also my social studies teacher in JHS 79/Creston).

Might it have been Mr. Holtzman who taught the electronics elective with Joyce Ilson being the only girl in a pretty large class? Is thatwhen we touched the oscilloscope terminals to see... just what is itwe were seeing?

Phil Kalina , Reston, Va. http://twitter.com/pkalina ______________________________________________________About Mr Elenko and Mr. Harrison:Easily, my 2 favorite teachers - very different, but equally inspiring.

I was fortunate to find a similar pair in college. Can't recall anyspecifics, but when I think of teachers at Science, Slack (see otherpost), Elenko & Harrison just jump to the forefront!

Does anyone out there remember a class trip we took in senior year?? Must of been about 40 -50 of us - I think Sodikow was the male teacher in charge..... I'm pretty sure Dennis Conyers & Dave Collins were on the trip. We stayed in cabins with bunk beds - and I have a vague memory of soap flakes and the pond on the property......

Joe Mingalone joemingalone@hotmail.com________________________________________________________I wasn't on the senior trip, but I remember Richard Sodikow as thedirector of a sleep-away camp I attended after 7th grade in Copake,NY. Also at that camp was Jay Yass who was at my JHS (135). Then I was in Sodikow's home room. I don't think he remembered me from camp.

And about Jay Yass. We didn't spend a lot of time together, but hisfather drove him to school in senior year. I piggy-backed on the ridewhich picked me up on the corner of Columbus HS so I could see mygirlfriend for 2 minutes each morning.

David Loveler howitallvegan@yahoo.com._______________________________________________________I think the trip was to some place called Cold Spring. There's an original name! I can remember making pancakes for a large mob the morning we were there.

I also remember a time when a carload of us took off to (Stowe?) Vermont for weekend skiing, literally on the spur of the moment. Had to sleep in a church till morning when we got there in the wee hours, as we were on the cheap and/or nothing else was open. Don't remember who else was in the car though :(

Ben Klausner klausner@frijoles.net_______________________________________________________Hello all,

David Tobachnik here. I have fond memories of the class trip to Surprise Lake Camp. I remember starting the Midnight Swim and Cabana Club with Maureen Flynn, and I think Burt Ruden and some others. Late at night we went for a dip in the lake and were startled by a huge splash in the middle which we dubbed the Surprise Lake Monster. I also remember hiking to Cold Spring through the woods with map and compass. We actually found our way!

David Tobachnik dtcom@optonline.net _______________________________________________________People I'd love to hear from (please excuse the spelling & not> mentioning people I've heard from!!).....>> Tony Gallagher> Cliff Perez> Judy Epstein> Chris Frey> Carol Remz> Mike DiPalma> Sylvia Draskinis> Irene Sawchyn> Phyllis Cooper> Bob Hartmayer> Celso Maldonado> Bob Smiley

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Joe Mingalone joemingalone@hotmail.com_______________________________________Hi Joe:

It's great to read all these messages and hear all about everyone.I'm amazed at the memory some of you have! I wish I remembered as much. I'm a retired lawyer living in Westchester County, NY with my husband who is also a retired lawyer. Our 26 year old son, who wants to write musicals, is still living with us while he finishes school.I hope to make it to the reunion. I have a family dinner I need toget out of but, since it is my husband's side of the family and hewould go to the dinner, I think I might manage it.Just a few.....

Bonnie Gale bonniegale69@yahoo.com_______________________________________________________I am trying to recall who was our valedictorian and who was our class president. Was Samuel Guttman our valedictorian? If so, anyone know what happened to him post graduation?

Howard Altman howard_altmann@msn.com _______________________________________________________Hi Howard-

Sammy Guttman was indeed our valedictorian. Although I knewhim, I'd call him an acquaintance rather than a friend and I losttouch with him as soon as I graduated. He went to a fine Ivy Leagueschool (can't remember which) and I believe did get PhD and go on to an academic career.

But the reason I was hoping that someone would mention Sammy is thatit allows me to tell the story of what happened at graduation. Not only was he valedictorian, but he also received a number of awards. At some point, one of our classmates who sounded like he might have gotten an early start on celebrating said in a voice that was loud enough to be heard by a dozen or so rows, "The next award will be presented to Sammy Guttman on behalf of Sammy Guttman by Sammy Guttman. Sheesh." Of course it was 40 years ago, so my memory might have embellished this a bit.

Anyway, as far as I knew he was a good kid with a brilliant mind, so I hope he'll join the group at some point and share his memories—which I expect to be sharper than mine. :-)

Jack Love Jackflove@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________Hi Jack-

From another classmate, I was able to trace Sammy Guttman to Northeastern University where he is a professor of mathematics. A brief bio from the Northeastern website indicated that he got PhD from MIT in 1977 ( presumably in mathematics ).

I don't know whether my brain is playing tricks on me or not, but your story sounded very familiar. I will send a note to the Yahoo!Group site tomorrow.

By any chance, do you remember who our class president was? I have no idea.

Howard Altman howard_altmann@msn.com_________________________________________________

(Someone did answer Howard but I couldn’t find that e-mail. Our class president was Victor Nahmias.)

___________________________________________________Hi all! It's been really terrific reading all of the emails and taking the virtual stroll down memory lane. I do know that I have a yearbook somewhere and actually showed it to my son several years ago. We had a good laugh about how we all looked (hair and dress) "back then"! And it's really been great to catch up with a couple of you that were close friends in High School. Not sure who remembers me since I hung out more with our Temple Youth Group in our neighborhood (Riverdale) than with a lot of BS folks but here goes...

After Bronx Science I went to Syracuse where I majored in English and Communications. After graduation I married my college sweetheart and moved with him to Houston TX, as he was in the oil biz and that's where it was happening in the early 70's. I got involved in Education & Training in the geophysical industry for about five years before I found my lifelong career - headhunting! OK now NOBODY goes to college to become a headhunter - it's just one of those things that happens and it either sticks with you or it doesn't. I guess it worked for me as I've been at it now for about 30 years. I've always specialized in search for engineering & technical professionals in the refining and petrochemical industry nationwide. I guess all the years at Bx Science did me some good - I figure if I could do the math/science, at least I could place people who do it. After all, I talk the lingo pretty well!

Anyway, I ended up being a single parent of a terrific son for about 12 years before finding my now husband and "love of my life" - aw mush! Anyway, he was a client (!!) and when we married I moved with my son to where he was working at the time - a really small town in Southern Indiana. You can imagine what a trip that was after NYC and Houston. Biggest thing in town was the super WalMart and the closest mall was an hour away!! Turned out to be a wonderful experience for both my son and I (although we increased the Jewish population by 200% when we got there). After graduating HS in Indiana, my son went off to school in Rochester NY (RIT) and my husband and I had the amazing opportunity to live wherever we wanted as both of our careers were "portable" at that point.

We made the move out to Colorado Springs about 10 years ago and have been loving it here ever since. We live on a 40 acre ranch with two horses, 8 chickens, two dogs, one cat....and yes many days I feel like Ava Gabor reincarnate. I'm still doing the recruiting thing and am a principal in my company (based in Houston). I'm also Chairman of the Board of our national professional association. I've had an opportunity to speak, train, and appear at various conferences, conventions, and client sites across the US and have become relatively "famous" in our small world of headhunting. And to think they actually pay me for talking on the phone when years ago my mother used to yell at me for doing that. Imagine :-).

My son (28 years old) is now married and working for a software startup company in the Boston area. My husband has three kids (all over 35) from his first marriage so we're a pretty good size "blended family" but somehow they all love to come visit us in Colorado Springs. Wonder why??!!I'm a PS 90/JHS 141 grad if that rings any bells with anyone. I do remember hanging around with the kids who worked at the SO store and the group that sat at the front table in the lunchroom - were we student government studs or something?

On a sad note, one of my early "flames" from BxScience was a guy named Jonathan Grell, who unfortunately was one of the casualties of Vietnam. I'm sure there were probably

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others as our freshman year was the year of the big draft as I recall. I'd love to hear from all of you out there who might remember me. I do have my fairly current picture up on Facebook and Harriet Anagnostis and I agreed that we'd still recognize each other anywhere. Still remember translating beatles songs into French - precocious tykes weren't we :-)Hoping to see you all at the reunion!

Carol Skulnik Wenom___________________________________________________Hello Class of 69ers,I, too, have been reading the various postings with feelings of nostalgia and dismay. I am among those who really enjoyed high school (that's the nostalgia) but I don't recognize most of the names of the people who have posted (dismay).Put my name among the academics (psychologist at University of Maryland Baltimore County).

Susan Sonnenschein sonnensc@umbc.edu_______________________________________________The email flood is truly overwhelming. The confluence of anomie -"nobody will remember me from high school" and the breadth ofaccomplishment of our class is especially striking. i too felt my mark on Science and my fellow students was very limited -- indeed the paint we poured on the floor was quickly cleaned up before the change and nobody tracked it throughout the school as intended! sadly, the one thing we seem to have in common is not being in the Bronx.

my experience at Science was sharply divided by the "annual Spring offensive against the War" of April 68. prior to that i felt isolated -- coming from a school, PS 19, JHS 80 without a big contingent of Scienites. afterwards i was part of the "movement" and the Harris Field crowd. it was a new identity - burnished in the "freedom school" of the strike (I recently found a copy on Amazon of Robert Rossner's Year Without Autumn - apparently the teachers were as confused about what was going on as we were) Nothing like attending "relevant" classes in the morning and then going to Mr Harrison's AP History class in the basement of some apartment building in the afternoon. It certainly was good preparation for the student strikes next year at college after Kent State. But it was great to among the "cool" people instead of just another science nerd. tho even among this group some had to be the best - after all David Fenton practically became the official photographer of the antiwar movement! what ever did happen to the Sans-cuolotte crew? But there were many high times. does anyone remember, sometime after the giant snowfall of February 69 when we cut out early, for a change,and made about a million snowballs and pelted the entire school as they came up the stairs from the courtyard. and ...remember how people used to carry around record albums like Disraeli Gears and Anthem of the Sun listening to WNEW. (i was so excited a few years ago when my daughter in high school was going out with Jonathan Schwartz's son! How could he be my age!). oh and the compulsive whist players - i'm sure one of them made a killing in Vegas....

Yes, Mr. Harrison and Mr Elenko (who knew they had first names!)were great teachers, even if Mr. Harrison was for the war and I believe the adviser for the "young americans for freedom" club. My mother recently presented me with my high school papers,which were highlighted by the innumerable critical essays we had to do in AP History for Mr. Harrison. (no STL plates, what a disappointment!) If I had such a strict taskmaster, maybe I would have finished my History dissertation at UC Berkeley! Which reminds me of another typical Bx Science moment: how proud I was when I aced my History Achievement aka SAT IIs only to be deflated the next day

when I found that a number of kids in the AP class had gotten 800s.... Another memorable teacher was Mr. Scavone, who I had the pleasure of meeting about 20 years later, when he was teaching at the Trinity school after he retired. Senior English classes were broken into 10 week quarters during which he merely assigned on a weekly basis: Crime and Punishment, Jude the Obscure, Lord Jim, Kafka's stories, Portrait of an Artist, The Stranger ?, Steppenwolf? does anybody remember the rest of the list? what a wonderful introduction tot he modern world he gave us!!

After a few years of excessive pharmaceuticals and other sixties' pursuits, i settled down to ten years of studying history, at the U of Rochester, Manchester U, England and Berkeley (interupted by a sojourn as a proleterian in Chicago for a year). but by 1980 the academic jobmarket had collasped and i was driving a cab in san francisco (i was so desparate for a job i interviewed for some boring techical job with a funny start up - INTEL!). but i decided to something "practical" City and Regional Planning! at the Kennedy School (where incidentally like Berkeley, the student body never lived up to my Scienite standards of course!!!)

so i returned to the city with my Harvard degree but unfortunately nyc didn't need any planners (Robert Moses had done it all!); so i ended up in the Sanitation Department which turned out to be a spendid place. its a challenge trying to get rid of 15,000 tons of garbage each day. after many years there, including a stint as the deputy director of the City's recycling program, i moved to the Department of Juvenile Justice and helped open two beautiful new kids' jails (!); now i'm in the City's Department of Health overseeing healthcare for 14,000 inmates at Rikers and helping give out electronic health records to docs serving low income clientele. all told i have 25 years fighting the City bureaucracy, from inside the belly of the beast.

i've been married to Betsy Laganis, whose also a City administrator, for over 25 years. we live deep in the heart of Brooklyn - Flatbush aka Ditmas Park, but close enough to bike ride everyday to work next to City Hall. we have three daughters Eleni (Hunter grad at Macalester), Justine (Stuy grad at the Uof Rochester) and Sophie (missed getting into Brooklyn Tech which would have made us a specialized high school grand slam family! so she's in private school in Soho). the local PSs and JHSs are now all "open admissions" and "school choice" so my kids were traveling around the City to get to school since elementary. i'm happy to report that they found there way to Central Park and Washington Sq. on their own.

i've recently had doubts about sending my kids to the "science"high schools. hearing all the amazing things our class did makes me certain it was the right thing to do!!

Eric Zimiles ezimiles@yahoo.com _______________________________________________________Well, finally need to get into this discussion, thanks to the word of old pal Eric (great to hear you are out there) Two earlier posts apparently didn't make it thru, so I'll try to be succinct here...I too was part of the paint on the floor conspiracy, which was a bust, And was Jeff Hurwitz's partner (employee?) in the school record distribution business. Tho a star student at JHS 44, my academic interests weakened with each succeeding year at Science, and by the teacher's strike. Senior year was spent nearly as much out of class as in (Harris Field, Central Park, a coffeehouse or something not far from the HS campus, even visits to nearby Lehman College). My parents' left wing political activist roots bore fruit in my own involvement in the peace movement, but

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that too settled somewhat into the background as the senior year ground on and I was influenced by the likes of the Grateful Dead, Tim Leary and Allen Ginsberg. Of all our teachers I have the best memories of Mr. Schwartz and actually Mr. Beckenstein in Hygiene or Health Ed or whatever--he was a wonderful gruff old guy whose raunchy spirit clicked with my own, tho we probably had nothing politically in common. Post Science I went to SUNY Binghamton, and like many of you it was years and graduate schools later that I really felt the same intellectual quality around me as was in HS (who knew I would care?) But my life has gone thru many very unexpected twists and turns. Around 1975 I discovered that what had seemed as perpetually stoned out behavior on my part was actually a genetic disorder called Usher Syndrome, which led to slow but steady diminishment in both hearing and vision (I now have a cochlear implant, and have been legally blind or over 30 years). Many adjustments, of course. But finally got the BA from SUNY Empire State College, a school without walls that gave me credit for travelling throughout India and Europe for an entire academic year. Then an M.Ed from Teachers College, Columbia and finally my PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Oregon in 1992.Living in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years now has been a good move for me. Now married to beautiful JoAnn, no kids (but 5 of her grandsons!), 2 outdoor cats and a lovely yard and both indoor and outdoor gardens to fill, as best they can, my HS dreams of living in a yurt out in the hills. Work is at a research institute that is interesting, even exciting--but often makes me yearn for a return to the revolutionary values and aspirations of 1968 to the late 70s. Sometimes science just moves too slowly for me.I have had contact with a few classmates over the years, especially Paul Rosner and Herb Silver, and from this wonderful e-reunion have reconnected with Richie Estren who I'll visit in a few weeks after attending a conference in Tampa. Hope to catch up with more of you, tho not likely in NY this spring. To those of you who do go--HAVE FUN! Mitch

Mitch Turbin PhD Mitchel.Turbin@va.gov Portland Oregon VAMC National Center for Rehab. Aud. Research ___________________________________________________

Hi All

This has been kind of a surreal experience reading these e-mails.... The accomplishments of my classmates are pretty astounding and though I only knew a few of you, I actually have a sense of pride....I am wondering where I actually was all those years ago since I only seem to have known a handful of you! But I do know that I took 3 buses to get to and from school (it was the 28 bus, Agi!) (even though I did live in the Bronx!) so that we did have a small group of kids on the bus that we got to know and many of them were from Queens. I guess the traveling to and from school precluded socializing after school!

I ended up staying in New York like some of you... I went to Queens College which in my family in the Bronx was considered going 'out of town.'I found my niche in speech-language pathology...got my Masters at Queens College as well in ' 74 and I got my PhD in 1983 in Speech and Hearing Sciences at CUNY... and have been working in various settings ever since along with a private practice in mainly pediatric speech-language pathology in Forest Hills, Queens. Most recently I've been at Queens College teaching and training future speech-language pathologists.

(I did undergrad in 3 years since I was anxious to get married!) I got married in 1971 (!) and I am still married to the same guy (!) - going on 38 years!)I have two wonderful

daughters-- Renee, a real estate attorney at DeweyLebouf (spelling?) who just turned 30, and Margot, a Social Worker at Mount Sinai....I was not planning to go to the reunion....(isn't it a bit pricey or is it just me) but I am definitely reconsidering it.....I love the personal stories that are being posted.....

By the way, Rhonda Schaffer (Schuval) lives in southern Fla. (I happen to be visiting her right now)Beth Karp (Elliot) lives in Virginia (and she is presently in Morroco visiting her daughter!) It is really amazing to see where so many of you ended up!Keep the stories coming!

Lorain Szabo_____________________________________________________Dear All, I too have been enjoying reading about all the ’69 alumni, so I thought I’d add my info too. I have been living in Los Angeles since 1973, after \graduating from Carnegie Mellon University (BA in psych). I worked for Warner Bros, Records for about 6 years, then the phone company (oh joy). I went back to school to learn computer programming, and worked in that field for a few years. Then I “retired” to become a full time mom and part time treasurer volunteer for the kids’ schools. Sara is now 23, graduated University of Arizona with BA in psych and Laurie is 21 and studying anthro at UC Berkeley. Husband Kirk is in computer consulting. I remember Rhonda Goldberg well, and have spoken to Helen Hoffman a couple of times in the last 40 (gulp) years. I also remember Leroy and Nathan fondly. And Terry (Tillie) Klein. And I’d like to say hi to Michelle Newman from Lennie (Mademoiselle Cohen’s class). I’m wondering about other graduates: Valerie Pennes, Peter DeAngelo, Bob Degano, Suzanne Brier, Marty Lapidus (my faux fiancé). As far as the reunion goes, I rarely get to New York, but I will actually be IN NYC on May 23rd! However (yes, there is a but), I’m supposed to be at a wedding at the Boathouse in Central Park at 6:30 the same night. I would be VERY interested in attending some sort of after reunion reunion on Sunday. Please let me know if anything gets set up. Also went to PS 98, JHS 52, JHS 141 before science. For those 141ers, the wedding I’m going to is my friend Linda Roffman’s daughter’s (of the Bonnie and Linda Roffman twins).

Ellen Greenberg Roderick _eroderick@hotmail.com_ _____________________________________________________Hi!

I've posted at the group set up by Steve Newman on Facebook but I've noticed that many respondents here aren't there (and vice versa.) So, hello to all my classmates (who may or may not remember me.)

After graduation, I went off to the State College of Forestry at Syracuse. Well, that lasted about a semester and a half...Worked for a while and then went to Fordham University at the Rose Hill Campus in the Bronx. Then off to graduate school at NYU for Film Production where I met up with Sandy Holtzman who was getting an MA in Cinema Studies.

Unfortunately, I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in November 1976 which really put a cramp in pursuing a career in film production. Never finished my MFA and went in film distribution, sales and marketing.

Currently in remission from the Crohn's but I'm missing my large intestine, gall bladder, colon and rectum. Ouch!

Moved to San Francisco in 1992 and as a hobby started appearing as a supernumerary with the San Francisco Opera starting with Rossini's *William Tell*. Switched careers in

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1996 and went to work for the City of San Francisco's Human Services Agency. Currently, I'm a Senior Eligibility Worker with a case load of clients rated as catastrophically ill. (If only they knew...)

I'm a member of The Great War Society and I've been writing a column on film and history for the past five years for *The* *St. Mihiel Trip-Wire* ( www.worldwar1.com/tripwire/smtw.htm) the Society's on-line newsletter. I'm also a member of the Society For Aviation History (www.sfahistory.org). I present film programs for both organizations here in the Bay area.

Got married in 1980 at the UN Chapel in NYC and I'm almost through my amicable divorce mediation here in San Francisco. Should be single again by the reunion. No kids. Just cats, a condo, tons of books, CDs and a vast movie library for enjoyment and research.

The opera is putting on a production of* Porgy & Bess* this summer and I'll be trying out for one of the two parts for white guys in the show. If I'm in the production, I'll probably be in rehearsal on Catfish Row and not in NYC for the reunion. If I'm not cast, I'll be in town for the reunion.

I'm having problems with the massive name list so if anyone wants to reach me try either the group at Facebook or amelomet@aol.com or andrew.melomet@sfgov.org.

The attached photo is from Verdi's *Un Ballo in Maschera*. I'll be less formal at the reunion.

Andy Melomet amelomet@aol.com; andrew.melomet@sfgov.org. _______________________________________________________Wow.

This is very weird. In the past I was never one to get into "reunions," but this one I am going to be sad to miss. Reading people's emails has brought back some really nice memories. And, even with my increasing feeble (soon-to-be) 57 year old memory banks (sorely lacking in both RAM and ROM) I recognized some of the names in the emails, and images came flooding to the fore. I'm sure I remember you, Sandra Holtzman, for one, and when I saw the name "Mowatt" I had an instant vision of Nathan and Leroy (I think it was) who if I am not mistaken were both great gymnasts and twins? (If my memory is deceiving me too horribly please put me out of my misery!) I recognize other names as well, and the mention of Dana Silver in one person's email also brought back long-reclusive recollections.

By the way, Tom and Sandra write in the invitation..."Do you have music of the 1960's/1970's that you'd like played? Bring your CD's along, and we'll play them!"

I don't know how many of you are still into music in a big way, but some of you may remember Anthony Jackson and Reggie Lucas? I played in some blues bands with them during our Science days. Though I, regrettably, never practiced hard enough to make it as a musician (and so am still merely a mediocre blues and jazz piano player), Anthony and Reggie went on to both do music professionally. Reggie played on at least one Miles Davis album, and Anthony is considered one of the top electric bass players around; has played internationally with tons of jazz, pop, and other musicians; is considered one of the best studio electric bass players; and was on the cover of Bass Player Magazine (I believe it's called) representing electric bass alongside Ron Carter representing upright bass. For those not into jazz this likely means zilch, but to those into this particular kind of music, the references will be clear. So? Why don'tcha call 'em and see if they'll jam at the dinner!? :-)

Also, as someone else requested in his/her email, if some of you attendees could PLEASE post photos from the party that would be awesome for those of us unable to attend. I wish that, like David Bunin, I could say that I can't attend because of my daughter's college graduation, but my daughter is only 9 years old-I clearly didn't understand Dr. Bobrowsky's lessons on pistils and stamens-and so won't be graduating for awhile, precocious though she is. (And my son, well, he's 5 years old so enough said!)

Lastly-and this request will come across as totally out of left field-if there happens to be a social worker/psychologist/psychiatrist on this 40th reunion list of email-ees, please do me a favor and write to me off-group. I have a bizarre 40th-reunion-related-question to ask that is confidential.Thanks to you all for bringing back some long-forgotten BHS of Science memories.

Peter Warshaw jazztemple2@aol.com

P.S. I still have my Yearbook at home and will most certainly be checking out all your graduation photos when I get home from my business trip to exciting Huntington WV._______________________________________________________Peter and Everyone Else,

Talk about a rush of memories! I remember the names you mention clearly (Reggie and Anthony) as well as yourself, having played bass in some of the very bands you spoke of. I too, sadly did not keep up my musical skills as my life took other turns. I've followed Reggie and Anthony's careers over the years and in fact saw Reggie play with Miles Davis in the early 70's at a now defunct jazz club in Boston. Strangely, I remember Anthony once telling me how inadequate he felt playing the bass - boy was he ever wrong! I, on the other hand, watched him play in awe.

Also remember Nathan and Leroy - never could tell them apart.At any rate, I am struggling as to whether I will be able to attend the reunion or not due to family commitments that same weekend. Perhaps I'll see some of you there if my wife and I can make it.

Stu Solomon________________________________________________________It’s great to hear those names again. For the record, I couldn’t tellNathan and Leroy apart either, and they were both amazing gymnasts. They would roundoff-back handspring, back handspring back handspring plane in the hallways!I knew Reggie Lucas would be famous. In 1970 I started a studentorganization named after him at Cornell.

Fred King marimba@teleport.com_____________________________________________________This email tag has been amazing. Some crazy connections have been made. I have been prodded by one of my long lost friends (you know who you are) to ask the following question. I went out on a date with a girl (she was only 15 or 16 at the time so I can't say woman) who lived in Styvesant Town and we went to the Kips Bay Theatre in Manhattan to see

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Monterey Pop. I remember all that but not her name. On you on this list anywhere? Thank god for the anonymity of email. Steve Lieberman Steven1713@aol.com____________________________________________________Steve --I wonder if you're looking for Sharon Hymes. I wonder what she's up to, too! I have been reading these notes with great pleasure, even though nary a name is familiar to me. Well . . . I remember Harriet A, now Harriet D, from 143 and 95. Peter Warshaw, too! Would love news of Debbie Hwang (another 143-er). She got to meet the Beatles on their first US visit! Remember that? I remember sitting next to Maureen Flynn in homeroom 10th(?) grade And someone mentioned Greg King. Back in 2001 I honed my Googling skills by tracking him down. But we've had no contact since. : ( At the other extreme, Caryn Sultan Feig and I (we met in FIRST grade!) have stayed in touch through the years even though we each made mad dashes away from the Bronx immediately upon graduation from Science. She to Albany, me to Rochester. Where we've pretty much stayed. After being in Nutritional Science together, Linda Dolinko was inspired to inscribe my yearbook; "You'll never be a Julia Child" and right she was, but she [and others?] might be surprised to learn that I've spent most of my post college years in the food business. In 1979 I bought the bakery that I'd worked in since 1976 -- continued there until selling it in 2003. Followed that with a brief (2004-2007) stint teaching baking in a vocational high school. Now I work part-time at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester. Am I semi-retired? Or still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up? I'm still not sure if I'll be able to make it to the reunion in May, but I look forward to the continuing trading of memories and information via these e-mails. We are a large, and largely disjointed, group but the warmth and caring demonstrated in the posts give me yet another reason to be proud to be a Bronx Science grad. Warmest regards,

Marjory David MD902@aol.com ____________________________________________________As Marjory David said--don't know if she remembers me--Richard Fraenkel--most of the names are unfamiliar - but I have as well enjoyed reading all the e-mails. Glad to hear that most are happy and healthy and have had good lives. I went to CCNY for college and did psychology research for a few years after graduation in '73.? Laid off in the NYC fiscal crisis of the mid 70's I went back to school at Bellevue Hospital and became a respiratory therapist.? I am now the director of the department and have been here for almost 30 years--sounds like a long time.? I am married ( 27 years) live on the lower east side of manhattan and have 2 children - one boy age 23 - who went to stuyvesant (traitor) and Cornell and is working as a financial analyst - - and a daughter age 21 who is graduating this spring from University of Michigan after going to brooklyn tech (2nd traitor) and headed to law school.

Richard Fraenkel nyymm7@aol.com________________________________________________________Hello. I'm Ruth Lissak--

I find it mind-blowing to read all the autobiographies and think that these accomplished adults were the same kids who marched on Washington against the war in Vietnam, laughed with me as we read Portnoy's Complaint backstage during class play rehearsals (remember the The Caucasian

Chalk Circle?) and were actively involved in the alternative strike school (anyone read Mr. Rossner's book about Science and the strike?).

At Science I was a theater person, chorus member, Biology Club officer.

I have told my step-children and grandchildren the story of the "great dress code rebellion" -- as my now-13 year-old granddaughter calls it. I remember Dr. Taffel calling us "Communists" when we refused to change back into skirts. I worked with him many years later when I was at the American Gas Association - he was our technical advisor for our scholarship program – and when I told him I was a Class of '69 grad, he went completely silent. Finally, he admitted that our class was "not one of his favorites". Enoughsaid. I went on to the Lehman Scholar's Program where I had no general school requirements except my major requirements: I created my own major (Media Studies) a combination of literature, film/video production and sociology courses, and where Sandy Holtzman (thanks for organizing this Sandy) and I were great friends. My MFA in film from Columbia went unfinished when I gota job at a film production company. I then moved to Washington where I worked for the Library of Congress film archives and the American Society for Microbiology - ASM loved my background at BHS and I became the in-house video producer of training films and an NSF principal investigator for Med Tech training programs. I then moved to AGA where I created and managed all of our big trade show exhibits (the gas industry booth at the Knoxville World's Fair), write/produced/ directed all films and videos, and foundedthe gas industry's national television network. I moved up at the Am. Gas Cooling Center to Communications and Gov't Relations Director and finally left the gas industry after 18 years when the daily 4-hour roundtrip commute started taking its toll. My husband, Win Sharples, and I ran his auto import company until we closed it in 2005.

In 2005 we sold our cottage in the woods in Round Hill. Virginia, along the Blue Ridge Mountains and bought a house near another tiny town - Rochester, Massachusetts. We're very close to Buzzard's Bay, mid-way between Providence and Boston and take full advantage of both. Unfortunately the job situation along the south coast of Massachusetts is atrocious. I find myself forcibly retired - anyone need a corporate communications/writer/producer/director/editor-with a wide-ranging knowledgebase from automotive mechanics to microbiology to utility industry expertise? - but hopefully things will change soon.

Several years back I caught up with Mary Arvay-Sohn during a trip to Florida and met her husband, dogs and her closest neighbors, manatees in the canal behind her house, and was very pleased that she had fulfilled her dream of becoming a marine biologist.

I would love to find Sally Abravanel, Cristina Palacio (I understand she's both a lawyer AND a doctor), Wendy Parker, and Alan Weisenthal.

As far as teachers: I understand that Stanley Littman passed away a number of years ago. I heard that the same was true about Judith Engel. I believe that the alumni news noted that Martin Greene (English/Drama teacher) retired. And I hope that Ellen Berman is still teaching. I remember that as a new teacher in 1967 she took on the Biology Club and becoming a great friend and mentor.

I hope we can make it to NYC for the reunion. We have a wedding in NYC the following weekend and with the economy the way it is, two trips may be too much. But I'm hoping to make it!!

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Ruth Lissak ruth@hankcinq.com_______________________________________________________(for everyone’s information: Judith Engel is alive and attended the reunion)._____________________________________________________Hello everyone--Jackie Birnbaum here.

Yes, Ruth, I remember Mr. Rossner's book, The Year Without an Autumn. In it he mentioned me--I had the dubious distinction of being one of the people hit in the head with a rock (thrown by DeWitt Clinton boys yelling Kill! Kill!) on April 26, 1968 during a Student Strike for Peace. Still have the scar, and the memory of my 15 minutes of fame.

It's great to hear the stories out there, and to hear familiar names from the old neighborhood: Harriet Anagnostis (Drummond), Roger Wapner, Susan Greenberg, Carol Landesman Lustig, and more. Anyone else from PS 95 and JHS 143? I'd love to hear news about Harry Brandt, Deborah Hwang, Joanne Jacobson. and Judy Freedman.  Over the years I've been in touch with Laura Natkins, Janice Gold,  Michael Van Slyck, and Joni Spielholz. Unfortunately, one of my dearest friends is gone: Michael Konstantin passed away in October 2004.

I've made the big move from Bronx to Bronxville--though just a few miles away it's a whole other world. I live with my current husband (long story) and our 2 poodle-mix shelter dogs Sherlock and Cleo. My children are grown: Hilary (29) works for the Working Families Party in upstate NY, and Joel (26) is getting his doctorate in media studies at Penn. I am a music therapist, doing clinical work, teaching, supervision, and helping run the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at NYU. It's an inspiring and gratifying field--and I get paid for making music all day!

I'm still trying to decide whether to attend the reunion--I hope someone can convince me to go!

Best to all,Jackie Jacqueline Birnbaum, MSEd, MA, NRMT, MT-BC, LCATAdministrative CoordinatorNordoff-Robbins Center for Music TherapyNew York University82 Washington Square East - 4th FloorNew York, NY 10003212-998-5162_______________________________________________________Friends and Alleged Classmates: Considering I have yet to recognize the name of a single correspondent on this list who has posted so far, I was half beginning to wonder if I was actually a member of the class or if it's just my half-zeimers kicking up towards three-quarters. While admittedly being in New Orleans, culturally speaking, is like a foreign posting, for which I am quite grateful considering the American political scene this past decade, I wonder if any others are suffering from a similar sense of anomie. I have stayed in touch over the years with just a handful of BHSS folks: Eddie Farhi, now the Director of Theoretical Physics at MIT; Steve Levine, a veterinarian in New Hampshire, Suzanne Wilkins(Lamberg), a teacher in NYC, and Gregory King, a philanthropic officer with a NY bank, but most of the rest have faded into the mists of time.I don't even remember having a Yearbook, let alone have one in my possession. Like others I fondly remember Les Freres Mowat, and also Stephanie Baker, Ellen Pan, being intellectually galvanized by teachers like Joseph Scavone, and attending the strike school the fall of oursenior year. I look forward to being introduced to others who might help revive long-dormant memories, though with email handles

such as "godloveslaughter", "ihatedcapeman", and "pick1off" some of you are a might strange... Attached is a photo of me before I went into the federal witness protection program. Michael

Michael Sartisky" <sartisky@leh.org 2/11/2009 2:47 PM ____________________________________________________I remember you , Mike. You were on the basketball team and sort of hung out with Jane Leifer, Dena Kleinman, Gerson Sternstein, and at times, me.I’m sure there were others, so please don¹t anyone take offense to my limited memory. Does anyone know what became of them? I heard that Dena wrote for the New York Times and Gerson went to Yale Med School. Did he ever become a pediatrician? Is there anyone in this thread who ran track? If so, what ever happened to Charlie Lee? Any members of the soccer team? Is Walterout there? Tamar, can you hear me?

I went to Columbia College after Bronx Science, then lived in Stockholm, Sweden for two years researching beer, Prince cigarettes, blondes, the northern woods, and the application of computers to medical decision-making. I returned to Columbia for an MD degree at P & S. Following an internship at Cedars-Sinai in LA, I did an Ophthalmology residency at Harvard. I thenspent one year as a Guggenheim Fellow conducting research at INSERM (the French version of the NIH) in Paris where my first child Natalia was born.After that year I returned to Harvard for a two year vitreo-retinalfellowship. In 1986 I moved to Southern California where I founded a specialty practice and research institute in vitreo-retinal disease and surgery. I teach at USC and avidly follow the Lakers. I¹m also into boating and travel extensively, mostly to lecture but also to see the world.

While I abhor a stuffed e-mail box, I have read almost all these e-mails and wonder whether this seemingly fervent momentum will manage to keep pace until May. I hope it does.Sincerely, JS

Jerry Sebag, MD" <jsebag@vmrinstitute.com _____________________________________________________Jerry Sebag...I remember you well ....

I too am enjoying this BHSS thread....why didn't we do this years ago.....it is like going to one big virtual homeroom.....

After Science, I went to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, majoring in Biology and received my MD degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. I did training in Internal Medicine at North Shore University Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. I returned to Mount Sinai Hospital for my fellowship in Gastroenterology and have been in private practice of Gastroenterology in Great Neck Long Island NY since 1982. I married Shulamith Stromer (Science '71) in 1975. Shulamith (Sue) went to Barnard after her Science graduation and then to Yale In English Literature. She went back to Barnard to teach for a few years. She now manages real estate on the Upper West Side of NY. We have three children..... Jonathan, a tax attorney at Simpson Thatcher in NY, married with 3 kids (having grandchildren is great !), Michael, who was just married last summer and who is in hotel development in Los Angeles, and lives in Beverly Hills, and Ruthie who just graduated from Barnard and will be going to law school next September. I remember our days at Science fondly and feel that the BHSS experience was fabulous, although I spent much of my day traveling the NYC subway and bus system (I lived in Floral Park - eastern Queens- 2 hour trip each way).....but

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somehow didn't mind the trip and even got most of my homework done on the train before arriving home each evening. I did manage to do some extra curricular stuff.....JV basketball with coach Lefkowitz, Forum with Mr. Karpf. I have had some contact with our classmates....Larry Kerben lives down the road in Great Neck, I see Marty Bialer ,now a prominent clinical geneticist at North Shore University Hospital, Lloyd Mayer, a renowned Gastroenterologist/Immunologist trained with me at Mount Sinai, and I hear about Gary Feilich who teaches in southern Florida. Also I met Rolfe Auerbach in Los Angeles while visiting my son, and have been in contact with him regarding the upcoming reunion. I have spoken to and seen Scott Shapiro, a good friend at Science who is an anesthesiologist in Florida. I remember teachers Miss Dragnet (English), Mr. Horowitz (Math), Miss Berman (Math) Mrs Tropp (French)Mr Karpf (Social Studies), Mrs Robbins (French), Doc Silver, Dr. Smith (Bio....he always liked to write the 'aim" of the lesson on the board in case the "principal should walk in" and the one time Dr Taffel walked in unannounced to observe the class, he had forgotten to write it on the board- cant forget a story like that). Anyway I don't want to ramble on too much..I cant attend the reunion as I am a Sabbath observer and cannot get there before sundown on a Saturday night.....but I hope there will be plenty of picture (?video) taking..... Wishing you all well.....and to anyone who might remember me, drop an email etc....

Arthur Talansky, MD atalansky@aol.com_______________________________________________________ Dear Classmates:

Wow. The flow of voices is beginning to strum the mystic chords ofmemory. Forgive me if some of the bio below sounds a bit formal; Icadged parts from my official one.

After a year at Clark University, I transferred to Sarah LawrenceCollege to be closer to Ellen Pan '69 whom I dated my freshman year and was attending Barnard; she later became a physician and we fell out of touch. I majored in literature and modern dance, astutely realizing the women dancers had greater mastery over their bodies than I did as a varsity basketball player. After earning a doctorate at SUNY/Buffalo in American literature and studies, I fled the frozen wastes to the tropics of New Orleans to teacher at the University of New Orleans. For the past twenty-six years, however, I have been President and Executive Director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. With its Prime TimeFamily Reading program the LEH has become the major family literacy provider in the state of Louisiana and its summer teacher institute program is the most extensive humanities teacher professional development program in any state. During this period the LEH has raised its annual operating budget from $400,000 to $6 million and awarded more than 2,500 grants and projects totaling in excess of $50 million. In 2003, the LEH was awarded the Advancement of Literacy Award from the Public Library Association, the largest division of the ALA, and in 2000 won a Coming up Taller Award from the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities for its national Prime Time Family Literacy Project,now being conducted in 36 states. Also in 2003, the LEH became the first humanities council to win a $1 million grant for Teaching American History from the US Department of Education (it won an unprecedented second $1 million grant in 2005 and a third in 2007) and $500,000 and $350,000 Challenge grants from the NEH and a $400,000 Capital Grant from the Kresge Foundation. It also won a national

Award of Merit for the overall quality of its program and sixteen national NEH grants from 1984 to 2005 as well as four national NEH Exemplary Project Awards.

I served for three years as a member of Alumni Board and a Trustee of Sarah Lawrence College and on the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee for Louisiana, and served as Acting-Executive Director of the California Council for the Humanities I have served as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Department of Education and currently serve on the Louisiana Folklife Commission and the Planning Committee of the $1.1 billion Board of Regents Educational Quality Trust Fund. I have written on a wide variety of humanities issues and have been the founding editor of the award-winning quarterly magazine, Louisiana Cultural Vistas since 1990. My interviews with major writers-such as Ernest Gaines, Robert Olen Butler, Richard Ford, and Rick Bragg-- have been included in collections published by Oxford University Press and the University Press of Mississippi. My critical afterword to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's novel, Doctor Zay was published by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York.

Prior to my academic career, I worked at a variety of occupations:merchant marine, taxi driver, truck driver, veterinary surgicalassistant, oil lease researcher. These days I kayak and bicycle avidly,am learning the guitar and split my time between the Garden District of New Orleans and a house at 4000 feet outside Asheville. Now divorced, I am the father of a 20 year-old son, Joshua, a sophomore at Vanderbilt majoring in math and finance, who is smarter than I am, just ask him.

Some folks asked me about a few other grads. This is the little I know: Dennis Blackman recently retired as a NYC police captain, when at Sarah Lawrence I used to travel to New Haven to see Gerson Sternstein in the basement of whose father's synagogue on West End Ave we used to play basketball, and when I was driving a cab in college I used to drive up to the north Bronx to visit Stephanie Baker who had built her own harpsichord, wrote poetry and practiced calligraphy.

I look forward to seeing many of you at the reunion, since I didn't even attend graduation, it being the 60s and all. Please post more pictures, then and now if you can. Be well.

Michael Sartisky" <sartisky@leh.org______________________________________________________I did happen to see that my former teammate Mike Sartisky, on the varsity basketball squad, in his 2 entries (including the very first in this file), forgot me. :-( But with after-Reunion correspondence with him the reason appears to lie, by his admission, in that he got tired of me hitting him in the head on the court with "crisp passes" for which he was not (but should have been) looking. In hindsight, this could explain his apparent "half-zeimers".

Since just about everything about me over the past few decades seems to now be public domain (on the web), perhaps it's more interesting that I share a story of a sort that I at least have yet to see in any writings from my classmates of '69, nor heard about from anyone at the Reunion or otherwise.

I was one of those who spent 3 years at BHSS "illegally" in a sense, as my family lived in northern Yonkers. I shall not go through what it took to get to a high school considerably east of a suburb along

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the Hudson River; let's just say that I would never have allowed my children to do what I did back then at 15 years of age. My 3 kids born here in Santa Barbara still think I am making it all up; and it's a losing battle to try to tell these native Santa Barbarans (there are very few of them in the world) such almost unbelievable tales. When I get to the part of the story where the teachers went on strike for 3 months, which then caused me to have to trek to BHSS for a 7:30 rather than 8:30 am start (what a bad break that was!); well, this is where they break into laughter. They think I have seen too many episodes of the Twilight Zone.

Anyway, I wonder still how many of us there were at the time. I heard from a few at the Reunion that there were others. But imagine the task in attending high school alone, playing in front of your classmates for 3 years varsity basketball (yes, others than Mike Sartisky, like Greg King, Steve Levine, and Dennis Blackman, actually caught my "crisp passes"), but never giving out your phone number, never inviting a friend over, never trusting the person sitting next to me in class with your secret, or risk getting kicked out. Each of the very few times that I gave out my phone number, I was putting my aunt's family at risk of being bothered; she would get calls for me and then have to call me to relay a message. Stay with me; there's a punch line coming.

I told this story at the Reunion to a few, as I no longer feel in jeopardy; I suspect that by now the statute of limitations has been exceeded. Some of the responses I witnessed that Saturday evening by former friends were eye-opening. Some could not believe it; maybe it was the shock of me not confiding in them; maybe it was amazement that I could get through such a situation for so long; or maybe it was the rationale that they now saw behind the fact that I could have a very limited circle of friends at BHSS. There were trade-offs even at that early stage of my life.

So after all of the basketball practices until 6 pm, 5 days/week, the travel (imagine getting home after playing away games in lower Manhattan!), the real shame to all of this is the fact that the basketball coach, Norm Lefkowitz, lived 2 blocks from my house in Yonkers. He knew this; I knew this. His wife played Mah Jongg with my mother! But we could never acknowledge that I was "illegal"; he never brought it up; I never asked.

Until after the season ended in my senior year. Then one day he saw me in the hallway, "Hey, need a ride home?" Yeah, I took it. 'Nough said.

Bruce Lipshutz lipshutz@chem.ucsb.edu_______________________________________________________Dear All, Greetings! From what I can tell from the e-list, don't think I remember most of you, but, also not a big reunion-oriented person who to date since PS 41 has never attended a graduation (although my mother diligently attended one or two without me and to date has scolded me incessantly), am looking forward to coming to this.

Was not very high-profile; do remember Stu Solomon's bass-playing, and, I believe, a short-lived band that he and Chris Gorley played together in that provided a bit of a thrill on some steamy summer night at the Shorehaven beach club. Knew Reggie Lucas and followed briefly his subsequent playing with Miles Davis, and a few others on the list from activities spanning the Stage Squad (I was completely talentless Stage Mgr for the annual show, which was for me mostly hanging out with a number of folks debating the comparative merits of the first two Blood Sweat and Tears albums, etc.--Al Kooper, by the way, just was out in Mill Valley, CA playing a solo gig and reminiscing about his own journey), through the various anti-war activities through the Bronx Science Committee for Political Action (BSCPA) including the rallies on Harris Field, the distribution of Sansculottes starting in my ninth grade through the work of Paul Steiner and Merry Maran (I still remember how cool it was for Paul to mark-up his 9th grade standardized test with his #2 pencil so it clearly spelled-out "Fuck IBM" when he handed it in---not to forget the etching of Jesus on the cover of an issue paralleling the HUAC hearings which scandalized many of the parochial-school derived students who made up a good proportion of the small 9th grade class in '65-'66), non-participation in Shelter Drills with other folks wearing "Peace is Our Only Shelter" armbands. Still remember fondly when about 300 of us were herded into the auditorium by Taffel and his minions for wearing bluejeans (which had supplanted "patch pockets" as illicit wear) and lectured by him as how visitors to our illustrious school would be shocked by students dressed as "workers." I went on to SUNY at Buffalo with my Bronx Science girlfriend Joanne Kaufman, then went to Einstein Med School. Was going to be a pediatrician but "ended up" a Pathologist working at Kaiser Hospital in San Jose, commuting daily from my home in SF for the last 27 years. Beyond this day job, have been active in Physicians for Social Responsibility---have been President of the SF-Bay Area chapter since 1989, on the National Board since 1993 including being National President in 2003, and currently Chairperson of the American Public Health Association (APHA) Peace Caucus. Still have my old reel-to-reel tapes from those days. So-----looking forward to connecting/reconnecting, should be a gas. And if Joanne Kaufman, Isabelle Simons, Ellen Silverstein or Paula Kramer hidden in the e-list, or if anyone else has a clue to whereabouts, would be interested in being in touch. All the best, Bob Gould

Robert Gould <rmgould1@yahoo.com> 2/10/2009 ______________________________________________________I didn't spend this much time studying Observatory when it was first issued!I, too, don't usually get caught up in these kinds of things, but I have been reading and remembering voraciously.

I was one of the musicians - Bobby Gould. I was the drummer behind Chris Gorely and Stu Solomon for The Knights at least once at Shorehaven. Later ,on guitar, with The Children of Orpheus, with Stu Solomon, Richard Garfinkel and some non-Sciencites, we won the Battle of the Bands in the men's gym.Then, when I bought my sexy new Les Paul guitar, it was Peter Warshaw who showed me how to get some real sound out of it (I'll never forget you orthat day, Peter!) and finished my "career" with Chris and Stu and some others in Gram Paige. I remember jamming with Jon Helfand, Reggie Lucas (who was already a demi-god by then) and Anthony Jackson (who always said he wasn't good enough to play with us, but the last time I saw him was years after high school playing in Roberta Flack's back-up

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band!) at a BSCPA party somewhere in Manhattan. Now I get my music fix as a Barbershop Quartettenor!

As I look through the pictures, there are so many classmates that I can't remember if I knew to talk to or just knew from a distance. But what really strikes me is how many classmates I didn't know at all. And, as I compulsively look at the picture of every email sender, I've been through many "Oh, THAT's who that is" experiences. This has been a blast!

Stanley Goldman, Charlie Lee, Sarah Orenstein, Virginia Ninfo (my first ever "date" to a club in Greenwich Village) - are you guys out there??? I'd love to "remember" with any of you. (And, embarrassingly, probably a few I forgot . . .)

I went to CCNY, dropped out for a summer, and then transferred toSUNY-Binghamton, where I stayed on to get a Masters in Accounting, worked as an accountant in Binghamton for a few years and then (with my then wife, Louise Young, a '70 grad, and baby daughter Jenn) moved to South Florida. After twenty five years as a partner in a local CPA firm in Hollywood, a divorce, a remarriage (to Cindy, the absolute love of my life), I relinquished my CPA and became an ICM (ice cream man!) Cindy and I opened a D'Lites Emporium (not a franchise, but a wonderful licensed soft-serveproduct) in Gainesville, Florida, and in this (retirement?) business, I am having more fun than ever before!

I "don't do" reunions, but I don't do mass emails either, so anything's possible this spring - I'm gonna try real hard to get there!

Hope to see y'all,

Mike Roth mikulr@earthlink.net______________________________________________________Hi, As has been said before, most of the names are unfamiliar to me but there are some old friends and some current neighbors. Hello to all. I'm Marv Goldschmitt (yes, that's me in the blue box on page 19). How to be fair to 40 years and not go on too long. I'll try. I look back at my experience at Science and realize what a strange time and place it was and, at least for me; how it opened doors and ways of thinking that still reverberate. Maybe because of the teachers' strike we couldn't stay insulated from the "real" world that was churning around us: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Vietnam, hippies, etc.. I think the thing I learned most was that life wasn't a straight path and it hasn't been since. Without getting too detailed, I tried a lot of things, went a lot of places and haven't looked back too much. The list includes running an early health food store, spending a number of years following the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi around the world (Spain, Italy, Switzerland, India), getting a degree in psychology from SUNY New Paltz and almost finishing a PhD in the same in Virginia before landing right at the doorstep of the beginning of the PC era. In 1979 I moved to the Boston area (still here with my wonderful ex-pyschologist wife of 28 years) and took over what was the third oldest computer store in America where I ended up selling the first copies of the first spreadsheet ever, Visicalc. That led to my joining Lotus Development as one of the earliest employees and being responsible for the introduction of 1-2-3 to the world along with creating Lotus' international operations, distribution and OEM strategies and some of its major expansion plans as its first VP of Business Developement (with, of course, no real training in business). It was quite a ride. It was also interesting to have a front row seat to a changing world

where people, relationships and values continue to be redefined almost daily. I think (and sometimes fear) that we're experiencing the single biggest transformation in what it is to be human. Since I left Lotus in the mid 80s, I've had a chance to meet and work with some incredible people, deal with completely new challenges and "play" with and help develop and introduce a bunch of new types of tech products including digital photography (with Kodak), advertiser supported email, healthcare information systems, information security technologies, advanced decision support methodologies and virtual world media services. Viewed together they give a sense of the trends of the future and, as exciting as these innovations are, I sometimes worry about the long term impact of the things we are creating so I am also a member of IBM's Data Governance Council to help figure some of that out. I've also found a creative outlet as a photographer which, to be honest, is the most fun thing I do! We all have lived through some very interesting times and Science gave a lot of us a fantastic launching pad. It's great to get a view into the varied transitions of so many fascinating folks as I quickly run through the Observer to figure out whom you are. Life is never easy but it is a trip and I hope that each of you has gotten the most out of it. Sandy and Tom, thanks for getting this going. Marv Goldschmitt15 Crestview RoadBedford, MA 01730781-275-3736 (o)617-504-5878 (c)_www.bedfordfallsgallery.com_ (http://www.bedfordfallsgallery.com/) _____________________________________________________This e mail string is wonderful. I have my yearbook at my side and check on names..some faces ring a bell and others, well not so much. Even so it's s omuch fun to hear about everyone. I am not a big reunion person.and not sure if I can, but I think I will try.

I left BS and went to CCNY and CUNY for my BA and MA- in audiology. Moved to LA in 1975- I am almost a native now. Left audiology to be a stay home mom for 13 years. Worked as a finance manager and now work with my husband- at home- no commute- and in LA that's a great thing. Leaves time for dailyhike with dog in the Santa Monica mountains (we live in the foothills).Don't really want to go on Facebook as my son- 25 and daughter 22 have profiles and I don't really want to see them! Like the idea of the Yahoo group. Love hearing all the stories.keep them coming.

Terry (Klein) Robbins tkr2@charter.net 2/11/2009 10:19 PM_____________________________________________________Terry, how great it is to see a really familiar name. As others have said before,I've been getting so many e-mails and recognizing so few names. Fran Feuerman and I have spoken with each other about once a week (give or take) for the past 40+ years. Since these e-mails started arriving it is now more like 5 times a day as we try to figure out who everyone is. So far there's you, Stu Solomon, Barbara Trow, Harriet and one or two others. Many of you have triggered the memory synapses and I'm recalling things I never would have on my own.. Mr. Scavone...the best there was. I too traveled with Mr. Harrison from Creston JHS to Science, He taught us to read the NY Times because he would quiz us on the Week in Review. Since many of you are trying to track down former friends I'd like to add another one. Does

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anyone know the whereabouts of Neal Aresti? I've been trying to make contact for more years than I'd like to think. One last bit about Terry. Way back in the day, Terry spent an entire cold night sitting outside the Fillmore East to get Grateful Dead tickets for our whole crowd. Way to go Terry.Take care and I hope to see many of you soon.

Joel Rosenbluth___________________________________________________To All:I am taking the plunge and writing to 300+ folks I haven’t been in touch with since ’69, and most of whom I don’t even remember. But, there are many people I do remember, and this is for them.I am Susan Lewis '69 and a JHS 135 grad. After Bx. Science I went on to NYU, where I continued through undergrad years at the Heights (as a math major), and then to Law School and Graduate School in Business, getting my JD/MBA. – thanks Sharon Kern for mentioning me, my NYU Law School class had many Bx. Science grads, many more than NYU Heights grads.After finishing school I joined a mid-size NY law firm, and am still there, though we are now pushing 2,000 lawyers, and have offices globally. My practice is focused on business and investment transactions, and my clients are worldwide, which keeps me in various time zones regularly, at least by email.Married since 1982 (same guy) with two children (one out of school, one still in college), we are still living in NYC and loving it.I have the fondest memories of Bx. Science, having been a Super Senior [starting in the freshman class of 200, and graduating with the other 980 or so of you]. I still remember homeroom in the Cafeteria with Mrs. Oglio [the gym teacher] who was a great friend thoughout my high school days. I also remember Mr. Karpf, and his shirt pocket full of fact cards, and his devotion to bringing us the “Forum,” with its terrific assemblage of speakers.I have been a member of the Alumni Ass’n since graduation and have enjoyed watching the progression of the school and the additional programs that have broadened the scope of education offered, while still maintaining the emphasis on the sciences. I regret, however, that it seems like STL is no more – I really loved that class, a course where we could actually build something. Of all the notes and books from high school, the only ones I have protected over the years (besides the year book – thank you, Maria Schiff and Rolf Auerbach, this is a book worth keeping) are my STL notes; after all, knowing the proper way to handle a drill press is important.I still keep in touch with a few friends, including Judy Scolnick, who, with her sister Barbara have been great friends since our days together at P.S. 97. I am looking forward to the reunion; I still remember the first, at the end of the summer following our graduation, as well as the 20th. For those of you who won’t be at the reunion and want to keep in touch, please email me at slewis52@yahoo.com.

Susan Lewis_________________________________________________After writing individual emails back to old friends I recognized that made a posting in the last few days, it feels too voyeuristic to not write back to everyone and say hello. I am appreciating this flood of emails with all the memories they bring back. I've been sitting by the laptop with the yearbook at the side table for those names that don't immediately bring up an image. I pulled out the yearbook a few years ago when my daughter (now 8) wanted to see pictures I drew in the yearbook (marked by my RW) and compare them to her finger-paint art masterpieces she had

made in school. She got an even bigger kick out of seeing me with hair.

Bronx Science was a local school for me a few blocks from the neighborhood apartment at the Amalgamated. I did the tour around the reservoir of PS 95, JHS 143, and BXHSS and there was a bunch of us that had been together since JHS if not all the way from grade school. As my parents and other parents have stopped sharing their kids' stories with each other, I have lost touch with who from my group has gone where and is doing what. But I do see some familiar email names on the list who are being silent so this is a shout out to you all. I have no idea if I will make it to the reunion but would really like to go. After hearing practically nothing about BXHSS for years, this is an overwhelming wave of communication...

I have landed in Santa Cruz mountains, living in a redwood bowl. We decided to never move so I commute into the SF Bay Area where I work as a clinical psychologist and as an HR manager. Life is pretty good no matter what the Govenator says. We are using the 5 day holiday tomorrow to go up to our family place in Yosemite to go skiing (and will hopefully get snowed in) and just got back from vacation in Antarctica in January. I'm not going to join facebook but will post a foto of me and the family (with penguins) you can compare to the one on page 158 in the yearbook. Living in Santa Cruz, I have connected with many Science grads, mostly from the 50's. I'd love to connect with classmates: Keep those emails going - I'm reading each one.

Roger Wapner PhD CEAP__________________________________________________Hello everyone - Michael Negron here - proudly a member of the Class of 1969. Wow!! I have never been a part of something like this. Typically, I don't like it when I become part of a string of emails, where folks continue to hit "reply all". However, I do have to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed all of your individual sharing of your lives, and also the way so many folks responded to try to help our fellow graduate - Daniel Hoschauer. I also love seeing the diversity of career paths taken or presently in. I also appreciated that so many said - I am not recognizing most of the names, if any and that there were over 900 in our graduating class. I hope that some of you who are alphabetically around the NE neighborhood will reach out and tickle my memory with stories of our classroom. I remember the Mowatt twins - impressed on how they maneuvered the horse with handstands - I usually got myself into some sort of a pretzel. My fondest memories of the school were around how alive everyone was intellectually and with activism and speaking out on the issues of the day. I came into the school a bit younger than most because I skipped a year at JHS 123 in the South Bronx. So, when I read about some of you living in an Adult Community or in retirement......

Due to some "great" guidance from our school counseling and my lack of maturity at the time - I ended up as a business major (let's see -you're really good at math). Ended up with accounting degree (Baruch) and then MBA in International Finance. Left corporate world asDirector of International Finance and had some good times working on deals in Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, DR, Argentina (you know - he speaks Spanish - let's put him there) and then towards end of corporate career worked on a great telecom deal in Norway - what a great part of the world. About 10 years ago, went on my own and made a major career transition - now doing consulting and executive coaching - certified in emotional intelligence and resiliency assessments, leadership competencies workshop...and doing a fair amount of Executive Transition/Succession Planning work with various nonprofit organizations - largely in New England region. Married now 30 wonderful years (all

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to same person), 2 sons living in NYC - one in Queens (he went to NYU and is a photographer) and other son in Brooklyn- getting married in 2 weeks in Maui - we can't wait. He works for a unit of Gucci on 5th avenue. Lived most of past 30 years in Connecticut with exception of 5 years in Puerto Rico - loved it. Still have a full head of hair, but most of it now is in the form of a beard and moustache. Hope to make the reunion, and keep those cards and letters coming.......and would love to hear from some of you.

Michael J. Negrón mjnegron@NegronConsulting.comNEGRON CONSULTING203.458.1842_____________________________________________________All - You know you've been impressed when you hear yourself saying "Wow." And that's what I've been doing, over and over again, reading this e-mail chain. Not just for the uber-achievers in our class _ no surprise there _ but for the fascinating and unpredictable paths so many of you have taken. I'm Alan Fram, which I'm sure draws a blank for almost all of you. No offense taken _ most of your names are mysteries to me, too. I arrived at high school via PS 95 and JHS 143, both right around the corner (or actually, right around the reservoir) from Science. I recall a few of you, mostly people with the same 95 and/or 143 pedigree, but mostly this has been an exercise in bemoaning how many brain cells have died that were the repositories for my high school memories. (Although somehow, I still remember the words to the PS 95 school song.) In fact, when I google my brain for high school teachers, the first thing that pops up is: Mr. Beckenstein. (was that was his name? I think he taught health ed and seemed quite old, though he was probably about the age we all are now.) I remember him telling us that if we got sent to Vietnam, keep our heads down and don't be heroes. Thank God I never went. My efforts to get a deferment proved futile, and then Richard Nixon, of all people, helped me avoid a long, long trip to Canada by ending the draft. Anyway, after CCNY, I started law school at UCLA. Hated law and dropped out after two months. Forced me to do something I'd never before done _ really think about what I wanted to do. Finally realized I'd always enjoyed history, politics and writing, and that led me to journalism. Went to grad school in journalism at Cal Berkeley. When I graduated and ran out of money, returned east, working for newspapers in Middletown, N.Y. and then Albany. Finally I ended up with The Associated Press, initially in Newark, N.J. For the last quarter century (gawk!?!?!?) I've been working for the AP in Washington, where I've had a really fun ringside seat for the Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and now Obama years. Also in the AP's Washington bureau is fellow Science Class of '69 alum Jerry Bodlander, one of our star broadcasters. I'm hoping I don't have a ringside seat for another event _ the demise of American journalism as we know it. But don't get me started. I've been married for a wonderful 22 years to Eileen Putman, a fellow journalist who certainly would have been admitted to Science had it been located in her native Jackson, MS. We have two great kids: Andy, 19, a JMU soph studying film and Abby, 14, a ninth-grader studying teenagerhood. We live in what is proudly known as the Peoples' Republic of Arlington, Va.,just across the river from D.C. Anyway, while I've never been a joiner, I couldn't help but chime in to say how proud I feel when I read about your exploits, even those of you I never really knew. As I read, I keep thinking, "I wish I'd tried that," or, "Good for her," or, "Whoa!" Nobody could accuse you guys of not being interesting, or daring, or not contributing. And that's very, very good. I may not make the reunion, but I feel these e-mails have given me more intimate and interesting information about you than I could have gotten by attending this reunion, or even 10 reunions.

It's been a pleasure catching up.

Alan Fram ASFram@aol.com ____________________________________________________Dear All, It is hard to believe that it has been 40 years since we graduated and I'll echo so many of my fellow classmates in saying it has been a real trip reading these emails the past few weeks.Many of the names sound familiar and when I take a look at my yearbook--which has been on my desk for the past two weeks--and see the pictures I keep saying to myself oh that's right--that's who that is. I'm astonished at how what members of our class have accomplished. I'm Gerald Bodlander, one of the 200 or so Super Seniors that are part of this amazing class. After graduating I went for a year to Utica College, then transferred to Syracuse where I got a degree in Radio-TV News and Political Science. After four years doing news at a radio station in Newburgh, I moved to Washington DC where I got a graduate degree in Journalism and Public Affairs at American University.

While there I started working for The Associated Press, and have been here in the Washington, D.C. area for more than 30 years working for the AP's radio network, and the past few years, also for the AP's Online Video Network. For the last 7 or 8 years I've been covering congress. As you may have read a little while ago, Alan Fram is a fellow classmate who works for the AP.Alan neglected to mention that he wrote most of the AP's poll stories that appeared in newspapers worldwide during the recent political campaign. But Alan probably doesn't know that I see another member of our class almost every day. Michael Lawrence, a Senior Media Relations coordinator in the Senate Radio-TV Gallery in the U.S. Capitol, was also part of our class! I've been married for the last 15 years (married late). My wife Elaine grew up on a farm in southern Ohio outside of a small town of 2,500 --which is quite different, to say the least--from the Bronx and New York City. She's a manufacturer's rep for a lighting company. No children, two cats. Someone earlier asked about Peter Galderisi--I googled him once and learned he is or at least was a political science professor at Utah State University. Does anyone know whatever happened to Dave Collins? or Dennis Klein?? I don't know whether I'll be able to attend the reunion--that's usually a weekend we visit my wife's family--But all the nieces and nephews in Ohio have now graduated high school so there's a chance. It has been a true joy hearing from so many people from so long ago. My best wishes to all of you.

Gerald Bodlander GBodlander@aol.com ______________________________________________________After reading all the e-mails I have thought more of Bronx Science in the past few days than the past few decades. I've kept in touch with a few alumni, mainly those I went to college with. Being such a large class many people are unknown to me, but that doesn't matter. We all walked down the same road 40 years ago and I look back at that time as being something pleasant and special. We are all linked in that sense and I believe the education I got there made everything that followed a bit easier.

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for a while, then went to medical school with a wife and 3 children in tow. It all worked out well and I am a psychiatrist in private practice on Staten Island. I've been married 32 years and have 3 children, two of whom are doctors (going into psychiatry as well) and one an RN. I live in Malba, a section near Whitestone, Queens. I became a grandfather exactly one year ago for the first time and that is a humbling experience in terms of time passing by so quickly. After Science I grew into a heavyweight and boxed as an amateur and fought in the NY Golden Gloves. I love antique cars and havea collection of around twenty (my neighbors love me for that I am sure). Nothing in life comes easily but I have no complaints and think I've come pretty close to "La Dolce Vita" at this point. I look forward to seeing some old faces and perhaps making new friends.. That common road still beckons.

Best regards, Robert Conciatori

_____________________________________________________dear sciencites, class of '69, i recall my years at science long fully, wistfully, humorously, and more. although the p-c answer is "i'd do it all the same", i think i'd change a lot of things if i could re-do my high school years. throughout my life i have been an "independent" not being in the throws of cliques. however, i recall weaving in and out of various groups at science, but maintained my autonomy (and maybe anonymity). weren't our lives kinda divided--there were my non-science friends and family in bayside; then the people from ps 74, queens with whom i carpooled (emailed a few--no response back); then some close buddies from the class of '70 ( i was tres young and had gone to grammar school with a few, had "dated"--so innocent--a few more); and lastly friends and more -- almost all fading memories now--from class of '69. i tend to remember the girls/women who made me wonder, and blush, and wanted to know better. (certain things, i guess, never change). so i too found my yearbook and referenced many of you who have already written. i feel moved to read some of the farewells you scribed over your pics in the yearbook. where is carol zarrow--i recall we went out once during the waning days of our senior year. you were so nice, and wrote something special in my yearbook. and rita goldwasser--i think we spoke politics on harris field, and flirted. and rhonda and leslie from the class of '70. certainly some grand moments of my race to the future took place in hs. i even learned a lot, academically; sometimes i think i learned more in high school than at any other time in my education, including compressed med school--3 years. and dave diner--answer the email-damnit! hello arthur and scott. i remember the tumult surrounding the teacher's strike our senior year, and how mrs. shapiro held ap bio classes in her apt as the curriculum could not afford the loss of time. she was terrific. her son was our classmate. and then, at the end of the year--a wild and crazy sleep over at some state park for the class--did it really take place? details fade as convolutions age. i did a lot of odd things to be closer to certain individuals--took physics as a junior, to take chem with friends during senior year., --my punishment--mrs. franck! she did not appreciate my antics. and orchestra--lugging a cello on 3 trains, a bus, and two hrs plus just to sit next to leslie (70). barry winnograd sat in front of us--how are you? and more and more. meanwhile, i went to cornell, to einstein, to u. of rochester, to tufts. multiple boards, lots of life and death, lecturer, teacher,

practitioner--interventional cardiology. as a sophomore in cornell, age 17, i met a woman during orientation and had a kind of grand epiphany, and chased her for 12 years before we settled down together, finally--in all places--pittsburgh. she is an academic radiologist at univ. of pittsburgh med. center. we have two lovely daughters. life has so many vicissitudes, and i tend to wonder--how would things have turned out if... be smart, be healthy, be happy. maybe we will meet again in may.

mark joshua geller _______________________________________________________Greetings form St. Louis Missouri-

I have been reading everybody's e-mails with great interest and pleasure, even though I haven't recognized too many names. I have my yearbook next to the computer and look to connect names and faces. It certainly has made me reflect upon my time at Science and how appreciative I have always been of my years there. I hated the travel and having to take Mechanical Drawing ,but Science provided an atmosphere where intellectual curiosity and questioning were encouraged. And, in the mid-sixties, it was also a place where it was really OK to be a bright female- which wasn't always the case-( for lots of young women,it still isn't always the case.) As I re-read Dr. Taffel's letter to us in the yearbook, it strikes me again that we came of age in a pretty interesting and tumultuous time.

I was one of the kids from Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan, along with Maria Schiff, Carol Latterman, Jane Leifer, Sharon Hymes and Stan Lewis. Stan and I used to travel together- leaving very early in the morning for our hour plus trip-first, getting on the overly crowded Carnesie Line, then transferring to the IRT at Union Square and getting off at Bedford Ave for an incredibly long walk from the station to school. I remember especially hating it in the bad weather-girls couldn't wear pants to school . I think about what high school students wear now, and they can't believe that we had to kneel down to see if our skirts touched the ground- it was the age of the minis! I spent lots of my weekend time with my friends from Manhattan who didn't go to Science, and couldn't understand the allure of guys with pocket protectors who knew what slide rules were for- and how to use them! But, I also hung out with Randy Berger, Julie Fein,Rochelle Anixt, Barbara Edelstein, Karen Weitzenkorn, Sharon Bishop and Jane Pearlmutter from our class- any of you out there? Any other classmates living in St. Louis?

After graduation, I went to Bard College and then Washington University in St. Louis for graduate school. After finishing, I worked at a Mental Health Clinic before going into private practice in 1980, working with adults and adolescents. In addition to my psychotherapy practice, I taught courses on Images of Women in Film, from a psychological,cultural and feminist perspective. I got married soon after finishing school, and then divorced ten years later. I seriously considered moving back to NY- I have never thought of myself as a Mid-Westerner, but by that point, I was too established here, so instead, I stayed and traveled often. In 1995, I married a sculptor and Professor of Architecture at Washington University - Iain Fraser, and have two grown step-daughters, 33 and 29, one son-in-law, and as of August 15 , will have another. In the last 11 years or so, in addition to my psychotherapy practice, I have developed a speciality area of Wealth Counseling where I work with people on issues directly related to money- the psychological meanings of money, psychological considerations of transfer of wealth and inheritance planning, and the raising of children in regards to wealth and entitlement. I do a lot of speaking

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and traveling to work with families around the country, and am often in NY - not to mention that my family, including my 93 year old mother still live in the city. With the economy tanking, I have also been doing a lot of speaking and writing on the psychological impact of this recession and the paradigm shifts inherent in it. I am hopeful that with the new administration in Washington, the culture of narcissism and greed will start to shift .

My plans are to attend the reunion, and I hope to reconnect, connect and reminisce. It has been a very long time. Actually, about 10 years ago, on a trip to upstate NY, my husband and I stopped by Science and went in- it was incredible how familiar it felt and the memories that it brought back- the mural is still there!Thank you Sandra and Tom for all of your work in making this happen- this has already been a real kick!

Marilyn Wechter wechter@sbcglobal.net._____________________________________________________Hello All- I guess you¹d have to call me compulsively organized since as soon as I received the initial ³save the date² email a while back, I went straight to my yearbook and looked Tom up. The yearbook has been out all week on my computer table, well thumbed as I put face to name. I too don¹t remember too many folks - is that possible? Surely some people remember some people but I guess just coincidentally, few of them have replied already.I grew up in Stuyvesant Town so very few kids went up to the Bronx for high school. There were only 5 or 6 of us in our year that I can think of: CarolLatterman, Jane Leifer, Sharon Hymes, Marilyn Wechter and Stan Lewis. Carol is still a close friend and Stan lives nearby.I¹ve lived in Boston for years and love it here politically and culturally - just not meteorologically (especially this time of year). I work in health care, currently in a program started under the health reform law Massachusetts passed in 2006 that I hope will be a model for some type of national reform if the President doesn¹t use up all his political capital getting a stimulus package passedŠ.I have two kids, one of whom is spending this semester semi-studying in New Zealand so my husband and I are off to visit there very soon. We¹ll be in NZ for 28 days - by far my longest vacation since college days. I made sure to get my reunion check mailed in before getting distracted with trip related things. I look forward to the get together and also appreciate all the effort that Tom and Sandy must have put into pulling this together.My vote for another activity that weekend is a tour of the school that I haven¹t been back to or gone by for 40 years. BTW< I loved my years there - it was by far my best academic experience. I learned the most and met the most ³kindred spirits² (not withstanding the fact that I haven¹t recognized too many correspondents!).

Maria Schiff mariaschiff@rcn.com_____________________________________________________Hi former Science classmates, Although I did not graduate with all of you in ’69 (my parents had the nerve to move to Virginia prior to my senior year), I still have fond memories of the school and classmates of long past. I commuted with a bunch of folks from Washington Heights, down to 145 St on the A train and then onto the D to get to school. It was a very long ride, which was only relieved when Sue Nordlinger’s father used to come with his station wagon to give us a ride home. After Science, I graduated from a high school in Richmond, Virginia, and then on to Boston University and University of Maryland. Returned to New York as soon as I could and went to law school at night. After building a tax and

bankruptcy practice for approximately ten years, I gave it all up for public service, and for most of the past twenty years, I have been an attorney working in the judiciary in Manhattan. Since leaving the private sector, I have been supplementing my income by selling my writing skills to university presses, pharmaceutical companies, and legal publishers, but it was when a sports editor friend asked me to fill-in and cover a hockey game for $25 one night, that I found my non-legal calling. Yes, I was the only girl on my hockey team at age 10 at a rink in Yonkers, and yes, I had gone to a number of professional games over the years, but hockey was not in my blood, or so I thought. When I went to the rink that night in 2003, I suddenly found that I had the intuitive ability to understand the game and predict players’ success in ways that the average person could not. That was a big surprise, but not as much as the surprise of my deep love for the game. Here I was 50 years old, and finally I had found what I wanted to do. So, I not only wrote that story, but began to cover other local games. This led to me to a job covering the New York Rangers (which I still have), and a couple of years ago to a part-time scouting position for a large international scouting agency. I am still working at one of the courthouses in downtown Manhattan, but I am looking forward to retiring in the next few years and devoting my time to a new non-profit hockey venture that I started last year. The company assists non-elite teenage hockey players (boys and girls) to find educational and career opportunities within and without the game. I am grateful to have gotten the support of the hockey establishment to do this, and while my company is in its infancy, I already have been able to help many youngsters, and I look forward to the time when I can devote my full-time efforts to it. I would love to hear from my friends from Science that I have lost touch with over the years. I probably won’t be in town the weekend of the reunion (the NHL Draft Combine is taking place in Toronto), but I can’t wait to hear about what I know will be a terrific event.

Leslie Treff Power198@aol.com ________________________________________________________Hello all. Most of you probably do not remember me as I was a rather quiet14 year old when starting at Bronx Science. I attended JHS 133 (John Dwyer) in the Bronx and Edmund Wilson was the only other entrant (by exam)from my JHS when I arrived in 1966.I was one of very few students of color at BHSS then but when I took the entrance examination, I knew I had done very well.

Hispanic and having been raised in a culture of Hispanics andAfrican-Americans, it took a bit to get used to the BHSS culture but embraceit I did. Although I was a top ranking student at JHS (weren't most of us?),I credit BHSS with truly teaching me what academic desterity is all about. Being a bit of a nerd, I made it a point to get perfect scores on as many exams as I could after I scored what I thought was a decent score in my first math exam (90) and a certain young lady sitting next to me gave mecondolences and asked what I had missed as she had gotten 100%! What a rip! I do not recall her name but I observed carefully how the to students studied and maintained their grades and I did likewise.

I recall it taking me an hour (on a good day) to get to scool by bus and train from my home in the Soundview area and I

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also recall a burgeoning alienation from my neighborhood friends as they began to see me as "that guy who goes to Bronx Science" rather than Monroe, the high school where most of my JHS friendswent.

There were excellent teachers at BHSS such as Ms. Blum in Geometry and some that were not so good. Some, like Mr. Mufson in Spanish, were just plain interesting to watch. Yes, I remember Mr. Schwartz in social studies trying to be as hip as possible. I recall one day when there were two young women in our class by the same name and Mr. Schwartz felt under pressure to distinguish among them when both raised their hand in answer toa question he had posed. One was black and one was white but what he used to distinguish them was the fact that one had a scarf on..I thought that was cool rather than point out the obvious.

As a young Puerto Rican I had not been raised to be in tune with the fact that I was also black and I have to credit a young woman nicknamed "Bunny"; real name Earnestine" with insisting that I attend the black student union meeting after I initially declined, stating that I was "Puerto Rican". It was the beginning of a wonderful and full awareness of my full identity as aperson of color that has served me well in my life.

Of course, my cultural evolution was just a part of the picture.I interacted with some some really cool folks at BHSS including Martin Bialer, Emma Gonzalez, Michael Peterson, Alan Olivieri, Ishmael Lezcano, G. Bodlander, Angel Marcano and Terry Hodge among many more.

I believe my attendance at BHSS along with my selection as a National Merit Scholarship Recipient and top scores on the NYS Regents exams paved the way for me to be accepted into Wesleyan University in Connecticut. I was a foreign language and Bio double major in college and spent a semester living in Spain where I completed my degree work in Castilian Literature. The funny thing is that I ended up declaring myself Pre-Medafter a summer externship at Connecticut Valley Hospital where I essential just changed bed pans but loved the interaction with patients and staff! I was fortunate to be allowed to complete medical school in an accelerated three-year program and graduated with the class ahead of my original one.

I left for Alaska as a family practitioner in 1977 and was the GP for some of the most remote villages on earth! I eneded up learning medical "Y'upik", the language of Alaska's western Eskimo population. I completed a residency in Dermatology a few years later and have been working in that field since then. I currently am heavily involved in the development of teledermatology in Alaska by means of which high resolution images sufficient for diagnosticpurposes are transmitted over great distances. This sytem allows many patients to have access to the services of very few specialist. I lecture nationally and internationally on a regular basis as many countries with limited resources find that telemedicine is a tremendous boon to their health infrastructure. I am the national chair for the Teledermatology Special Interest Group, the largest teledermatology group in the country and it keeps me running!

Married to the same beautiful woman since 1975, I am the proud father of three grown men and the proud grandfather of two boys and one girl.

I am very grateful for having gone to BHSS when I did as it added much to my "formative years" and I treasure the friendships I made while there!

I am attaching a photo taken of me in October 2008 when I was returning from a talk I gave in India. We just missed the political upheaval in Mumbai last November!Take care!

John Bocachica, M.D.FAADChief, Dermatology and TeledermatologyAlaska Native Medical CenterAnchorage, AlaskaBHSS '69 bohujo@gmail.com Hello, everyone!________________________________________________________It occurs to me, that even though I responded to this thread early, and set up the Facebook site for everyone, I neglected to post anything about what I've been doing since I graduated from BHSS in 1969. As everyone else has jumped in, I guess I should as well.

I had essentially no choice as to where I was going to college. My folks were holocaust survivors with little money for tuition of any kind. In addition, it would have been very difficult for them to send me off to school anywhere far from the Bronx. As such, I attended CCNY, where I majored in Meteorology. I loved my four years at City College, making lots of friends with whom I am still close. In the second semester of my freshman year at CCNY, I met the girl who would become my wife. She was a student at Lehman College and we met via a mutual friend. We married in 1973, a few months after both of us had earned our Bachelors degrees. We went off to SUNY Albany, where my wife, Diana, earned a Master's Degree in Speech/Language Pathology. She continued to support my education, and in 1978, I completed the Ph.D. degree in Atmospheric Sciences.

After a year of teaching Meteorology at SUNY Oneonta (during which I completed my Ph.D. work), I landed a full time, tenure track position at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain and have been here ever since. During my time here in Connecticut, I put in five years doing radio weathercasting and did earn the AMS Seal of Approval for Broadcast Meterologists. Currently, I am the senior member of the Physics-Earth Sciences Department at CCSU, having served as Department Chair twice during my time here. I'm in charge of all the Meteorology course offerings here at CCSU. I have also been very active in my professional society, the American Meteorological Society (AMS), having served on numerous national AMS boards continuously from 1982 to 2007. Diana served as a school speech/language pathologist for over 25 years before returning to higher education and earning a Ph.D. degree in Special Education from the University of Connecticut in 2005. She is now on the faculty of the Department of Communication Disorders at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.

Diana and I are the parents of two children. Our daughter, Heather, attended the University of Maryland, graduating in 2001, and is now a Physician Assistant at the University of Maryland Health Center. She married her college sweetheart in 2006 and is expecting her first child (our first grandchild) in June, and we are very excited. They live in Baltimore. Our son attended theUniversity of Michigan, graduating in 2005. He then went on to earn a Masters Degree in Journalism from NYU and now lives with his girlfriend of the last 4 1/2 years in the Los Angeles area, as a free-lance writer, mostly in technical fields. We're hoping they will get engaged soon, as we'd love to have another big wedding.

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college friends, and now, through these e-mails, have reestablished some links that were broken nearly 40 years ago. It's been great reading all about you guys. I haven't yet decided whether to attend the reunion or not. My experience with previous unrelated reunions has left a bad taste in my mouth (but nothing that a good Cuban cigar and a glass of single malt scotch couldn't wash away). Keep the e-mails coming. I'm having a blast reading them all. If anyone is looking for me, I can be found almost any Saturday that the Yankees are playing at home, in Yankee Stadium, as I've been a Saturday season ticket holder since 1999. I was at the World Series game in 2000 when Roger Clemens threw the bat at Mike Piazza, and in 2001, when Scott Brosius hit the game-tying home run against the D-Backs in the ninth inning of Game 5. Those were great moments. I'm still waiting for the Yankees to tell me where I'll be sitting in the new Yankee Stadium for this upcoming season. The suspense is KILLING me!!! Best.

Steve Newman ccsuwxman@cox.net _______________________________________________________We are Lauri Bardin Zimmerman and Bill Zimmerman. In home room junior year, the boys were seated alphabetically, followed by the girls. Since Bill was a "Z" and I was a "B", I sat right behind him. For six months I looked at the back of my future husband's head without even knowing his name! We were introduced at Joan Friedman's sweet 16 party in February of that year, and from then on we started to say hello each morning. Cut to the strike of senior year. Bill had decided to ask me out, if and only if I was in school on one of the "optional" make-up days. That was the only time in my life I ever attended an optional class (in fact, I missed many of the non-optional ones!). To make a long story short, we have been together ever since. We married the week of our college graduations in 1973 (Bill from NYU, me from Queens College. Actually, we never made it to the graduation ceremonies.)

Bill majored in math and education, and did his student teaching at Science. He was hired to teach there straight from college. He taught at Science for two years, and then, as low man on the totem pole, was excessed in the NYC budget cuts. From there we moved to NJ and then to Rockland County, NY, where we still live. Bill is retiring from the Ardsley (Westchester county) public schools this year, where he has been the Technology Coordinator of the district for the past twenty-four years. In September he will begin teaching courses and training student teachers at Pace University. I have been a school psychologist, working with handicapped preschoolers and their families, for the past twenty-four years. We have three grown sons and three beautiful grandchildren. Our oldest son is a lawyer; he and his wife live in Bethesda and have two little girls. Our middle son is a HS social studies teacher; he, his wife and his baby boy live in White Plains. Our youngest son lives in DC; he lobbies on Capitol Hill for liberal causes and is engaged to be married in August. Bill and I also have a home on the west coast of Florida (Naples area) and we are hoping to spend more time there now that he will be on a college calendar.

It has been very fun "catching up" on so many lives. We look forward to seeing many of you at the reunion.

Lauri Bardin Zimmerman and Bill Zimmermanthezim@cloud9.net ______________________________________________________Hi everyone,This is Bill Zimmerman, proud member of the BHSS Class of 1969 from the great borough of Queens. I hope that many of my fellow Q44 commuters are planning to attend the 40th (that's ridiculous!) reunion. The "lost boys" include, but are not limited to:

Douglas Aspros Roger BanemanSidney Goldfarb Eli IsaacsonRobert Kleinman Robert LazarusMark Liff Bobby Macris David Morgareidge Robert RosenbaumRichard Stone Ronald Weiss

We should meet under the clock on Main Street and take the #7 train to the gala event. Oh, and by the way, since great things tend to happen in years that end in "9"... Let's Go Mets!

Bill Zimmerman thezim@cloud9.net______________________________________________________Bill, You forgot me and Armen Marsoobian. did you lose your memory after one of our tackle football games in Flushing Meadow park? Roger did. I remember just about everyone on your list. Also hung out with Paul Levine.Sam K. Lee, CSPChubb Services CorporationVP - Risk Management ServicesPhone #: 908-903-7172Fax#: 908-903-7187Cell#: 908-295-9390

Sam Lee slee@chubb.com ________________________________________________________Getting these e-mails everyday is transporting me back to being 16 and it is nice. I didn't think that I had any memories of Science but then a strong one popped up. It was the day that all the girls wore pants to school for the first time.... and a boy... "Rosy"( I can't remember his name at my advanced age) wore a skirt. We traveled on the Q44 and the Q23 from Queens to get to Science. Anyone else from the Q44 and Q23 ?(and come to think of it I think there was one more bus we had to take to Science...And this is where my kids say "sure and in your day you walked thought the snow with no boots...up hill") Most of my friends were from those buses.I have had reunions with those friends:

Rhonda Schaffer Lorain WankoffGloria Gollotti Carol Zarrow Beth KarpBarbara Harris HI GALS! and myself Agnes Braun

After Science I went to Fairleigh Dickenson and graduated from the Dental School in 1975 . I am married to a great guy (he is also a dentist) and we have two kids... My son is 33 and my daughter is 31. I live and practice dentistry in Westchester. My husband's practice is in NYC. I can hardly believe any one saved copies of San Culottes( Jeff Hurwitz ) I have always regretted tossing them. There were poems written by Corky Lovell ( does anyone know what happed to him) that I would love to show my daughter. It is so interesting to observe how many of us are glad to read the e-mails from people that we can hardly remember because we spent time together 40 years ago. It's fascinating.

Agnes Braun Farkas ________________________________________________________Hi, Everyone-I've (Nancy Segal) been online already, but wanted to say more at this time.

I went to Boston University, then got a Ph.D. In psychology at the University of Chicago. The next nine years were at the University of Minnesota (post-doc and res associate) where I worked on the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart. Twins have always been my passion-many of you may not have known I was a twin-my sister Anne and I don't look alike-she went to Hunter, not to Science. I always loved the twins in our class-anyone remember Barbara and Judy

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Scolnick? I have stayed in touch with them, mostly with Barbara (I saw her in Boston when I did a sabbatical at Harvard in 2004)-she and Judy sat next to me in music. I also remember Nathan and Leroy-one of them almost choked me once when he was using me to demonstrate some gymnastics (?) move.

I am now a psych professor at Cal State Fullerton (near Los Angeles), having arrived here in 1991. I've written 2 books on twins-ENTWINED LIVES and INDIVISIBLE BY TWO. The great thing about twins is that the public loves them so I've gotten to go on TV from time to time and that's kept me in touch with a bunch of you. (How about those octuplets?!)

Looking forward to seeing all of you in May-anyone know the whereabouts of Barry Alberts? Or Karen Calculator (yes that was her name). Elliot Balaban (my boyfriend senior year) is in Israel. I have also been in touch w/Liliane Neubauer-she's in Scarsdale, married Michael Bronson, has 3 kids. And I saw Chris Woebke about a year ago, and hooked up with Sue Novick a few weeks ago in NY. Also Mindy Wyshik, Fran Feuerman and Murray Berkowitz.

Everyone-Keep those emails coming!

A few of you have asked about Peter Galderisi-I saw him a few times in about 1993-he was a professor at Utah State, but he used to teach occasionally at my school, Cal State Fullerton. I lost touch with him after that.All the best-Nancy Segal nsegal@fullerton.edu ________________________________________________________Hi everyone! Who was it who was asking about Karen Calculator?!! I remember playing on the girls' basketball club with her (back in the day when the boys had "teams" and the girls had "clubs")! Those green girls gym jumpers were something else...Does anyone remember Mr. Kopelman, the bio teacher who later became principal? Like many who have responded, the names are vaguely familiar but the stories are definitely memory jolts!

I was Lily Din when I was at Science (David Diner, I remember you sitting behind me at every exam!). I went to Queens College for my B.A. to NYU for my Masters, and then to Teachers College on a fellowship. I taught in the NYC public schools and later worked as an associate for the New York State Education Department for a number of years.

In 1990 after staying home for 3 years with my second child, I decided to go back to work and became principal of PS 130 Manhattan, a poor, academically struggling elementary school in Chinatown/Little Italy (only 38% of the children were reading on grade level at the time). It was a challenge with over 1,000 students (70% of whom did not speak English). I was lucky enough to be able to build a team to eventually turn it around into one of the top schools in the city - most recent scores of 86% on grade level and above for reading, 98% on grade level and above in math, 97% in Social Studies and Science (check out our school's review in Clara Hemphill's book "Best Elementary Schools in NYC - A Parent's Guide). I've been there now for 19 years as principal and have served for many years as a mentor to new principals and as an adjunct at Baruch College and Bank Street. By the way, the school is about 15 blocks from Ground Zero. When 9/11 happened, I saw the second plane hit because I was outside greeting the children to school. The inside of the school was covered with fine film of dust for weeks. There were several of us who slept in the school for three days (our school was designated as a triage site), stayed with the families who couldn't get home and worked to clean up to the school so that we could open a week later. About 3 weeks later, President Bush, Governor Pataki and Mayor Guiliani chose to come to my school to make their

announcement to the world that the US was not down and out but resilient and strong. We were in the news around the world! For those of you in this glorious class of 1969 who can help, our school can certainly use some assistance in continuing the special arts programs that we've put into place for the children. We have a great emphasis on the performing arts (every child in the school, from PreK through Grade 5, gets music, art or drama) to build communication and literacy skills as well as self confidence and teamwork. Because the kids enjoy coming to school and learning, not only is their interest in the arts being cultivated, their academic performance soar! But the city gives the schools about $64 per child for the arts; not nearly enough to cover the almost $300,000 that we spend on the children for the arts each year. The funds have basically come from generous people and corporations who believe in our work. The families are mostly low-income (we have 70% free lunch eligible), but they work hard to help raise money so that their kids can have opportunities they didn't have. In fact, we have an annual benefit - a 10-course Chinese banquet with performances by the children - where every penny raised is used for the special arts enrichment programs in the school. This year the benefit will be held on Friday, May 15th at the Golden Bridge Restaurant in Chinatown. It is a year-long project with by the parents and children of the school; last year we had over 1,000 attendees and raised $94,000!!! Maybe we can have a Bronx Science 40th Reunion table or two (another occasion to get together)! Tickets are $100 each, with $60 of it being tax deductible. Our Parents Association is a 501 (c) 3 organization! If anyone is interested, please email me. I am in the process of trying to arrange my schedule with my husband to make the reunion! Hope to see all of you then!

Lily Din Woo_______________________________________________________I really wish I had my yearbook so I could check all the faces that go with the names. I have a much better memory for faces. I got friendly with a bunch of '69ers at CCNY. (I was actually pretty shy in HS having just lost my dad right before I started, but college was very healing.) William Lowy and Barry Winograd who were both good friends of mine in college and pretty much planned the 20th reunion (holy crap, was that really 20 years ago!), have dropped off the list. The last time I saw William was at my son's 2nd birthday party and he is now 21. I know William lives in White Plains. He is a really sweet guy as is Barry. I would love to see them.I remember Bob Gould because one of my friends had a little crush on you and I know we were in a some class together, don't remember which one, though.At CCNY, I think Nathan Mowatt went out with Miriam Weiner, or was it Leroy? I have a memory of my college boyfriend calling Nathan "Nathaniel", joking around so I think it was Nathan(?) Susan, did you know Laura Stolper? She also went to Lehman as did Ron Deitsch. She lives in FL and recently became a grandmother (yikes). And we are both Lauras who married Siegels (she is Segal). Someone mentioned Lois Jackson. She is a pediatric dentist in Brooklyn Heights. Several of my clients over the years (I have a mostly pediatric speech/language therapy practice) have gone to her but she has the nerve not to remember me!It's weird what a small world it is. A couple of years ago my friend told me she was going to a terrific doctor. Her name was Ina Cholst and even though I didn't know her at all, I remembered her name. This past summer, I referred my friend's daughter to her. So you never know where a connection will come from.

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Nancy, we were in Mr. Rae's class together and one night many years ago, when my then 3 week old baby was up all night, there you were on some late night TV show talking about twins.Several of us got reacquainted at the 30th and have stayed in touch. Facebook sure helps too. I am on Facebook as is Ron, Mitch and Robin Kaphan, Ilene Weisel, and the other Laura. I hope Rhonda Goldberg has news of this reunion. Hopefully, we'll all get re-reacquainted and continue to stay in touch.

I am so looking forward to seeing everybody.Laura (Reisler) <lreisler@earthlink.net>

Laura Reisler, MS,CCC-SLPDirector, Park Slope Communication CenterBrooklyn, NY _____________________________________________________Hi, all –

First, I really regret missing the reunion. About the only thing in the world that I would have missed it for was happening that same weekend – and in West Lafayette, Indiana: the wedding of a great friend and former colleague.

Reading through all the emails, I realized that many of you knew each other before high school from junior high school and even elementary school in the Bronx. I was one of the hardy (foolhardy?) few who commuted from Brooklyn to Bedford Park Blvd. I remember taking the D Train at Jay Street, sometimes meeting Earl Brown, who I think was class of ’68, and several years of arguments with him about politics and other things. Going back home was a choice of subway lines – the 7th Ave. IRT or the D. Train and lots more people to hang out with. I remember these subway riders – mostly names, fewer faces – Steve Sedlis, Susanne Pelly, Hilda Nieto, David Fenton, Rita Goldwasser, Serge Mogilat (another Brooklynite), and many more. Plus many Bronx friends who took the buses home.

I suppose it all made me feel at least half an outsider, in high school and outside, and I suppose it has lasted a lifetime. One great feeling of belonging was sometime during the summer of ’68 when someone called me at home, from Central Park, and said, “We’re all here, why aren’t you?” Took the subway to Manhattan and found the crew, which, I think, included Jon Rosenthal, Bob Slayton, Laura Bunth, and maybe Rita. Also found belonging in the journalism class (Remember the Feingolds?) and Stuart Elenko’s history class (a real mensch, may he rest in peace).

Since BHSS, I’ve gravitated to movements but also tried to make a mark individually. Worked for the public workers union, AFSCME, for 10 years and with other unions since then. Worked for Democratic presidential candidates (Mondale, Dukakis, and, finally, a winner with Clinton) and was chief speechwriter for President Clinton the first two years. Have written or co-written several books, including Love the Work, Hate the Job (Wiley, 2008) about the discontents of professional and technical workers.

Married since 1991 to Ruth Wattenberg, who has also worked for unions. Live in Washington, D.C. Two great kids, Michael (13) and Lylah (10), who graduated from junior high and elementary school, respectively, this week and are knowing the sense of security and belonging that comes from neighborhood schools from kindergarten on. I hope they’ll also find the sense of social and intellectual adventure that so many of us got from those arguments on the subways in the 60’s.

David Kusnet (Kusnet@aol.com)___________________________________________________ Regarding David's comment about feeling like an outsider during Bx Science years: I believe that we all felt somewhat

intimidated by going to Bx. Science. I know I did. I believed that all of you were incredibly smart; and by the end of the Bx. Science years I knew that many of you were destined for greatness. Even though I was a Bx. Science student too and graduated, in my heart, I always wondered what was I doing there amongst all of you really bright, really personable people (the ones that stood out, who we all liked but we also envied).

Can a lot of you relate to thinking that way back in high school? The very nature of the elitism of the Bx Science mystique and culture was not necessarily healthy for those insecure teenage years.

I find it really interesting how now, at the 40th reunion, many off us are genuinely desiring to come together. As I read these emails and Bios that my fellow classmates are taking the trouble to produce with such grace and eloquence, I can feel many of you embrace the memories of each other, and maybe more importantly, of yourselves.

I suspect we have grown to a point (finally, thank G-d) where we are no longer intimidated by each other and maybe even feel comfortable enough in our own fifty year old skin (soon to be sixty) to be content with who we each have become. We all know that most of us are not monetarily wealthy or famous or published, but we've all got something special whether it is children or contentment or the deep spiritual/philosophical evolution that comes with the wisdom of age. We have reached a time in our lives where we know who we are and we are willing to share that with our old friends - our Bx. Science classmates from 1969. I so much appreciate you all for sharing yourselves with the rest of us and I personally am pretty proud to be a classmate from that 1969 class (probably more so today than I was back in 1969 when I was soooo unconscious!).Thanks David!

Education- BA, Psychology from CCNY MSW Adelphi University (7/8 complete - that's right dummy Me dropped it right before graduation!)BS, Palmer College of ChiropracticDC (Doctor of Chiropractic) Palmer College of Chiropractic DAAPM (Diplomate in Pain Management) American Assoc. Of Pain Management

Life - PRACTICED Chiropractic for 30 years in Florida and then Colorado before retiring.MARRIED to a wonderful woman for 7 years (now good friends). After first marriage, met Belinda & Trisha Huttig who is now my Wife/BFF/soul mate (31 years) and daughter respectively. Trisha was severely brain damaged due to an adverse reaction to a DPT inoculation; she passed away in 1999 at age 25.CURRENTLY am my family's own personal Financial Planner overseeing and diligently attempting to manage our life's savings.

Hobbies - Understanding the true nature of Life and the purpose of souls' journey into Life - I got "My Personal Answers" through ECKANKAR, a small Americanized form of eastern based philosophy/religion?(vaguely similar to Sufi ism) and am currently an ordained minister in ECKANKAR.Understanding the nature of man's quest for security through the study of money, finance, economics, and markets. Wrote a book on collecting Nevada Commemorative Casino Chips. Also interested in American coinage and currency/scripophily.

Philosophy - Enjoy all of Life, it is a GIFT to us from G-d. Be responsible: Don't deliberately hurt yourself or any one else while "Enjoying Life".

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Avram (Abbe) Eskin chipper72@aol.com ______________________________________________________Its interesting to me to see how many people remember their time at BHSS as not a particularly good experience. All these years I thought I was alone in that. Certainly, in my case, the faculty and staff did little to make it a good experience. It doesn't bother me now, but, it definitely changed my plans for college. I wanted to go to West Point and no one at BHSS would help me in that process. Oh, well, I probably led a better life anyway.

Michael A. Kirtland, JD, LLM, CELA*Kirtland & Seal LLCP.O. Box 2682Colorado Springs, CO 80901-2682(719) 448-0734 voice(719) 634-0485 faxmak@kirtlandseal.com ______________________________________________________Dear Friends- I am among those who have a yearbook and actually knows where it is (unlike most other things in my possession). It's been great putting faces with names and taking this group walk down memory lane! I am sorry to hear that some people did not have a good experience at Science. For me, it was a breath of fresh air-partly because my junior high school years were horrible and anything after them would have been an improvement! But I really did love Science because of all the many great people I met there- and many of you have e-mailed already. And so hello to Mitch Kaphan, Jerry Sebag, Harriet Anagnostis, Nancy Segal, Kris Micchio, and Michael Sartisky- I remember you well! It was great to hear about Scott Shapiro (one of my favorite people at Science) and Greg King. And to hear Maureen Flynn' s name mentioned more than once. Did she become an archeologist? Nancy Segal- lovely to hear what you have been doing (very impressive) and especially to hear about Elliott Balaban! He and I stayed in touch off and on for many years. I last saw him in the early 1990s when he was living on 57th St. in Manhattan and trying to write a Broadway musical. He was single at the time. From there to Israel and a family- great news! Kris Micchio- I was briefly in touch with Toby Luria in the early 1980s. She was living in West Virginia at the time. Lost touch after that. I am in touch with a few people from Science: Victor Nahmias, who was my boyfriend at Science and who has already responded about this year's reunion; Arny Witte, who became a friend in college (neurologist in Pennsylvania); Sheldon Finver, college boyfriend and long term friend (professor of microbiology,lives in Minneapolis). My cousin Jennifer Muessig is an alumna (and continues to be friends with Ina Cholst-someone mentioned Ina in these e-mails) and married David Saltman, another Science alumnus. Michael Sartisky: Victor and I also were part of the strike school in senior year. Do you guys remember Mr. Heitner, the self proclaimed anarchist of Bronx Science, crossing the picket line every day with great relish? I think it was after the strike school that a group of us decided to challenge the dress code. Robin Taub and I came to school in jeans on the designated day. We met up with Alan Rosenwasser who felt that the best way he could demonstrate the obsolescence of the dress code was by wearing a skirt. Robin brought one for him and it still makes me laugh to remember him in it. Anyone in touch with either Alan or Robin? How about Janet Nichols or Hilda Nieto? Here's my bio: graduated from SUNY at Stony Brook (biology), worked at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital for a year and then headed for the hills- literally. I've been in Morgantown, West Virginia since 1974. Did a stint in grad school (microbiology), worked in a bunch of basic science labs, became a midwife, burned out on being up at 4AM,

worked for a friend making musical instruments, then got a Master's degree in human nutrition and became a dietitian. I love the work- no 4AM! I run a nutrition program at West Virginia University and get to see lots of patients and do lots of clinics around the state. I've always been a musician (acoustic folk) and have had the privilege of playing with some excellent musicians and groups here in the mountains. I recently finished a CD and am following Michael Sartisky's lead and am attaching a picture from it here. When I have more time, I will make my way to the yahoo group or Facebook or wherever our technologically oriented classmates are prompting us to go. I married Jack Klein, who attended Monsignor Farrell High School on Staten Island (but we met in WV). We've got 2 daughters, 31 and 24, no grandkids yet. Jack's high school sent their reunion notice first, so that's where we're going when we come to NYC this year. But I am an optimist and plan to make it to the 50th Science reunion. Thanks to all of you who organized this year's' reunion!! Please take lots of pictures for the rest of us to see. And please keep the e-mails coming! I agree with Jerry Sebag- I usually hate e-mail clusters, but this has been a wonderful exception. Regards to all!

Monica Andis mandis@hsc.wvu.edu ______________________________________________________Dear Monica,

Don't know if you remember that I was the grand marshal of the Student Strike Peace March in 1968. Alan Rosenwasser was a friend since childhood; he and I attended primary and middle school together in Flushing, Queens. Robin Taub was one of my closets friends at Science; as you may know, she was at the reunion. Please forward my regards to Ina Cholst.

I was the first urban studies major at Queens College from which I graduated in 1974. Frustrated in my desire to teach about classism, racism, sexism, ablism and homophobia, my half-dozen professor mentors advised me to enroll in law school. I graduated from NYU Law School in 1977. My legal career not panning out, I returned to graduate school in 1982.

I received my Master of Public Administration degree from the Syracuse University Maxwell School in 1984. A Presidential Fellowship took me to Washington, DC, where I began working at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.There, I co-authored the Presidenrt's 1986 Urban Policy Report and drafted the legislation which eliminated lead based paint in public housing. Unfortunately, the HUD Secretary found me to be too radical and I was obliged to find another job.

Subsequently, I worked as an attorney at then General Accounting Office and as a policy analyst a the Department of the Treasury. I have always been a folk music fan and am personally acquainted with many -- if not most – of the great ones from Pete Seeger to Janis Ian with whom I remain in contact.My cousin is a radical Jewish C&W musician in Nashville.

Sincerely,bobby

P.S. I went to law school with Class of '69 BHSSers Susan Lewis,Bobby Macris and Larry Greengrass, I am still in touch with Carol Landesman Lustig who is an accountant in Houston (she sent you a bio), Ethel Klein who is a political pollster in New York and my adolescent friend, Herbie Niemirow, who is an academic writer in New York. I had kept in touch with my childhood friend, Bruce Weintraub, and my adolescent friend, Richard Infante, but they both died of AIDS years

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ago. Through Ethel In New York about 35 years ago, I met Donna Slawsky, Class of 'XX and we have been friends ever since. In Washington about 10 years ago, I met David Sobelsohn, Class of '70, and we have been friends ever since.

Robert Spiegel spiegoogelokay4now@gmail.com________________________________________________________Reading these charming autobiographies has been a joy, and as many have observed already, its been fun putting the faces together with the names. For some, of course, the year book wasn't necessary:Nancy Segal, who was unique in all ways, and whose scientific achievements on the subject of twins are the stuff of Oprah episodes;

Scott Shapiro, whose ebullience was irresistible, with whom I spent large number of hours on the telephone, and to whom Suzanne and I send heartfelt wishes for marital bliss;

Monica Andis, whose personality and talent could have filled Carnegie Hall, and whose regular, lake-side performances practically defined my college experience;

Lee Rosenbaum, who I remember most for his brilliance, quiet nature, and decidedly uncharacteristic response to my dramatic performance in the Senior Play. Lee punctured his lung laughing and had to be taken out of the auditorium in a stretcher.

I also remember the Bio Prep Team that included Sandy W., Robert Rosenberg, Barbara Rosenberg. Is it true, Barbara? Were two Science alums invited to The Rockefeller University in the same year? What ever happened to Mrs. Holtzman?

Does anyone have a clue to the whereabouts of Sandra Weisband or any of my other, well scrubbed, JHS 141 mates, especially, my 3:30pm basketball friends? What about Jeff Bush, Joyce Rappaport, David Levy, Lisa Mintz, or Jane Salmon?

Anybody who hailed from PS 86?

Marv G. - wonderful piece, stunning photos. Do you still play guitar? Why haven't the Scolnick twins piped up? Elisa, are you lurking out there? David Lovler? Joanne Jacobson? Stanley Diamond, Eddy S., Marc and Barbara Geller? Leslie ...still in the UK? Gladys B., Teresa, Sandra B., Lois? Richie, Lloyd, Steve? Martin G.....still in France? I'm sure I'm leaving out many of my favorite individuals, but these are the names that come to mind at the moment.

The teachers? They set the standard for the respectful dialogue that so characterized our special society. Not enough can be set about them all. For me however, it was rail-thin, ginger-bearded, Mr. Levy, the English teacher, who had the most long-lasting influence by teaching me how to encounter a piece of text.

As Nancy wrote, we live in Israel now, on Mt. Herzl. Our dira looks out over the valley that contains the Jerusalem Zoo and across to the southern-most hills of the city. My wife, Suzanne, works here<http://www.shalem.org.il/>, and I spend the best half of my day here<http://www.darchenoam.org/actual/ydn_home.htm>.Raphael Yechezkel, our "big little" almost four year old is now bi-lingual. Bezrat Hashem, he will enter cheder in Elul (September.) Sara Etie took her first steps last night, and doesn't take any guff.Here<http://picasaweb.google.com/elliot.balaban/SummerFall08ForFamily?authkey=JmGtHiyTv6g#5268469311005178754>arethe two of them.

Prior to leaving for Israel, I ran Broadscape Ventures, a New York based management consulting company. My clients included GE Capital, NASDAQ and Primedia. At NASDAQ, I collaborated closely with the Chairman. Prior to launching Broadscape, I spent twenty years developing new, advanced technology-driven, consumer service businesses for IBM, Nynex, Viacom, TimeWarner, and GE. I was a Spencer Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University in Neurobiology and studied advanced technology at MIT.

I was introduced to Israeli Private Equity back in 1997 as a member of General Electric's first investment mission here. My job was to help decide if the State of Israel would be a good place to deploy strategic capital. The strategy I championed was to seek out local vehicles through which GE could gain exposure to first-tier deal flow. My efforts in sourcing, performing diligence, local relationship building, and selling-in the opportunity at GE Capital, resulted in GE's becoming an LP in the GE Capital ABS Giza Fund. That fund would soon count Libit, Butterfly and Precise Software among its successful portfolio exits, and as of 2001, it had posteda 155% IRR. GE was so pleased with the results that it doubled its investment in Giza's follow-on fund.

I can hear it coming already. What about the music? The story is too long to recount here, and it isn't over my any means. Suffice to say though, that not long after myagent<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E5D8143DF936A25751C1A96E958260>passed away, I got married and we moved out of the mid-town skyscraper with the roof top swimming pool in which I'd lived for 15 years to a somewhatdifferent setting upstate. It was something I'd thought about for a long time, but hadn't a clue how to approach ... until I met Suzanne. The small town in which we landed, Monsey, gave me my first experience of a spiritually centered life style, and served as a chrysalis for what we're doing now. I described part of that journey, which actually began on a Princeton expedition to the West Coast, in this<http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/18179/>little account.Which is all to say that these days I enjoy sharing the piano bench with Rafi, but I enjoy sharing Torah with him even more.

Over Shabbos not long ago, we could hear the bombs exploding in Gaza. Given Israel's prominence in the press, and the number of Jewish or Jewishly-affiliated alums, I thought you might be interested in these two pieces on the recent war,one<http://via.readerimpact.com/v/161/c4b7edd8fa859339aedb9e96d21710d62ae13ca86ecd21c4>from a local friend of ours,another<http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/howard-jacobson/howard-jacobson-letrsquos-see-the-criticism-of-israel-for-what-it-really-is-1624827.html>froma writer in London.

Given our efforts here and the distance we probably won't be attending the reunion. But we love to host people, so please know - all of you – that there is a warm Shabbos meal waiting for anyone who is able to make the journey.

Elliot Balaban eb@alumni.princeton.edu http://picasaweb.google.com/elliot.balaban/SummerFall08ForFamily?authkey=JmGtHiyTv6g# ______________________________________________________After Science, I went to NYU, then medical school at University of Michigan, Anesthesiology training at University of North Carolina. After a brief stint on staff at Tufts, New England Medical Center (Boston), I moved to Florida in 1983 for

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private practice and have been there since. Happily married with two daughters (26 & 23) and still working. All are welcome to get in touch and we can catch up on the rest.

Scott Shapiro karsunltd@aol.com_____________________________________________________I have been reading these notes with great pleasure, even though nary a name is familiar to me. I remember sitting next to Maureen Flynn in homeroom 10th(?) grade.. OK, now *THAT* name got me to respond to this incredibly smile-raising thread! Maureen ("Mo") Flynn was my first girlfriend, ever. She also had the world's longest commute to Science--city bus to the Staten Island Ferry, Ferry trip, then the #1 IRT from South Ferry to the north Bronx, about 2 hours each way.

Like most of you, I don't know many of the names, but a few keep popping out and triggering visceral memories, and I have been making side connections through private emails as a result. I haven't seen Andy Koenig's name on the list; we hung out a lot in the computer lab, and I know that he went on to become one of the world's leading experts in C++ programming. Anyone heard from Harvey Wagner or Joyce Rappaport?

As for me, I went to CCNY after Science for a EE degree, then moved to Massachusetts where I worked for the former Digital Equipment Corp. designing computer network systems (I did the first commercial Ethernet products) while getting an MSEE at Worcester Polytech and an MBA at Clark University. I was fortunate to get into the computer networks industry at its infancy, and (unlike Al Gore) actually had something to do with the development of the Internet.

I came out to Silicon Valley in 1984 to be CTO at my first startup (which flamed out in a blaze of glory), but learned the skills that allowed some of my later ventures to be quite successful, including Juniper Networks, Tut Systems, Cavium Networks, and a few others. For about fifteen years, I taught evening graduate classes at U.C. Berkeley. I "retired" about ten years ago, and then "just for fun" went back to school at Santa Clara Univ. to get a J.D., and am now a member of the California Bar. I don't have an active law practice, but I do a lot of work as an expert witness/consultant in technology litigation, and volunteer a few days a week at a local Legal Aid clinic.

Married in NY in 1972 (waaaay too young!), divorced in Massachusetts in 1984, never remarried, no kids (that I know of). Now living with my girlfriend here in the Santa Cruz Mountains for about 17 years. While we're fairly close to San Jose/Silicon Valley, it's extremely rural and isolated; quite the change from "da Bronx."

I was the classic nerd in HS; no involvement with sports or social activities. Didn't even bother to buy the yearbook (I think it was $15, which I didn't want to part with, probably a bad decision; would love to scan one and recreate a copy). Spent lots of time in the ham radio club, computer lab--geeky stuff that is the formative cauldron

of Silicon Valley tech types.

I normally do not go in for ceremonies (I didn't even attend BHSS graduation), but I will probably come out to NY for the first time in more than a decade for this party. I look forward to reconnecting with some of you for the first time in 40 years.

More stories, anyone?

Tech note: It can be quite slow or difficult to send emails with 300+ recipients. Many mail servers will reject them because they look like the output of a spammer. The better way is to set up the Yahoo! group with all of the email addresses entered as members, then you can just send a message to the group (one recipient) and it gets "reflected" to the universe of members.

Rich Seifert Networks and Communications Consultingrich@richseifert.com 21885 Bear Creek Way(408) 395-5700 Los Gatos, CA 95033(408) 228-0803 F___________________________________________________

Hi All, It's your old (or should I say former) classmate Carol Holland, now "Carol Holland Lifshitz." Reading everyone's e-mails has been a surreal experience. But, learning about your lives without writing about mine makes me feel like an outsider and voyeur. Hence, my tale... I suspect many of you don't remember me because I was fairly shy (and boring) in high school. Fortunately, I grew out of that and, as an adult, have more of a positive impact on those I meet. After Bronx Science, I graduated from Vassar College. Overachiever that I am, I received honors in both majors (psychology and art). My junior year was spent on exchange at Williams. Most of what I learned has long since been forgotten, save for an important life lesson: we can do almost anything if we put our minds to it. That has been both a source of strength and a burden to me, since I've noticed that much of the world seems content to just get by. After college, I continued to live and work in NYC for many years. After working for others for twenty years, I started my own small company. It was nice to finally be the one to benefit from my high standards. My professional life has mostly revolved around two disciplines: marketing communications and writing. In some cases, those areas of expertise have overlapped (such as when writing content for ads, web sites, articles, technical brochures, PR, commercials, infomercials, speeches, direct mail, etc.) As a marketing executive, I've also been involved in the business end of things.

As a writer, my interests have included the entertainment industry (scripts for TV and film.) If anyone needs a talented, extremely diverse, highly-devoted writer, please give me a holler! I would especially love to hear from any TV or film producers who need a script consultant.

I dated many frogs before finally finding prince Marty. We've been happily married for almost 22 years. I consider myself very lucky to have met such a wonderful man. To inhabit more than a cubby hole within commuting distance of Manhattan, we bought a house in NJ, where we've lived since 1989. We're contemplating purchasing an additional small place in the San Diego area though we're still planning to call the East Coast "home" for now. Anyone from the West Coast care to share their particulars with me?

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For the most part, life has been good. However, at the moment, I feel like a middle-aged orphan...if there is such a thing. My mother died this past year (outliving my dad by more than a decade), and my sadness about this lingers like a heavy cloud. Some of you may remember her; she chauffeured a bunch of us spoiled brats home from school. I'm not sure yet if I’ll be attending the reunion. Forty years later, I'm still friends with a few special high school buddies. To the rest of my classmates: it would be great to hear from you: My best for now and always,

Carol Holland phone: 732-360-2413; solutionsholland@aol.com_ _____________________________________________________Congratulations and thanks to the Reunion Committee for all their work on putting this together.

I’m Robert Kleinman. I traveled from Queens with Paul Levine, MarkStevens and Jay Berman. (Anyone know where they are now?) After Science, I got a B.A. in Economics from Queens College and then an MBA in Accounting from Wharton. I worked for 10 years as an Auditor at Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young) and then 10 years in Corporate Accounting, mainly at Drexel Burnham on Wall Street. I then set up my own firm as a Certified Financial Planner and Investment Adviser 13 years ago. I manage assets for clients bybuilding diversified portfolios of no load mutual funds.

My wife and I live in Port Washington on Long Island. Our daughters graduated from SUNY Buffalo and SUNY Binghamton. They both live in the New York area.Looking forward to seeing everyone next week!Robert

Robert Kleinman_______________________________________________________Dear everyone on the list who has been writing in to TOMBOCHI...

This has been a fascinating thread thus far. I wasn't planning on doing one of these mini-bios, but I've been enjoying most of those I've read, so I'll jump in too.

I was also one of those coming from way out there (Bayside, also a JHS 74 graduate), so a lot of this thread has prompted flashbacks of interminable commutes for the first couple years, then the great if somewhat vicarious freedom when a fellow Scienceite who lived near me, Richard Attanasio, got a Datsun sports car during our senior year, and was nice enough to invite me to ride with him, which cut the commute from 2+ hrs each way to about 9 minutes (I'm exaggerating-a little-but Richie utilized that thing to its potential, as I recall).

Like many of you, I only remember a small subset of the graduating class, even that being shrouded in the mists of time, but besides Richie, Alan Friedman, Ed Eckert, Janet Roberts, Ed Ceglia, and being a guitarist then as well as now, I also remember jamming with Reggie Lucas at his place in Queens, and after graduation, playing music with Jon Helfand in a dorm at Ben Salem college (I think). I do also remember the Mowatt brothers, had some classes together, I recall. I'm sure if I had a yearbook, I'd remember a bunch more folks, as I know

After graduation, I was so relieved to have extricated myself from living on the subway, that I went to York College, CUNY, for a couple years, then transferred to the University of Colorado at Boulder in the early 70s, graduating in Geology (which never earned me a red cent, funny how life works out). Ended up staying on there for another 10 years, loved the place and the lifestyle, working as an editor for CU

part time and doing a lot of recording session work in Boulder, and a smattering on either coast, including what was then called the Power Station in NYC, for various folks.

While that was great fun, as was the outdoor sports and perennial never-neverland atmosphere of Boulder, I ended up taking a job working as a program manager for the then-Morton Thiokol Corp, who was building the SRBs for the space shuttle program in 1985, in Northern Utah. Pretty big change from Boulder, let alone NYC, but I loved the camping, mountain biking, and general outdoors life that eluded me riding the #7, E, F, D, and #4 trains in NY.

Turned out to be a very interesting time, as early 1986 brought about the Challenger disaster, and a lot of the top mgmt. ended up gone due to the O-ring issues. Thiokol ended up redesigning the solid rocket motor field joints, and the whole place was like a stepped-on anthill for the next four years. I worked in a number of different functional areas for 11 years there, all within the shuttle program.

Eventually, we got recertified, up and flying again, and while the next five or six years went smoothly, "uneventful" is great for the people strapped to those motors, but I started getting bored once the design was frozen, and we started to get a dozen or more flights down the road. As you might imagine, the impetus to "fix something that works" is pretty strongly disincentivized when you're building stuff that contains 1.25 million lb. of propellant, so after 11+ years, I decided to have a pathetic minor mid-life crisis, figured I'd give myself a bit of a sabbatical.

Backtracking a bit--met my wife in 86 or so when we were both playing music at a local county fair (she was and still is an excellent vocalist), we ended up getting married in 87. Still happily married to her. She'd had two kids by a previous marriage, then we had another less than a year after getting married, so I went from being a 35 year old bachelor who was still flying around a bit to make music on either coast and back in Boulder, to being 36 with three kids. I decided to tone down the air travel, but ended up playing music all over Northern Utah, S. Wyoming, and Idaho in various country bands (great fun telling grizzled old Wyoming ranchers between sets that you learned your craft in the "hills of northern Queens" :)). Also ended up doing jazz trio gigs with my wife and a bass player in a whole different set of clubs around SLC and Ogden.

Anyway, in '96 I took a hiatus from my day gig, decided to pursue another one of too many interests, computers, which I had enjoyed programming from my days as an undergrad in Boulder.

So no sooner do I get myself through the first semester of classes toward that end, when I get a call to interview for a job at Microsoft. I was a bit reticent about doing this, as I had no desire to live in Washington (didn't dislike it, just had no inclination one way or another). However, I thought it would be bad karma to turn down an interview, especially when they found me, so I went.

Now, almost 13 years later, our first two kids are grown and married, doing fine, our (third) daughter is off at college, and we have only our 15 year old son at home now. Working for MSFT all that time, now a project manager in the Windows Core Operating Systems division, which I enjoy immensely. Life's good. I'm still playing music, mostly jazz when I can, but pretty much anything if it's fun. And oddly enough, even though I swore to my wife that I'd never push music on our kids, my son is now way into guitar, can't get enough of it-after getting hooked by Guitar Hero, of all things. It's really great to have that in common with him, although it's really hard to get time in my own home studio as a result. :)

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So it's very funny that this whole HS timewarp thread has come up at a time when I'm watching my son at the same age and with the same interests as I had at Science (I still really enjoy math, physics, and music).

Any of you who remember me, I'd love to hear from you! I'm not sure I'll make it back for the 40th, I was just back there in Dec., but if the stars align, I might just...

Bob Papasian bobpap@windows.microsoft.com

_______________________________________________________Like others, a lot of the names have faded into distant memory (still haven't found my Science yearbook but I know it is buried in a box somewhere after several moves), but now I'm seeing some familiar names; I also went on to Cooper Union (Ethan - I believe you were EE, I was ME). I've been in the NY-NJ area for most years since, other than an insane 3-year stint in the U.P. of Michigan (don't ask...) but glad to be back in the metropolitan area again. Been involved in the chemical industry for most of my career (go figure, I was an ME) while being a part-time musician for many years as well, twas a fun time for sure. Now recently moved into an "active" adult community on the Jersey shore with my wife, still working, and definitely enjoying life and our first grandchild. Won't be able to make the reunion as we have a wedding that weekend but it has been a trip following the thread so far. Wishing you all a great time.

Howard Meyer HMeyer1015@aol.com> ___________________________________________________Wow Howard, I'm very impressed. You are quite correct, I did get an EE degree at Cooper. Then, an EE-Bioengineering degree from CMU. But, I ended up working for a variety of hospitals, and now I'm with with Duke School of Medicine (moved over here from Duke Hospital in 2007). So, I can't say I've done very much with my EE degree either.But, no grandkids for me yet. One son was engaged for a while, but broke that off. The other is also still looking. Ethan Hertz hertz003@mc.duke.edu______________________________________________________Hi All,

I too am having a wonderful time reading these e-mails and thought I would share my update. HS holds fond memories for me and though only a few of these names are familiar, I am hoping to be at the reunion. Thanks Tom and Sandy for doing all this!I went to NYU and became an occupational therapist. Loved it and practiced in pediatrics. Continued on with MA and PhD and became (another) academic. I am now the Department Chair of OT at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. I also write textbooks, my 6th is coming out in March.

I married my HS sweetheart and prom date (from another school) and divorced 10 ten years later. Fun while it lasted. No kids. Remarried in 1991, very happy and have 1 son, age 12. I am jealous of those with grown kids! I did my life a little backwards!

Have been in touch with Laurie Bardin Zimmerman on and off and Howie Fuchs. Would love to find Loren Levy, Helene Seltzer...

Paula Kramer p.kramer@usp.edu______________________________________________________These last hundred emails or so have been a delight to read; it sure beats answering questions about the upcoming AP Bio exam. My name is Gary Feilich, and have been so impressed by the accomplishments from so many of the Class of '69. Its great to be part of such a truly talented group of people.

As for myself, living close to Science while a student, the majority of my friends were the local neighborhood kids who attended Clinton or Roosevelt. When I went to Lehman, a shorter walk than was hoofing it to Science, I hung out with such Science alumni as Brian Webber, Mark Lazar, Alan Frederick, and probably a whole lot more, More than ever, I realize soon that I didn't have the drive to push myself, so I went into teaching; a 10 week vacation every year is wonderful when you are raising a family. At least, I did my student teaching at the ol' stomping grounds which certainly prepared me for that career. Ms. Handler, Ms. Jacobson (who I think was under a maiden name while we were there, and Milt Kopelman became my mentors. I started teaching in JHS 143 and realized after the first day that a middle school science teacher was not my calling. After a year of servitude, I ended up at Bayside HS, and stayed there till New York "dropped dead" in 1975. I somehow found my way into a research position down at NYU on 34th and 1st. I was in a protein chem lab and we were investigating a little known protein (at the time) known as fibronectin. We somehow thought that its deficiency might help explain metastasis. Things were going fairly well for a while. i was accepted into the PhD program (had already picked up the Master's), and was planning on a lifelong career as a research scientist. Things changed when my boss docked me a day's pay for missing work on a day following a blizzard. I was so pissed, that I contacted Bayside High, inquired about the possibility of returning in September, and after being given the thumbs up, I got up and went, and never looked back. I ended up moving to Florida, where after 2 years in the Miami System (and really loving it) I was on the cusp again for a layoff. For the heck of it, I took a 2nd Master's in Administration and Supervision, putting me on the track to become a principal. About this time, a private Jewish Day school was opening, and I took the job as Chairman. I carved the position in the image of my mentors. My boss, so enthusiastic about what was happening in the dept, that he recruited Milt Kopelman to come down and help me start a Westinghouse Science Research program. We did real good, as in our first year alone, we had 4 semifinalists from the 300 national pool. Proud to say its still the record by any school in Florida. I was an adjunct at several of the local colleges, but never thought of making the leap of full-time to that level. Socratic teaching to empty heads (at the beginning) is still a turn-on. Things changed, as new parents became school board members, and I slowly saw an erosion of the student abilities (as well as a "modification" of what was once, rather tough standards). I left to join a new public school and couldn't be happier. I do AP Bio (and Intro Bio Gifted), I grade the exams, I am a consultant for ETS, run a science tutoring business, and am in the process of a writing a review book for the AP Bio exam. I have a wonderful wife of 20 years, a son at FSU, and a daughter in the 9th grade. Favorite teachers have been mentioned. I had a lot of good ones, especially in the English Dept, but for me, it was there grandest Irishman of them all, Mike Walsh. I think it was his true love for kids (as well as his teaching me the only chemistry that ever stuck in my head at the first reading) that made him in my eyes, my Obe-Wan. As for the Reunion of the Century, Ireally hope to be there. We have a wedding in Baltimore the next day, so it might be a juggle. Keep those emails coming!!

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Gary Feilich Hydra5@aol.com- - -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------RAMBLINGS AT 3 amTo my peers of 1969, This experience of making contact with classmates from 1969 (and even further back-I was reunited with a best friend from 2nd grade and a whole bunch of buddies from 3rd Grade) has been an exhilarating and amazing experience. Tom and Sandy have done something truly wonderful for many of us. In the last few weeks, I have tried my best to make plans that will allow me to make it to our reunion. I really wasn't pushing myself too hard, after all, living 1200 plus miles away gave me a fairly good excuse for not being able to attend this event; having a wedding in Baltimore the next day surely adds to the complications. But a few sad events at my high school over the last few weeks have underscored the need to be there on May 23. A student, a bright 14 year old boy on his way to school, was struck and killed by a hit and run driver at around 6:45 in the morning. A few days later, a 16 year old lost his eye when a tension crank in the volleyball net snapped back and squarely hit him in his orbit. Both of these events reminded all in my school's community of the frailty of life, how we don't know what is going to happen in the next minute, let alone in the next year. 40 years is a long time, and some of our classmates are no longer with us. Certainly many of our teachers have left us. No doubt that, that should there be a 50th anniversary in 10 years, there will be even less of us around. If only to see such old friends as the Kaphans, Arthur Tobiason, Mark Lazar, Andrew Tolkoff (a buddy from 3rd grade!), and others who's names are on and hopefully will be added to the list of attendees, I am going. I can see where flying in from California or Paris (Mark Gdanski, do you remember what you use to call me when we played volleyball during PE?) or Israel (Elliot, you still crack me up when i think of you in the Senior Show), but those of you in the Greater New York area, if you haven't yet made plans to attend the reunion, please do so. I know that for some of you, the late ending Shabbot is what is holding you back. Arthur T, I see Debbie and Sol all the time, so its almost as good as seeing you! (after all, I did teach your nephew and neice!! LOL) I've attached a song, that is so appropriate for times like these. Hope to see many of you in a few weeks. Gary Feilich hydra5@AOL.COM __________________________________________________________________________Well I guess it's time to put my 2 cents in. I am Robin Futterman from the Concourse. I went to U of Bridgeport after Science. Being the immature little girl I was and missing my buddies, (mostly Ilene Wiesel, Mindy Wishik, Abbe Eskin and Barbara Davis) I came home VERY quickly. And I mean VERY! I went to community college where I got my RN degree and went on for courses towards my BSN. I worked at Albert Einstein Hospital in the Bx for many years. My specialty was Labor and Delivery which I loved and I am also a certified childbirth educator. I worked with some nurses who graduated Science the year after we did. I taught Lamaze classes both privately and at the hospital. In 1975, Mitch Kaphan (he was Kaplan at Science) and I married. Long story about the name change-he reverted back to his original family name which got changed at Ellis Island. Mitch is an orthopaedic surgeon-he had a private practice-yes in the Bronx for a long time and now works in various places in Queens and the Bronx. We have 3 grown kids-Mark 27 who will be finishing his teaching degree with

a history major, Adam 25 who is graduating from Florida Atlantic University this year and Alison 20 who is a junior at University of Miami, majoring in exercise physiology and is a cheerleader on the traveling coed team. I am currently working as a school nurse at a small private school close to home. We have lived in New Rochelle for almost 24 years and chose it partly for its proximity to the Bronx. Our parents were still living there until the late 80's when they retired to Arizona. Some of you may remember Mitch's Mom Trudy Kaplan who was a school aide from sometime in the 60's until her retirement in 1991. Many 69 grads live here in Westchester and we count among our close friends Ilene Wiesel Unruch, Barbara (Cohen) and Harvey Katzeff, and see many others here in the neighborhood or at our synagogue. We are looking forward to seeing all of you in May! Robin Futterman Kaphan ROBKRN7@aol.com ____________________________________________________ Updating and hoping to do Facebook over the weekend.

After BS I graduated from Yeshiva University, then Columbia Graduate School of Business and then spent the next 27 year in corporate America before dropping out of corporate and entering the not for profit world where I am the Chief Financial Officer of a large NYC organization. Over the last seven years I have had the opportunity to realize that there are people in the world that have REAL problems and am glad that the skills I gathered over the years are available to help them.

Judy and I raised 4 children ( 2 boys 2 girls) four tuitions and grad school and now have been blessed with 11 grandchildren and another on the way.

I have been in touch with Leroy and Nathan and would like to hear from Greg King and Bruce Lipschitz and others. Alas my yearbook and gymnastic letters drowned in a basement flood but as I see many of the names I also see faces.

Howard Lorch hlorch@msn.com______________________________________________________It has truly been wonderful reading about everyone's lives and the accomplishments of the class of '69. I wasn't involved much in HS as I joined the Civil Air Patrol soon after starting at Science and was always running out of school to go to some CAP activity or another. I stayed in CAP for 25 years and finally had nothing left to give so i "retired." There were some other CAPers at Science - Murray Berkowitz, Ben Klausner, and Fernando Coriano, maybe some others. I came to Science from JHS 142 with Susan Karabin and Denise Pieratti. In the small world category, Susan became a periodontal surgeon in Manhattan and was working with my girlfriend (who is now my wife). Imagine my surprise when my wife introduced me to her boss who happened to be the first girl I had ever kissed! (We did it on a field trip to the Bronx Botanical Gardens in JHS when a bunch of us snuck off to play spin the botle.)My Science friends included Kris Miccio ( we dated through senior year), Mitchell Jolles (who fell off the face of the earth 20 years ago. Anyone ever hear from Mitch?), Fran Feurmann (we always sat together because of the alphabetical thing!). There were others, but because of CAP I didn't spend as much time with folks as I would have liked to.The greatest thing for me from Science was handball. We were the only public school in NYC with a 4 wall court and I learned how to play and actually played after school with some of the gym teachers. I still play today although the numbers of handball players in south Florida are dwindling.

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After Science, I went to Manhattan College and got a BS in Mgmt Sciences, and then spent the 34 or so years in the insurance and risk management field. I relocated to Boca Raton in 1991 and now work in a law firm representing civilian workers injured overseas in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait. I am married with a 19 year old daughter, a 26 year old step-son, and a 2 year old grandson. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers me, but regardless, it has been great reading and sharing the stories of our lives. If anyone remembers me, write back! I have not made up my mind about coming to the reunion but I haven't ruled it out either. BEST WISHES TO ALL

Dennis Fichtel DFich89873@aol.com ______________________________________________________Dear fellow Bx Science'69 graduates,

I've been lurking-looking in my yearbook almost daily.Did I go to a different school, or maybe I was living in an alternateuniverse? I read the posts about homerooms being alphabetical, yet don't recognize anyone whose pictures are near mine in the yearbook. And did we really not have "real" school from Sept to Nov in our Senior year? Surely I would have remembered that? I do remember that our graduation was in jeopardy because of the teacher's strike, but can't remember what we did during those months.

I remember Diane Alchevsky (Casela). We would meet at a local restaurant each morning for bagels or knishes. I look at our yearbook and wonder-was our time at Science really that radical?

For years my mother has been telling me all I wore in my HS years was jeans and black turtlenecks. I knew that wasn't true, so it was nice getting validation that girls in pants didn't happen until our Senior year. I've had the yearbook at my computer for several weeks now, putting names to faces as each new e-mail comes in. Thanks to Dennis Fichtel for bringing back memories of JHS 142 (John Phillip Sousa Junior High School) and Susan Karabin.

Since Science: I went to CCNY for a year, then transferred to Harpur College (liberal arts college at SUNY Binghamton). I graduated with a degree in Geology. Then on to the University of Vermont for an MS in Geology. My geology career took me from NY to Greensboro, NC and southern CA. I worked in the field as a project geologist on critical facilities, such as nuclear power plants in southern CA and Washington, a coal plant in northern British Columbia, and avariety of field studies on faults (including the San Andreas), dams, and landslides (including the huge Bluebird Canyon landslide in Laguna Beach). I spent almost 5 years commuting to Utah and Nevada managing a huge field study for the MX missile system.

I left geology in 1983 and then started a career with Xerox writingdocumentation and training. I met a wonderful guy, Bob Staron, during my geology career. After a whirlwind romance of 7 years, we married and moved to San Diego.

After creating and managing a team of 13 writers and graphic designers for Xerox in San Diego, I decided I was bored in my job. We moved to Seattle, WA so I could pursue an MS degree from the University of Washington in usability, sociology of work, and technical communication. I worked full time, was a research assistant, and was in school full time. Tough but fun years. Seattle is beautiful, just too crowded. Seattle took us to Leesburg, VA, then to Rochester, NY. We've been in Rochester since 1995. I left Xerox in 2000 to work for Nortel Networks, was laid off when the company imploded shortly after, had a small business in information design, and joined Element K about 3 years ago.

I am responsible for managing the design and delivery of custom e-learning solutions.

In my spare time, I like to garden, quilt, and figure skate. I took upfigure skating about 9 years ago. It is the hardest and most exhilarating thing I've done. I skate 3-4 times a week, and have "trained" in Lake Placid at the Olympic Center for a week for the past 8 years.

I won't be going to the reunion, but it is nice to make some re-connections. Does anyone know the whereabouts of Robert Slayton? My subway stop was the last stop on the 5 line--Dyer Avenue. Robert got on at Baychester Avenue, the second stop. We often met and commuted together to school and back. It would be nice to know where he ended up.Wishing you all the best,

Denise Pierattipieratti@rochester.rr.com_______________________________________________________Hi fellow Science 69ers:

Greetings from sunny South Florida. What a pleasant surprise to come back from a conference trip to find a flood of e-mails awaiting me from voices of the distant past. And what a thrill to read the wonderful life stories being shared in cyberspace. Our class is truly an amazing and accomplished group of people.

Wanting to match names with faces, I immediately searched for the ol'yearbook, which was tucked away in the back of a closet, "dusted" it off, and leafed through the pages. Honestly, I have not opened it since the 20threunion. Viewing the photos of former classmates sure brings back lots ofmemories, smiles, and nostalgic tears. Barbara Cohen, are you reading this ?Roger Wapner (I noticed your e-mail) who kindly helped me get through Brownman's MD class (those darn orthographic drawings). Bert Deixler, with whom I always had fun chats in homeroom.. Just to mention a few..

As for me. After Science, I went to SUNY Albany. Howie Fuchs and Caryn Sultan. would love to hear from you..

At Albany, I found my "passion".. archaeology. Being a tropical animal, four years of cold was enough for me, and so I moved south to warmer climes, pursuing my graduate work (M.A., Ph.D.) at the University of Florida. Currently, I am a professor of anthropology/archaeology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. close to the beach. :-) I travel quite a bit, working on digs in Florida and the Southeast as well as in Israel, Bahamas, and South America. In sum, life's been good.

Looking forward to seeing many of you and sharing the memories at the reunion on May 23.

Cheers,Arlene Fradkin afradkin@fau.edu____________________________________________________I had replied privately to Tom that I would be unable to attend the reunion because my older daughter graduates from college that weekend. But the trip down memory lane is hard to resist....so.....I doubt that more than a couple of people remember me, I was "middle of the pack" and hung out with a fairly small circle of friends in our time at Science.

During senior year at Science, my parents moved to Miami and I stayed in NY to graduate. After graduation, I spent the summer in Miami and then returned to our old house in the Bronx (walking distance to Science) to go to college in Brooklyn (Brooklyn Poly, later NY Poly after it merged with NYU's engineering school). After seeing another way to live,

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NYC became unacceptable to me and I transferred to the University of Miami, where I graduated (BSEE/Magna Cum Laude) and did 1 year of grad school as a TA.Seeing the economic handwriting on the wall, I decided to get a job while there were still some out there, so I accepted a job offer from the phone company (I had worked for them the summer between graduation and grad school). After 9 months, with the deepening recession (hmmmm.... deja vu!) I was transferred to corporate HQ in Atlanta and I've been here ever since. The transfer was before I completed the MS. I tried once more 5 years later (MBIS) but again work interfered as I found myself on the road continuouslyfor 3 months. I asked for an incomplete so I could complete the course project over the summer (remote access for computer projects was unavailable at that time - late 1970's, before the IBM PC), when the travel would have ended. The professor refused (even though I had an A in the class), I withdrew, walked away and never returned. That was the conclusion of my academic career, so far anyway.

After 10 years with Southern Bell (before AT&T divestiture), I left to work on Geographic Information Systems. My next employer, Graphics Research Corp., went belly up due to poor management and the Challenger disaster: we were working on using satellite images and GIS systems to build the intelligent maps for GPS units. After the Challenger disaster, the market for our product was delayed by at least 5 years and we couldn't find enough revenue to keep the company in business. (This was before Windows and thePC explosion of the '90s.)

During the Southern Bell years, I met my wife, Debbie, and we've been married for 25 years now. We have two daughters. Rachel is graduating from the University of Maryland (College Park, inside the Washington, DC, beltway) this May (Jewish Studies), Leah is a freshman at Indiana University (Business).

After the 5 years of dabling in the GIS environment (with 3 differentemployers), Debbie and I decided it was time to have our 2nd and I needed to find reliable employment, so I went to work for an electric utility holding company, in the IT department. 7 years and almost that many reorganizations later, I once again decided to try the small company arena and wound up working for a small company called Client/Server Labs, serving as their Chief Technologist for Performance Testing (try saying that 5 times fast!). I primarily worked on network systems performance tests, both designing,building and executing test myself and supervising and mentoring other testers. C/SL was purchased by an Israeli company, TESCOM. I worked there for a total of 8 years.

Working for an Israeli company has its challenges and I left there in 2004 to join an Atlanta area based consulting company, Orasi Software. I spend most of my working time either on the road or using remote access. Coincidentally, I'm in the middle of a test of the Computer Aided Dispatch system that the NY Police Department will be installing to dispatch emergency personnel. Previously, we designed and executed a test for the transit authority to simlulate the load they experienced on 9/11. (The new Computer Aided Dispatch system can handle the load, probably the telephonenetwork can't.) Over the years, I've traveled as far as Beijing forbusiness, with numerous trips to the UK and Germany, plus every state on the East and Gulf coasts except Maine and Delaware, and others further west. The place I'd most like to go back to is Edinburgh, Scottland. The place I'd least like to go back to is Beijing. (If you like the traffic and crowds in Manhattan, you'll LOVE Beijing. Food was good: anyone care for broiled Shark's Lips? Not bad, but not my favorite.

My Chinese hosts watched me eat some of the more unusual dishes, waiting for a reaction.And, no, I don't speak any of the native languages of China: I was assigned a translator/escort who was with me from 7:30AM until I returned to the hotel at night.) I wouldn't mind seing more of China, though. I was only there for 2 days: 40 hours of travel for 16 hours of work.I've also written numerous articles for computer magazines, both print and on-line, with a bi-weekly column in one online pub before the dotCom bubble burst earlier this decade.

Steve Antonoff steve@antonoff.net______________________________________________________Hello All, i am loving reading the emails from all of you. After Science i went to Cronell, with about 30 Science friiends including Sharon Hymes, Mark Liff, David Kapelman, Steve Levine, Pete Galderisis (where are you, Pete?) Then i went to SW school at U Penn (with Les Rudner) and got my MSW. Did a post-masters program at NYU and am now a Psychotherapist in private practice. Still in Riverdale. In 1990 I married Dan Taub, a lawyer, who went to NYU law school with lots of people in our class: Susan Lewis. Bob Macris, Larry Greengrass, to name a few We have a son, Matthew, after many years of trying. He is the light of my life. Recently ,I have been in touch with David Kapeleman (turns out we have relatives in common), Jane Leifer, Maria Schiff, Mindy Wishik, Iris Fine, Sharon Hymes, Mark Liff and a few others. Thanks to these emails i have connected with a few others. Would love to hear from Stan Lewis, Charlie Lee, Debby Jarett, Bruce Weintraub, I will be at the reunion. Hope to see a large number of you there Regards to all,

Sharon Kern SharonKT@aol.co m __________________________________________________My bio is fairly simple I think. I graduated from SUNY Binghamton 1973 with BA in Anthropology. Quickly realized I was not prepared to do anything. Went back to SUNY Binghamton and got a BS in Nursing 1978, Got married 1976, my son, Carlo was born 1979. I gravitated toward Labor/Delivery. In 1982 felt the urge to try something very new, and so the three of us moved to Austin, TX. Wow, total culture shock as well as climate shock. I found my niche was helping new moms with breastfeeding and became a certified lactation consultant in 1986. My daughter, Gina was born 1984. I have been working as a nurse/lactation specialist in a hospital all these years, and I am still in Texas. My children are grown now and still live in this area. I come back to NY about once a year to visit. I still love ballet and yoga, and continue to work on improving my Spanish. My big accomplishments, other than becoming a mother, are: doing the Danskin Triathlon, 2007, the AT@T half marathon, 2008 and the Hill Country Ride for Aids 2008. I loved going to Italy also. Sadly, I was divorced 2002, which I consider one of the worst experiences ever, but I feel like I am recovered now.I have enjoyed connecting with many of you. Thank you,

Linda Zeccola Linda_zeccola@yahoo.com _____________________________________________________Oy!

Imagine my surprise when I managed to check the inbox and saw about 100 BHSS related messages.

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First, I will most probably be a no show for the 40th reunion because Iprobably won't be fully mobile and self sufficient at the time. (Itturns out a leg fractured in 7 places takes a mess o healing).

But, I have seen so many old names from the deep past that I am nowobliged to read each message and send greeting to folks which may be asmuch as 39+ years late.

I haven't been much in touch since Science, so it may take a bit of catching up.

Harvey Wagner harvini@dejazzd.com______________________________________________________Classmates: My first reaction when I received notice about the reunion was “Naaah, I just bought Springsteen tickets for that night.” Now, I’m not so sure. I feel I’ve gotten to know a lot of you better through this e-mail chain than 40 years ago, when I was very much a moody introvert. (I snapped out of that after high school. Well, mostly.) Anyway, I’m learning after all these years that you’re a fascinating, engaging bunch, and have lived some exceptionally interesting and rewarding lives. If I could roll back the calendar to 1969 and choose one of your paths, a number of them would be tempting. As for my story: The family expected me to choose accounting, but as a freshman at the University of Florida I thought I’d give journalism a shot. It was a good fit for me. I transferred after a year to NYU, worked a desk assistant at ABC News, interned at UPI as a junior and was hired there before my senior year. I’m now managing editor for politics at the Daily News. I’ve spent my entire professional life as a reporter and editor in New York and Washington -- eight years at UPI, 20 years at the Daily News, and then 6 1/2 years at Bloomberg News before the Daily News invited me back in June 2007. I’m enjoying my current gig, which gave me a front-row seat for the most exciting presidential race we’ll likely ever see and its history-making outcome. I live on Manhattan’s Upper West Side with my wife of 11 years Joan, a teacher/writer/public relations specialist/political activist. We met in a shared Fire Island house one summer and got married after a whirlwind seven-year courtship. No kids, but we have a fine cat, Moses, who’s 20+ years old. In my spare time, besides moaning that I don’t have enough spare time (the job hours can be intense), I enjoy travel, following the Yankees and Jets (and the Mets, to humor my Mets-fan wife). Cheers,

Bill Goldschlag BxCheer@aol.com____________________________________________________Another classmate checking in... I won't be able to come to thereunion but I'm having a wonderful time reading everyone's storiesand seeing some names I remember and a lot I don't! I guess I never realized how big our class was and what a small proportion Iactually knew. The pictures on facebook are great too!

It's also hard to condense 40 years into a couple of paragraphs, buthere goes: I went to Stony Brook, majored in anthropology and wentto Ohio State for a PhD. Taught at Wright State in Dayton for about12 years. A few years into that I realized that I was stuck in Ohio if all I could do was teach anthropology, so I started takingclasses and wound up with a MS in Computer Science and taught in that department about half the time I was there. Then I escaped to Melbourne, Florida and taught CS at Florida Tech till 1994. My

husband Jim was a network administrator there, and non-universitypeople kept asking him for Internet accounts (which he couldn'tprovide to them) because the only way you could get one back in those days was at a school or government facility. So on a whim we started a business with one of Jim's colleagues providing Internetservice to the public -- this was well before companies like Earthlink and the phone and cable companies got into the business. I quit my teaching job after a few months, and we worked like crazy for 4 years and then sold the business. Since then I work very part-time from home in my own business doing website design, and we split our time between Melbourne and Waynesville, NC which is asmall town west of Asheville. We both enjoy tennis and outdoors sowe follow the weather -- it's wonderful to spend the summer in the mountains.

I haven't had much contact with classmates from Science during allthis -- my parents moved to Florida when I was in grad school so Istarted going there for vacations instead of NY. I saw Dena Shenk atan anthropology conference, and had a brief reunion with Aline Goetz and Debbie Jaret when I came to NY for a family event in the 1980s and then lost touch again -- I'd love to hear from more folks. Has anyone heard from them or Nina Asher? I see Chris Woebke's name mentioned in some emails, would love to hear from any of you. Best to everyone-

Randi Pollack randi@web-showcase.com_____________________________________________

This is Diane Alchevsky Casella checking in with the Class of '69ongoing conversation. After graduating from CCNY I married an English major who landed a plum job teaching English Literature at

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Bronx Science. He retired last year and some of the teachers that we knew back then joined us in celebration, Joe Scavone, Martin Green and Alan Schlussel. I live in Bergen County and have 2 sons, Matthew (25 ) and Andrew (23.) I taught Anatomy & Physiology as an adjunct and then proceeded to go into administration. I'm at Englewood Hospital now and I have a passion for making pottery. I love the mud.

I'm sorry that I won't be able to attend the reunion, plans for a tripto Italy were arranged last summer. However, I Hope that connections can be made. Thanks to the organizers of this spreading web.

Diane Alchevsky Casella, MPH diane.casella@ehmc.com

Program CoordinatorCenter for Nursing PracticeEnglewood Hospital & Medical Center350 Engle StreetEnglewood, NJ, 07631201-894-3320Fax: 201-568-4971____________________________________________________Hello to old friends and classmates from another transplant to the Seattle area.

Any of you who knew me at Science knew my last name as Woolis, although Taylor has always been my legal name. Yes, I know I'm under "camera shy"; if you really want to see what I looked like, I'm in the front row sitting next to Danny Holschauer on page 50, with the Bio Prep Squad. (No, not the skeleton...)

I had a great time at CCNY, even in that year of student strikes, but I got Western Wanderlust after hitchhiking cross-country (shh, my daughter still doesn't know I did that!) between my two years there. I moved out to San Francisco, where I took my time exploring lots of different subject areas at SFSU, including theatre. I had vowed when I graduated from Science (I didn't go to graduation, either) never to take another math or science course again! So it took me a while to own up to loving it and major in biology. I headed back east to go to the Medical College of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Missed SF too much though, so I went back there for my Family Practice residency and married Chris Stanley, with whom I just celebrated our 25th anniversary.

We spent 4 years in North Carolina, where I worked in a Migrant Clinic and got an MPH at UNC-CH, and our daughter, Ariana, (now 21 and graduating from University of Washington), was born. We settled in the Pacific Northwest, where we feel most at home. We have had the privilege of living in an intentional community known as Winslow Cohousing, on Bainbridge Island, for 17 years.

After years of being a physician employee, 5-1/2 years ago I opened a private Family Medicine practice in a vibrant multi-ethnic area southwest of Seattle. It's all-consuming, and quite a challenge to make a living serving low income folks, but I love it. I also belong to the health committee of a Sister Island association, which connects us with an island in Nicaragua, and have enjoyed traveling there and nurturing deepening cross-cultural friendships. Spanish classes at JHS 80 & BHSS sowed that seed; half my patients speak Spanish. Our whole family has enjoyed being part of an outdoor theatre group run by the Mountaineers for years now, and I still fondly remember my days in BHSS Drama.

Okay, there's my 40-year bio summary. Now here's my proposal: what if we had a West of the Rockies Regional 40th Reunion celebration, for those of us who can't quite break away from our lives to fly back to NY for a weekend?

(Or even if some of us go-- this one can be on another date.) I'd love to connect with the folks who live in Washington, Oregon and California, especially, as there's a better chance we could stay connected. Let me know if you're interested, and we can set up a dialogue on time and place.

Thanks for all the sharing. You were an amazing group of geeks, activists and friends then, and you all sound just as wonderful now, in the richness of your years of experience and wisdom. May the years to come be good to you.

Fondly,Cindy Cynthia Woolis Taylor cltaylormd@gmail.com____________________________________________________Hello remarkable Science people,

This is a bittersweet venture for me because I’ve stood deliberately away from the Science community all these years, including the years when I was physically in it. But last month Mitch Turbin e-mailed me out of the blue, renewing our friendship at long distance between Portland, Oregon (him), and Austin, Texas (me), and I’m thankful to him.

High school was the most emotionally difficult time of my life, through no fault of the school or my classmates or my teachers or me either -although I did hold a grudge against my creative writing teacher for not picking me for the staff of Dynamo. (I wanted to become a novelist, and became one.) It was a case of the deep adolescent blues - no doubt I was clinically depressed - and I spent a decade afterward climbing out of the hole I’d dug.

I recognize a surprising number of your names, and I’ve forgotten a surprising number of historical details, for instance the fact that home rooms were assigned alphabetically, and the day of the girls’ dress-code rebellion. Even the strike school made little impression on me: I welcomed the strike as an opportunity to float around the city and sit home reading fiction.

I do remember buying LPs from Jeff Hurwitz - what were they, two dollars? --and enjoying the culture of carried-around status-symbol albums by The Blues Project, Paul Butterfield, John Mayall, The Mothers of Invention, The Fugs,The Velvet Underground’s Banana album, and so on.

This may be ungrateful to say, but my spirits began to lift as soon as I left Science, when Woodstock and college replaced literature-induced alienation and the assassination of father-figures as cognitive input.

I majored in anthropology at the University of Michigan, and more importantly, met my first wife, Ann, there. We moved to New York after graduation and I got an entry-level job in publishing; after five years, I tried grad school in English Lit (again at Ann Arbor), and within weeks discovered that my perspective on the world is intractably, unbudgingly nonacademic.

Back in New York, I was admitted to NYU Law School, where Ann was a year ahead of me (she’s now an eminent law professor/pundit at the U of Wisconsin, and a great friend), but I sold my first novel on the first day of orientation, so I dropped out that day. We have two sons - John, now 28 and a lawyer, and Chris, 26, a film type - and divorced after seventeen years together.

I published three novels, a book of short stories, and a college-level textbook on fiction writing. (The short stories, *Pronoun Music*, are my best work; you can find the book on Amazon.) They got some genuinely great reviews from media such as the *New York Times*, the *Los Angeles Times*,and the *Chicago Tribune*, but didn’t make me rich or famous, and I make my living writing educational

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materials - language arts textbooks. I‘m currently working on a book of narrative nonfiction having to do with a spiritual/psychological practice I follow, The Work of Byron Katie. (If any of you do The Work, I’d love to hear from you.)

In 1994 I married for the second time, to Susan, now a professor of education at UT-Austin. We have two sons, Eric, 14, and Nick, 12, and, alas, divorced after sixteen years together, but have remained - cliché, but true-- great friends. I’m the king of repetition compulsion: two WASP professor-wives, two divorces after 15+ years, two sons per marriage. And in retrospect, it seems wonderful and complete. Nothing was missing to bring me exactly to this point.

Now I live in a cheerful house in a working-class neighborhood of Austin, a lively, spicy city where the counterculture proudly holds on. I work at home, share my kids, do tai chi, go to the gym, and partake unsparingly at barbecue restaurants. I blog at http://richardlawrencecohen.blogspot.com, and I’m on Facebook as Richard L. Cohen. (There are 500 writers named Richard Cohen, so I recently added my middle name to my byline.) Email: richardlcohen@gmail.com.

It’s Sunday morning and the lads are playing Sims3, and the twelve-year-old just rushed up to me and, for no apparent reason, burst out with the Bon Jovi lyric, “Now it’s not too late…Keep the faith.” So after tossing the pros and cons back and forth for a couple of days, I’m writing this, and I wish you all happiness.

Richard Cohen richardlcohen@gmail.com._______________________________________________________Bob Slayton here. I remember well--and fondly--Bronx Science in 1969. Since then I got a Masters and Doctorate at Northwestern University, in history. In 1988 I became a professor at Chapman University in Orange, CA. I have written six books, with a seventh on the way, the most notable of which is Empire Statesman, a biography of New York governor and 1928 presidential candidate, Alfred E. Smith. The weather out here is great, but I still root for the Yankees. Take care, Bob Slayton slayton@chapman.edu_______________________________________________________HI, Everyone-I was recently told about this book by a BXHSS grad-it includes about 100 pages of thoughts about being a student there. I have not read it, but heard it is terrific.

The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village - by Samuel Delany

See you in MayNancy Segal. nsegal@fullerton.edu________________________________________________________Reading about the significant achievements of the Class of '69 has been an amazing experience. Some of you have shared in some own experiences below, but I am reticent about mentioning your names 'out of school' as it were.

I was a local in the Science neighborhood. I went to PS 8 and JHS 80, and I was in the 2 year SP, which made me a bit young in relation to classmates. No I did not play sports in the middle park.

I was introduced to the music of my life long hero, Bob Dylan in Bronx House Camp. I intend to go to my first Dylan concert in a few weeks.

After graduating Harris Field I went to CCNY, graduated 6x months late due to illness. Spent more time in the psychology lab than in class and more time working in a

clothing store, or discussing Jazz and Latin music then doing homework, listened to Eddie Palmieri and Larry Harlowe (El Judio Maravilloso) Orchestras late at night on the Symphony Sid show until my Father made me shut it off . Spent a summer in Israel, worked a Kibbutz that my younger daughter visited years later when it became a water park. . Became fascinated with Ashkenazi / Sephardic / Arab culture during this trip, visited the outside my 1st Omayyad building, Dome of the Rock. Started reading Yiddish in college, started understanding family political arguments.

I dropped out of Queens College Graduate school after 1 semester simply because. I needed $ for my own life. I enrolled in a year longprogramming course at the New York School of Continuing Education, and continued taking programming and Colloquial Arabic and Ladino courses there.

I started my triple career of IBM Mainframe Data Processing,Ballroom/Hustle/Latin dancing and Martial Arts during the 70's SalsaGolden Age.

My first job was at a hospital working on the pharmacy program I later had a consulting assignment at a major insurance company drug insurance program (why are you smiling ?) Most of my over experience is in the financial industry I am a Senior Vice President at Citigroup Technology Inc, one of the largest transactional environments in the world.

The 9/11 experience happened right near me and had consequences for us all, but affected my health and my work location and therefore my life style profoundly.

When I married my darling wife Stephanie 27 years ago, we got intocountry dancing for a while; we have close friends in Texas, and yes, we did a pilgrimage to Nashville. We have performed in our Ballroom/Latin school's shows and she competes. To complete one circle at our last show my beautiful Israeli teacher Zoya (semi-official 3rd daughter) and I danced to a number from .. Larry Harlowe.

I have a Third Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do which I earnedafter/despite numerous past/present health challenges.

Next week, our oldest daughter Nora starts her third year medical school rotations at UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson and Gabriella who will be a Junior in Rutgers is off to Croatia for a student summer program.

I have been the leader of a Yiddish Club in Teaneck for many years now and my wife and I hosted to 10th conference of the International Association of Yiddish Clubs. If interesting in leveraging our experience for a future class reunion in New Jersey let us know. I am also a collector for the National Yiddish Book Center, for those of you have Yiddish books from relatives that you wish to discard. Did some lectures in synagogues on Yiddish/Ladino/Israeli/Judeo-Arabic music; made some friends, some enemies doing that, so I am chilling with my growing World Music collection right now.

Stephanie and I were in the lands of the Aztecs and Lowland Maya on our honeymoon. Work has taken me to IBM Hursley Lab in Winchester England, and myself and family to Australia. Family trips have taken us to Canada, US South West, Deep South, Israel, Italy and Spain, where I got to see the genius of Herod, Don Lorenzo and again, the Omayyad's. Sorry prefer aristocracy to both Sanscullotes and nationalists. If its any consolation my brother is a leftist philosophy professor and I have been building a library of SR and Bundist books as Yiddish colleagues turn over their books to me. For the nationalists I have no consolation.

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I would love to discuss old times and new, home number is 201 833-4748 ; 551 404-5461,

Gregg Hudis GrHudis@optonline.net ______________________________________________________Hey, I was there too! What a group of highly accomplished (narcissistic!) folks! Perhaps we can form a think tank consulting group a la The Rand Corporation for all those unfortunates born without that special complement of chromosomal nucleotides that sets us Bronx brainaics apart from the rest of the world!I am running a fund that disperses, after careful and protected review, large sums to those likely to make major achievements that will help foster health care, the arts, and world peace.I am also, ever since 1969, trying to locate Marina Fernandez and Jane Levinson--any clue will do, even a yellowing page from an old police blotter.Thank you and much continued success!

David Brizer, M.D. dbrizer@aol.com ______________________________________________________To my classmates,I regret that I won't be joining you this weekend. Quite frankly, I amprobably a stranger to most of you. But in the preparations for hisreunion, I have come feel more a part of the Science community now than I ever did in the three years I attended that very special school. To be honest, I recognized only a few of the names of those who shared their life experiences in this forum. In that, I feel that I got to know you in a way that I did not 40 years ago. We all have grown and gone on. To that I say, well done to all of you. If anyone is interested, I am among the dwindling number of journalists who still make a living plying that trade. I write a column four times a week on matters concerning the financial markets and the economy, which is accessible online at Barrons.com, the Web site for the financial weekly of the same name. I also write for the print edition of Barron's.In the issue out Saturday, I wrote the lead column for the issue; I hope readers will get a chuckle from the deadly, dry matter. In any case, I wish you all God's blessings. Peace be with you,Randy

Randall W. ForsythEditor-in-ChiefBarrons.comrandall.forsyth@barrons.com _____________________________________________________Dear Classmates,

First, thank you to Randall Forsyth who, correctly stated, is a stranger to me, but had the courage to express his heartfelt response to this reunion thing. Randy, I WILL be going to the event tonight, but have the sense that, if its intentions are sincere, then like a commencement ceremony, it will be only the beginning of an ongoing forum for those of us who wish to talk amongst ourselves.

Yesterday, during a lively conversation with my son, who called aftercompleting his last final exam of his first year at Columbia Medical School, I mentioned that I would be attending the reunion for the 40th anniversary of my BHHS class, and he quickly said, "wow!, I bet there will be a number of P&S

alums there," I was struck, like Randy, with how little I know about my classmates and what they've all been doing these 40 years!

When I signed up to attend, the only thing I knew was that this would be one of those things that, if I stayed away, I would always regret. So now that the day is actually here, and I'm feeling as nervous as a young girl about to have her first slow dance, I know exactly how you feel, Randall, and so wish I could meet you again.

Now that we know how to find one another, please let's try to keep this going.

Sincerely,

Sharron (Bishop) Eisenthal______________________________________________________Your son is right.

As a member of the P & S class of Œ79, I welcome him to our ranks. While I learned a lot there, and although I did go to Harvard after Columbia, it was the fundamental education that I got at Bronx Science (reading, writing, analytic skills, computer programming, etc.) that has served as the foundation of my life. It was the best school I ever attended.Many regrets at not being able to attend. Sigh.

J. Sebag, MD, FACS, FRCOphth

Professor of Clinical OphthalmologyUniversity of Southern Californiacontact info:VMR Institute, a Medical Corporation7677 Center Avenue, suite 400Huntington Beach, CA 92647Tel: 714-901-7777Fax: 714-901-7770jsebag@VMRinstitute.com www.VMRinstitute.com _____________________________________________________I can't believe the day for the reunion is here. I have followed with great interest all of the emails from our 40th reunion.. I must admit that some of the names were very familiar and some not so familiar. Referring to the yearbook helped a lot. As many classmates have recounted in their emails, I place a high value on the education I received at Bronx Science.I regret not being able to attend but it comes at a very busy time- Daniel our youngest graduated University of Michigan on May 2, and Jeremy our oldest will graduate from Wayne State University School of Medicine next week. They are third generation UM grads on their mothers side. As a twist, oldest will be moving to NY to start residency in internal medicine at St Vincent's with the intent of going on to cardiology. Should be a good excuse for us to get back to NY more often. Only other relative left in NY is my sister - Judith Berman Kohn, PhD Science class of '63.

After traveling from Flushing to BHSS , I attended Queens College and then on to Wayne State Medical School. Married a wonderful woman from Flint MI before graduating from med school and doing an Ob/Gyn residency at Sinai Hospital of Detroit. After 20 years in private practice I joined the medical school faculty full time and gave up OB. I am enjoying the academic life and participating in numerous device trials for minimally invasive surgery. I have had some great opportunities to travel and teach various medical procedures. Wish I could be there tonight but I will be thinking of all of you and the class of 69.Maybe a 50th?

Have a great time.

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_______________________________________________________About the reunion:I had an awesome time seeing everyone’s faces again. Tom and Sandra deserve lots of love for this event.What follows are the thoughts that gathered in me while mingling and tingling amongst my old classmates on the night of the Reunion: * I couldn’t have been the only guy thinking the following thought as I chatted around the room: “If I only knew then, what I know now….” * I was very pleased to see that one of the best looking guys in our graduating class was there. I do not get to see enough of my brother – Naim. * In response to the question as to how I’ve managed to keep some semblance of youth over the years, the answer is simple. When you don’t grow up, you don’t get old. My wife can attest to the arrested development of my maturity, but all of you should have noticed that I haven’t grown much taller since graduating high school. * For most of us, there are many more days behind us than there are ahead of us. But it is the days ahead of us that count. The years behind us were just preparation for the rewards and contributions that we will be making in our forward years. They were building blocks for the solutions we will be putting into affect in our forward years. They were needed in order to be where we are now. * Bronx Science gave of us some special experiences, but for aselect few it gave us more. I'm not referring to the confidence in ourselves. I'm not referring to the superior education. I'm also not referring to the role models and the associations that influenced us. What I am referring to is my life partner -Debbie - who graduated one year after I did. There were also some others who found their permanent partners from this special high school experience. * In talking to my old classmates, I realized a few of the lessons I’ ve learned over the past 40 years. Here goes 5 or them 1. I no longer move as fast as I used to 2. I know a lot more about what I don’t know 3. My youthful hopes and dreams don’t seem to age as fast as I do 4. The aspects of life that get better with age are very important almost as important as the things that get worse with age. 5. The older I get, the more important cooperation and collaboration seems to be. Indeed, almost all of the achievements around us could not have happened by a single individual.

That’s it for now. I’m hoping to gather a few Bronx Science graduates who live in the New England area for a small get-together. Stay tuned for more info. And thanks to all that put a smile on my face on Saturday evening.Gratefully,

Lee Mowatt _____________________________________________________

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