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REUNION
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Franklin K. Lane Class
of 1953
Alumni Association NEWS archives 2001
Back
Issues for Weeks Ending: 12/31/01,
12/23/01, 12/16/01, 12/09/01,
12/02/01, 11/25/01, 11/18/01, 11/11/01, 11/04/01,
10/28/01, 10/21/01, 10/14/01,
10/07/01, 9/30/01, 9/23/01, 9/16/01, 9/09/01,
9/02/01, 8/26/01, 8/19/01, 8/12/01,
8/05/01, 7/29/01,
7/22/01, See also
Archives 2002
CURRENT WEEK
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Week
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ZAZZOOM needs
to break down more often.
We added three new members while zazzoom was in limbo. Doris
Carolyn and Elmer are three of four referrals from Louie mentioned
below. You can email Doris now by clicking on her name, but for
the other two you'll have to wait a while. Carolyn has a
computer at work where she will be accessing the web but
apparently without email privileges. Elmer has a new ISP and
needs to find out what his email address is. We should have that
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Many Thanks
to all who have responded generously to Zazzoom's appeal for financial
support. Several of you wrote back immediately asking for my
address. Now that the directory is back up and running we hope
to hear from many more. In case you did not receive the letter
emailed to the membership on 12/18/01 You may CLICK
HERE to read it in its entirety. |
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APOLOGIES FOR
THE INTERRUPTION IN ZAZZOOM- I realize many of you
have been suffering withdrawal pains after being denied access to your
website. What happened was I let the domain name registration
expire. The warning notices were sent to my old (defunct) email
address @ix.netcom.com, and when there was no response after fifteen
days the server automatically shut us down. The process of
restoration always takes 12-24 hours. Believe me, this had
nothing to do with the launching of the new voluntary support program
launched during that period. |
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Say Hello to
Don Podos by clicking on his name above. Don
was brought into the fold through the efforts of Lew and Susan Wexler.
He'll be added to the directory tomorrow. |
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We finished
off last week with 170 Members. I feel like we're
getting down to the wire now. When we started this thing around
August of 2000 some thought we were rushing the season. Now with
about a year and half to go and about 450 more to find, it becomes
clear that, if we are to reach our goal of finding or accounting for
everyone in time for the big event, we need to get hustling. |
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Louie Robinson
gave me four more names with phone numbers. They will
be contacted ASAP and, with any luck at all., we'll be 175 soon.
Louie's commitment to this cause is exemplary. If the other 169
of us shared his spirit, we'd be adding 10 a week, every week.
Come on Guys and Goils--Oprah and Barbara are waiting to cover the
biggest party of 68-year-olds on record. Let's not let them
down. |
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Time to
identify the players in January Prom Night? We've
been getting a lot of positive response to the January Prom Night
photo in the Memories section. Soon we'll begin trying to put
names on everybody. If you have found yourself in the picture
and can identify some of those with you, please let us know. |
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Does anyone
have a photo of the June Prom Night?
If you have one and wouldn't mind parting with it for a while, you can
be the hero of your class by sending it. |
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Week
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Week
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Week
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Two more of our classmates have been added to the
deceased list based on information
obtained from friends and relatives and deed to be reliable. The
latest names are Marquerite (Peggy)
Fasullo for January and Dorothea
Finnie from June.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR JULIA PUGH. Not sure when or even if
she graduated but one of our members would like to locate her. If
anyone has any knowledge of her whereabouts please let us know.
Carol Bader joined us today (12/01) but
we don't have much info on her as yet. She'll be sending her bio and
contact data soon via Web TV email.
Welcome May Fallica to our group. The link on the left
above is for email and on the right for her page. This influx of new
recruits is the result of Barbara Rossman discovering a whole new list of
names on classmates.com under the name of F.K. Lane. It pays to
browse the schools once in a while.
Welcome Marc Sciacchitano to our group
by clicking his name in the New Members column above and sending him an
email. By the way, his new name is Marc Scarr. That should
make it a bit easier for all of us.
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Week
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WELCOME JAY SUSSELL TO THE ASSOCIATION.
While we are waiting for his bio and contact info for the directory you
may contact him by clicking on his name above.
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Week
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Week
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Rona Trottman Thomson |
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Sydelle Lieberwitz |
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Welcome our two new
members. Rona Trottman came to us through the efforts of
Maureen Lewis acting on a lead from Louie Robinson. Sydelle was the
result of an ad placed in a Long Island paper by Marie Passantino.
This is the sort of teamwork that is needed if we are to reach our
goal of locating all 767 graduates from 1953. You can email Rona now
by clicking on her name above, or wait till their info is added to the
directory and write or phone them. |
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Cat Jokes is
the latest addition to our web. Besides being good for a chuckle you
will notice that it is in a frames format. I've held off from setting
up the web in frames since some servers don't support that venue. What
you should be seeing is a page in four separate sections. Both the
contents frame (on the left) and the main frame (on the right) are
independently scrollable. If you are not seeing it that way let me
know and we'll see what we can do about it. If no one has a problem
with this section we might set up the entire web in frames for easier
navigation. |
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Log Dreams is
something I had to move off my other web to free up some space.
Actually that's also why Cat Jokes is here. I linked them to our web
just in case they may be of interest to some of you. |
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Week
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Other
classes’ members have been contacting us lately asking to
be included in our activities. The way things have slowed down in the
past two months we may need to open this up to them just to fill a
small room. Our growth seems to have all but come to a standstill.
Please dig out those old address books and give us some clues to the
whereabouts of more class members. 0r better yet go
find them yourselves and tell them about our association. If anyone
would like to volunteer for the recruiting committee please
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| Ruth Torffield Levy has
been put to work on the snail mail committee. Ruth was quick to answer
the urgent appeal for volunteers in October's newsletter. That willing
spirit is appreciated by all. Others are still needed. The old saying,
“Many hands make light work” was never truer than in an
operation such as this. |
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Converted Snail Mailee, Sal
Anziano would like to announce the joyous news of a new
arrival in his household; a new computer. His email address is now a
part of the directory or can be accessed from his web page that now
sports a recent picture Sal and his wife, Mary Ann. |
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Dolores
Thomas Cunningham is our new member for this week. Her
complete information will be added to the directory today, but you
don't have to wait for that. Send her a cheery greeting by clicking on
her name in the NEW MEMBERS box above. |
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MY
PERSONAL OPINION - FOR WHAT ITS WORTH: Call me calloused
and insensitive1 but the vast majority of the many
unsolicited emails reaching my inbox in the past few weeks have been
routed to my trash bin without so much as a read. I'm just not into
this electronically circulated brand of religious patriotism that
seems aimed at stirring up the rabble and promoting a thirst for
blood. That's just not my thing. Then, amid this tide of slush, came
the following heartfelt message from one of our New York members,
Barbara Rossman, to help me understand feelings I could not possibly
know without being there. I've reread it many times since then and
have come to appreciate it as the sort of message that needs to be
published somewhere. Here it in its entirety:
9/30/01
Hello Warren;
Well, things here in NY are getting back to a new standard of
"normal" as I’m sure you have heard. If not, let me give
you some info:
There is a groundswell movement to keep Rudy G. going
beyond his term, as Mayor of NYC, with perhaps a
"possibility" of changing Inauguration date to April 1St. Just
about all of bridges and tunnels are now open In both directions, that
is to say, in and out of Manhattan from Brooklyn (Brooklyn-Battery
Tunnel), Brooklyn Bridge, Queens-Midtown Tunnel, Holland Tunnel,
George Washington Bridge. All
others have pretty much been open since the day after Devastation Day
on Sept 11.
Mayor G.
has banned all one-passenger cars from Manhattan crossings, in the
interest of keeping traffic to a minimum and of getting people back
onto and into mass transit.
The clean-up from the WTC disaster will take up to a year
and the wounds in the memories and hearts of New Yorkers will take God
knows how much longer than that. Most of us still get flashbacks and
our tears are always dose to the surface.
Flags are now flying from private homes, theaters,
restaurants, cars and candy stores, as well as the usual places like
schools, banks and office buildings and apartment complexes. Even on
the 4th of July, I have not witnessed such a show of pride and
patriotism.
The tempo of street traffic is somehow different, the
usual blaring of horns is all but non-existent, the pushing and
shoving is a mere trickle. The pace and the pulse of the city is
slower, subdued. We all seem to be walking like recovering patients in
a post-surgical ward, like people just recently awakened from sleep.
My Email becomes more and more inundated with more and
more poems, odes and satirical materials as regards the Flag,
presidential speeches (that never were and should be) and attacks on
the Islamic zealots. Some of it is obscene, some is beautiful.
Some I share with friends and family, others I delete ASAP. Some make
me cry, others make me indignant. Some are dignified, others are
beneath contempt. When I ride along the LIE or the Belt Parkway
westbound, I no longer see the Twin Towers as they were, but only as I
saw them last: two smoking and fiery hulks.
It is almost impossible to accept that those goliaths went down
in seconds, taking with them an immense numbers of human lives and
leaving so many of us bereft of loved ones. We will mourn them always,
even if they were strangers we never met.
When I stated that we are getting back to a new standard
of normal, it might have seemed like an oxymoron.. But in the present
climate of suspicion and paranoia we will have to rethink our
attitudes towards the outside world in general and view ourselves as
others see us. We will have to change our opinion of ourselves as an
invulnerable powerful country and realistically acknowledge that we
are not; that we
have enemies who see us as a decadent evil
people and that we are not universally loved.
Best
regards to Nell, keep your loved ones close, tell
them you care. -Barbara
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In
the wake of all that's happened lately, I must admit that
my heart just isn't in this right now. I tried to keep it going, but
it seems more obvious to me every day that this is something you don't
really need or want at this time. My requests for volunteers have all
but fallen on deaf ears. You wanted a Newsletter so I tried putting
one out. You wanted a chat room so I created Grad Chat. The response
to these two features can best be described as underwhelming. There
has been no response to my pleas for help on the newsletter, the
last entry on Grad Chat was made two and a half weeks ago, and in
spite of continued petitions for help with the snail mail we still
have a total of six volunteers doing all the work of caring for the 50
association members who are as yet not online. New Yorkers are still
walking around in shock while the rest of the world is suffering from
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and may not even be aware of what's
bothering them.
If nothing else comes from the occurrences of that 911 day,
we have all become painfully aware of the fragility of life and the
need to live each day as though it were the last. Personally I take
this as a wake-up call. There's more to life than sitting at a
computer 18 hours a day in anticipation of something that is still two
years off. 1 plan on taking a month off to see if I can get my head on
straight and get to know my wife a little better. If anyone wants to
step up and try to keep this thing going send me an email and I'll let
you know how to go about it. If not, let's all take a break. |
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As
many of you know, Marilyn went into the hospital yesterday (10/3) for
surgery. The Patient Information Phone Number is 212
746-5000. You may send cards to her home address, which is in the
directory.
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| A FAREWELL TO RAY BRADY.
Today we were saddened to learn that January graduate, Ray Brady lost
his battle just ten months after being diagnosed with cancer.
Your cards and letters over the past weeks were greatly appreciated by
the family. Please share
your memories of Ray. |
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| NEED INFO ON DECEASED CLASSMATES. With the addition of
Fred Bohn to the list of our deceased classmates I am reminded that
there are several on the list for which I have no other
information. Their names are just linked to a page in the
yearbook because I don't know enough about them for an
obituary. Please look at the list when you can and, if you
see someone you knew at Lane or in private life, please send me a
little message about them that I can post. |
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| Louie Robinson came on board with 27 names
and addresses We are in the process of contacting
these people now. Those we find phone numbers for we are
calling. the rest may require some help from some in the area to
contact them. If you get an email requesting aid in this
effort please reply promptly as to whether you can help us or
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| More Volunteers Are Needed for sending out
directories to the snail mail list. If you are able
to receive and print out the directory and have an hour of two per
month that you can donate for a worthwhile cause, your help would be
greatly appreciated. We currently have 44 electronically
handicapped alumni who must receive their copies of the directory by
snail mail. If you think you could print out five copies of the
directory and address, stuff, and mail five envelopes once a month,
please take one step forward by sending an email to Maureen
Lewis Alhouse, who will assign you your five names and
addresses. If others of you don't have the time to donate
but would like to support the effort with a
small monetary donation to help cover the cost of postage,
that too would be greatly appreciated by the snail mail committee who,
up till now, have been shelling out the bucks themselves to make sure
everyone can remain updated. |
| DIRECTORY: If
you have not yet received an updated, copy of the directory that is
readable in one form or another, please email
me and I will work each case individually. In your email
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| GROUP EMAILS: Just
a word of caution. Since we all now have the ability to send an
email to every online member of the association with the click of a
mouse, there is an inherent danger of this practice getting out of
hand. If you have something that may be of interest that
concerns the association's activities, feel free to use this method of
mass contact. Please DO NOT abuse
this privilege by sending jokes, "cute stories," unsolicited
advertising, or other things considered by many to be spam. |
| THE BULLETIN BOARD: This
BB is for the posting of messages that concern a major proportion of
the membership and which pertain to group events open to all.
Submit any such bulletins to me, Warren
Dickman. |
| OUR DECEASED
ALUMNI LIST HAS GROWN to 23 with
the addition of four of our January classmates:
Joan Christmas, Bob Pitts, Virginia Simpson, and Joseph Timm. |
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