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 | 04/22/03 MORE
PHOTOS NEEDED. The party pix
are being added as they are received but the problem is that we
haven't received very many. Most photo processors offer the
option of converting prints to jpeg files. If you have no way of
emailing photos you may mail me your prints. All photos must be
captioned and prints should also have your name printed on the back.
If you want the pictures returned please include a self addressed
stamped envelope. We particularly need a copy of the June Class
Group Photo. |
| 04/14/03 MARIE
WAMSGANZ HAS JOINED US. We contacted Marie from our hotel
room on the day of the banquet. She wasn't able to make the
reunion on such short notice but was pleased to be a part of the
network. Her data will soon be added to the directory. |
| 04/12/03 AND
A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL. The guest list was up to 290 by
party time and all but a just a few showed up at Russo's Thursday
night to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of our our 1953 high
school graduation. We'll have the final count figured out soon
for all you statisticians, but this was undoubtedly among the largest
of fiftieth reunion parties on record and most who were there will
tell you it had to be the best. The planning committee outdid
our wildest expectations. There were a few suggestions made of how it
been improved and the committee will certainly take them under
advisement when planning the next one, currently scheduled for
2053. This one is all over but the shouting and that will take
the form of a special pictorial report in the REUNION
CENTRAL section as soon as some pictures get to me. The
flashbulbs were popping all night long and hopefully some were
attached to digital cameras. If not please have your photos
converted to jpeg files and email
them to me. If you do not personally have a scanner be
sure that this is a service available where you have your film
developed. In this day and age it is unthinkable that a
photo service would not offer that option. |
| 04/09/03 HEAR
YE HEAR YE! THE FRANKLIN K. LANE CLASS OF 1953 GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
CONVENTION, REUNION BANQUET, AND GALA IS ABOUT TO BEGIN. After
a three year wait and a lot of work on the part of our many
volunteers, all of our plans, efforts, hopes, and dreams will come to
fruition tomorrow night; be the good lord willing and the creeks don't
rise. Soon after the dust clears I'll be handing off to Lou
Martorella (a Lane grad from the class of '89 and the son of a '64
Lane grad) who promises to take the ball and run with it. Once
the transition is accomplished you should be able to remain in touch
by logging on to www.classof1953.org.
I hope to connect with Lou, a resident of Ozone Park, tomorrow or
Friday during my stay at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, JFK Airport, to
discuss the matter personally. This arrangement supercedes my
original plan to pull down ZAZZOOM after the reunion, downloading its
existing pages to a souvenir CD for the attendees. That idea
engendered loud and vociferous disapproval from some of our long time
supporters, and rightfully so. The content of this web comprises
the efforts and contributions of all our members. Monitoring the
class web has become a meaningful part of life for many of you and now
it can continue, only at a new address with a new landlord. It's
been a great ride that will end for me with the publishing of the
pictures you take tomorrow night, so get them to me A.S.A.P. May
we never lose what we've gained through this reunion effort.
Let's all keep in touch by phone, letters, and that marvel of our new
age, email. Thanks for your support and I'll see you later, Warren
Dickman. |
| 04/02/03 JEAN
CARILLO FROM THE JUNE CLASS HAS SIGNED ON. Jean registered
with us online this afternoon and she and her husband will be joining
us at the reunion if we can find some room. Jean will be added
to the directory along with Willie Jones who joined us last week. |
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FEBRUARY
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| 02/27/03 WELCOME
BEVERLY TRICKEY: Bev used the online registration
form to submit her contact data, which will be added to the directory
soon. In the meantime you may welcome her by clicking on her
name in the NEW MEMBERS box above. |
| 02/25/03 WELCOME
DOROTHY BOYLE: Dorothy found our web and registered
online for association membership. Her data will be added to the
directory soon but, for now, you may welcome her by clicking on her
name in the NEW MEMBERS box above. |
| 02/21/03 ERNIE
DODEGGE IS BACK: We'd lost him for awhile when he
moved back to Naples but contact has now been reestablished and his
new information will soon be added to the directory. |
| 02/17/03 WE
LOST A GOOD ONE TODAY: It is with great sadness that
I must report the death of January grad, Margaret
Dafeldecker, who has been in our association since 4/03/01. If you
knew her, you had to love her. |
| 02/17/03 JUNE
GRAD SHOWS COURAGE OF HIS CONVICTIONS: See Don
LoCicero' s new bio page |
| 02/16/03 MARIE
MAURO'S PHONE IS DOWN: Phone service has been interrupted
in her neighborhood do to cable problems. It should be restored
by Wednesday at the latest. If you must talk with her contact
me for an alternate number. |
| 02/14/03 SHARE
A ROOM AT THE RAMADA: If you are coming alone and
would consider sharing a room during your stay just submit the simple
online form on the LODGING
page. We'll see if we can match you up with someone of your own
gender. |
| 02/13/03 HOVER BUTTON
PROBLEM IS RESOLVED: To facilitate all members (even those
with WEBTV) you will now find the old-fashioned hyperlinks at the
bottom of all pages under the copyright note. Also the Hover
Buttons are now back on the home page where they had been removed in
favor of hyperlinks. |
| 02/12/03 BRAND NEW REUNION
BUTTONS: After talking back and forth with the Button maker
and learning I had to remove the rims and change the specs on all the
buttons I'd designed, I decided to start over and redo all I'd
done. The new rimless buttons pictures are what we are going
with and for a limited time you can compare the new with the old by
clicking the links in the NEW PAGES BLOCK with that in the PAGES
UPDATED block above. |
| 02/09/03 AOL AND HOVER
BUTTONS: The problem of using Java Script with AOL may be
as simple as a reboot. If you have any trouble navigating the
new format try shutting down completely and then restarting your
computer. This worked for Bob and Maureen Alhouse, who now have
no problem getting around ZAZZOOM with their AOL browser. |
| 02/09/03 REUNION
BUTTONS: The BUTTONS page is being updated daily with old
buttons being redone and new ones being added. To make it easier
to access this page I've put a link in the PAGES UPDATED box above. |
| 02/09/03 NAVIGATIONAL
BUTTONS: I woke up with a bright idea a couple of days
back. To give the web a more modern look I replaced most of the
old fashioned navigational links with Hover Buttons, even making the
buttons the same color as the background they were on so only the
words would appear in white until you glide your mouse over
them. As cool as that may look, though, it may not be the best
for all concerned. I've already heard of two cases of people not
being able to get into the web. Apparently their browsers do not
presently support Java Script. If you are having that problem it
is probably just a technicality that can be corrected with a simple
configuration change at your end. Unfortunately the ones who are
experiencing this are AOL and WEBTV users, two areas in which I have
have no knowledge whatsoever. If you cannot get help from your
tech support for those applications let me know and I'll work out an
alternate system for you. If all else fails I may have to put
things back to the way they were. Let
me hear from you on this matter. I need to know how many
have been adversely affected by my ill-advised whim. |
| 02/09/03 UPDATE ON KENNETH
BRAGG: for the
latest on Ken's condition CLICK HERE
and read a letter from his wife, Carol. Then come back and write
him a few words of encouragement by clicking on his name. Ken's
spirits are high and he would like nothing better than to join us for
the reunion in April, but he's taking one day at a time for now. |
| 02/04/03 DIRECTORY
DATA CHANGE: Elmer Flemings has a new email address.
You probably remember him as Elmo in school. We don't know if the
nickname is attributed to the little known Saint Elmo's Fire, or that
better whistler from our day, Elmo Tanner. Remember his great
rendition of Heartaches? |
| 02/04/03 STILL WAITING
TO HERE FROM THE FOLLOWING: Irene Charles and Barbara
Goodwin were told about the association by Rona Trottman. They
should be checking in with us soon. |
| 02/04/03 WELCOME
EVELYN PANKEY JOHNSON: Evelyn comes recommended by Lottie
Reid. She was originally scheduled to graduate with the January
class of 53 but was accelerated in her senior year to graduate in June
of 52. Please welcome her to the association by clicking on her
name in the NEW MEMBERS box above. |
| 02/04/03 WELCOME
GEORGE WEBB: We found out about George when he sent his
check in for the reunion. This is another cart before the horse case
where a well meaning member directed a new newfound classmate to the
reunion without going through the association. One more time--TO
GO TO THE REUNION YOU MUST FIRST BE REGISTERED WITH THE ASSOCIATION.
I had a nice chat with George this evening and his data will be added
to the directory soon. He has a computer at work and will try to
get us and email address. In the meantime if you'd like to talk
to him ask me for his phone number. -WD |
| 02/02/03 DIRECTORY IS
UP TO DATE: Latest additions include Gutman, Gutin,
Peers, Scimonelli, and Brownley. A correction has also been made
to the email address of Betty Staton. |
| 02/02/03 WELCOME
GEORGE BROWNLEY: George submitted his contact data some
time ago but due to a misunderstanding he was not added o the
group. Please join me in welcoming him now by clicking on his
name in the NEW MEMBERS box above. |
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| 01/30/03 WELCOME FLORENCE GUTIN GOLDMAN: Florence
comes to us by way of one of our other new members, Les Frank.
She has submitted her data and will be added to at least the first page
of the directory soon. I'm way behind on getting all the new
people on all the other pages. Hope to get caught up soon. -WD |
| 01/30/03 ZAZZOOM
IS GETTING AROUND: A recent search for ZAZZOOM on Google.com
brought up this ad in the NY TIMES, and at
least one HORSE named after us. |
| 01/28/03 WELCOME FLORENCE PEERS WEYNAND alias
Flamingo Flo. We've been hearing about Florence Weynand for over
a year now. We knew she was out there and even had her address
and phone number but not her yearbook name. She just checked in
through the website. |
| 01/27/03 DECEASED NOW AT 42 with
the addition of Eleanor Saieva from the January class. The word
came to us, today, from Kathy Luberto who learned from Eleanor's
husband that she succumbed to lung cancer three years ago. |
| 01/27/03 WELCOME HARRIET GUTMAN ROSEN:
Marge Scimonelli really wanted to find her old school chum, Harriet,
with whom she'd lost touch twenty years ago. She had her
husband's name and the town where she was last known to live. We
went looking and found her still there in the same house. A
message left on voicemail brought this search to a happy ending this
evening when Harriet called Marge and they were able to catch up on
the last twenty years. |
| 01/26/03 DIRECTORY FORMAT REVISED AGAIN:
IN trying to make the directory easier to work with by making the
subject column move to the first position on the page, I managed to
make it more confusing. Now all the columns have been put in the
most logical order (first name, YB last name, new last name, etc.) but
the rows will be rearranged with the different sorts. If that's
confusing you just get in there and play with it till you figure it
out. I'm open to feedback on this. Let me know what you
think of the change. |
| 01/26/03 WELCOME ANTOINETTE SPERANZA
ROSSANO:
Antoinette has been in the group for awhile but stayed in the
background. Apparently she was never told that she has to join
the association to share in all the fun. WE finally connected
today and she is now an official member of the gang. She'll be
added to the directory with the next update. |
| 01/26/03 WELCOME MARGE SCIMONELLI AYER:
Marge is another one to be found by way of classmates.com. Her
data will be in the directory soon but in the meanwhile you can say hello
by clicking on her name in the box above. |
| 01/25/03 DECEASED LIST UPDATED:
sadly the deceased list grew today with the addition of Donald
Parker based on information received from Leslie Frank. Don
was the subject of a special search a while back. |
| 01/24/03 AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE
has been posted on the REUNION NEWS BOARD. Please
go to REUNION CENTRAL and read
it. |
| 01/22/03 WELCOME LESLIE FRANK:
Les just signed in via our online registration form. His data is
in the directory by yearbook last name and in the SME version.
These two pages are up to date. The other pages are yet to be
updated. We are having a bit of trouble keeping up with the last
minute rush. |
| 01/21/03 BIELLI'S SCHOOL DAZE
can be reached either through the MEMORIES link in the sidebar of by
clicking the name in the PAGES UPDATED box above. It's been a
long time in work but it finally is a bit more viewable. |
| 01/20/03 PEOPLE ARE HEARING ABOUT THE
REUNION but not about the association. We appreciate
your spreading the work but if you are not sharing the ZAZZOOM
with them they are missing out on the association and being able to
contact all their old friends here. (See the note of 1/07/03 below) |
| 01/20/03 WELCOME JENNIE CALVANICO:
Jennie will be getting us her email address. We have the rest of
her data. Her check is in the mail. |
| 01/20/03 WELCOME ARLENE CORNELL:
Arlene will be contacting me with her email address. Her
reservation is confirmed for the reunion. |
| 01/20/03 WELCOME WARREN MEISSNER:
Warren has no computer but his contact data will be in the directory
soon. He will be at the reunion. |
| 01/19/03 CONGRATULATIONS TAMPA BAY
BUCCANEERS AND OAKLAND RAIDERS |
| 01/19/03 WELCOME ALICE HOMMEL:
Alice is another product of the Classmates.com invitation. There
is much to do to bring the directory up to date again. In the
meantime you may contact any of these new ones by clicking on their
names in the NEW MEMBERS box above. |
| 01/19/03 WELCOME MAUREEN FAGAN:
Mary checked in after receiving her invitation through classmates.com. |
| 01/18/03 WELCOME FRANK COCOZZELLI:
Frank, or Coke, as he's known by his friends (it has nothing to do
with the soft drink or that other stuff) responded to an invitation
sent out through classmates.com today. So far there have been
four responses but the other three have yet to submit their
registration data. Frank will be added to the directory
soon. Meanwhile you may welcome him by clicking on his name in
the NEW MEMBERS box above. His addition to the roster brings us
up to 250 members. |
| 01/17/03 DIRECTORY HAS BEEN UPDATED.
Latest to be added are Art Powers and Barbara Crosby. |
| 01/14/03 BARBARA CROSBY HAS CHECKED IN.
She answers to Barbara Mackie now and we have all her contact
data. Look for the directory to be updated tomorrow, but in the
meantime, you may welcome her to the group by clicking on her name
above. Roberta Goldman Zinbarg is credited with this latest
contact. |
| 01/14/03 ARTIE POWERS HAS CHECKED IN.
He's just Art now and living in jolly old England. We have all his
contact information and will be adding it to the directory as soon as
he verifies it. Meanwhile you may welcome him by clicking on his name
above. |
| 01/13/03 DIRECTORY HAS BEEN UPDATED.
Latest to be added are Ann Greenberg and Virginia Ackerman.
Moreover Roberta Beckroge has a new email address and that too
has been added. |
| 01/13/03 VIRGINIA ACKERMAN HAS CHECKED
IN. Her contact data will be added to the directory
soon. You may welcome her by clicking on her name
above. |
| 01/11/03 PARTY IN MASSAPEQUA 12/01/02
has been added to the Reconnections Section. Click the party
link above (or on the left) to go to RECONNECTIONS and find the party
link at the top of the left column there. |
| 01/07/03 WELCOME ANN GREENBERG
LEIBHOLZ: Ann was in the June class and you will find
her picture on Page 50 of the June
yearbook. The yearbook editors had inserted the wrong photo next
to her name on that page but it has been corrected on our
page. Take a look and see if you remember her. Ann's full
contact data, including email address, will be added to the directory
with its next update. In the meantime you may contact me for
that input. -Warren |
| 01/07/03 ARE YOU SHARING ZAZZOOM?
Recently a name showed up in our reunion RSVP's that was not on our
mailing list. We found her in the yearbook but had no prior contact
with her. We finally tracked her down and learned that one of
our members had passed on a copy of the reunion invitation to her and
she mailed it in. In speaking to this lady she tells us that
she's been in contact with two others in our association but had not
heard of our website. This is where it all begins,
Friends. Even if you yourself are not web oriented, please share
ZAZZOOM with your new contacts. They will probably appreciate
it. Did you know that there are over 300 pages, 4000 pictures,
and 15000 internal links in ZAZZOOM, and it's all about our class and
its members? And did you know that the upcoming reunion is for our
association members only? To be a member they must be listed HERE.
So please share ZAZZOOM! |
| 01/05/03 DECEASED LIST HAS BEEN UPDATED:
It is with great sadness that I must report the addition of both Eddie
Roberts and George Cole to the deceased list. I remember them as
fine young men. The report of their demise came in from Marvin
Hunt. This, for me, is the down side of my job. If anyone
would like to share their memories of these great guys, please, email
me. -WD |
| 01/03/03 DIRECTORY HAS BEEN UPDATED:
Jay Joshua has a new email address. |
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01/03/03 PROM NIGHT +
50 YEARS: If you were in the January class 50 years ago
today were you getting ready for the big night? If you missed
out on the prom you'll get another chance on April 10th. |
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