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Issue Date: January 6,
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Presented
by the 1960 Sailors Association Inc.
(Curious?
Click for additional information about the Association.)
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This page is
the port to dock at when you return to the site after your
first cruise, and you want to find out |
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how it has changed since your last one.
Come
back frequently
to check out new items and to access the
many temporary features
celebrating holidays and commemorating other special occasions. (See the
announcements in the
Captain's Column to the
right, in the comprehensive summary in the
SITE HISTORY
on
page 2, and on
page 3.) |
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Other features of
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The newest entries are marked
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pages, linked from above and below. |
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FYI, MARCH
10th, 2008, WAS THE
EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE LAUNCHING OF THIS SITE! |
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Click
here if you want to read what our classmates
and others are saying about our 1960 sailors’ website.
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Captain's
column:
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Ahoy THERE, mateys!
Have you heard the news?
This is your captain speaking, welcoming you aboard
your cyber-cruise ship,
"The Spirit of
1960."
Refer to this front-page column of
TM
to learn about the latest features and other significant site developments.
I may also use it to pass along other brief messages I choose from
time to time. I retitled the former
SITE UPDATE
column on page 2
SITE HISTORY
since it traces developments back to our ship's maiden voyage
launch in March 2000.
A "new"
photo of our Nathan's, as we knew it, an improved Jocko page with
an image of a
program booklet cover
from his first live stage show in New York City, 1956,
archival
images from the OHS
dedication ceremony booklet from September 21, 1955, and a complete roster of our
class of 1957
OJHS graduates
(with names you haven't seen nor heard in decades)
and some history of
our OJHS building have been added.
Our
class leaves its
mark again in our hometown,
a "mini-reunion"
in Florida in December 2007 among four dear old
friends and classmates, and an updating tribute to
Coach Roy Chernock was also added. And we recently received a reaction to this
website from none other than famed rock 'n' roll DJ,
"Cousin Brucie" Morrow. Among our
other newest features are a page for our own home town clown, Jolly
Jazzbo, and his Jazzmobile. Last year, our current home town paper, the
Oceanside/Island Park
HERALD (successor to the
Beacon
of our time) featured a
full-page article about
this website.
I hope you all keep
enjoying the cruise.
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In July 2008, our class
association came into possession of the only pristine condition,
unsigned 1960 edition of Spindrift known to exist that is not
maintained under lock and key at the
Oceanside Public Library.
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 WE HAVE ARRIVED!
Finally, after eight years on the
internet, our popular "Our
Little Town" page is now listed as a reference on, and linked from,
Wikipedia's
"Oceanside, New York," page. Our
Nathan's Roadside Rest
page is also linked from
Wikipedia's
"Nathan's Famous" page and from a Seeking Alpha
July 2, 2008, report on Nathan's Famous stock (click on "tribute
pages" in the second paragraph). |
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COOLNEWS
FROM HOME:
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CLASS OF 1960 LEAVES ITS MARK ONCE AGAIN
IN OUR HOMETOWN
 new
branch of
Community National Bank,
a
Long Island-based, independent, full service,
commercial
bank,
has just been erected across the street to the north
from Nathan's on the site of
the old Oceanside Shell gas station that was
recently demolished. The bank opened in
December 2007 and just inside its entrance, it displays an enlarged (4'
x
2') photo of the
triangle taken circa 1955-'56 and obtained
with permission from our association. Though you
can barely see it in the lower
right corner of the photo, the legend, "Photo
courtesy of the
1960
Sailors Association Inc." is clearly visible on the
display.
And the bank manager told me that MANY
bank
 customers have inquired about it and
were then directed to
this website.
This is the third time in recent years that our class has obtained recognition
through our association for,
and effectively "immortalized," itself in
our little
town. In 2005, we placed an inscribed "Memory
Lane brick" commemorating our class in
perpetuity at the
Oceanside Education Foundation's Schoolhouse
Green on the former site of School No. 1.
And in 2003, our class association partnered with the
Oceanside
Chamber of Commerce and presented Nathan's with a
plaque documenting Nathan's/Roadside Rest's history in Oceanside,
with content taken from our
Nathan's/Roadside Rest
web
page. The plaque has been displayed at Nathan's Oceanside location ever since. |
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OUR OCEANSIDE TRIANGLE:
LIBERTY LIGHTHOUSE
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AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS
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The
beautification of the
Oceanside triangle has been completed.
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 Our
little town is sporting its nautical image in
grand style,
with a 25-foot lighthouse (MOST appropriate,
in my opinion)
now completed on the central triangle.
Built in
May 2006, ceremoniously dedicated June 16th, 2007,
and named "Liberty Lighthouse," it has beautiful stonework at
its 4-foot base with pilings, and it has a flagpole and a fishing boat
that doubles as a planter. Various engraved monuments are
placed around the base honoring local victims of
the September 11th terrorist attacks and
other fallen firefighters, police and war veterans.
Liberty Lighthouse is
an attractive and prominent symbol of community
pride and a landmark letting
residents, "past, present and future," and visitors alike know when they enter
Oceanside that they "have arrived."
It should've been there decades ago (when we were).
Very classy!
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For more
photos of Liberty Lighthouse,
click here. |
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THE "CIRCLE
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The first three "Circle of Pride"
dinners and induction ceremonies were held in our home town
in
2003, 2004 and 2005, They honored great OHS coaches and athletes and
benefited the
OHS Athletic
Hall of Fame, which was conceived in 1960 by one of
the initial honorees,
none other than our own Coach Jan,
Frank Januszewski.
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(Click on the "Circle of Pride" logo at left to
read the initial induction announcement,
and to see how many
familiar names were honored in it first three years.) |
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SAD NEWS
FROM HOME:
COACH ANGIE PLAIA
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GONE
JULY 2006 AT 79
(See
p. 2)
FRANK MANGIAPANE DIES JULY 2005 AT 79
(See
p. 2)
COACH
ARTIE WRIGHT
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GONE
FEBRUARY 2005 AT 78
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REUNITED AFTER 47 YEARS:
Inspired and facilitated by this
website, a classmate, Tom Castoldi, who provided the piano
accompaniment for our 1960 OHS production of
Bells Are Ringing, paid
a visit to, and therefore was reunited after 47 years with, our
music director, Allan Segal, in
his home in San Marcos (near San Diego), California, on May 14th,
2007. Tom (left), who lives in San Marcos, Texas, was attending a
conference in Los Angeles and took the time to drive down the
crowded freeway to visit Allan.
Just
another example of the magic of the internet
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A SAD REMEMBRANCE:
 February 9th,
2006, (about two years ago) was the 25th anniversary of the passing of Bill Haley,
clearly the most
seminal performer in the development of
our music,
the man who, with his group,
the Comets, was most responsible for
blending the black r&b urban style with country and western (then called "hillbilly")
music, creating the original rock 'n' roll (or what later became known as "rockabilly" as more varied rock 'n' roll styles emerged)
and who,
52 years earlier, gave us the
national (or international) anthem
of our generation, "Rock Around the Clock." "Rock Around the
Clock" has been
featured in 45 movies and sold more copies than any other rock 'n' roll
record ever
― over 200 million!
The Comets was the first rock 'n' roll band ever to be signed to a major
label, the first ever to have a monster hit record, the first ever to have their
song in a feature film, and the first to to appear on a major TV show. It was,
in fact, the first rock 'n' roll band ever
―
period!
(Click
here to read
more about "Rock Around the Clock.")
Sadly, however, the 25th
anniversary of the passing of their visionary leader, Bill Haley, this giant of popular culture of our time,
went virtually unnoticed by the media. |
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On April 15, 2006, I had the pleasure of attending
a live performance of
the
original Comets. And did they rock!
These old guys (in their 70s and 80s) were as good as they ever were
and no doubt were having the time of their lives onstage. Since then, we were
sorry to learn that one of them passed on and another retired. So if you get a chance, go
see the others before their clock stops rocking, and it's too late. |
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To
hear "Rock Around the Clock," go to
"Prom
Night."
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A
NEW ONLINE ALUMNI MESSAGE BOARD:
OCEANSIDE, NY, MEMORIES
Share your
memories of our little town and the times of your youth online with
other OHS alums from all classes on the Oceanside, NY, Memories Delphi Forum
message board hosted and operated by Paul Bayha ('65), a/k/a Hippie Hippiemind.
Go there to to register and participate free by clicking here,
http://forums.delphiforums.com/OceansideNY/start,
or by copying and pasting the URL into your browser.
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Do you know the
whereabouts of any of
our
missing
classmates?
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PLEASE click on the SEARCH button at left,
and then let us know.
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