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Issue Date: December
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Presented to the class by
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, 2012, WILL BE THE
TWELTH 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 develop-ments.
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.
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A photo of
Oceanside Gulf, memorial tribute pages for
Hal Wilensky and
Lois Rindner,
more photos of the
Shrine at
St. Anthony's,
a
1942
menu from the historic Roadside Rest, our OHS
marching band in
their brand new, full dress uniforms,
Memorial Day, 1960,
the colorful
and little-known history of the
grand
Towers Funeral Home
and a souvenir from our
beloved Rainbow
Diner.
A
photo of the popular
Texas Ranger,
a 1972 photo of the late
Alan Lupi, and
a memorial tribute page
remembering Donny Fine.
And an
original video documentary
entitled
The Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll, 1954-'59 made especially for us in
conjunction with our 50-Year Grand Reunion.
This is REALLY something!!
More
photos of our little town,
including two shots of our beloved
Rainbow
Diner during the 1958 Memorial Day Parade
and three of
Long Beach Road,
circa 1958-'59,
a
typical 1950s
Woolworth's lunch counter menu
and a
complete history
of over 50 years of OHS spring musicals
from 1957 through 2009.
I hope you all keep
enjoying the cruise.
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OUR SITE HONORED ON ANOTHER PRESTIGIOUS SITE
Historian and
documentarian, Charles W. Amann III, author of the forthcoming book,
The Princes and Princesses of Dance, a scholarly, behind-the-scenes
history of the Philadelphia years of Dick Clark's
American Bandstand, has honored our site with links and a blog entry
dated December 11, 2011, on his elaborate and extensive book-related
website. The blog entry (click
here for a direct link) on the
site describes ours as "a great site for Fifties and Sixties memories
and celebration
.... Be prepared,
this is not just about a local high school, it is much more ... loaded
with tons of information about the period and
packed full of fun and facts.
It is comprehensive, well written and...you're gonna love it! ...
you can just
'cruise' away." |
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Notice to all 1960
Sailors: Our
class Association's treasury was almost depleted, and our annual appeal
for financial support was e-mailed in July to all known e-dresses of
our classmates. If you did not receive yours, it is probably because we
do not have your current e-dress. Please
click here
for your copy, and make sure you
send us your current e-dress and other
contact information right away. |
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HAL WILENSKY PASSED ON TRAGICLY
june 24th
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Our dear friend, popular classmate, Hal
Wilensky, passed away peacefully on June24th, 2011, after
a courageous battle
with cancer.
Visit his memorial page online.
If you would like to contribute some
of your thoughts and memories to be posted on Hal's memorial page, please
contact Howie. |
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A CLASSMATE WANTS YOU TO KNOW: |
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A classmate recently lost her
beloved husband of over 50 years and wrote to let you all know about
it. Here is what she wrote: |
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"I wanted to inform my former classmates of the passing
of my husband, Gary, after almost 51 years of marriage.
He fought a long and courageous battle with
prostate cancer for almost 18 years. It was only
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"We were married the week before graduation in 1960.
While most of you were anticipating the senior prom, I
was planning a big wedding. We did, indeed, manage to
live a great bucket list, sailing in the Caribbean and
living aboard our sailboat in St. John for several
years, after selling our business. |
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"Gary and I have two wonderful sons and daughter-laws
(actually more like daughters ) and four beautiful and
wonderful in every way grandchildren.
Gary, to the very end, was – thumbs up and positive. |
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"Your classmate,
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"Joan
Milles Van Hoven" |
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Anyone wishing
to contact Joan can write to
Howie for her e-dress. |
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RECENT LOSS OF A HISTORIC HOMETOWN HERO:
We
sadly reported on May 14th that, Murray Handwerker, the man who rescued our beloved
Roadside Rest in 1956 and in 1959, turned it into Nathan's Famous for
all our pleasure, passed away that day in Florida at age 89. After
Oceanside, Murray grew the company into a national franchise and made
Nathan's hot dogs a household word by bringing them to malls, airports
and supermarkets everywhere for all to enjoy.
We would like the entire Handwerker
family to know how much we appreciate the many, many hours of
pleasure over 20 years and incredible memories that Murray gave to the people of our home
town and the surrounding Long Island area by saving our beloved Roadside
Rest and turning it into a Nathan's. We will always treasure those
memories.
According to a
death notice placed in the New York Times by his family, "He
will be remembered for bringing love, happiness and fond memories to so
many people."
His loving wife of
67 years,
Dorothy, had passed away almost two years earlier in June 2009. May they
rest in peace together. The only online
obituary found for Murray that mentioned our cherished
Nathan's Roadside Rest
in
our little town,
Oceanside, is in a web-based column
(which is also linked to our site) called
"The Eulogizer" of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
that highlights the life
accomplishments of famous and not-so-famous Jews who have passed away.
Click
here for what appears to be the only
online interview
(2004) of Murray. |
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ANOTHER
TRAGIC LOSS OF A CLASSMATE:
We
were saddened to
report that another popular classmate, the beautiful
Lois Rindner, passed away on February 13, 2011, after a long period of
illness. Lois' memorial page
has now been created. If you would like to
contribute fond memories, stories or photos of Lois, or thoughts upon
her passing, to add to the page, please
send
them to Howie.
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Our 50-Year Grand
Reunion Gala and Weekend was everything it was supposed to be
and more. Saturday night, we had a ballroom bursting with love
and joy. We rocked, we rolled, and we had a blast!
Click here for a
full report
and a complete photo album with 235 photos AND
VIDEO to
help those who were there hold on to their precious
memories of this momentous milestone event in our
lives, and to share them with those who were not.
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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 below,
and then let us know.
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