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REUNION
ANNOUNCEMENTS —
ALL
classes:
(For protection
against electronic data miners, any personal e-dresses
shown below have extra spaces that must be removed before
using.) |
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 CLASS OF
1965
('64
and
'66
grads are invited, too)
—
45-years,
October 23, 2010,
Embassy Suites 1100 SE 17th Street, Fort Lauderdale,
Florida 33316.
Contact
Mark Gluckman at
markieg @ juno.com
or 604/471-0954. |
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CLASS OF
1961
—
50-years,
in planning
for
September
2011(Exact
date/details
to be
announced.) Contact
Chip Hawkins at
chipman711 @
aol.com. |
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CLASS OF
1970
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40-years,
August 7, 2010.
Contact
info@reunions-unlimited.com |
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CLASSES OF
1973,
'74 and '75
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October 1, 2010.
Contact
info@reunions-unlimited.com |
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CLASS OF
1971
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40-years,
September 17, 2010.
Contact
info@reunions-unlimited.com |
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OCEANSIDE
(the book)
OHS TEACHER/
1976 GRADUATE'S PHOTOGRAPHIC
HISTORY
OF OCEANSIDE (thru 1960)
NOW AVAILABLE
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Click here to read about
Richie Woods'
labor of love. |
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MEMORIAL UPDATES:
Date of last entry:
July 11, 2010 |
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We regret that our 50-year reunion
search for missing classmates revealed
the previously unknown passings of these
four classmates {l. to r.), Fred Brunicke,
Frances Hulse, Arthur
Rauh and
Christine Yarnall |
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In addition, we were first
informed at our 2010 reunion of the the
passing in 2008, after a long illness,
of Barbara Meehin. |
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We sadly learned on May 22,
2010, of the passing earlier that week
of
Donald Fine. |
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The loss of Judy Fitzgerald
in 2009 was reported sadly in February 2010
by a classmate.
According to Ginny Beedenbender, "Judy
was a very special person and a good
friend of mine. ... She loved OHS
and the wonderful times we had there."
(Click here to read what Judy had to
say to us over the years.) |
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The passing several years ago of Kathleen Tuzzi
Quinn, after suffering from cancer,
was reported to us on
October 11, 2009, by her sister, Marilyn
Anderson. |
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We learned in October
2009 of the passing November 1, 2008, of
Arthur Rauh, then a resident of
Eureka, California. |
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Karen Roesch, beloved wife and
high school sweetheart of classmate, Tom
Nasca, of Blue Point, New York, and a
member of our 2010 Reunion Committee,
passed away on June 28, 2009, a victim
of cancer. |
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We learned over a year after the fact
that Nancy Ludwig passed away on
April 8, 2008, after a long battle with
Parkinson's Disease. At the time, Nancy
was living in Green Valley, Arizona,
with her husband, Abe Grasiani. |
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We were
informed by her daughter that
Ann Marie Turanitza passed
away on December 16, 2008, in Orange,
California. She was married in 1962 to
Anthony Tanella ('59) and lived in Yorba
Linda, California, since 1966. |
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Tom Turner passed
away in California, July 27, 2008. An
extremely popular classmate who was
co-captain of our Sailor wrestling
squad, a member of our varsity
football team, vice president of the G.O., and president of
his fraternity, Omega
Gamma Delta. Visit his
special memorial tribute page. |
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We first learned in 2008 that
Marilyn Zmudosky, of Rockville
Centre, NY, passed away on December 17,
2003. Marilyn was a supporter of Women
at Risk, the breast cancer
research and support program at NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital/Columbia University Medical
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A classmate informed
 TM
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Lang, recently a resident of
Austin, Texas, (and part of our class
until our sophomore year when she moved
to Freeport) passed away February 10,
2008.
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Michael Katz, of
Laguna Woods, California, beloved twin brother
of Jay Katz, succumbed to complications
of a 35-year old injury and passed
away January 17, 2008. Visit Mike's
dedicated
memorial tribute page. |
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Carey Getelman, of
Boca Raton, Florida,
a
 Vietnam veteran (U.S. Marine Corps)
and a loving father of two and grandfather
of four, passed
away suddenly from a heart attack at
home on September 20,
2007.
1980 (at our 20-year
reunion weekend) |
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We were informed in 2006 of the following
four classmate losses:
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Judy Hering,
of Wading River, NY, was lost to cancer October 28, 2006.
Judy was the Director of the lab at John T.
Mather Memorial Hospital, Port Jefferson, NY. |
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David Adest,
of Freeport, NY, voted most enthusiastic
of our classmates, passed away in June
2006. Click here for a
special
memorial page for Dave, "The
Littlest Sailor." |
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Marie Sims,
most recently of Island Park, NY, passed away June 26, 2006, of
cancer, we are told. |
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Carol Wohlfarth, most
recently of Greer, SC, passed away April
16, 2006. |
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We were informed in 2005 and were able to
confirm that Jane Haight passed
away on April 21, 2002. |
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We were informed by her husband of 42 years
that Elizabeth (Betty Jane) Schnappauf
passed in June 2005. |
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A classmate informed
us that George Adlin passed away
sometime in 2004. |
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Barbara Pastor passed away February 25, 2005. |
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TM
first became aware in late January 2005
of the loss of Michael Zammetti, June
19, 1999, in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
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An e-mail to TM
from a relative of
Max Mollick informed us of his death
circa 1984 by auto accident. |
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We
also first
learned in January 2005 of the passing in
January 2001 from emphysema of Carol
Musgrave. |
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We learned
in December 2004 from his brother, Jerry
('63), of the passing from cancer of Dick Warren
in 2003. |
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Joan Friden passed on October 31, 2003, a victim of the rapidly crippling and always
fatal ALS ("Lou Gehrig's Disease"). |
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Early in 2004, we were informed of the
passing of Josephine Orzano. |
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In 2003, we first learned of the passing
in 1989 of our
classmate, Ken
Shilman. Visit Ken's special memorial page to learn
about important parts of Ken's life.
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And on September 8, 2003,
popular classmate and OHS track star, Steve Killorin,
died of cancer. No
more than 2 days before his passing, Steve registered on
Classmates.com, reaching
out in his final hours to reconnect with his OHS pals. |
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(Click here for a
 story about Steve's
record-breaking
cross-country run for OHS in 1960.)
On Sunday, September 14, 2003,
OHS track coach,
Roy Chernock
wrote this about Steve to
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"If I
had only known, I would have driven across the state to pay my
respects and condolences. Steve was a great Sailor
athlete!"
Individual memorial pages. We now feature
special individual memorial pages on the site for some our departed
classmates where information is available. If you would
like to submit information to help create a page for a
departed classmate or to report any
memorial
omissions that you know about, please
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RECENT FACULTY/ADMINISTRATION LOSSES
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 William
J. Gerek, a
business teacher at OHS during our time,
subsequently Assistant Superintendent of
the West Islip School District where he
was a lifelong resident, a WWII Army Air
Corps veteran and a golfer, died on January
7, 2009, at the age of 93.
http://www.wipublib.org/wisporalhistory/gerek.pdf
This photo taken in 1982
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 Best known as a beloved baseball and
football coach at OHS for
34 years, phys. ed. teacher,
Angelo Plaia, passed away July
28, 2006, at age 79. His coaching career produced more than half a dozen
baseball championships for the Sailors, including one county (in 1959), three
division and four league titles. He was honored in 2004 by induction into the
OHS Sports Hall of Fame's
"Circle
of Pride."
In an exclusive to www.1960sailors.com,
Coach Roy Chernock said,
"He was the absolute best PE
teacher I have ever known and I am positive any of his former students would
agree with that assessment!"
Click here for the full text of the
Newsday and Oceanside Herald obituaries
including what Frank Januszewski said about Angie Plaia.
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Athletic Director,
Frank Mangiapane,
 died
July 31, 2005, in Long Beach, NY. One of the most
popular admin-istrators in OHS, Frank was a
member of the original New York Knicks basketball
team briefly in its first year, 1946. We were
privileged to have
Frank as our guest at both our
30-year and our
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A
Newsday obituary
reported the passing, February 1, 2005, of
popular and revered, 78 year-old, retired OHS soccer
coach,
Art Wright (OHS
'44). Coach Wright co-founded Oceanside Little
League in 1950, led our undefeated 1958-'59 soccer
team (among others) to the County championship in
our junior year, and was in the 2003 first round
inductees into the OHS Sports Hall of Fame's
"Circle
of Pride." |
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Anne C. Marks, 91, Oceanside Jr. High School English teacher
beginning in 1956, passed away from a stroke on
February 25, 2005. Mrs. Marks honored our
class in 1990 by attending our
30-year reunion. |
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learned in 2004 of the passing of popular OHS math
teacher, Elaine Rapp (left). Click
here  to read
many fond memories of Miss Rapp
expressed by our classmates. Also, popular English teacher,
Marion Musante (right) passed in
Spring 2003. (Click here for a photo of
Miss Musante at our
40-year reunion.) |
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Does anyone have any photos from our 10-year reunion in 1970 to share with your classmates? |
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me know, PLEASE. |
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SITE HISTORY:
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CLASS WEBSITE KEEPS
GETTING COOLER
We're still rockin' 'n' rollin'!! |
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Our class website is now
over 200 pages
and
90 megabytes of memories
with
close to
3,000 embedded photo and other
graphic
image and sound files
for your pleasure!
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Significant new features of this website
throughout its history are
listed below in reverse chronological order to help you readily
determine what you haven't seen yet.
So keep coming back to this page
every time you've been away for a while to see
what's new. |
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2008
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A "new"
photo of our Nathan's, as we knew it. |
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An improved Jocko page
with an image of a
program booklet cover from
his first live stage show in New York City, 1956 |
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Archival images from
the OHS dedication ceremony booklet from September 21, 1955. |
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A complete roster of our
class of 1957
OJHS graduates and some
history of our OJHS
building before we arrived. |
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Our
class leaves
its mark again in our hometown. |
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A dedicated
memorial tribute page
for our dear, dear friend, Michael Katz |
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A report of a "mini-reunion"
in Florida in December 2007 among four dear old friends and
classmates. |
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A musical tribute to track coach,
Roy Chernock,
and his illustrious career (which still continues). |
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Oceanside/Island Park
HERALD's report of a
doo wop concert
at OHS in May 2007. |
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Our own home town
clown,
Jolly Jazzbo, and his Jazzmobile. |
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Oceanside/Island Park
HERALD's
full-page
feature article about this website.
(It's a
big file and may take a
while to load.) |
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Captain's Column added to
p. 1. |
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Three more
old
boardwalk photos added. |
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Ten more music files
added throughout the site! Watch
for
the links, and listen for the songs. |
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2006 |
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A memorial tribute page added for
Alan Lupi. |
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More photos of the
boardwalk and beach at Long Beach,
including Izzy's Knishes and
under the boardwalk. |
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More memorabilia added to
Sports,
Sider Press,
Teahouse,
Prom Night,
Music Program and
Other Activities pages. |
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Photos added of the OJHS
band from 1957 on our jr. high graduation day
and Memorial Day (click
here,
here and
here) and the
Cozy Corner
Tavern. |
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Rock 'n' Roll Radio pages revised and
expanded with "new" photos,
history and
audio clips for 3 top NY DJs of the
1950s, a completely new |
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Alan Freed page,
Murray
"the K" and
now, JOCKO,
the "Ace from Outer Space,"
back with over 20 minutes of
extremely rare audio! |
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Music recorded live, in concert, by
our
school band in 1960, also performed
at our graduation
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All of Howie's nostalgic
reunion speeches over the last 25+ years |
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1980
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2005
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A total of
14 pages with almost 200 photos from our rockin' 'n'
rollin', sea cruise-themed,
45-year reunion Memorial Day
weekend, 2005, with a
full, detailed, illustrated
report, Howie's
welcoming address, the
class photo and 11 pages of our reunion
photo album, including now starring on his |
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The sound of the ocean on the
home page, and other
cool, new sound effects here and there. |
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2003
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Music files reduced in size by 75%
for faster downloading
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Improved
Roadside
Rest page
(see
announcement,
p.3) and a link to it with newest "hot dog" logo
(first time anywhere
on the web) in the
banner at the top of every page
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2002
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The current
weather in and forecast for our little
town
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A lesson in the meaning and origin of the word, "googamooga"
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Cool stuff from the Sailor's Handbook,
1957-'58, 1958-'59 and 1959-'60 editions (see
announcement, p. 3 )
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2001
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12 more clippings from the pages of the 1959-'60
editions of
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Another
"Blast from the
Past"
— sounds of the "Grand
Kook"
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Murray "the K"
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Our site has been diced with "new" souvenirs
(mostly from memorable OHS events) from the "treasure
chest" of our classmate, Marta Watts, a rich scrapbook kept
by her from 1957-'60, including selected clippings from
Newsday's
sports section and rare
group
pictures of our entire
class as we were graduated in
1957 from
OJHS.
Check out the montage of
memorabilia on the
Acknowledgments
page and the AWESOME photos of the
St.
Anthony's fire of March 1960.
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A
whole bunch of classmates' memories (mostly submitted just before
our 40-year reunion) have been posted to the "Memory Book" page. And our "Spindrift"
page got a cool new look!
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Yearbook Online
For those among us who,
as the years sailed by, have lost
their precious yearbooks
(as one classmate called it, "The Old
Book"), worn them out or just don't want to
dig them out of mothballs
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it has
57 complete, original pages right
out of your yearbook.
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These pages contain the senior portraits of all 500+ of us, with all
the commentary that accompanied them
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and from
prior yearbooks, a total of 21 group photos of us as the junior and the
sophomore classes. |
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little
Spindrift
for
Yearbook Online
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Maiden voyage of "The
Spirit of 1960" launched March 10, 2000
Use the links on this page to visit
the new features and your browser's "Back" button to return
here after each side trip until you have seen it all.
Then you can use the navigators at the left or the
site map
to sail wherever you want. |
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 Go to our
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about our class theatre party we
had,
May
11th, 2001,
at the
of our senior year musical
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TECHNOLOGY TIPS:
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WANT A SAILORS' DESKTOP SHORTCUT
ICON?
If you would like a desktop shortcut icon in the
white-on-blue sailor's silhouette image, as
appears in the banner at the top of each page of
this site, to speed your access to it,
ask me,
and I'll send you one. |
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IDEAL SCREEN RESOLUTION:
The ideal screen resolution for viewing this site is
now 1024 X 768 pixels, a setting
commonly used on many monitors today. With this
setting, you should see whole page on your
screen at one time, and, although they will appear smaller,
the images will be clearer, and no scrolling should be
necessary. If you need to reset your screen resolution,
go to windows/ control panel/ display/ settings.
(Some older monitors are limited to 800 X 600, which should,
nevertheless, be
satisfactory but with some scrolling required.) |
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ARE YOU GETTING THE
MUSIC? |
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If you have not yet been able to enjoy the music on our class
website, you should do something about it it
because you are missing the single feature that
will most enrich the nostalgic experience that
it was intended to give you.
Click
here for tips. |
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SUPPORT OUR CLASS WEBSITE
AND OTHER ASSOCIATION
ACTIVITIES:
YOUR
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR OUR ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES
IS NEEDED ONCE AGAIN |
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An e-mail appeal for voluntary
dues payments was made in August 2009 to all
classmates whose e-dress is on file and active.
Click here to view it if you did not receive
one.
By responding to our
dues appeal, you activate your membership in our unique
1960 Sailors Association Inc.
(click for additional information about the Association)
and paying a nominal $25 in annual dues when requested,* a portion of such dues will be allocated to
the
website fund, and this way you can provide financial support for the
website. The balance of your dues will support our reunions and
any other activities. planned at the Board of
Directors' discretion.
You should know that many hundreds of dollars
have been invested in the creation and maintenance of this site
and continue to be invested every
month to keep it "afloat" and free of annoying advertising. Of course, I enjoyed creating it, I enjoy
continually updating, expanding and improving it, and I enjoy just
visiting it, too, but the class website is there for
everyone's enjoyment
— it
is our site, not
mine.
Thanks, gang.
And why not send
your
photos (or scanned images of them), memories
and information about yourself to share with your classmates, too?
If I don't have your e-dress yet, use
e-mail or the
Feedback form to register for our Class Directory
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SEND IT
NOW
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and
tell us how our site makes you feel! |
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Annual dues apply to a fiscal year
ending each June 30th.
Please make sure we have your contact
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A
VERY SAD REMEMBRANCE:
 February 3,
2009, was the 50th anniversary of rock 'n' roll's
 first
major tragedy, the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens
and the Bog Bopper. Of course, among the three, Buddy Holly, whose popularity
lasted only 18 months, was then and remains now, after 50 years, the
most revered and remembered, a major influence on those who followed.
Links to almost countless news articles about Holly and the others and
this anniversary of the event that came to be called "The Day the Music
Died," many with photos and some with audio clips, have appeared on GOOGLETM
(http://news.google.com/news?q=buddy%20Holly&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn) |
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ANOTHER SAD REMEMBRANCE:
 February
9th, 2006, 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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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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Won't you let me take
you on a
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