THE GREAT 

IS NOW ALMOST INTO ITS 70s

Since (with a few exceptions) almost all of us were born between March 1942 and April 1943, almost all of us celebrated our 60th birthdays during those months in 2002-2003.


Happy Birthday,

Here's a
Classic '60
 For a
Classy Class


Known classmates' birthdays:  Click on the month shown in the chart below for a list of known birthdays of classmates during that month.  (The birth year is 1942 except where otherwise indicated.)  If your birthday (or that of any other classmate you know) is omitted, please fill in the feedback form, or send me an e-mail, and report it to me. 

A brief history of the world that we have known: We have witnessed many remarkable and significant historical events, technological developments and sociological trends in our 60+ years.  Here is a list of some of them:

    The forties

  • World War II
  • Israel independence
  • Televisions in our homes
  • We were born

    The fifties

  • Korean conflict
  • Polio vaccine
  • Discovery of the structure of DNA
  • The "Cold War"
  • McCarthyism
  • Color TV
  • Sputnik
  • Pampers
  • Legos
  • Barbie dolls
  • Computers
  • Interstate highway system
  • Mass migration to the suburbs
  • Beginnings of the civil rights movement in America
  • Westward migration of the Dodgers (after finally winning the World Series) and the Giants
  • School integration
  • I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Sgt. Bilko, Sid Caesar and Ernie Kovacs, Milton Berle and Ed
    Sullivan, Jack Benny and Burns and Allen, and TV westerns and quiz shows
  • Payola
  • James Dean and Marilyn Monroe
  • Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
  • Tailfins and chrome, Corvettes, Thunderbirds and lots of other really cool cars
  • Alan Freed, Elvis Presley and rock 'n' roll

    The sixties

  • Cuban missile crisis
  • Instant replay
  • The 1964-'65 New York World's Fair
  • Viet Nam
  • Freedom Riders and the peak of the civil rights movement
  • Campus protests
  • Sexual freedom
  • "The pill"
  • Recreational drugs
  • Assassinations
  • Motown, the "British Invasion" and psychedelic music
  • Birth of the Mets
  • Heart transplants
  • Hippies and Woodstock
  • Landing on the moon

    The seventies

  • Kent State massacre
  • Apollo 13
  • Disco music
  • Leisure suits
  • Fifties nostalgia
  • Roe v. Wade
  • "Women's lib"
  • Watergate
  • Streakers
  • Gasoline crisis
  • 3-Mile Island
  • Genetic engineering

    The eighties

  • Iran hostage crisis and Iran-Contra affair
  • Air traffic controllers' strike
  • John Lennon and Marvin Gaye killed
  • Breakup of AT&T
  • "New Coke"
  • "Live Aid" and "Farm Aid"
  • Space shuttle, "Challenger" explodes
  • "Hands Across America"
  • Statue of Liberty's 100th anniversary celebration
  • "Black Monday" stock market crash
  • End of "Cold War" and fall of the Berlin Wall
  • Tiananmen Square uprising
  • Home computers
  • MTV
  • VCRs
  • Cell phones
  • Jarvik artificial heart
  • Prime interest rates exceed 20%, recession and stock market crash
  • AIDS virus identified

    The nineties

  • Split-up of Soviet Union
  • "Desert Storm"
  • Gay rights movement
  • Crackdown on sexual harassment
  • Internet
  • Assisted suicides
  • Columbine high school shootings
  • Cloning of large mammals

      The "00"s

  • A new millennium
  • Mapping of the human genome
  • Election scandals
  • Attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
  • War on world terrorism
  • Pedophile priests scandal in the Catholic church
  • A series of enormous corporate scandals and failures, led by Enron, and the frantic race to reform
  • Face-off with Iraq
  • Multiple sniper attacks near Washington baffle police for weeks
  • A human clone??
  • Reality TV, American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, The Apprentice and others
  • mp3 players, iPods and BlackBerrys
  • Capture of Saddam Hussein and the controversial Iraq war
  • Same-sex marriages?
  • A college girl fakes her own kidnapping
  • Gasoline prices peak, then fall and bounce around, housing and mortgage crisis while the financial system collapses, and the economy goes in the tank ─ then, big government bailouts and the "stimulus" package
  • A former first lady and a black man run for president
  • Financial markets and the auto industry collapse, the big government "bailouts" and the great economic recession
  • The black man wins the presidency
  • A single mother with 6 other children gives birth to octuplets ─ and they all live!
  • "The Miracle on the Hudson," when all 155 people aboard survived a plane crash in the river
  • Bernie Madoff and the biggest Ponzi scheme in history

The "10"s

  • The Egyptian revolution and its fallout

For capsule histories in text of each decade since high school, visit our reunion pages. Start here.

For an interesting perspective on your own birthday try this: enter your birth date in the popup window that appears after you click here.

Known classmates' birthdays  Click on the month shown in the chart below for a list of known birthdays of classmates during that month. The birth year is 1942 except where otherwise indicated. (A "?" means the year is unknown.) If your birthday (or that of any other classmate you know) is omitted, please fill in the feedback form, or send me an e-mail, and report it to me. 

 

 

 

January:

"BJ" Diamant — 3 (1943)

Bill Dunn — 5 (1943)

George Dirkes — 7 (1943)

Linda Kepke — 18 (Year ?)

George Kinney — 8 (1943)

Paul Fishman — 12 (1943)

Rudy Hrubala  — 12

Kathy Isom  — 12

Judy Krull — 14  (1943)

Marty Goldberg — 21 (1943)

Tom Nasca — 28 (1943)

 

 

 

 

February:

Marion Schiller —  3

Maryellen Goldsmith — 5 (1943)

Linda Feuerstein — 6 (1943)

Dave Schwarz — 11 (1943)

Bill Badalucca — 19 (1943)

Steve Shapiro — 23 (1943)

Bob Rubin — 28 (1943)

Bill Schmidt — 28 (1943)

 

 

 

 

March:

Bill Parinello — 1

Claire Gomer  — 13 (Year ?)

Albert Muller — 14 

Doris Walker — 14 (Year ?)  

Doris Wulbern — 14 (Year ?)   

Carole Greenstein — 26

Jay Katz — 26 (1943)

Barbara Rosenzweig  — 28 (1943)

 

 

 

 

 

April:

Frank DiStefano — 10

Michael Kaufman — 14 (1943)

Marty Fuchs — 28 (1943)

 

 

 

 

May:

Bob Smutny — 5

Jeffrey Menton — 9

Flossie Eidensohn — 9 (1943)

Sue Rooder — 9

Sue Schlesinger — 10

Stuart Senter — 14

Judy Rose — 15

Audrey Schneiderman — 25

Roberta Alfin — 30 (1943)

Carole Schiffer — 30

 

 

 

 

June:

Florence Friedman — 8

Tom Naumann — 10

Diana Funaro  — 11

Shelli Bosnick — 14

Nancy Keegan — 14

 

 

 

 

July:

     Doreen Silverstein — 10

Ray Martinis — 11

Jill Brenner — 12
      
      Rich Waldman — 18 (1943)

Chris Knorr — 20

 

 

 

 

August:

     Linda Luschinski — 7

Kathy Keegan — 8 (1943)

Bob Santore — 10 (1941)   Is Bob the oldest in our class?

Lynne Oliver — 12 

Tony Margolis — 13

Linda Solomon — 13

Joe Kunkel — 17

Carole Cohen — 21

Barbara Zimmerman — 24

 

 

 

 

September:

     Denis Block — 5

      Gloria Rosenberg — 7 (year ?)

      Ginny Matthews — 10

Mike Brozost — 21

Linda Krumenacker — 23

Bill Liebman — 24

Jeff Seltzer — 25

Margee Davis — 26

 

 

 

 

October:

      Rick von Brook — 2

      George Pearson — 9

      Fran Perlman — 15 

     Max Abbott — 19

      Jerry Perlow — 19

      Bobbie Deitch — 23

Howie Levy — 24

 

 

 

 

November:

Kathy Cullen — 1

Carole Green — 3

Sam Lettini — 3 (Year ?)

Eileen Carlock — 8

Linda Strauss — 8

Joyce Hapner — 12

Anna and Fran Renzi — 13

Joe and Pete Witteman — 13 (1941)

Marilyn Braunstein — 18

Ed Chilton — 19

Mary Ann Acierno —  20

 

 

 

 

December:

Marty Ogulnick — 5

Lloyd Becker — 7 

Bobbie Traynor — 12

Dan Nussbaum — 16 (1943)  Is Dan the youngest in our class?

Lucille “PeeWee” Weitzman — 17

Sheila Berg — 23

 

 

 

    
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