The Class Birthday Card

   List of Known Class Birthdays
 

MOST OF US IN THE GREAT 

ARE NOW APPROACHING
(or have recently passed) 80

 

With a few outlying exceptions ranging all the way from 1940 to 1945, almost all of us were born between March 1942 and April 1943. So most all of us are (or will be) celebrating our 80th birthdays between March 2022 and April 2023. (Some born before 1942, however, are already there!)

 

Interestingly (maybe, or maybe not?), of the well over 300 known birthdays of our currently surviving classmates, the most common birth month among them is November with the most common known birthday being November 30th. One can only speculate that many of our fathers shipped off to war near the end of February 1942 (less than 3 months after Pearl Harbor).


Happy Birthday,

 

Here's a
 Classic '60
For Our Classy


 

Known classmates' birthdays: The charts below contain chronological lists of over 300 known classmates' birthdays during each month of the school year.  Women are listed by their maiden names. (The classmates' birth year is indicated next to the month except where otherwise noted parenthetically.)
 
If you are not receiving birthday cards annually from us, it probably means  we don't have your birthday or your correct address so let us know. If your birthday (or that of any other classmate you know) is omitted below, please send me an e-mail, and report it to me. 

September 1942:

    Dick Muddiman — 1

    Brenda Gordon — 2

    Roberta Ward — 2

    Denis Block — 5

    Joanne Rizzo — 5

    Frank Nicholas — 6

    Rudy Santoli — 6  (1941)

    Barbara Stange —  6

    Gloria Rosenberg — 7

    Jon Rubins — 7

    Betty Griffin — 8

    Carole and Cathy Hassett — 8    

    Anthony Owen — 9

    Dorance Barbuscia  — 10

    Ginny Matthews — 10

     Marilyn Seery — 13

 Jim Berka — 14

Linda Meyers — 14

Art Nelson — 15

Rona Tritz — 15

Dan Dawson — 19

Mike Brozost — 21

John "Cochise" Cachianes — 22

Linda Krumenacker — 23

Stephen Kayne — 24

Bill Liebman — 24

Jeff Seltzer — 25

Margee Davis — 26

Pat Keeling  — 28 (1941)

Ralph De Palma — 30

Maryann Krawczyk — 30

Jean La Vecchia — 30

October 1942:

     Rick von Brook — 2

     Ben Etri — 5

     Larry Goldberg  — 5

     Kathleen Poit — 5

     Gerry Gutman — 6

     Tim Duggan — 8

     Barbara Vrana — 8

     George Pearson — 9

     Bob Saunders — 11

     Mike Sinnot — 11

     Gail Fogelberg — 12 (1941)

     Hale Burrus — 14

     Fran Perlman — 15 

     Joyce Schacher — 15 

     Frank Rosen — 18

     Max Abbott — 19

     Karen Nover — 19

     Bill Schrader — 20

     Carol Wright — 20

     Mike Blumenthal — 21

     Bobbie Deitch — 23

Howie Levy — 24

Linda Gilbert — 25

Bill Hale — 25

Linda Kroemer — 25

Sabin Danziger — 28

November 1942:

Kathy Cullen — 1

Carole Green — 3

Diana Nigl — 5

Carol Trevithick — 6

Jeany Bomberg — 7

Eileen Carlock — 8

Linda Strauss — 8

Myles Tashman — 8

Jan Noon — 10

Joyce Hapner — 12

Anna and Fran Renzi — 13

Joe and Pete Witteman — 13 (1941)

Marilyn Braunstein — 18

Frank Vangeli — 19

Mary Ann Acierno —  20

Jeannie Bannwarth —  20

Terry Brennan —  21

Rosemary Di Stefano —  25 (1941)

Mike Jacobs —  26

Steve Green —  29 (1941)

Richard Greenman —  29

Marguerite Hegarty —  29

Connie Agresta  — 30

Roger Clemente — 30

Pearl Cohen — 30

Sue Kramer — 30

Gerry McCauley — 30

Bob Sewall — 30

John Vandermosten — 30

December 1942:

Fern Firestone — 2

Carol Crisalli — 4

Frank DeCuitis — 5

Carol Johnson — 5

Marty Ogulnick — 5

Lloyd Becker — 7 

Barbara Brevard — 7

Jim Sabine (1941)

Judy Luna — 8

Stephanie Chagrin — 10

Bobbi Traynor — 12

Bob Balsan — 13

Ronnie Konior — 15

George Langdon — 15

Bob Riederich — 15

John Aita — 16

Dan Nussbaum — 16 (1943) 
  (Is Dan the youngest in our class?
  Nope. See January 9th.)

Millie Motchmann — 17

Lucille “PeeWee” Weitzman — 17

Jack Beaulieu — 19

Jack Evans — 19

Roberta Perlson — 19

Jim Ledwith — 22

Sheila Berg — 23

Marta Watts — 23

Fran Caporaso — 24

Barbara Meurer — 25

Mary Hoff — 29

Ian Polow — 29

Louise Rosen — 31 (1941)

Rich Weiner — 31

January 1943:

Dennis Corvino — 1

Sharon Goldman — 1

Patricia O'Reilly — 2

Barry Reiber — 2

Betty Jane "BJ" Diamant — 3

Helaine Carlin — 5

Bill Dunn — 5

Sara Kraus — 6

Steve Cornell — 7

George Kinney — 8

Lois Levine — 9 (1945)
 (Seems that Lois was likely the youngest in
our class)

Dorrie McKane — 9

Paul Fishman — 12

Ray Hancock —  13 (1942)

Judy Krull — 14 

Ken Schmidt —  16

Marty Goldberg — 21

Phoebe Lustig — 21

Ron Prestera — 21

Gary Schwartz — 21

Fiore Freda — 22 (1941)

Owen Marrin — 22 (1942)

Jerry Rosenberg — 22

Donna Southard — 26

Pamela Holler —  28

Clark Marcus — 28 (1942)

 Betty Muller — 28

Tom Nasca — 28

Connie Baumann — 30

Sue Aronauer — 30

Bill Baylis — 31

Gary Moliver — 31 (1942)
     

February 1943:

Fred Figgs — 1

Dick Troncone — 1

Marion Schiller —  3

Harvey Tauber — 2

Rich Marcus — 4

Maryellen Goldsmith — 5

Charlie LaStella — 5

Linda Feuerstein — 6

Loretta Frisone — 8

Hilary Geitheim — 10

Dave Schwarz — 11

Dee Nastri — 14

Sue Suskind — 15

Bill Badalucca — 19 

Barbara Faicco — 19

Steve Shapiro — 23 

Ruth Harvey —  24

Marty Lieberman — 27

Bob Rubin — 28

Bill Schmidt — 28

Peg Bogosian  — 28  (1942)

 

March 1943:

Carmen Maniaci — 1

Bill Parinello — 1 (1942)

Arlene Weiser — 3

Doug Fanti — 4

Carol Lucas — 5

Lee Kerpel — 8

Bev Barnes — 9 (1942)

Austin Shulberg — 11

Claire Gomer  — 13

Eleanor Sicari — 14

Doris Wulbern — 14

Sue Dombroff — 15 (1944)

Chris Keller — 15

Bob Hirsch — 17

Penny White — 25 (1942)

Carole Greenstein — 26

Jay Katz — 26

Barbara Rosenzweig  — 28

Steve Hersch  — 29

Pete Kuberzig  — 29 (1940)
  (Pete was easily the oldest in our class)

Jill Slater  — 31 (or is it 4/8?)

April 1943:

Dave Cooper — 2 (1942)

Linda Goldman — 2

 Joel Albert  — 3

Harriet Milch — 7

Roy Johnson — 9

Frank DiStefano — 10

Gail Williams — 11

Anne Marino — 12 (1942)

Hank Seaman — 13 (1941)

Mike Kaufman — 14

Harold Keiser — 15

Linda Gollon — 16

Marie Cox — 17

Janet Lange — 18

Sandy Lieberman — 21

Jim Day  — 26

Marilyn Cohen — 27

Fern Guior — 28

Richie Berke — 30

Barry Dank — 30 (1942)

May 1942:

Dan and Mike Colodner — 5

Bob Smutny — 5

Jeff Menton — 9

Flossie Eidensohn — 9 (1943)

Sue Rooder — 9

Bill Jackson — 10

Judy Pilgrim — 10

Sue Schlesinger — 10

Stewart Senter — 14

Helene Shapiro — 15

Lynda D'Acunto  — 16

Artie O'Keefe — 19

Barry Neu — 22

Audrey Schneiderman — 25

Carl Zeitz — 25

Marsha Rose — 26

Joe Trezza — 28

Donna Darmstadt — 29

Marty Freed — 29

Lennie Freshman — 29

Bobbie Alfin — 30 (1943)

Bob Johnson — 30

Carole Schiffer — 30

Janna (Johnny) Barone — 31

Dennis Deegan — 31

Pat Kuralt — 31

Paul Weiss — 31

George Williams — 31

June 1942:

Bob Renselaer — 4

Roz Krugman — 5

Florence Friedman — 8

Joni Panebianco — 8

Eleanor Abate — 9

Joan Behm — 9

Harriet Goldstein  — 9

Frank Nicholas — 9

Tom Naumann — 10

Diana Funaro  — 11

Shelli Bosnick — 14

Donna Damsey — 14 (1943)

Nancy Keegan — 14

Nina Popick — 14

Judy Wilkens— 15

Nancy Koller — 16

Ken Braun — 17

Brian Donohue — 23

Paula Moll — 29

Linda D'Allessandro — 30

Arlene Speth — 30

July 1942:

    Barbara Blum — 2

     George Constantin — 2

     Bob Hawes — 3

     Vinnie Longo — 3

     Jim Schroeder — 4

     Judi Winetz — 4

     Joel Charleston — 5

     Ken Sack — 5

     Mike Nordell  — 6

     Stephanie Droboty  — 8

     Al Carlson — 9

    Doreen Silverstein — 10

     Ray Martinis — 11

Jill Brenner — 12

Phillip Eng — 15 (1941)

Gail Greenberg — 15
      
    Rich Waldman — 18 (1943)

Margie Schiff — 20

Nancy Nystrom — 21

Chuck Cannon — 22

Barbara Stern — 22

Nick Minutolo — 23

Jane Bragg — 28

Susan Lillyman — 29

Tom Coleman — 31 (1941)

August 1942:

   Alan Gest — 1

    Joan Gravina  — 4

    Lee Wright — 4

    Jim and Roseann Godstrey — 6

    Linda Luschinski — 7

Bob Santore — 10 (1941)  

Sheilagh Creighton — 11

Sue Barbaro — 14

Tony Margolis — 13

Bob Harrigan  — 17

Joe Kunkel — 17

Jackie Miller — 18

Carole Cohen — 21

Luke Lucarelli — 21

Ruth Ryder — 21

Barbara Zimmerman — 24

Gerda Balding — 27

Elaine Castronovo  — 30

Felicia Minei —  31

    Ralph Silberer  —  31 (1941)

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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 "2000"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

  • Reality TV, American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, The Apprentice and others

  • mp3 players, iPods and BlackBerrys (the latter soon to be replaced by "smart phones")

  • The controversial Iraq war and the capture of Saddam Hussein

  • 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 (Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama) run for president in 2008; Obama wins

  • Financial markets and the auto industry collapse, the big government "bailouts" and the great economic recession

  • A single mother with 6 other children gives birth to octuplets ─ and they all live!

  • "The Miracle on the Hudson," when all 155 passengers aboard survived a plane crash in the Hudson River

  • Bernie Madoff and the biggest Ponzi scheme in history

The "2010"s

  • The automobile industry's economic recovery from the recession

  • I-pads

  • A 72-day celebrity marriage involving a Kardashian

  • The "Arab Spring" revolutions toppling dictators in the Middle East

  • A super-heated battle for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and  the surprise election of Donald Trump

  • Several Congressional gridlocks resulting in government shutdowns

  • The hometown horror of  "superstorm," Hurricane Sandy, followed by devastating tornados and floods in Texas,  Oklahoma and elsewhere, and other extreme weather systems across the U.S . and  record wildfires in southern California and elsewhere

  • A scandal in the IRS targeting nonprofit organizations

  • "Obamacare" adopted; failed Republicans attempt  to overturn it after 2016 election, probably the strangest presidential election in U.S. history (until 2020)

  • Attack on the US embassy in Benghazi

  • Russia invades the Ukraine

  • Asian airliners lost in the Pacific; one attacked in the Ukraine conflict

  • Hundreds of young girls kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria

  • ISIS terrorists in Syria behead several US journalists and other captive hostages

  • US "normalizes" relations with Cuba

  • Multiple conflicts between cops and the communities they police, with frequent, racially charged shootings, many fatal, of or by police officers

  • Repeated  failed attempts at federal gun control despite multiple mass shootings, including anti-semitic attacks and other hate crimes in several U.S. cities in schools, churches, theaters, and night clubs

  • Terrorist attacks in Boston, New York/New Jersey, Paris, Nice, Berlin and Istanbul, and the whole world reacts in solidarity each time

  • Landmark Supreme Court decision enabling same-sex marriage nationwide

  • Mass exodus of Syrian refugees to Europe and the U.S.

  • Legalization of recreational marijuana use in several U.S. states

  • The passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia followed by possibly the most contested confirmation hearing in history of his successor, Brett Cavanaugh

  • Extreme political divisiveness since the 2016 presidential election and peaking (temporarily) at the end of 2019 with the impeachment of Donald Trump in the House Ύ and his acquittal in the Senate trial in 2020.

The "2020"s

  • Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, passes.

  • A highly contested presidential election in 2020 causing a violent insurrection at our Capitol building on January 6, 2021.

  • A sexual harrassment scandal forced New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo's resignation.

  • America's 20-year war in Afghanistan ends with the abrupt withdrawal of our troops in August 2021 amid much political controversy.

  • A wave of Republican state laws are passed that are seen as severely threatening voting rights that the House and White House seek to overturn with federal legislation.

  • Another political firestorm erupts over an ultra-conservative Texas law that the Supreme Court refuses to block and that threatens Roe v. Wade.

  • Hurricane Ida and its aftermath wreaked havoc in Lousiana and the northeast.

  • During 2020 and 2021, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, killed thousands in the U.S. and millions worldwide shutting down virtually all economic activity — causing three postponements of our 60-year reunion!

        

 

    

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