AcknowledgmentsSo Where Did All This Stuff Come from, Anyway?

A nostalgic website of the depth and breadth of this one (quite possibly the largest collection of electronic memorabilia of its kind from its time ever assembled on the web) does not spring forth by itself, nor is it solely the result of the efforts of just one person. In fact, it suddenly occurred to me after seven years that when I started the site I did not own a single photograph or any other souvenirs from high school or from our little town but for my yearbook. And I certainly had no idea what I was doing or what it would mean to so many people. Most of the familiar images that appear on this website and spark your memories were made possible as a result of careful preservation by the following classmates of assorted bits of memorabilia, keepsakes, and  photos from among their souvenirs of our high school days in Oceanside and of our class reunions:

Max Abbott Bill Badalucca Gerda Balding (Kunkel)        and Joe Kunkel Ginny Beedenbender Sheila Berg Jeany Bomberg Terry Brennan Mike Brozost Ed Chilton Carole Cohen George Constantin Kathy Cullen Linda Feuerstein Lenny Freshman Joyce Hapner Jim Heitler  Mike Jacobs

Jay Katz Nancy Keegan Bill Liebman Linda Luschinski Ray Martinis Jeff Menton Gary Moliver Fran Perlman Joel Pravda1 Bob Rubin Sue Schlesinger Bill Schmidt Audrey Schneiderman Doreen Silverstein Linda Strauss Rick von Brook Marta Watts

OHS alumni from other classes who also contributed material (listed in the order of class year) include:

Edmund "Jazzbo" Tester (1946) Lena Prochilo2 (1948) Andy Southard, Jr. (1951) Joe Papalia3  (1954) Wally Erskine (1956) Bette Strauss4 (1956) Carol Keegan6 (1957) Jerry Schmotzer (1961)

Bob Frankenberg (1962) Roberta Padula (1962) Barbara Mitchell (1964) Paul Bayha (1965) Marilyn Parker (1965) Melody Taylor5 (1965) Richard Woods7 (1976) Robin Kampf8 (1983)

__________________                     1  Memorabilia preserved by our late classmate provided to us by his loving widow, Vivien    2  Editor of Spindrifter, newsletter of the Oceanside High School Alumni Association     3  Cousin of our classmate, Ray Martinis     4  Sister of our classmate, Linda Strauss     5  Daughter of the late Ed Taylor, Oceanside Jr. High band teacher     6   Older sister of our classmate siblings (not twins), Kathy and Nancy Keegan     7  Author of OCEANSIDE (the book)         8  Daughter of our departed classmate, Carol Barry (provided reunion photos from her        late mother's scrapbook)

The generosity of these classmates and other OHS alumni in making these treasured mementos available to share with our entire class and other visitors to this site and to help restore our sweet but fading memories is gratefully acknowledged.  A special thanks goes out to certain OHS faculty members who contributed memory material: first, our music teacher and band/orchestra director, Allan Segal, for the live recordings from our production of The King & I on the OHS stage in 1958 made by someone unknown to us, and second, Coach Roy Chernock for photos of our championship track team.     Additional sources of photographs and other historical research material are also acknowledged with thanks to the following institutions and individuals named below:

The Oceanside Public Library Rev. Janet Porcher, Pastor, First United Methodist Church of Oceanside, for permission to use material from The History of Oceanside  The Long Island Studies Institute, a co-operative effort of Hofstra University and the Division of Museum Services, Nassau County Department of Recreation and Parks) Mary Hyland of Nathan's Famous, Inc. for her efforts in obtaining for us, after a 1-year search, the rare photo of our as it was when we were kids. Oceanside Fire Department's Terrace Hose Company #3 (for the photos of the St. Anthony's fire). Morton Shor, son of Leon Shor (co-founder of the Roadside Rest) for the interview Murray (son of Nathan) Handwerker (who took over the Roadside Rest when we were kids and then in 1959 turned it into our beloved) and his wife, Dorothy, for the interview Andrew Ceroni for permission to use his poem, "Remembrance" Joseph E. (Joe) Behar, PhD (Long Beach High School, 1960), Professor of Sociology, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY, and Chuck Jacobi (LBHS, 1973) for permission to use great photos of the Long Beach boardwalk Several sellers on eBay.com for making various memorabilia items available online Shannon Turner, daughter of our own Tom Turner, for photos of her dad.

Also thanks to Maria Heller ('58) of the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce for arranging for the Chamber to co-sponsor the presentation of our class' tribute to in June 2003. For assistance with the formidable technological challenges when I was just getting started in late 1999 and early 2000, I thank Craig Pravda (brilliant son of our late classmate and my dear old friend, Joel Pravda) and some of my business associates in Las Vegas, Nevada, Garrett Larson, Josh Kern and for assisting with the audio, Richard Bowler. And I thank my cousin, Mark Roth, who helped me obtain some of the music. And I thank particularly our classmate, Ed Chilton, for enhancing some of the graphic images, for inspiring me early on to strive for excellence, and whose help debugging and improving the site after its launch in early 2000 has been of enormous value.  Another special thank you to our classmate, Dave Schwarz, who spent hours in public libraries on Long Island in 2003 reading microfilms to assist with the research and who, as a result, found the Newsday ad from opening day, thus proving that its elusive date was, in fact, June 4, 1959 (and not in 1955 as reported elsewhere).  Others who have submitted material for our Memory Book page are, of course, acknowledged there.

So if "a few more tokens rest" within your treasure chest, "a photograph or two," from among your souvenirs that you would like to share with the class, this website is your central repository for them. Send them to me, Howie Levy, at 252 Hickory Hollow, Las Vegas, NV 89123-1177, and your name will be added to this list. Be assured that your treasures will be returned to you unharmed. Or you can send me by e-mail  electronically scanned image files (preferably .jpg or .gif files) of them.  I would particularly like pictures from our 10-year reunion (PLEASE! I have not been able to find any despite years of searching since 2000), our proms, our graduations (from jr. and sr. high), and familiar sights of our town of Oceanside in the 1950s, like the Little Red Store. (But no photos of classmates from before jr. high, please!!! I can only handle so much.)

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