Spring 2004 Newsletter
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Spring 2004 “Lies! Lies! All of It, Lies!” Issue No. 5 JHS Class of 1972 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter Welcome to this, the fifth newsletter of the Jericho High Official Propaganda Tool of Jericho High School’s Class of ’72 School class of 1972. In this issue: Love, Jericho Style: Patty Ryon and Steve Spiers, Mindy Wertheimer and Ira Katz, Mike Esposito and Louise Rumpelt, Luise Halberstadt and Jeff Linder, Love, Jericho Style Paul Martino and Mary-Anne Scro, Debbie Landis and Marshall Goldman, Dorene Kinberg and Stuart Mass 1 Boldface: Nooz About Yooz 2 JHS Hall of Fame Inductions 8 Cartoons by Dan Clurman 9 Jericho 11753 Exposed! 10 Jer-Echo Archives 13 Six Degrees of Separation 15 You Oughta Be in Pictures: Robert Banner 15 Mindy & Ira! Patty & Steve! Remembered Fondly 16 Lost and Found 18 Paul & Mary-Anne! Faculty Lounge: Ms. Barbara Mike & Louise! Dorene & Stuart! Murphy and Ms. Estelle Luise & Jeff! Debbie & Marshall! Stern Rankin 19 You Oughta Be in Pictures: Carol Sadowski Hawkins 19 Hometown Honeys’ Lasting Romances Fan Mail and Threatening Letters 20 Your Back Pages 21 n honor of Valentine’s Day, we this relationship was the one, and so thought we’d pay tribute to our forth. They also reflect on what it’s like ALUMNI UPDATES I nine class members whose to be married to someone who shares spouses are also from Jericho: Ira Katz many of the same childhood memo- Janet Penn Finkelstein 2 and Mindy Wertheimer, Stephen Spi- ries. Here’s wishing all of our couples Michael Lewis 3 ers and Patty Ryon, Debbie Landis and continued happiness together. Andrea Celenza Embry 3 Marshall Goldman, Mike Esposito and Two other intra-Jericho marriages Penny Schaefer Stabenfeldt 3 Louise Rumpelt, Paul Martino and should be noted: Joyce Barry and Jerry Bob Simon 3 Mary-Anne Scro, Luise Halberstadt and Kay, both, of course, from the class of Jeff Linder, and Dorene Kinberg and 1972; and Michael Dinhofer and Jaca- Thanks to this issue’s corre- Stuart Mass. They’ve been married for lyn Stanger of the class of 1973. spondents and to Webmacher anywhere from one year to thirty years. Sadly, Michael and Jerry both passed Freda Salatino. We hope that you will contribute news about you Here they explain how and when away. They’re remembered fondly on and yours to future issues. they met, their first impressions of pages 16 and 17. each other, when they came to realize Continued on page 5 JHS Class of 1972 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter • Spring 2004 Page 2 gant doctor at deposition.” She adds, The 50th Birthday Watch B O L D F A C E “This is usually followed by a telephone Nooz About Yooz call from the insurance company offer- Well, it’s begun: the first* mem- ing my client large sums of money. All bers of the class of 1972 to turn of us do significant pro bono work fifty — at least that we know of. In Labor: Work-related and are involved in many commu- Birthday wishes go out to: News nity-service activities.” Linda is the former cochair of Wanda Baskin Aria, January 17 Veteran litigator Linda Caputo- the Nassau County Bar Associa- Pam Wrona Sumpter, February 9 Friedmann has joined the Union- tion’s Committee on Medicine and Tom Navarra, February 10 dale, Long Island, law firm of Duffy, Law and is a member of the Nassau Kathy Ann Milner Hartwig, Duffy and Burdo, Esqs. We’ll let her Academy of Law. She is also a February 11 new employer sing Linda’s praises: member of the Board of Trustees Andrea Celenza Embry, March 1 “In addition to being an accom- and General Counsel for the Long Linda Caputo Friedmann, April 10 plished trial attorney, Ms. Fried- Island School for the Gifted, where Philip Bashe, April 13 mann is a staunch advocate for in- her daughter, Alexandra, attended. Melanie Siegel Dolan, April 18 jured individuals and an effective (The principal there? None other Barry Asrelsky, May 5 voice for patients’ rights. She par- than friend and former classmate Rael Reif, May 9 ticipates in lobbying for patients’ Robert Blond Tropper.) Cathy Kibel Shriger, May 20 rights in both Washington and New Allie is now a freshman at Syos- Linda Appelbaum, May 21 York, and is a member of the Na- set HS and a proud member of the David Gustman, June 5 tional Patient Advocate Society and JV softball team. Son Evan, a sen- their NYS Chapter.” ior, was recently named a National Congratulations! And report back Interestingly, before coming to Merit Scholar. to the rest of us what it was like to DD&B, Linda was on the other side turn fifty, will ya? The sensation of of the legal fence, representing the Congratulations to: leaving your physical body behind, health-care profession. “I am finally the brilliant white lights, the voices at a place where I can put all of my David Gustman, who in December of loved ones welcoming you over experience to good use.” she says. received his Masters of Science in to the other side, etc., etc. “I especially enjoy a sense of satis- Special Education from Hofstra Uni- faction when I dismantle an arro- versity. Please let us know when your birthday is, so we can wish you Checking In With … happy birthday in these pages. Janet Penn Finkelstein Thru June 30, 2004 Janet won’t be able to attend our communal 50th birthday celebra- Her younger sister, Anna, starts tion, but with good reason: She’ll be high school in the fall and has a off in San Miguel de Allende in Mex- new puppy to keep her company ico with her daughter Rachel for the now that Rachel is leaving.” month of July. “We are celebrating Janet, who lives in Sharon, Mas- our eighteenth and fiftieth birthdays sachusetts, runs a leadership pro- there,” she explains. gram for Jewish, Christian, Muslim, “We’re volunteering in a day and Hindu high-school students. “It care center for street children in the is an incredible blast: interfaith mornings, taking art classes in the learning, and training the teens to afternoons, and doing some travel- facilitate interfaith dialogue and ing. Rachel graduates high school antibias workshops in the commu- Arrogant doctors, beware! Linda this spring and is heading off some- nity.” Caputo Friedmann, Esq. where in New England for college. Continued on page 3 JHS Class of 1972 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter • Spring 2004 Page 3 Nooz About Yooz Bob Simon Continued from page 2 Television producer Bob Simon writes in reference to the photo be- Janet is also playing a lot of low: “Looks like a bizarre crime cello and getting commissions for scene from a TV show, but it's just a papercuts and calligraphy that she weird visual I happened upon while manages to do between 10 P.M. scouting locations in New York City and 2 A.M. “Life is full, life is good,” for a new TV show I'm working on. she adds, “though I’ll miss being “I was being shown a simply part of the celebration.” Friends Penny Schaefer Sta- amazing co-op at the Pierre Hotel. It benfeldt and Andrea Celenza is filled with a truly astounding art Michael Lewis Embry at our 30-year reunion. and memorabilia collection. These are the original suits the Beatles Roslyn High School senior Josh “After a day on the beach we wore on the ‘Ed Sullivan Show’ in Lewis, a star wrestler and the son headed off to town to rub elbows 1964. They were redoing the floors of Michael Lewis, went all the way with the likes of Billy Joel. We (all on the second level and had to to the 2004 Nassau County Wres- the Celenza/Schaefer families) met move the ‘fab four’ out of the tling Championships, which were Micheal Lewis and Brad Resnickoff dust. held at Nassau Community College at The Dock Side. Billy Joel built a “You won't see these suits (or in February. The 140-pounder ad- small compound on the adjacent the pink gown that Marilyn Monroe vanced to the finals by defeating corner near the small waterside wore when she sang happy b'day to Farmingdale’s Charles Ross. grille. He lives in one section, his mother lives in another, his kid JFK), but the co-op will be featured in this season’s second-to-last Penny Schaefer Stabenfeldt from Christie Brinkley has a section, episode of ‘CSI: Miami,’ which will Andrea Celenza Embry and the staff also has one. If introduce a new spin-off of the you walk around the Sag Harbor popular franchise: ‘CSI: New York,’ Here’s Penny Schaefer Stabenfeldt, Yacht Club Park, you will spot his starring Gary Sinise. Lt. Dan's got of Larkspur, California, with a varia- many motorcycles parked out front his legs back. Look for it in the tion on “What I Did on My Summer and people walking around trying to fall.” ■ Vacation”: “Last August the Celenza catch a glimpse or hear a note!” Embry family was invited to spend time in Sag Harbor with the Schae- fer Stabenfeldts. Andrea arrived with her new SUV loaded up with water sports, action toys, and two wonderful sons, Derek (now eleven), and Ethan (seven). “Andrea windsurfed the entire width of Noyac Bay. She took refuge at Jessups Neck to rest for her jour- ney back to the beach where we were camped. My son, Jack (then ten), learned how to water ski, in- cluding jumping wakes and drop- ping to a single ski.