“Lies! Lies! All of It, Lies!” Fall 2008 Issue No. 20 JHS Classes of ‘71, ‘72, ‘73 The Big Two-Oh! Thirderly On-Line Newsletter

Welcome to this, the 20th news- letter of the JHS classes of ‘71, Official Propaganda Tool of ‘71, ‘72, ‘73 Jericho High Alumni ‘72, and ‘73, and friends.

JerichoIn thisGirls Gone issue: Wild! 1 Featuring salacious clothing Jericho Girls styles guaranteed to doom 1 those who wore them to a gone wild! nunnery. With commentary 2 by Amy Lubow, Wendy Fox- myn, Benita Zahn, Carol

Rosenblum, others First It Was Culottes! Then Pants! Then Hot Pants! Nooz About Yooz: Mike Ste- 32 bel, Ken Kraus, Larry Licht, Then Clogs and Platforms! Roy Pollack, Ellen Meister, more 4 Who Could Have Foreseen It Catch Up With … 3 Dan Clurman Would Lead to This?!? → 6 And Now for the Youngsters 10 Progeny of Janet Penn The JHS Administration, Finklestein That’s Who! 11 First Person Singular: 11 Cheryl Goldenberg — her 12 story in her words ears before the women’s march “I was told that my skirt was a dis- down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue traction,” she recalls, “and asked to go

Takin’ Care of Bidness — 14 on August 26, 1970, which home and change.” Y Jerichonians at Work: more or less kicked off the women’s Women teachers were subject to

Virtuoso violist Ann Roggen liberation movement, at least symboli- the same rules, incidentally. Social-

15 cally, girls at Jericho High and Junior studies teacher Ms. Maureen Tracy re- Cartoons by Dan Clurman 16 High were standing up for their fashion members administrators reprimanding rights. her for wearing a pantsuit, which they Everything You Ever Wanted 17 to Know about: Keith Steiner For a time, it seemed like if you deemed “unprofessional.” were a young women, your artorial The female dress code became Faculty Lounge: 1721 choices were limited pretty much to something of a political flashpoint, not Mr. Alan Arnold 19 skirts or a burka, as school administra- on the scale of the Vietnam War, of 25 tors prohibited culottes, pants, clogs, course, but a source of outrage none- 23 Strings Still Attached: and short skirts. Even long skirts could theless. During junior high, girls from Updates on JHS musicians Helene Millman, Wendy Chin, 28 earn you a trip to the principal’s office, the class of ‘72 defiantly wore culottes Jaclyn Stanger, Gail Murphy, as Amy Lubow Downs (’72) found out at to school, only to be told to go home Jill Harmon, Stephen Molina, George A. Jackson Elementary School. Continued on page 7 Carol Sadowski, others 34

Your Back Pages: 31 It’s Party Time Again!

Number one with a mullet: Details on page 2! Hits through the years

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Ilise Zimmerman, president and CEO of Northern NJ Maternal/Child Health Consortium. Eraserhead On the home front, Ilise’s daugh- ter Stephanie just graduated from IIise Zimmerman, who lives in Har- Cornell, her mom’s alma mater, worth, New Jersey, recently had while younger daughter Michelle just lunch with fellow New Jerseyan and entered Washington University. “It’s fellow former West Birchwood-ite amazing,” she notes, “that they are Mark Albin. “He reminded me that in aging while we are not.” So true. ■ second grade we were awarded the Do the clean-cut young folks above look titles Eraser King and Queen,” she Shutterbug Stebel familiar? They should. Their images graced says. Explanation, please? the Jericho School News newsletter that When not was mailed to your parents to let them “Apparently our class played a

know just what it was you were supposedly game during recess where the girls on the job doing on weekdays. would chase the boys, who had eras- as vice ers placed on their heads. The boy president Mrs. Cohen in Newsweek who was able to keep it from falling of product off was named king; the same con- develop- The June 23, 2008, cept applied to the girls, only in re- ment, mar- issue of Newsweek verse. keting, and sales for software devel- featured a letter to “I felt so pleased that Mark re- oper QuickQuote, Mike Stebel (‘71) editor from retired membered me in this leadership takes photos. Good ones, too. To see Jericho math teacher role. Of course, I reminded him that for yourself, visit his website at www. Mrs. Irma Cohen in the reason we won was due to the michaelstebelimages.com. response to a previ- fact that we were the only kids with Mike’s latest images include sev- eral taken on his and wife Beth’s re- ous “My Turn” column about today’s thick, curly hair that held the erasers female students and science: snug to our scalps!” cent trip to Vermont to visit his fa- Small wonder that Ilise was in- ther. Now living in Delray Beach, Flor- I am a 1950 graduate of Rensselaer ducted into the JHS Hall of Fame in ida, he has two children, Jacob and Polytechnic Institute with a degree in 1992. Actually, that probably had Meryl. ■ mechanical engineering. There were more to do with her ongoing work as Continued on page 10 many other coeds in the fields of ar- chitecture, electrical engineering, Next Reunion aeronautical engineering, chemical engineering, biology, chemistry, phys- Announced! ics, and metallurgy during my time there. We did not think of ourselves The next reunion for the JHS as nerds or nerdettes. We were sci- classes of 1971, 1972, and 1973 ence and engineering students just is all set for Saturday, October 9, as much as the men were. We got 2010, at the Milleridge Cottage, in professional jobs upon graduation Jericho, New York, from 1 p.m. to and made commercial, industrial 6 p.m. You don’t have to be from and academic contributions. There those classes in order to attend, was no feeling of being a misfit in a though; everyone’s invited. Once field that we thought was as suited again, we’ll be organizing other to us as to males. Fortunately there activities to make it a fun-filled are now even more opportunities for weekend, with lotsa laughs. For women who are interested and good more information, stop into the in math and science. “Senior Lounge” section of our website. We promise you the best Irma S. Cohen party ever. Tickets will go on sale Hempstead, NY ■ next summer. ■

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Catch Up With … Dan Clurman

eing in high school at that we were fortunate to duced us to Carl Rogers and the start of the have opportunities to study Abraham Maslow and encour- B 1970s felt challeng- subjects like existentialism aged asking big questions: ing to me. The sixties and and futurism. For example, What was the purpose of edu- post-sixties era had such a Steve Piorkowski encour- cation? What did we truly feel fervent quality to them that I aged enlivening discussions passionate about? What did often longed to be some- about Shakespeare, Albert freedom to learn entail?

where besides school. The Camus, and Samuel Beckett I also had a memorable cultural shifts of that era in our AP English course. I English class with Howard had a big impact on so felt inspired to have a Damon. He’d written a book on many of us. I loved sixties teacher who cared deeply language with Neil Postman, music: Dylan, the Beatles, about our personal re- the media critic at New York the Doors, the Stones, sponses to great literature. University. I wrote a paper for Cream. And I read a lot of How often does that hap- that class on poetry therapy. I beat poetry: Jack Kerouac, pen? visited poetry therapy groups Allan Ginsberg, Lawrence Jack Bartul, head of the in New York City lead by Jack Ferlinghetti. The counter- social studies department, Leedy, a psychiatrist who culture and beats figured also created rich opportuni- wrote pioneering books on us- strongly in my perspective ties for learning. He gave us ing poetry therapeutically. How on life. the freedom to explore top- extraordinary to have teachers Even so, Jericho offered ics that went beyond the who encouraged us to be curi- progressive educational op- curriculum through inde- ous and passionate about sub- tions. Looking back, I think pendent projects. He intro- Continued on page 4 “Dentistry is so different Dan in Bali. today than when I went to dental school. Years ago, you mainly did ‘drill and fill,’ and clean teeth. That was it. Now, of course, a lot of my work involves cosmetic dentistry.”

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Dan Clurman At Columbia, I helped to set up and run an agency called Student Help for the Elderly, which placed stu- Continued from page 3 dents in helping relationships with older people on the Upper West Side. The students provided all kinds of as- jects that interested us. (I’d put Bob Hoffman, Chuck sistance: helping around the apartment, shopping, or Vigilante, and Ray Matienzo in that category too.) I’ve simple companionship. I interviewed the older people always been excited by ideas, so I felt a great connection who requested services and placed the students with with these teachers. They set a tone for what was to fol- them. Some famous people called. One woman I met, low, as most of my work Babette Deutsch, had now involves education in translated Pushkin (the various settings. Dan and Mudita in Bali. Russian writer) and was a In high school, I often Mudita used to live major poet. Her shopping dreamed about being a there. lists read like little poems: poet. I started writing po- “The whitest, lightest cel- etry when I was ten and ery obtainable." Another continued writing amidst woman I interviewed had whatever else I did. When hung out with Picasso, I went to Oberlin College, Gertrude Stein, Hemming- I wrote constantly. way, and Man Ray in Paris Though intensely aca- in the twenties. Many older demic, Oberlin had a six- people I met led fascinat- ties-aftermath quality. It ing lives. was a fun, stimulating That work graphically environment, filled with illustrated the way our so- creative people who stud- ciety marginalizes people ied and partied hard. But as they age. Older people I felt isolated living in are often viewed as lacking Ohio, especially after value. In nonindustrialized growing up near New societies, older people play York City. After two years, a role in a younger per- I transferred to Columbia son’s transition to adult- University. I wound up hood. But our society has rooming with two Oberlin lost its connection to the transfers on Manhattan’s last part of life and the wis- Upper West Side. dom older people can One reason that I share. chose Columbia was its At Columbia, I also cre- superb anthropology de- ated a program to teach partment. I even took a the student volunteers to culture and communica- conduct oral histories with tion class with Margaret older clients. (I find it ironic Mead, then in her early seventies. She gave people in that I’m telling my oral history for our newsletter after all the class forty-five minutes to talk privately with her. In these years.) It seemed like a natural way to connect my interview, we discussed cross-cultural aspects of ag- younger and older people. The interviews also provided a ing, which prompted my working with older people. Continued on page 5

Everybody’s Got a Story to Tell — Even You! So how about sharing it in a future issue? You can either write it yourself or be “interviewed” over the phone. It’s your story entirely in your words. Pretty painless, really — even therapeutic. If you’re interested, get in touch.

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Dan Clurman named Gay Luce. SAGE applied holistic health tech- niques to working with older people to foster positive, Continued from page 4 vital images of aging. We used massage, biofeedback, tai-chi, autogenic training, and art therapy in our groups. way to learn about history from people’s life stories. In I started off at SAGE as an intern, then became a addition, most older people enjoy reviewing their lives. trainer and a group leader. The director of training at It’s a natural way to integrate what they’ve lived through. SAGE was a woman from Minneapolis, Mudita Nisker. A sense of wholeness can emerge out of the life review, We eventually led many groups together and fell in love. especially from sharing insights about one’s generation Mudita had studied psychology at the University of Min- and its place in history. The program profoundly affected nesota. Then she got the California bug and moved to the older and San Francisco in younger people in- 1968. volved. I later The two of us taught an oral his- live in Oakland tory class, through near the Berkeley City University, for border. Oakland is older Jewish immi- an ethnically di- grants in Brighton verse city. Many Beach. Their stories cultures, for exam- painted a detailed ple, participate in portrait of immigra- it’s local music tion in the city dur- festivals. Mudita, ing the early in fact, plays per- 1900s. cussion in a Bali- nese orchestra California and dance troupe Dreaming called Gamelan Sekar Jaya. They Around 1978, I con- perform traditional sidered attending and contemporary the University of Balinese dance Michigan either Dan and Mudita with friends in Holland. The couple love to go biking and music and for its anthropology together, and Holland is ideal. According to Dan, “It’s one of the few have toured Bali program or to get countries where biking is the main way that people get around, and many times. She a Masters in Public there are bikeways everywhere. It’s flat, too.” used to live there Health. I’d already and has studied been accepted into the public health program. But I’d Balinese music and dance for over thirty years. also met some people from California who’d moved to Mudita and I have worked together in one form or New York, and they insisted, “You’d really like California. another since we met. We currently teach communica- You should check it out.” Upon visiting San Francisco, I tion skills together (shameless plug: visit our site immediately decided to move there. The city had a magi- www.comoptions.com for more info). The communication cal appeal; the taste of the sixties remained strong. work helps people improve their emotional intelligence When I arrived, I trained with a group called SAGE and social skills. We present public workshops and do (Senior Actualization and Growth Explorations), which trainings with private companies and government organi- had been founded by a science writer and psychologist Continued on page 6

Everybody’s Got a Story to Tell — Even You! So how about sharing it in a future issue? You can either write it yourself or be “interviewed” over the phone. It’s your story entirely in your words. Pretty painless, really — even therapeutic. If you’re interested, get in touch.

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Dan Clurman ate courses in psychology habits that are no longer at Golden Gate University. I efficient. Feldenkrais Lorrie Berg:

Continued from page 5 continue to work with older explores alternative ways Also Working folks, too, as a practitioner to move that reduce effort zations like NASA and the of the Feldenkrais Method, and create ease. It’s very In Bodywork EPA. While practical, the which I’ll explain in a mo- helpful for some injuries — skills also focus on think- ment. for instance, musicians “Lorrie and I have been in touch with each other ing critically about one’s Shortly after arriving in suffering from repetitive beliefs and language use. California, I studied mas- stress syndrome who need ever since we both moved Corporations increas- sage. That started a life- to play their instruments out to the Bay Area,” says ingly perceive that good long interest in working with less tension. Dan, who also communi- leaders need more than with the body. Almost I’ve taught movement cates regularly with class technical expertise to suc- every kind of bodywork classes for years. Gradu- of 1972 members Mark ceed. We’ve seen a grow- finds its way to the Bay ally, older people seeking Whitehill (a psychologist ing interest in social and Area. better balance and coordi- and father of three in emotional intelligence for The Feldenkrais nation have attended. Over Washington) and Cindy managers. Of course, Method is a form of so- time, they see functional Rosenthal (a college pro- some organizations have matic education that uses improvements in walking, fessor of acting in New more of a learning culture movement to help people sitting, standing, balance, York City). “Lorrie and I than others. function more effectively reaching for things, gar- went to massage school Mudita and I work and elegantly (as a per- dening — all kinds of daily together. We’ve explored separately as well. She’s former or in recovering activities. similar interests, particu- worked as a marriage and from an injury). Just as our larly bodywork.” family therapist for over thinking can become rigid Dan the Renaissance Man Lorrie, also from the twenty years. I coach indi- and stereotyped, we can class of 1972, lives in San viduals and teach gradu- also develop movement I’ve never stopped writing. Francisco and practices in In 1995 a small grant al- Ross, California. A practi- lowed me to publish a tioner for more than Onomastics Department book of poems and draw- twenty-five years, she is ings, Floating Upstream. I trained in healing modali- Didn’t Dan Used to be Popkin- also co-conducted a series ties such as massage, Clurman? of interviews with well- Reiki therapy, Rosen known critical-thinking method, and an integrated Yep. “I still am technically Dan Popkin-Clurman,” says educators that become a system of healing called Dan. “But professionally, I just use Dan Clurman; it’s book, Conversations with BodyTalk. And as you can less confusing for people.” The family surname, he ex- Critical Thinkers. plainly see, she looks ab- plains, derived from his father’s putting his own father’s Sometime in the late solutely terrific. ■ and stepfather’s names together. 1990s, I started drawing, Dan, who grew up in Brookville, now visits his family and cartoons popped out. in Canada. “Around the time that I was graduating from In 2006 I published a car- Columbia, my parents divorced. My dad remarried and toon book, You’ve Got to moved up to an island off of British Columbia, where he Draw the Line Somewhere lived until he died in 1998. And my mother moved to a (available at www.dan- town that my older sister, a nurse and a writer, had al- toons.com). ready moved to. She eventually married a Canadian For me, my personal and became a Canadian citizen. and professional sides “The town is Nelson, British Columbia, located have always been inter- about three and a half hours north of Spokane, Wash- twined. Expressive art, ington. It’s a beautiful small mountain town with an arts aesthetics, and communi- center and many cultural events. They enjoy living cation remain compelling there.” ■ interests. ■

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Jericho Girls “You know how teenage Gone Wild! boys, with their raging hormones, can get at the sight of a well- Continued from page 1 turned ankle! It’s [splutter] a disgrace! An outrage!” and put on something pre- sentable. Namely a skirt. As Debra Schwartz Avert your eyes, avert (‘71) remembers it, “I thought we were always your eyes! Don’t look! Dear allowed to wear culottes. It God, help me be strong … was pants that were the big deal. There was a girl in the class ahead of me — I think her name was Shelly — who led the pants thing. I re- and put on something pre- she says. “How could the that well into the spring of member some kind of sentable. Namely a skirt. administration have caved 1968, the junior high meeting in the Little Thea- As Debra Schwartz on that one? And why school banned culottes ter about this. I guess I (‘71) remembers it, “I weren’t the parents up in (revolutionary: a cross be- must have attended, but I thought we were always arms?” tween a skirt and shorts!), don't remember doing allowed to wear culottes. It By the 1969–70 school and there was an assem- much.” was pants that were the big year or so (it’s not like bly about that. A ninth- The ban on women’s deal. There was a girl in the somebody kept records grade girl (I was in eighth) pants seems bizarre in ret- class ahead of me — I think about this stuff), jeans be- stood up and said to Prin- rospect. Since a major ob- her name was Shelly — who came commonplace, and cipal Rathje that it was ject was apparently to not led the pants thing. I re- the fuss about student unfair to ban culottes after wave a red flag in front of member some kind of dress subsided, on both we’d bought our spring the adolescent male popu- meeting in the Little Thea- ends. wardrobes. I can’t remem- lation, wouldn’t pants be ter about this. I guess I Here are the recollec- ber her name, but she had preferable to skirts? Debra must have attended, but I tions of some of the partici- blonde hair and was self- finds it equally odd that the don't remember doing pants: assured enough to speak school administration fix- much.” before the entire school. ated on the outfits girls The ban on women’s Carol Rosenblum Levin The ban on culottes pants seems bizarre in ret- (‘73): I totally remember was lifted after that as- rospect. Since a major ob- assemblies in 1967–68 sembly — a credit to those ject was apparently to not about the girls’ dress code. in charge, because they “In high school, wave a red flag in front of If at any time during the day really did listen to reason. when we were finally the perpetually randy the length of our skirts or It’s hard to imagine that allowed to wear jeans, adolescent male popula- dresses were questioned culottes were ever an is- I wore a pair to class. tion, wouldn’t pants be and considered to be too sue when you look at the

A male teacher said to considered less of a dis short, we had to drop to our way people dress today!. me, ‘Hi, Sam.’” traction and therefore knees. If the hem of our I was also thrown out of

— Amy Lubow preferable to skirts? dress didn’t touch the floor, driver’s-ed class for wear- Debra finds it equally odd we were sent home. ing clogs to class — unsafe

that the school admini- The reason we weren’t for driving! stration fixated on the out- allowed to wear jeans to fits girls wore, yet both school was because “It’s Benita Zahn Stulmaker sexes were allowed to impossible to learn wearing (‘72): It was the last day of smoke in the newly formed blue jeans” (?), but I’m school my junior year. I’d senior lounge. “I look back guessing that was for boys been to the beach the day at that totally mystified,” and girls alike. I remember Continued on page 8

JHS Classes of 1971-1972-1973 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter • Fall 2008 Page 8 Jericho Girls Tali-banned Fashions! Gone Wild! “In junior high, (( At Least for a While ) I recall about twelve Continued from page 7 ( ) of us staging a sit-in out- side the principal’s office, with a group of friends and Hot Pants! demanding the right to gotten a very bad sunburn. wear pants.” — Lynne It was all I could do to put (Margo) Rosenbaum, on any clothing. So, with (‘74) sunburned feet, I slipped on a pair of thong sandals. Well, you know, sandals were verboten, and sure enough, I was hauled into the principal's office for that offense — never got to Miniskirt! the last day assembly. It was my only visit to the The principal's office for an of- fense, and even then I Braless knew it was both ridiculous Look and very funny. There was another act of civil disobedience. The girls wanted to wear cul- ottes. Science teacher Mr. (I just accidentally crushed to death Kramer was sympathetic a wolverine without even realizing it and suggested that we all in my fashionable new pair of) don culottes and lie down ← Platform Shoes! in front of the school bus- ses in protest. Knowing Mr. Kramer, he was probably The Braless Look! ↓ only half-kidding. Continued on page 9

From the cover to Carly Simon’s No Secrets, the best LP jacket ever (at least, from an adolescent-male perspective). Runner-up: Herb Alpert’s Whipped Cream & Other Delights.

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Jericho Girls In a thoughtful letter to Newsday, fourteen-year-old Gone Wild! Beth Fischer (class of ‘73) Continued from page 8 tries to make sense of it all. The year: 1969. →

Needless to say, the I remember the skirt protest in that form never well. It was baby blue and, happened. Nowadays I well, short. But nothing think the administrators compared to the hotpants would welcome culottes that many others (not me!) compared to what is worn! wore just a few years later. I was embarrassed by the Janet Penn Finklestein experience and thought (‘72): About those culottes that the male administra- — I remember a pair that tors were “dirty old men” for were blue and white plaid. I being obsessed with these don’t recall ever being sent matters. home for wearing them, but Ironically, I’m occasion- I do remember one day in ally appalled by the reveal- seventh grade having to get ing clothing worn by girls on my knees and pulling my today and the general slop- Remember Counter- skirt down so that it piness and casual dress of culture Barbie? Sure touched the floor, so I students today. I’m in favor you do! Where’s Ken? wouldn't have to go home of school dress codes as Out scoring some and change. Hard to be- long as they’re fair and de- weed, natch. lieve ... veloped with input from the students and the commu- Wendy Foxmyn (‘72): In nity-at-large, nonsexist, etc., seventh or eighth grade, I and am even open to the was brought before the au- idea of uniforms (this from thorities (the vice princi- the person voted Class Indi- pal?) for wearing a skirt vidual!), so that students considered “too short.” are not focused on buying expensive clothes, shoes, and accessories. I like the distinction between school clothes and “play clothes.”■ Jeans were prohibited because Muchas Gracias … “it’s impossible to learn wearing blue … to our contributors. If you jeans.” Huh? emailed a recollection, and it’s not here, a funny story: An email folder with about three dozen emails for this piece Bra Burning 101: mysteriously vanished and “Remember to could not be retrieved. I simply remove garment- couldn’t remember the names before setting on of everyone who wanted to be fire.” Always good a part of this article. advice!

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Nooz About Yooz

Continued from page 2 “… And now, for the Youngshters!”

What are progency of the JHS classes of 1971-1972-1973 up to? Find out right here … on our page ...

Have friendship, will travel; The class of ‘73’s Roy Pollock (second from right, with wife Adri- enne) recently visited Larry Licht (‘72) and his wife, Tovah, at home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Rachel and Anna (Penn) Finklestein

“The empty nest has Sci-Fi from Ken Kraus arrived,” writes Janet Penn Finklestein of Ken Kraus Sharon, Massachu- (‘73), a fan of setts, shown here with science-fiction husband Mark at a from the time summer farewell party he was a kid, for their daughters Ra- has launched a chel (left) and Anna new website (right), both of whom featuring his have since moved to sci-fi writing: www. Portland, Oregon. kenkrauswriter.com. You’ll find published “Rachel, twenty- short stories as well as new ones; plus, Ken two, graduated in May just completed a novel, Borgus and the Duke. from Smith College Ken, who lives in West Orange, Connecti- and is out for an ad- cut, is a businessman with a B.S. in chemistry. venture,” says Janet. “When I’m not writing or in my business “To find a job where genre,” he says, “I’m playing with my kids, she can use her Span- ballroom dancing, or traveling the world — ish and, mostly, have time to chill, take long bike rides, and go both in reality and sometimes, I admit, alter- hiking. nate universes in my head.” “Anna, who’s eighteen, ‘rose out’ of high school after ninth “My kids” are Laurelyn, twenty, who at- grade to self-educate, which turned out to be the best decision tends Florida’s University of Miami but will be she ever made. She’s passionate about democratic free spending a semester abroad in Florence, Italy, schools and will be a full-time staff intern at the Portland Free and his eight-year-old son, Joshua, a third- School. She'll take some online courses through the Harvard grader. Extension School, where she's almost finished her associates “Why the spread?” Ken asks rhetorically. degree, and then plans to transfer to Portland State University “One is from wife No. 1, one is from wife No. to finish up. She figured out that you don't need a high school 2, and everybody gets along.” ■ diploma, GED, SATs, or ACTs to go to college!” Now ya tell us. ■ Continued on page 30

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First Person Singular Cheryl Goldenberg (‘72)

ometimes I same situation today? The only incident was Mitchell Meyer’s throwing a TV can’t be- out of the window, which my father had to pay for. Otherwise, everyone was S lieve the very well behaved. I was at last year's reunion at Milleridge Cottage and drama of my life. commented to Mitchell what a transformation he has made since he was To tell you sixteen! the truth, I don’t The sweet sixteen really was a turning point in my life. Suddenly I be- think that I really came popular. (Except with two people: Randy San Antonio gave me the came into my business for years for not inviting him, and Jay Brenner hated me for the own until high same reason.) Because I’d invited so many people, I got invited to everyone school; specifi- else’s sweet sixteen. Then I became Stephen Licata’s girlfriend. We both cally, my sweet sixteen. That was loved dressing up, so we’d go to all these sweet sixteen parties in matching probably my biggest claim to fame in outfits. We used to spend hours coordinating. It was a lot of fun. Jericho, because it was held at the I started to develop a lot of confidence and became very outgoing, es- Concord Hotel in the Catskills. I in- pecially in college. I went to C. W. Post for a semester, then to American vited practically the whole tenth- University in Washington, DC, where I met this older guy from Long Island. grade class. My father had to rent We were going to get married, but I got cold feet. I knew that at nineteen I two huge Greyhound buses to take was too young. I wanted to see the world. everyone. Elaine Katz, a good friend of mine from Jericho, was at Boston Univer- It was supposed to be an over- sity and kept telling me how great it was, and how everybody there was night trip: picked up on Saturday from Long Island. I transferred there for my sophomore year and graduated morning, home by Sunday night. But with a degree in business education. I knew I would never be a teacher, my birthday is March 10, and that though. I started law school at Columbia University, mostly because my fa- year a blizzard struck while we were ther was a Holocaust survivor from Romania, and education was very, very upstate. There was something like important to him. twenty inches of snow (this was be- To be honest, I didn’t want to be there; I’d had enough of school. While fore global warming), and it was so at Columbia, I met a friend who said to me, "You know, Cheryl, with your bad that all the roads were closed. personality, you could make money doing anything." He suggested that I No one could get in or out. We had to Continued on page 12 stay there for two extra days. Cheryl’s famous sweet sixteen, March 1970: (standing) Ellen Grill, Mrs. Reff, the science teacher, Debbie D’Amore, Rael Reif, Lynn Torre, Sheryl Intrater, Sheryl Katz, Marna went ballistic because her entire Ludwig, Lori Nelson, Gerry Gaffen. Seated: Amy Rubin, Cheryl, Cindi tenth-grade biology class was out Taylor, Gayle Rosen. Monday and Tuesday. "What kind of nerve, to take kids out of school?!" We didn’t do it on purpose, obvi- ously, but it was definitely fun. Look- ing back, you know what’s pretty amazing to me? You had a bunch of teenagers at a hotel for four days, and no one did any drugs. The only person who got drunk was Mark Rat- ner [editor’s note: Mark, now a physi- cian, cops fully to his public intoxica- tion in the "Cheryl Goldenberg Collec- tion" in the "Photo Gallery" on the JHS website]. Can you imagine a group of sixteen-year-olds in the

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Cheryl Goldenberg centration camps. In 1987 he, my Drive. I wouldn’t leave his side. My mother, my younger brother, and I father wouldn’t eat unless I fed him, Continued from page 11 went on a family trip to France and he wouldn’t sleep I unless I was sit- Monte Carlo. Now, my father had ting next to him. He lived for eight talk to his father, who was in this never been sick a day in his life. months, but it was absolute hell. Es- burgeoning field called telecommuni- While we were in Europe, he said to pecially for my mother. Anyone who cations. I started working for him my mother, "You know, I don’t feel knew my parents would remember part-time selling pagers to Wall good." I knew right then and there that they had a true love affair; they Street firms, and I did so well that I that he was going to die. were just madly, madly in love with decided to leave law school. It broke As soon as we got back, we took him each other. my father’s heart, but it was the right to the doctor. It turned out that he I never really got to mourn my thing for me. had chronic hepatitis, and might father, because my mom, developed I was also an early employee at have had it since the war. It went diabetes. She quickly went blind, suf- MCI. This was around 1979. They undetected all those years because fered kidney and heart failure, and wanted me to relocate to their head- had to have a leg amputated due to quarters in Washington, DC, but I gangrene. But as for the cause of her was very close to my parents and death, just six months after my fa- didn’t want to leave New York. Be- ther, I’d say she died of a broken sides, I wasn’t sure if this MCI would heart. Both my parents were just take off. What business would be fifty-eight years old. It was a night- willing to have its employees dial mare. something like twenty-six digits for I felt totally alone. My father’s phone calls, just to save money? I family perished in Europe, and my turned them down. Who knew? mother had been the baby of her I continued to work in telecom- family, and they all died before her munications, first with Executone, and never had any kids, so there selling telephone systems and PBX were no relatives. I had been en- (remember the divestiture of the gaged (I’ve been engaged several telecom world?). Then I went with my times, actually) at the point where boss when he left Executone to start my father got sick, but we broke up. his own company, Midlantic Tele- He was a great guy, but he couldn’t com. It was great for a while, but I take everything that was going on; it saw the “next big thing” was going to was just all so crazy. be real estate. I decided to take ad- After my patents died, I was a vantage of the Manhattan real estate basket case. Inconsolable. Fortu- boom of the mid-1980s and went nately, I was well off enough that I into sales of condos and co-ops. My didn’t have to go back to work right career was going great, I was making away. I decided to take some time lots of money, I was independent, off and just travel. Nowhere exotic. and I had this real bachelorette pad Just around the United States. I went in the Connaught Tower at Fifty- to California, Maine, North Carolina, fourth Street and Second Avenue, Utah, all over the map to places I with a sunken living room and a big had never been. I was by myself, but terrace. Everything was going great. I’m very friendly, so I met people eve- Then came another turning point. rywhere. he never went to doctors. I mean I liked North Carolina so much Two Tragedies in Less Than a Year never. He was so used to feeling that that I stayed there for about a half way, he thought it was normal. The year and got a job selling real estate. As I said, my father was a Holo- doctors gave him two days to live. I knew I wasn’t going to stay forever, caust survivor. He was the only mem- I quit working immediately and cared though, because you couldn’t find ber of his family to survive the con for him at our house on Maytime Continued on page 13

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Cheryl Goldenberg ried and have kids. I think I emulated my father. He came to this country with nothing and tried to make the Continued from page 12 best life for himself and his family. That had always been my focus. any single Jewish men. I ended up dating a lot of South- We decided to adopt this little ball of fire, who was ern Baptists. They got a big kick from “the Jewish girl three years old. We had to prepare a lot of paperwork from NYC!” In 1991 I finally decided to go back home to and they were done in record time so we could specifi- my apartment in New York. cally get Taylor. (That was not her name in Russia). At By then, I hadn’t worked steadily in more than three the orphanage, there was about fifty kids in a tiny little years. I thought to myself, I’ve got to do something. I’m room, where they ate, went potty, slept in these tiny too young to just retire. I beds, and washed up. They started talking to people didn’t even have showers. I here and there and wound remember when we first up meeting a guy named brought Taylor home — she Jay Kristal. had just turned four — she It was love at first sight. would sleep with her shoes We started a successful on, because she was afraid corporate gift business to- that I was going to take gether, working out of my them away. At the orphan- apartment. Then I decided age, you see, one pair of that I needed fresh air and shoes had to float around. wanted to move back to The same thing with her Long Island. We bought a clothes; she was afraid to house in Roslyn, where I get undressed. still live. We definitely had chal- lenges at first. Taylor From Russia with Love needed neurosurgery on her spine and had to re A friend of mine was adopt- Couldn’t decide which of these two great shots of learn how to walk, with ing a daughter from Russia Cheryl and Taylor we liked best, so here’s both of ’em. physical therapy. In addi- and invited Jay and I over to tion to her physical chal- look at the video referrals lenges, there were lan- that she had received from guage barriers and emo- the agency. When Taylor’s tional issues, as you might video came up, we knew expect. But Taylor has been that was our child. She the absolute best thing looked just like both of us! that’s ever happened to I was very scared at me. first, because it’s a big re- I know that everybody sponsibility, and I didn’t thinks that their kid is the know if I’d be able to han- greatest, but let me tell you dle it or if I’d do a good job. a bit about my daughter, I’d always been a career who is now almost ten person, and I hardly spent years old, and a fourth- any time around children. grader. She is just so bright Most of my women friends and mature beyond her never had children, even years. My adult friends en- the ones who were married. joy her so much — even my It’s funny. Even when I was business clients, who al- younger, I never talked ways invite Taylor to func- about wanting to get mar- Continued on page 14

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Cheryl Goldenberg has challenges." And she said, "I Takin’ Care of Bidness! know, Mommy. On the outside, it Continued from page 13 could look like we have a perfect life because we really have so much going tions and ask me to bring her along for us, but we have challenges too." when we have business lunches Like I said, she’s very wise. (which she loves and calls her “power I think it was in God’s plan that I lunches”). For those of you who were adopt Taylor, and that ultimately He at the class of 1972's Communal Fifti- meant for me to be with Taylor — but eth Birthday Party reunion at Steve’s not with my husband. When we’d first Pier in 2004, Taylor was the first per- met, I was still “lost in space” from the son who volunteered for karaoke. death of my parents. I was very vulner- Having her has helped keep me able then. But gradually I became Jerichonians young. Like, over the summer, I took stronger and stronger and back to my her to Park City, Utah. We went bob- old self, and Jay had trouble dealing At Work sledding, rock climbing, horseback with that and with having this child. riding — all these things that I never We’ve been going through a night- Ann Roggen (‘71) would do in a million years if I didn’t mare of a divorce for three years now. have her as my daughter. She keeps Obviously I couldn’t continue in our Professional me more positive and is the silver lin- business, in the summer of 2005 so I Violist and In- ing in my day. Whenever I’m with her, put the word out that I was looking for structor, New she makes me smile. something to do. Having networked all York, NY Everything she does, she excels these years, I know a lot of people. at. When she came here from Russia, Sure enough, one of my clients from she didn’t know a word of English. I the business introduced me to a gen- brought her to the local Jewish Com- tleman who was doing mergers and Growing up on Village Drive in munity Center for pre-K, and they told acquisitions of CPA practices. Now, East Birchwood, I didn’t hear a me I’d have to purchase a Russian what I know about mergers and acqui- lot of classical music at home. dictionary so they could communicate sitions, I know less about CPAs! And I Then in third grade, they gave with her. Within just three days, they was always terrible in math.. us those little plastic tonette told me not to bother. "She’s already But I know how to talk to people. things. Flutophones, remem- speaking English." She learned He- Communication and looking into ber? Everyone had to take a brew really quickly, too. She takes someone’s eyes and instinctively class in flutophone. This was dance classes, gymnastics, piano les- knowing them is my specialty. I always how they decided who had mu- sons, and is always earning acco- say that I am the EHarmony of the sical aptitude. And they chose lades. CPA world! I started two and a half the flutophone because anyone The one thing I worry about is that years ago, developing the opportuni- can play it: the fingering is she has never had the experience of ties and with my boss doing the pro- really simple, it doesn’t require failing. I always tell her, "You know, posals and contracts. I learned the any breath control. Basically, it Taylor, nobody’s perfect at everything. business, and now I know every CPA took no skill whatsoever. There are going to be things you’re in New York and New Jersey, or at Well, I hated the fluto- going to try that you’re not going to be least, they know me. I wrote twenty- phone. It was out of tune, and so perfect at. It’s going to be a chal- eight deals last year. Best of all, I’m the noise bothered my ears. I lenge. But that’s life. No one has it able to work out of my home. If I have remember walking into class all." meetings to attend, I’m always home one day while everyone was The other night we were coming by the time Taylor gets back from tooting away, and it was the home from the city on the Long Island school. most horrible sound I’d ever Railroad, and we were talking about Despite the divorce, the way I look heard. Of course, I had no way this homeless man she’d given money at it, I have a great life. I have a great to express that to anybody, so I to in Penn Station. I said to her, daughter, a great career, and great did what any self-respecting “Nobody has a perfect life. Everybody Continued on page 27 Continued on page 15

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Ann Roggen Happens to the Best of ‘Em

Continued from page 14 Virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma once left his $1.75 million cello in a Manhattan taxi; earlier this year, Russian violinist Phil- little kid would do: I just didn’t practice. I was probably ippe Quint forgot his $4 million instrument in a taxi while the worst one in the class. coming back from the airport. Now it was Ann’s turn, as The next year, it was time for kids to choose the the New York Post’s Jeremy Olshan reported on Septem- instrument they wanted to play. I really wanted to play ber 27: violin. Since I’d shown no aptitude at all on the fluto- phone, however, the school told my parents that I shouldn’t take up an instrument. My mother said, “But my daughter wants to play the violin.” And they said, “Mrs. Roggen, really, she’s not talented.” And she said, sort of pushing the issue, “If Ann wants to play the violin, she’s going to play the Priceless 18th-century stringed instruments do not come violin.” I started out with Mr. Arnold as my teacher, in a equipped with GPS chips, but fortunately — for the latest in group of maybe four kids. The first year of study isn’t an orchestra-sized list of absent-minded musicians to leave easy, and within a year, they’d all dropped out, so I was one in the back seat — the city's 13,000 yellow cabs do. the only one left. And so, moments after a taxi dropped Ann Roggen off at By junior high school, I was studying with a private her Upper West Side home Thursday night, the violist real- teacher that Mr. Arnold had recommended. To be hon- ized what she'd done and quickly called 311. est, she was not a good teacher or a nice person; I “That viola shaped my career. It is precious and can Continued on page 23 never be replaced,” Roggen, 55, said of the Tyrolean she bought in 1990. “I was heartbroken and trying to accept Ann with the eighteenth-century Tyrolean viola she’d that an era of my life was now over.” bought in 1990 — and almost lost in the backseat of an But yesterday, as she prepared to go perform with the NYC taxi. See story at right. New Jersey Symphony with a borrowed instrument, Taxi and Limousine Commissioner Matthew Daus showed up at her door — holding her $40,000 treasure and $20,000 bow. “We are gratified the system worked," said Daus. "She is not the first to have left an instrument in a taxi." Roggen hadn't saved the receipt for her $7 ride from the Fairway supermarket, but the TLC used GPS to deter- mine within minutes which cab she'd been in. The TLC then text-messaged the cab's computer and left several voice mails on the driver's cellphone, but ominous hours passed without any word. Oh, the viola was insured, yet that was little consola- tion, Roggen said. “The monetary value is beside the point,” she ex- plained. “It had a really unique sound. I knew from the first time I plucked its strings that it had to be mine.” As it turned out, the viola remained safely in the back seat before cabby Deniz Getting — who works nights, slept much of yesterday, and didn't immediately get the TLC's text mes- sages — caught on. Daus said Getting would get an award from the TLC, and he even got to drive the violist to her concert in New- ark. A relieved Roggen vowed never again to let the viola out of her sight and to “always make sure to take a receipt.”

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About Dan: “I have been a coach and educator for the last twenty- five years, de- livering training and classes in nonprofits, universities, and corpora- tions. “I assist professionals, business people, couples, and students to more skill- fully navigate life transi- tions, as well as improve their communication and presentations. I also have a small practice as a Fel- denkrais® practitioner, a movement-based form of education. “I've cowritten a few books, Money Disagree- ments: How to Talk About Them and Conversations With Critical Thinkers, as well as a book of poems and drawings, Floating Upstream.” These toons are part of Dan’s just-published book You've Got to Draw the Line Somewhere, available for $15 at http://www.dantoons.com. Daniel Goleman, best- selling author of Emotional Intelligence, has this to say about You’ve Got to

Draw the Line Some- where: “impish but pointed, edgy and astute, wise, and just plain funny.”

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Rich Zlattner At the beginning of my junior year deciding to marry Anne Marie, taking Continued fromNational page Bestsller 15 at American, I met a fellow junior a job at MCI was probably the sec- named Anne Marie Magro. She’d ond most important and correct deci- grown up in the Bronx, where her sion I’ve made during my lifetime. father was an assistant district attor- I was very fortunate to have a Everything you ney, and eventually moved to Pel- wonderful career at MCI. In very ham Manor in Westchester when she short order, I was promoted into always wanted to was in high school. She was also a management. Over time I advanced poly sci major and active in a variety into increasing positions of manage- know about of organizations on campus. We be- ment responsibility, and by the time I gan our relationship as the best of ended my career there in 2003, I Keith Steiner (’73) * friends, but over time things blos- was senior vice president of network somed, and we were married right planning and engineering, responsi- after we graduated, in July 1977; we ble for the planning, engineering, * But Were Too Self- just celebrated our thirty-first anni- servicing, construction, implementa- Absorbed to Ask! versary. tion, and optimization of MCI’s local, We both adored the Washington long distance, international, internet, area and decided to stay there, set- and data networks on a global basis, n many tling in Reston, Virginia. At the time, and was responsible for several ways it it was one of the two “new” towns, thousand employees. I seems as the other being Columbia, Maryland. I had the privilege to work with if it was only Reston is about ten miles from some of the most talented individu- yesterday that I Washington Dulles Airport and was a als in the telecommunications indus- graduated from wonderful place for us to start our try and helped to drive significant Jericho High family. I spent most of my time work- growth for our company in terms of School, yet so ing in DC, while Anne Marie worked the reach, size, and scope of our net- much has hap- mainly in northern Virginia. work needed to support the signifi- pened to me In 1980 I took a job with a rela- cant revenue and customer growth since that time. tively new and unknown company that took place through the 1980s After Jericho, I attended the called MCI. Its products and services and the 1990s. In no time, MCI be- American University in Washington, were geared primarily to small com- came a highly recognized leader in DC, where I majored in political sci- panies looking to save substantial the telecommunications industry. ence. It was a wonderful time to be costs on their long-distance tele- Continued on page 18 living in Washington, and I grew tre- phone calls. When I first started mendously during those four years at there, I knew next to nothing about college. If someone had asked me telecommunications. But I was hired when I left Jericho where my school- for my leadership skills, not my tech- ing would take me, I’d have said into nical knowledge; the company was politics and into law. That is precisely looking for people who could man- the direction I was heading in until age others, as its business plan my senior year in college; I decided called for significant growth in reve- that maybe there was more to life for nue, customers, and employees over me than becoming a lawyer. I did go a very short time frame. In 1980 the ahead with my law school applica- size of our company was approxi- tions and was very fortunate (maybe mately one thousand employees, lucky, too) to get into all but one of and our annual revenue totaled only the schools to which I applied. By the about $100 million dollars. end of my senior year, I decided to The concept of the company put plans for law school on hold and sounded extraordinary to me, and to consider revisiting that decision the opportunities for those who Keith and Anne Marie kicking back sometime in the future. worked hard seemed limitless. After on their world cruise.

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Keith Steiner beauty of northern California or the historical signifi- cance of Washington, DC, Texas turned out to be a great Continued from page 17 place for us to live and raise our family. The school sys- tem was outstanding, and the cost of living was very rea- Each day many of us felt like we were making history sonable, particularly when it came to housing. Yes, you from being one of the main reasons that the telecommu- do get a lot of house in Texas. nications arena was opened up to competition. Like others, since the time I left Jericho High School, (Remember growing up in Jericho back when there was I have experienced many personal highs along with a few only AT&T?) low points. Anne Marie Our company helped to gave birth to our first child, bring about significant ad- Jennifer, in 1982. We knew vancements in telecommu- there was something spe- nications technology and cial about Jennifer, as she capabilities, including fiber was born on February 8, optics, data transmission, 1982 (2/8/82), and was 8 the expanded use of the pounds 2 ounces at birth. internet, email, and so Jennifer was an excellent many others. In short, I student, and after gradua- found myself at the right tion from high school, she place at the right time, and attended the University of devoted considerable time Texas in Austin, where she and energy to help make received both an under- the company quite suc- graduate and graduate de- cessful. gree in accounting. My job took our family She has been married to other parts of the coun- for three years and is a try, which has been a won- CPA. After three years with derful experience for all of a major accounting firm, us. In 1987 MCI offered she now works for Whole me a transfer to a suburb “You survived Jericho High School?!? Here, you deserve Foods’ corporate tax de- of San Francisco called these more than us!” Appropriately awestruck Olympic partment. Jennifer and her Danville. It was a beautiful champion gymnasts Mitch Gaylord (1984) and Cathy husband live in Austin, area and a wonderful place Rigby (1972) bequeath their medals to Keith. which is about two hundred to raise our children while miles from where we live. they were relatively young. I remember that when they Our son, Eric, is four years younger than Jennifer. He were trying to recruit me to move to northern California, was very active in extracurricular activities at school. He one of the biggest selling points was the beautiful just graduated from Texas Tech University in Lubbock weather. To me, weather was just weather, but as soon this summer. He majored in hospitality services, and in as we moved there, I quickly learned what they meant. August began his career in a management position with The weather was truly remarkable, and along with the Brinker International. natural beauty of the area, we found ourselves spending We have so many fond memories of watching Jenni- countless hours during the weekends outside at various fer and Eric grow up. They were both very active both in parks and other places. and out of school. In senior high, Jennifer was on the drill team and was president of her drill team her senior year. “T” for Transfer to Texas Eric played high school football, which is very popular in Texas — so between Jennifer and Eric, we went to lots of In 1991 I was offered a transfer and promotion to high school sporting events. move to the Dallas, Texas, area, where we have lived The late 1980s and the early to mid-1990s also was ever since. We decided that if we were going to make a time when we lost some of our loved ones. Anne such a move, the time was right, since our children were Marie’s mom passed away in the late 1980s (her dad still young. While north Texas does not have the natural Continued on page19

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Keith Steiner teams in the continental United The Next Chapter(s) States. Continued from page 18 By the time I arrived back home The hardest part about leaving the in the evening, many nights I found place that I called my second home, had passed away when Anne Marie myself on the telephone with col- was missing the opportunity to work was thirteen), and around the same leagues in places such as Asia and with so many wonderful people on a time, I saw the passing of my grand- Australia, since that was just about day-to-day basis for so many years. mother, who had lived with us the only time of the day that I could The memories I have from my career throughout our time in Jericho. A few conduct business with them by tele- will last a lifetime. years later, my father and mother phone. On weekends, there was But I have not had a day when I re- passed away within nine months of catch-up work to be done and also gretted my decision to retire. Rather, each other in 1993 and 1994, re- conference calls with others. I have taken full advantage of the spectively. In 2005, just six months I remember toward the end of time afforded to me to spend signifi- after seeing her at Jennifer’s wed- 2002, working from home for a few cantly more time with my family, to ding, Anne Marie unexpectedly lost days just before New Year’s, and a volunteer for our town, and to see her sister to cancer that had been light bulb went on inside of me, re- the world with my lovely and wonder- diagnosed only five months before minding me that there were other ful wife. her death. things in life — and if I continued at When I first retired, my son was All of this is a reminder to us that the rate I was going, I might not be in eleventh grade, and I was now no one knows precisely what the fu- around much longer to enjoy them! It able to spend considerably more ture may bring, so we have learned was then that I decided it was time time with him before it was time for that it is important to live life to its for me to retire and to begin the next him to begin college. At the same fullest extent possible. This also rein- chapter(s) of my life. Continued on page 28 forced our beliefs about focusing our thoughts and energies on all that is good in life, to cherish each and every day that we have together, and to always have the attitude that the glass is half full rather than half empty. In 2003 I was fortunate to be able to retire at a relatively young age. At the time I retired, I was work- ing extremely long hours. Since I had people in most major geographical areas around the world, I found that there was no longer any quiet time at work for catching up on my own work. As I had done for most of my career at MCI, I continued to begin each workday at around 6:00 a.m. (yes, that is in the morning). This used to be my quiet time and pro- vided me with the opportunity to catch up on work when no one was in the office, but I now found that at that hour I needed to be on confer- ence calls with my management teams that were located in Europe. Then as the morning progressed, I would find myself busy with my Son Eric, daughter Jennifer, and Jennifer’s husband, Gui.

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Wanna learn what some of your former teachers are up to? having a family and were very con- cerned with having them grow up in Then drop in, pull up a chair, set a spell, but most of all — a nice environment. NO TALKING ! — at the ... I taught in Merrick for a year, then came to Jericho in 1959. The high school had not yet been built, so Faculty I began teaching in the Robert Sea- man School, starting with fourth- graders, and including any older stu- Lounge dents that expressed interest. At that time, I was the string de- partment. My job was to visit all the elementary schools in the district and get as many children interested in string instruments as possible. We would usually work in groups of four students. I also taught the recorder to the third grade to establish some basics of music and allow them the fun of creating music together, and eventually playing some little tunes in a concert. I did this program in the Mr. Alan Arnold: Robert Williams School, the George Jackson School, the Robert Seaman One-Man Orchestra School, and the Cantiague School as well. None of these schools had an s a boy growing up in the coming a teacher so that I could ex- orchestra. That was my assignment: Bronx, I studied the violin pose children to the beauty of music to create an orchestra for each A first, then later the viola. I and share my enthusiasm with school. attended New York City’s High them. My first teaching experience When the feeder program in the School of Music and Art, followed by was on the lower east side of Man- elementary schools was well under New York University, Columbia Uni- hattan. Then, not long after Gloria way, it was time for me to move to versity, and the Oberlin Conservatory and I got married, we moved to Hunt- the junior high school and establish of Music. ington, Long Island. We planned on an orchestra on that level, and even- In 1953 I played in a wedding tually do the same for the senior high band. When you need money, you do level, all while still working at the ele- anything you possibly can. One of the mentary program. It was a very chal- musicians in the band, a fine trum- lenging job, and a very long day, but pet player, was going with a nice girl truly rewarding. (If you look inside named Grace. She introduced me to one of the corner stones of the Sen- the love of my life, Gloria. We had a ior High School you will find my sig- long-distance courtship. At that time, nature, along with all the other origi- I was touring the country as part of nal teachers.) It was ten years be- an entertainment troupe for the USO, fore the administration added an- but also when I was at home in the other string teacher to this growing Bronx; Gloria lived in Brooklyn. We’ve program, Mr. Peter Horvath. been married now for fifty-four years. I still played music myself, per- Whenever we sit down to dinner, we forming with the Huntington Sym- both lift our glasses and say “Grace.” phony and the Great Neck Sym- As much as I enjoyed performing phony. For at least ten years I was music, I was also interested in be- Continued on page 21

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Mr. Alan Arnold that there was a big market for this material. Upon my Continued from page 20 retirement from Jericho, I just continued in the same di- rection, and the company really blossomed. At his mo- ment, we have representatives selling our music the organist at Temple Or-Elohim. In the Albany area throughout Europe, Asia, and, of course, the United there is a very prominent choral society whose director is States. We publish transcriptions of well-known classics, David Janower, a 1970 graduate of Jericho High School. some original compositions, training books, and ensem- I played for his Bar Mitzvah at Temple Or-Elohim. Also, a bles for violas. news anchor at the local NBC-TV station in Albany is Maybe some Jericho students remember that I wrote Benita Zahn. She was one of my favorite pupils at Jeri- an operetta for them to perform. The school had never cho High School, and an important member of the done an operetta before. It was called “Camellia,” and school orchestra, playing viola. She still plays. Sandy Sylvan, who went on to become a famous opera Jericho had a lot of verve musically, and we pro- singer, sang in our production. duced some very promising musicians, too many to men- I also wrote a number of scores for the Melachrino tion. Stephen Molina (class of ‘71) is now the principle Orchestra in England. I traveled there many times to bassist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. I remem- watch them perform my works. During this time, I did ber stopping him in many arrange- the hallway when he ments for RCA re- was a little boy and cords, and some saying, “You! You’re a orchestrations for bass player!” Columbia Pictures He said, “What, and Warner Bros. me?” Some of my works “Yes. You!” I said. were performed on “How do you the BBC, and by know?” he asked. the Philadelphia I said, “I know, Orchestra, among trust me. I’ll show you many other orches- how easy it is. You tras as well. can’t miss” In 1995, after To be honest, it my wife retired was a shot in the from her career as dark, but he did very, a kindergarten very well. “Here’s me still doing my thing. I get a great feeling of fulfillment teacher in Hunting- In some families, I sharing my music with the wide-eyed little ones and watching them ton, we moved up- taught all their child- grow into professionals.” state to Saratoga ren, like the Klinows: Springs. We’d Amy (‘71) played cello, spent many sum- Linda (‘73) played viola, and Joe (‘77) played bass. Or mers at Lake Luzerne, near Lake George. Our son, Paul, the Ragonesis: every one of the five children was my pu- has been a violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra sine pil, and all of them are still playing. Some other families the mid-1980s, and during the month of August he per- were the Libeses and the Molinas. forms in residence at the Saratoga Performing Arts Cen- ter. So we like to go there to be near him. Retirment from Teaching, but Not from music We enjoyed this upstate New York area very much and considered retiring here. We went to a real estate I retired from teaching in 1987. By then I had started a agent and said, “Show me what you have.” She drove us company called Viola World Publications. It began as a to a lovely home that overlooked Saratoga Lake, and I hobby. Being a violist, I knew that there was very little said, “I’ll take it!” She said, “Well, I could show you literature for violists to play for recitals. I started to write some others.” I said, “Nope, this is it.” music for this genre and was genuinely impressed at the My son Paul is not the only musician in the family. numbers of people who were interested. I soon realized Continued on page 22

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Mr. Alan Arnold Side Dish Continued from page 21 Piano Teacher Mrs. Justine Mehlman My daughter, who lives in Brooklyn, has two children. One of her daughters is a “My mother was one of the best piano teachers in Jeri- student at the Eastman cho — even on the Island — from the late 1950s until Conservatory of Music, Remind you of anyone? we moved to England in 1967.” That’s daughter Felice which is where her uncle Mr. Arnold’s son, Paul, a Mehlman Hodges (‘72) talking about her mom, Mrs. Paul went. In fact, she violinist with the Philadel- Justine Mehlman, who trained with Alan Arnold at NYU. even has some of his old phia Orchestra. “Our house became her musical studio (at one time teachers who are still we had five Steinways), and she taught dozens of kids there. My daughter’s other toga Springs. Dance is a from JHS. daughter graduated from very thriving industry in “She also did a lot of work for the Long Island Con- Cornell University and is this area, with the New cert Association, which brought top-class musicians to now working in the law of- York City Ballet in resi- Jericho for the first time.” fice of the Manhattan Dis- dence at the Saratoga After living in England for ten years and Belgium trict Attorney, Robert Performing Arts Center for three more, Mr. and Mrs. Mehlman moved to Morgenthau. My son also every summer. There are Washington, DC. In 1983 they opened Justine has two children: a four- also many legitimate thea- Mehlman’s Antiques, located at 2824 Pennsylvania teen-year-old daughter, ters in the area, along with Avenue N.W. At ages eighty-six and eighty-two, respec- who plays the viola, and a many fine art museums. tively, they’re still there, as former student Amy Klinow son who is an award- As you can see, we have Halsey (‘71) discovered not too long ago. winning tap dancer. He many cultural opportuni- “I was so surprised when I visited D.C. a few years won the Dancer of the Year ties in this neck of the ago, entered an antiques store to browse, and re- award on DanceAmerica woods. united with Mr. and Mrs. Mehlman, who owned it!” three times. He is majoring Gloria and I perform says Amy, who lives in Miami, Florida. “It was fun to in dance and choreogra- our civic duty by ushering catch up.” She, sister Linda (’73), and brother Joe phy at Muhlenberg College at the performing arts cen- (’77) all studied with Mrs. Mehlman as well as with in Pennsylvania. ter. One evening, one of Mr. Arnold. ■ my former students, Jes- The Thriving Music Scene sica Pincus, rushed up to me and gave me a big hug. The music scene in Up- I taught her, along with state New York is very vi- Sharon Lerner and Debbie brant, with several fine Kornblum. We talked professional orchestras in fondly about all the won- Albany, Schenectady, derful music we’d played Glens Falls, and Utica, to together. name a few. Many of them People often ask me have played my works. The when I’m going to retire. only dance museum in the My answer? Never! I’m entire country is in Sara- having too much fun! ■

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Ann Roggen What’s the different between Strings Still Attached viola and violin, and between violists Continued from page 15 and violinists? The viola has a darker These former JHS orchestra mem- hue and a slightly more mellow qual- bers still play music, either profes- don’t think she really wanted to be ity than the violin. For one thing, it sionally, as a hobby, or both. teaching, and it showed. She was doesn’t have a high, screechy E very negative. A brutal old lady. After string. And, generally, viola players Carol Sadowski Hawkins (‘72) a few years of that, I quit. But Mr. aren’t as high-strung as violin play- Arnold came to the fore again, this ers. time recommending a woman In orchestral and symphonic named Lilo Glick. I’m telling you her playing, the violin plays the melody name because she was a very tal- all the time. We violists are much ented teacher and a lovely person more team players, because we play who worked with lots of kids on Long the harmony. I’ll say that the viola Island, and someone who had a lot has a subsidiary role, but it’s not to do with my future as a musician. really subsidiary. It just means that When I was sixteen, I went to a we fill in everything that happens music camp in Lenox, Massachu- while a tune is going on. There’s Violinist ♪ Lives in Santa Fe, NM setts, called the Merrywood Music more space between the notes that When not selling real estate, Carol plays School, where Lilo taught. The first we play, which gives us more time to with the Santa Fe Pro Musica, which was night, one of her former students, an listen to somebody else, and not just nominated for a Grammy a few years back; older girl named Judy Geist, played to ourselves. You can certainly be a the Santa Fe Symphony, the New Mexico this beautiful piece on the viola. I virtuoso and very bravura and very Symphony, and, until recently, the Santa was so struck by the sound that I soloistic. But basically our job is to Fe Opera. She also has her own wedding went straight to Lilo and announced, make the melodist sound good. We music business, Primavera. "I want to switch to the viola." might have a solo of our own, but we "Yeah, sure you do," she said. have to dovetail more quickly back Janet Penn Finklestein (‘72) and forth between being in the spot- “No, I’m serious.” She didn’t know me all that well light for a second, then going below, yet and didn’t know how completely and then coming back up again. You stubborn I can be! Lilo found me a have to be quick on your feet and be viola. That very night, I learned three able to fulfill the proper role at the pieces. I already knew how to play a right time. Those are the main differ- string instrument, of course, but the ences. viola uses different clefs, different After Jericho, I went to SUNY Al- notes, and the touch is different. bany for two years because Albany It was this huge revelation for had a very fine teacher named Karen Cellist ♪ Lives in Sharon, MA me, and at that moment, I became a Tuttle, who ended up being the lead- “After singing in the JHS chorus, where I professional violist and never looked ing teacher in the United States. wasn't known for singing in tune or know- back. All because of hearing this one Also, although I’d gotten in to leading ing how to sight read, I spent countless person play. I ran into Judy many, music schools such as Bennington, hours in college determined to learn to do many years later, by which time she Oberlin, and Eastman, they didn’t both. What drove me, I'll never know. was playing with the Philadelphia offer as much financial aid as I “I had the incredible opportunity to Orchestra (the same orchestra in needed. Studying with Karen was sing and tour for many years with Libana, a which Mr. Arnold’s son, Paul, is a probably the most important thing I women's world music ensemble, giving violinist), and I told her the impact ever did; she redirected my career concerts around the country, including a she’d had on my career and life. She big-time. highlight of opening for Laura Nyro at the had no idea. She left SUNY Albany after one main stage of the Michigan Women's Mu- year and asked me to follow her to sic Festival in 1989. I gave a few solo Paging Dr. Freud: A Psychological the Peabody Institute of the Johns recitals over the years of Jewish Art Song Profile of Viola Players Continued on page 24 Continued on page 24

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Hopkins University, in Baltimore, and still sing in an octet at a synagogue where she was already on the fac- near me in Providence, Rhode Island. ulty. I spent three years at Peabody “My version of a midlife crisis came and got my B.A. degree. Then, after a about seven years ago. I knew I would year in Maine, in 1978 I started on never be able to produce the sounds that I my masters degree and a profes- heard in my head, so I decided to take up sional degree at Juilliard, at the invi- the cello. I remember that I always wanted tation of a renowned violist and to play (and was jealous of Jill Harmon!) If teacher named Lillian Fuchs. I'd only known how difficult it would be, I It was great to back in New York. would have backed out, but I didn’t and I remember the first day, looking for recently spent a week at a Chamber Music an apartment, I was walking around Festival playing six hours a day. I also play the Upper West Side at night, and I in a chamber music orchestra in our town. just felt so comfortable there. Man- I’m grateful that music is always in my life, hattan wasn’t as nice then as it is “I hated the flutophone. I and it’s a bond I share with my husband, today, but where I’d lived in Balti- remember walking into Mark.” more, three blocks from Peabody, class one day while had been a war zone. It was unthink- Wendy Chin Parise (‘71) able to walk out alone after dark. So everyone was tooting away, if you wanted to visit a friend, you and it was the most either had to spend the night or have horrible sound I’d ever someone walk you home. But in New York, there’s always a store open, heard.” always people on the street, no mat- ter what time of day or night, and I guess I just understood the scene so be very careful to make it very posi- much better. Thirty years later, I’m tive. At the same time, though, you still here. want to shake them up a little bit so Pianist ♪ Lives in Los Angeles, CA I always planned to teach as well they can get better. It’s a very fine “I studied piano with Mrs. Gloria Arnold for as perform. In fact, Mr. Arnold gave balance. Making the students feel eleven years. I was the pianist for the Jeri- me some students during my senior empowered is the whole idea. When cho orchestra from fourth grade through year in high school. It’s been a con- you’re young, you learn from your twelfth grade. Mr. Arnold was the teacher/ stant in my life ever since. I seem to music instructor, then you tend to conductor for all of those ensembles, and be good at looking at what some- imitate what you hear on records. so my affiliation with him goes very deep! body’s doing, and diagnosing what From there, you’ve got to take off on What fond memories! they can do to make their playing your and make the music your own. “I earned a BS in Music Education and better. Lately I’ve been playing a lot That’s what I focus on most, is en- taught vocal music for three years in an of guest recitals and guest master couraging kids to make it personal, elementary school back in 1975–1978. classes at conservatories and univer- because ultimately that’s what peo- When I worked with children with special sities, like the University of Tennes- ple need to hear: your honesty and needs from 1975–1998, I heavily incorpo- see, the North Carolina School of the your own self coming out when you rated music into my curriculum. At one Arts, and Penn State University. play. point, I had a guitar class of 30 adults with Giving a master class is very in- As for playing, I always saw my- developmental disabilities. We did a per- teresting, because you’re listening to self as more of a chamber music mu- formance for an audience of 300 specta- these kids play in public. It’s a com- sician than a symphony player. I tors. This was quite a thrill for these adults, bination of performing, in that in that mean, I love the symphonic reper- strumming their guitars to some familiar there’s an audience, but you have to Continued on page 25 Continued on page 25

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Ann Roggen “OhmiGod, what are you doing Strings Still Attached here?” We spent some time compar- Continued from page 24 ing notes, and it was great to see Continued from page 24 him. Stephen is very devoted to what toire, and I do play in orchestras — he does, which is true of most musi standard tunes. Music was highly effective like the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, cians. The business has its ups and in my work with children with autism. It was which performs and records and is downs, but your devotion to the mu- the key to helping my students with focus, regarded as perhaps the foremost sic is what drives you. attention and language challenges. chamber orchestra in the country — “I have been a children and adult choir but I’d really trained to play chamber Have Viola Will Travel director and for the past eighteen years music. have served as the music director at my Every year, though, I go out to the The best part of my work is the church in Los Angeles, playing the piano Sun Valley Summer Symphony in travel, which has taken me all over and special music for every service. Idaho. It’s like the Tanglewood Festi- the world. The trip to Croatia was “In my current vocation as a faculty val, only out in the mountains, made extremely interesting. A violinist member at Santa Monica College, I am the up of people who play in major or- friend who lives in Europe was the prof they call when they need some music chestras. For two weeks or so, we artistic director of the Zagreb Cham- for some event in our department. I still rehearse each afternoon, then give a ber Orchestra. Since December love getting together with my music bud- free evening concert to audiences of 2006 marked Mozart’s bicentennial, dies and manage to jam with friends when about three or four thousand people. she asked me if I would come play time allows. My son is currently a percus- The first time I played Sun Valley, one of his concertos with her. sion performance major at UCLA, and in 2000, I took a side trip to the We contacted the cultural atta- every once in a while we have collaborated Grand Teton Music Festival in Jack- ché at the U.S. embassy there, and on some musical adventures.” son Hole, Wyoming, where I ran into they jumped on it right away, be- Stephen Molina from Jericho. He cause they’ve been very interested in Jaclyn Stanger Dinhofer (‘73) plays bass with the Detroit Sym- bringing Western music to Zagreb phony. When he saw me, he blurted, Continued on page 26

Meet the Beatle

Like everybody else, I watched the Beatles on the Ed Sulli- van Show in 1964 and was a devoted fan. Around Christmas 2006, shortly before I was heading off to play some concertos in Zagreb, Croatia, the Orchestra of Violist ♪ Lives in New York City St. Luke’s was debuting Paul McCartney’s opera Ecce Cor “This is my third year teaching full- time Meum (Behold My Heart) at Carnegie Hall. Paul came to one with the New York City Department of Edu- of the rehearsals. Of course, all the women in the orchestra cation. I taught part-time for six years be- just flipped out. We’d all met a lot of famous classical musi- fore that. Before that, I was teaching Su- cians during our careers, but this was Paul McCartney! zuki violin in Third Street Music Settlement, He was very sweet; a very, very nice guy. I was standing next Harlem School of the Arts, Montclair Uni- to him, and I started laughing. I said, "I saw you on the Ed versity Preparatory Division. Now, as a full Sullivan Show!" And he deadpanned, "Yeah, a lot of people time teacher, I'm in three elementary saw me on the Ed Sullivan Show." He was signing auto- schools teaching “instrumental” music: graphs for everyone. I didn’t think to dig out one of my Beatles records. The recorder to third-graders; and violin, viola, only thing I could find for him to sign was the sheet music to this concerto by and cello to fourth– through seventh- Mozart that I was going to be playing in Zagreb. graders. It's been hard to find public He looked as it and asked, "What’s this?" At the end of the piece is this schools that support this kind of hands-on long, hard part for the viola, and he wrote right on top of it, "To Ann, Cheers, music making, due to budget cuts, space, Paul McCartney." When I got to the concert and opened up the music, there and time. were his words to inspire me. Continued on page 26

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Ann Roggen other people. To succeed, you have Strings Still Attached to like that part of it, as well Continued from page 25 as be very serious about what you do Continued from page 25 and be willing to sacrifice. Because and to bring it into the mainstream you have to sacrifice a great deal. “I've been a member of Long Island Phil- of classic music. They were very gen- Classical musicians don’t have the harmonic since the beginning in 1979. I erous with their support. same kinds of vacations as other used to freelance a lot more when there Zagreb is a wonderful place to people. You tend to always be prac- was more work; and now I need to watch spend a week. The orchestra was ticing. But it’s a great thing to do. the amount of days I actually take off — made up of Croatian musicians in The music really sustains you, and reality sucks! But music has been good to their twenties and thirties. My friend you meet like-minded people. That’s me. It bought me time with my munchkins, and I directed there, and were so why we do it. Rebecca, now nineteen, and Henry, six- eager to learn and get better and Like, I would have loved to at- teen. and I've played in a lot of fun situa- make music. The concert, in this tended the 2007 reunion, but I had a tions.” beautiful hall, was one of the most performance that evening. However, special things I’ve ever done. just before the party, I sent out a Jill Harmon (‘72) From there I flew to Vienna to mass email to everyone; it turned out begin rehearsals for a concert in to be the best thing I could have Vilna, Lithuania. That came about done, because I got so many emails from my work as vice president of from classmates all over the country. the New York Viola Society. I’d met I got back in touch with my partner in an interesting woman who works in crime from high school, Nancy Reale. social welfare in Europe. She wanted I had no idea that she’s been living to bring me to Vilna. So when I knew in Brooklyn and has been a master I’d be playing Zagreb, I let her know. teacher at New York University for Cellist ♪ Lives in St. Paul, MN She arranged for me to give a recital the past twenty-five years. We’ve got- “After high school, where I played with our of music by American composers ten together several times since high school orchestra and the Long Island and also to give a master class. Once then, and it’s been just a pleasure; Youth Symphony, I played in college, for again, the young musicians were so she’s a brilliant woman and highly the University of Pittsburgh Orchestra, delightful and so eager to make con- accomplished. which also included some civic members; tact with the West. the Marywood College Orchestra, when I Afterward, there was a huge re- On a Musical Mission lived in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and now ception, and I was talking to an eld- the St. Paul Civic Symphony. I haven't erly professor at the music school. I feel like I’m on a mission to keep been as active in the past few years but He told me that in 1962 he’d at- classical music alive. I really feel that am still on the roster and am planning to tended a concert by Joseph Fuchs, the American method of teaching play in a concert or two this fall.” Lillian Fuchs’s famous violinist classical music and the forbidding brother. I told him that I’d studied nature of concert halls and the price Stephen Molina (‘71) with Joseph, and we had an immedi- of tickets prevents people from just ate connection. We were no longer coming to hear it. Instead it’s “I’m an American and a Lithuanian, just going to the symphony tonight.” In two musicians. But I find that cama- other countries, classical music is raderie with most musicians. part of people’s daily lives, but here So much of playing music profes- it isn’t. sionally is about networking with Growing up in Jericho, we had an people, because it’s a small world, orchestra, a band, and a chorus. I and you’re going to play with them took music theory with Mr. Henry Bassist ♪ Lives in Troy, MI again someday. I run into people to- Sweitzer; I learned stuff from him Stephen, who attended the College Con- day who I knew back when I played that I didn’t learn again until I was in servatory of Music at the University of Cin- with the Long Island Youth Orches- conservatory. We were offered op- cinnati, has played bass with the Detroit tra. It’s all about making music with Continued on page 27 Continued on page 27

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Cheryl Goldenberg Strings Still Attached Continued from page 14 Continued from page 26 friends. So many people have just Symphony Orchestra since 1976 and has gone above and beyond to emotion- served as acting principal bass since 2002. ally support me and be there for me He is also the orchestra’s personnel man- through thick and thin. I’ve been go- ager. Prior to joining the DSO, Stephen ing on some dates, but I’m not dying played with the New Orleans Philharmonic to get married again so quickly. I’m and the New Orleans Bass Quartet. sure I’ll find a relationship, though. Helene Millman Runion (‘71) I’m good. One thing about me, I always find the silver lining no matter what the challenge. And, believe me, I’ve had some real challenges. I told Taylor something the other day. I said, "You know what, Taylor? You’re in control of your destiny. My mommy used to tell me, and it’s true: ‘If it’s to be, it’s up to me.’ It’s not what happens to As Project Runway’s Heidi Klum sez, Violinist/Vocalist ♪ Lives in Altamont, you, it’s how you deal with what hap- “In fashion, von day you’re in, und NY pens to you. the nex day you’re oud.” Taylor is “I played violin in orchestra under the “So whatever you want to do, you most definitely in! direction of Mr. Arnold. Every year we just put your mind to it, and you’ll be recieved our new seats for orchestra. I able to get it. It’s just a matter of how because that’s the lesson of life. I guess I did way too much chatting with much you want it and what you’re guess I really did end up being a Jill Feldman, because each year we willing to sacrifice along the way.” good mother and role model for her, would both be moved back a chair until That’s the lesson I can teach her, and I feel blessed. ■ we were sitting in the last chair of the second violins.Being a violinist was not in my future. But Mr. Arnold did have a Ann Roggen about trying to get backstage after- strong influence in my life. ward. They have armed guards “I also took piano lessons from Mr. Continued from page 26 standing there; it’s all very daunting. Arnold’s wife. I managed to pass a piano I’ve always been kind of an idea audition into the Crane School of Music at person; always thinking outside of SUNY Potsdam, and graduated from portunities — even those awful little the box. It can create problems when there with a Bachelor of Music degree in flutophones — that kids today don’t you’re trying to be a regular citizen, music education. I presently teach gen- get to experience. The money just but it’s how I am. And the older I get, eral music classes and instrumental les- isn’t there in most schools to offer the more I am that way. I guess it sons for grades K–5 in the Schalmont quality instruction. In general, the happens to everyone: you end up School District. arts are less prominent. being more like you are. So I’m in- “My passion has always been sing- So I try to make the music more volved in trying to make classical ing. Over the years, I’ve been involved in accessible; I don’t mean by compro- music be just one of the arts in our musical theater and choral and solo sing- mising on its quality, but by giving culture and have it become an every- ing in the Albany area. I enjoy singing recitals in smaller venues. Frankly, I day word. with a semiprofessional chorus called prefer the more personal touch of There are so many of us who do Albany pro Musica. When I went to audi- playing in galleries and museums. it and love doing it, and so many peo- tion for this chorus, I was surprised to find Whereas at Alice Tully Hall, for in- ple who would be interested in com- that the director was 1970 JHS alum stance, the audience is so far away ing to concerts and enjoying it too if David Janower. Singing with this group from the performers. And forget it were made available to them. ■ Continued on page 28

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Keith Steiner hood obesity, the need for our Strings Still Attached schools to better develop the stu- Continued from page 19 dents for life beyond the high school Continued from page 27 level, the curtailment of using hand- held cell phones while driving, the has given me the opportunity to travel time, I was able to spend more time need to push our elected officials to overseas. Last spring we toured Italy, giv- with Jennifer before she graduated be much more responsive to the vot- ing several concerts. college, and I was able to devote ers and to the constituents they Just a little side track: Last year I considerable time assisting Anne serve rather than to the lobby and spoke with Mr. Arnold for the first time in Marie with planning Jennifer’s wed- special-interest groups, along with thirty-five years. I was explaining to him ding. writings on several other topics. that for the first time in my teaching career Since I ended my full-time ca- I also put a great deal of empha- I was going to be responsible for teaching reer, I was also able to devote a con- sis on my own health and began band instruments, which I knew very little siderable amount of time volunteer- working out on a regular basis and about. Without a second’s hesitation he ing for our town. I took on various focused on eating more healthy proceeded to give me a complete lesson, volunteer positions locally, including foods. over the phone, on how I should approach serving as the vice chair and even- Retirement has also provided the teaching band instruments. Some things tual chair of our town’s parks and opportunity for me and my wife to never change. recreation board. I was instrumental see more of the world. In 2007 we in planning and implementing the decided to take a world cruise. Well, Wendy Foxmyn (‘72) first set of neighborhood parks for we didn’t see the entire world, but our town and helped lay the founda- we did get to see quite a bit of it. tion for the eventual expansion of This is something that we’d originally our park and trail system. talked about doing many years later At the same time, I served first in life, but after the unexpected loss as a commissioner and then as a of my sister-in-law at a relatively vice chair for our planning and zon- young age, we decided that we ing commission. I was also selected should not put off these plans. to be a member of our town’s charter The cruise provided us with the Violinist ♪ Lives in Leeds, MA commission, which essentially wrote opportunity to visit many different “I didn't know you played the violin!” So the charter providing the structure countries in Central and South Amer- many people say that to me. It feels odd to and rules for governance. In 2006 I ica, Africa, the Middle East, and hear, as my avocational musical life is so was honored for my work by being Europe. We also had the opportunity important. Most, if not all Jericho students, selected as citizen of the year for our to view Antarctica. We enjoyed it so played flutophone (technically, a soprano town. much that we decided to take a sec- recorder) in the third grade. The best per- In 2005 I was also selected, ond world cruise earlier this year. formers among us were chosen to play in along with just a handful of other This time we visited other areas of an all-elementary school concert and of- finalists, for a six-month volunteer the world, including several different fered the extraordinary opportunity to position at the Dallas Morning News. Pacific Ocean islands, Australia, New choose any instrument of our choice for in- Each week we would answer one Zealand, and Southeast Asia. school study. What a gift! I chose clarinet, question posed to us by the newspa- Our world cruise adventures but Robyn Cashton, Eileen Marder, and per on a variety of topics, and the were wonderful. It provided us with Abby Zwiebel chose violin, so I switched. answers would be published in the the opportunity to become very good Thus began my now forty-five-year rela- Saturday edition of the newspaper. friends with several of our fellow pas- tionship with the violin. At the same time, I wrote several sengers and many from the crew I attended an arts camp for four sum- columns on a variety of topics that who are not only from other parts of mers and became a lifelong “culture vul- were published in the newspaper. I our own country but from other parts ture,” spending my leisure time at sym- tried to write about different issues of the world. At the same time, we that I care deeply about, hoping to got to see places around the world phonic and chamber music concerts, films, theater productions, dance performances, influence others to bring about that our parents only dreamed of Continued on page 29 change in these areas: child- Continued on page 29

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Keith Steiner other areas. During this year’s world Strings Still Attached cruise, I made time to work out each Continued from page 28 day in the ship’s fitness center and Continued from page 28 spent a good deal of time on the el- seeing, which made us realize how liptical machines. I estimate that the etc. I started playing viola da gamba and fortunate we were to grow up in New number of miles from my elliptical medieval and renaissance music (so-called York and be afforded the opportuni- workouts was approximately the “early music”) in college and have had a ties in life that come from growing up same mileage as driving from Wash- diverse experience with musical genres as in our country. ington, DC, to Denver. If you add to an adult, including: playing early music It also reminded us that most this the number of miles that I with a couple of performing ensembles, people around the world are good walked during our time on the ship fiddle at contradances, and violin in a klez- and take pride in their respective and in port, this would be the equiva- mer band, local orchestras, opera compa- cultures. It is important not to just lent of driving from Tampa to San nies, and musical theater productions. I am view the world as those in the United Diego. happiest playing chamber music in string States see it, but to also try to see My only regret of the past few quartets with friends. the world and its many issues years was not being able to travel to I attend the Philadelphia Orchestra through the eyes of those who live in last year’s reunion, but that was not summer concerts at the Saratoga Perform- various parts of the world. possible due to another conflict. ing Arts Center, and see three of my These cruises also provided us I know that so many of the val- friends in the orchestra. One of them is with the opportunity to hear from and ues that have shaped my life have violinist Paul Arnold, Alan Arnold's son. meet many different lecturers who come from my family, my friends, This summer, as in previous summers, I were brought on board to speak on a and the wonderful teachers we had saw Alan and his wife ushering at the variety of topics: the war in Iraq, envi- throughout our years at school in SPAC. ronmental issues, politics, worldwide Jericho. As I look back at the lessons Last year, Debra Schwartz (violin, JHS events, the arts, sports, and many I have learned throughout my life, I ‘71) visited her daughter, a Smith College have come to realize that the great- student here in Northampton, and a terrific est lesson I have learned is to treat violinist. We attended her college orchestra others the way I want to be treated. concert and reminisced. My music friends, others the way I want to be treated. from throughout my life, are dear to me. As a result, at work I devoted a We are an interesting, some say crazy, good deal of time to being a good subculture. I have met amazing people mentor for each of my direct reports through music, often highly accomplished, and to many other members of our very well educated, well traveled, usually team, and I took my greatest satis- politically liberal, and invariably passionate. faction from seeing many of them Thank you Jericho, and especially grow and be promoted into higher Alan Arnold — not to mention, Robin, Ei- positions over the years. Likewise, I leen and Abby — for leading me to this have gone out of my way to treat oth- world. ers with the respect and warmth that Gail Murphy (‘71) they deserve. My future plans are to continue to spend time making memories with my wonderful family, and to volun- teer in order to give back to the com- munity and to others. Eventually I would still like to go into politics, have the opportunity to write addi- Keith and Anne Marie go formal tional columns for a newspaper, and during their world cruise. The couple continue to travel the world and to Vocalist ♪ Lives in Portland, OR recently celebrated their thirty-first live the rest of my life with my loving “I sing with a volunteer woman's community wedding anniversary! wife and family. ■ Continued on page 30

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Nooz About Yooz Book ‘em, Danno! Continued from page 10 Ellen Meister (‘75) was out and about promoting her sec- ond novel, The Smart One, starting with a launch party at Margo (Lynne) Rosenbaum’s the Syosset Borders on August 8. Two weeks later she Atlantic Crossing answered questions from fans at the Carle Place Barnes & Noble. In the audience were the class of ‘72’s Luise Margo Rosenbaum Random (‘74) has lived in London for Halberstadt Linder and ‘73’s Judy Friedman Sadick. thirty-plus years, but she regularly gets back to the Ellen, who lives in West Birchwood and has three chil- States to visit her folks, who still live on Putnam Avenue dren, just sold the rights to her third book. ■ in West Birchwood. During her recent summer trek with husband Authur and daughter Abigail, Margo went into Manhattan to surprise the class of ‘73’s Mitchel Forman by turning up at one of his jazz septet Metro’s shows at the Blue Note before the group headed off on a Euro- pean tour. While on Long Island, she also connected with two old friends from the class of ‘74, Elizabeth (Bette) Edlund, who came up from Washington, D.C., and Alana Lee, sister of author Martin Lee (‘71). ■

“That’s spelled S-t-e-p-h-e-n …” Big bro Stephen Meister (‘72) came out from Mill Neck, L.I., to support Ellen at Borders. At right, the author’s biggest fan: daughter Emma, age ten.

Advertisement Strings Still Above: Elizabeth Edlund, Alana Lee, and Margo. Attached Below: Mitch Forman with Margo and husband Arthur. Continued from page 29

chorus called Aurora, in Port- land. Although we sing all kinds of music based on uplift- ing, female- and family- oriented themes, the idea of the chorus is based on ‘powerful women singing for peace.’ We present at least two concerts a year in some of the city’s premier venues, often with special guests, as well as outreach shows on location with International Women's Day and peace rallies.”

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Number One with a Mullet! No. 1 Songs from September 1965, when the class of ‘71 entered Jericho Junior High, To June 1973, when the class of ‘73 Ran Screaming from the JHS Doors

1965 3/18: “Penny Lane,” Beatles 9/4: “Help!” Beatles 3/25: “Happy Together,” Turtles 9/25: “Eve of Destruction,” Barry McGuire 4/15: “Somethin’ Stupid,” Frank and Nancy Sinatra 10/2: “Hang On Sloopy,” McCoys 5/13: “The Happening,” Supremes 10/9: “Yesterday,” Beatles 5/20: “Groovin,” Young Rascals 11/6: “Get Off of My Cloud” Rolling Stones 6/3: “Respect,” Aretha Franklin 11/20: “I Hear a Symphony,” Supremes 7/1: “Windy,” Association 12/4: “Turn! Turn! Turn!” Byrds 7/29: “Light My Fire,” Doors 12/25: “Over and Over,” Dave Clark 5 8/19: “All You Need Is Love,” Beatles 8/26: “Ode to Billie Joe,” Bobbie Gentry 1966 9/23: “The Letter,” Box Tops 1/1: The Sounds of Silence,” Simon and Garfunkel 10/21: “To Sir With Love,” Lulu 1/8: “We Can Work It Out,” Beatles 11/25: “Incense and Peppermints,” Strawberry Alarm Clock 2/5: “My Love,” Petula Clark 12/2: “Daydream Believer,” Monkees 2/19: “Lightnin’ Strikes,” Lou Christie 12/30: “Hello Goodbye,” Beatles 2/26: “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’,” Nancy Sinatra 3/5: “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” Sgt. Barry Sadler 1968 4/9: “(You’re My) Soul and Inspiration,” Righteous Brothers 1/20: “Judy in Disguise (with Glasses),” John Fred and His 4/30: “Good Lovin,” Young Rascals Playboy Band 5/7: “Monday, Monday,” Mamas and Papas 2/3: “Green Tambourine,” Lemon Pipers 5/28: “When a Man Loves a Woman,” Percy Sledge 2/10: “Love Is Blue,” Paul Mauriat 6/11: “Paint It, Black,” Rolling Stones 3/16: “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” Otis Redding 6/25: “Paperback Writer,” Beatles 4/13: “Honey,” Bobby Goldsboro 7/2: “Strangers in the Night,” Frank Sinatra 5/18: “Tighten Up,” Archie Bell and the Drells 7/16: “Hanky Panky,” Tommy James and the Shondells 6/1: “Mrs. Robinson,” Simon and Garfunkel 7/30: “Wild Thing,” Troggs 6/22: “This Guy’s In Love with You,” Herb Alpert 8/13: “Summer in the City,” Lovin’ Spoonful 7/20: “Grazing in the Grass,” Hugh Masekela 9/3: “Sunshine Superman,” Donovan 8/3: “Hello, I Love You,” Doors 9/10: “You Can’t Hurry Love,” Supremes 8/17: “People Got to Be Free,” Rascals 9/24: “Cherish,” Association 9/21: “Harper Valley PTA,” Jeannie C. Riley 10/15: “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” Four Tops 9/28: “Hey Jude,” Beatles 10/29: “96 Tears,” ? and the Mysterians 11/30: “Love Child,” Supremes 11/5: “Last Train to Clarkesville,” Monkees 12/14: “I Heard It through the Grapevine,” Marvin Gaye 11/12: “Poor Side of Town,” Johnny Rivers 11/19: “You Keep Mr Hangin’ On,” Supremes 1969 12/3: “Winchester Cathedral,” New Vaudeville Band 2/1: Crimson and Clover,” Tommy James and the Shondells 12/10: “Good Vibrations,” Beach Boys 2/15: “Everyday People,” Sly and the Family Stone 12/31: “I’m a Believer,” Monkees 3/15: “Dizzy,” Tommy Roe 4/12: “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,” 5th Dimension 1967 5/24: “Get Back,” Beatles 2/18: “Kind of a Drag,” Buckinghams 6/28: “Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet,” Henry Mancini 3/4: “Ruby Tuesday,” Rolling Stones 7/12: “In the Year 2525,” Zager and Evans 3/11: “Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone,” Supremes Continued on next page

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Continued from previous page 7/31: “You’ve Got a Friend,” James Taylor 8/7: “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” Bee Gees 8/23: “Honky Tonk Women,” Rolling Stones 9/4: “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey,” Paul and Linda McCartney 9/20: “Sugar, Sugar,” Archies 9/11: “Go Away Little Girl,” Donny Osmond 10/18: “I Can’t Get Next to You,” Temptations 10/2: “Maggie May,” Rod Stewart 11/1: “Suspicious Minds,” Elvis Presley 11/6: “Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves,” Cher 11/8: “Wedding Bell Blues,” 5th Dimension 11/20: “Theme from Shaft,” Isaac Hayes 11/29: “Come Together,” Beatles 12/4: “Family Affair,” Sly and the Family Stone 12/6: “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye,” Steam 12/25: “Brand New Key,” Melanie 12/20: “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” Peter, Paul, and Mary 12/27: “Someday We’ll Be Together,” Supremes 1972 1/5: “American Pie,” Don McLean 1970 2/12: “Let’s Stay Together,” Al Green 1/3: “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head,” B. J. Thomas 2/19: “Without You,” Nilsson 1/31: “I Want You Back,” Jackson 5 3/18: “Heart of Gold,” Neil Young 2/7: “Venus,” Shocking Blue 3/25: “A Horse with No Name,” America 2/14: “Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin,” Sly and the 4/15: “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Roberta Flack Family Stone 5/27: “Oh Girl!” Chi-Lites 2/28: “Bridge over Troubled Water,” Simon and Garfunkel 6/3: “I’ll Take You There,” Staple Singers 4/11: “Let It Be,” Beatles 6/10: “The Candy Man,” Sammy Davis, Jr. 4/25: “ABC,” Jackson 5 7/1: “Song Sung Blue,” Neil Diamond 5/9: “American Woman,” Guess Who 7/8: “Lean On Me,” Bill Withers 5/30: “Everything Is Beautiful,” Ray Stevens 7/29: “Alone Again (Naturally),” Gilbert O’Sullivan 6/13: “The Long and Winding Road,” Beatles 8/26: “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl),” Looking Glass 6/27: “The Love You Save,” Jackson 5 9/16: “Black & White,” Three Dog Night 7/11: “Mama Told Me (Not to Come),” Three Dog Night 9/23: “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me,” Mac Davis 7/25: “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” Carpenters 10/14: “Ben,” Michael Jackson 8/22: “Make It with You,” Breas 10/21: “My Ding-A-Ling,” Chuck Berry 8/29: “War,” Edwin Starr 11/4: “I Can See Clearly Now,” Johnny Nash 9/19: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” Diana Ross 12/2: “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” Temptations 10/10: “Cracklin’ Rosie,” Neil Diamond 12/9: “I Am Woman,” Helen Reddy 10/17: “I’ll Be There,” Jackson 5 12/16: “Me and Mrs. Jones,” Billy Paul 11/21: “I Think I Love You,” Partridge Family 12/12: “ The Tears of a Clown,” Smokey Robinson and the 1973 Miracles 1/6: “You’re So Vain,” Carly Simon 12/26: “My Sweet Lord,” George Harrison 1/27: “Superstition,” Stevie Wonder 2/3: “Crocodile Rock,” Elton John 1971 2/24: “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” Roberta Flack 1/23: “Knock Three Times,” Tony Orlando and Dawn 3/24: “Love Train,” O’Jays 2/13: “One Bad Apple,” Osmonds 4/7: “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,” 3/20: “Me and Bobby McGee,” Janis Joplin Vicki Lawrence 4/3: “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me),” 4/21: “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree,” Temptations Tony Orlando and Dawn 4/17: “Joy to the World,” Three Dog Night 5/19: “You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” Stevie Wonder 5/29: “Brown Sugar,” Rolling Stones 5/26: “Frankenstein,” Edgar Winter Group 6/12: “Want Ads,” Honey Cone 6/2: “My Love,” Paul McCartney and Wings 6/19: “It’s Too Late,” Carole King 6/30: “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth),” 7/24: “Indian Reservation,” Raiders George Harrison