“Lies! Lies! All of It, Lies!” Summer 2009 Issue No. 22 JHS Classes of ‘71, ‘72, ‘73 Thirderly Online Newsletter Welcome to this, the 22nd news- letter of the JHS classes of ‘71, Official Propaganda Tool of ‘71, ‘72, ‘73 Jericho High Alumni ‘72, and ‘73, and friends. ReunionIn this Update issue: 1 In publishing, they say that if you want Yearbook to Facebook 12 Lori Light, Lori Small Cohan, to attract readers, Arnold Holtz, Mitchell Bau- 2 moel , Roslyn Appelbaum, just put a cute ‘n Ellen Tillman, Alan Abbadan- cuddly kitten on gelo, Anne K. Havrilla your cover. We’ve Nooz About Yooz 3 gone one better … Mr. Bob Hoffman, Hall of Fame Induction, more In Tribute 45 “Pets: Man’s Deirdre Rasulo Catch Up With … 67 Best Friend”* Caren Kushner Gottesman Takin’ Care of Bidness — 9 * And in Your Case, Jerichonians at Work 11 That’s Understand- Jane Altvater Duda 12 able! Cartoons by Dan Clurman 12 First Person Singular 13 Mindy Wertheimer Pix of Your Pets Everything You Ever Wanted 1517 Beginning on page 24 to Know About: Jan Millner Everything You Ever Wanted 20 to Know About: Lisa Stewart Discounted Advance Jacobs and Beth Stewart 17 Reunion Tix Now On Sale Cover Story 1924 Pets: Man’s (and Woman’s) 25 Advance tickets for the October 9, 2010, “Inter- Best Friend, featuring Ellen galactic Space Party” at Milleridge Cottage went on Jankowitz, Bonnie Colgan, sale beginning July 4. From then until February 9, Diane Freedman, Randy San 28 2010, admission is $100 per adult — a savings of Antonio, Amy Lubow, more $25 per ticket. Formal invitations will be going out around the first of the year. You can get a full Faculty Lounge 29 Mr. Gerald Link 34 refund so long as you cancel no later than September 25, 2010. For many more reunion Your Back Pages: 39 details, visit the “Senior Lounge” section of our Woodstock schlock website. JHS Classes of 1971-1972-1973 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter • Summer 2009 Page 2 In our travels around cyberspace, we frequently come upon photos of former classmates, especially on Facebook. “Yearbook 2 Facebook” features folks who perhaps didn’t make it to the last couple of reun- ions, so we haven’t seen them in a while. If they come to next October’s big party, now you’ll recognize ‘em. Can you believe how good everyone looks?! Maybe they’re all robots. Yep, that must be it. Lori Small Cohan (’73) Arnold Holtz (’71) Lori Light (’72) Dix Hills, NY Bridgewater, NJ New York, NY Ellen Tillman (’71) Alan Abbadangelo (’73) Rockville, MD Albany, NY Anne K. Havrilla (‘73) Roslyn Appelbaum (’72) Mitchell Baumoel (’73) Basking Ridge, NJ Boulder, CO Tewkesbury, MA JHS Classes of 1971-1972-1973 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter • Summer 2009 Page 3 19th Annual JHS Hall of Fame Induction The Jericho High of JHS, and the class School Alumni Hall of of ‘73’s Richard Bai- Fame added five more man. members at its nine- Here’s a little bit teenth annual induc- about each of this tion ceremony on April year’s inductees: 30, 2009, at the Jeri- Do the clean-cut young folks above look familiar? They should. Their images graced cho Public Library. Robin Bergman the Jericho School News newsletter that The selection com- (1973) was mailed to your parents to let them mittee include two know just what it was you were supposedly teachers well known to Robin, who lives in doing on weekdays. the classes of 1971, Robin Bergman Concord, Massachu- 1972, and 1973, Mr. setts, is a talented Now On Deck: Mr. Hoffman Bob Hoffman, the driv- Jericho Board of Edu- fashion designer, built ing force behind the cation back when you her own company, Mr. Robert Hoffman will be premier- HoF, and Mr. Louis were bored in school. Robin Originals, from ing his documentary about the 1954 Boroson. Also on the She also happens to the bottom up. Patricia Little League World Champions from committee is Mrs. Ber- be the mom of Joan Makarcher, writing in Schenectady, New York, this fall. He nice Baiman, who was Baiman Rosenberg Surface Design Jour- began working on the project, titled a member of the (‘71), assistant princi- Continued on page 4 Six Innings to Destiny, in 2004. Mr. Hoffman grew up in nearby Whitehall Annual Tribute to and attended Union College in Schenectady. He remembers the Mike Dinhofer at Yankee Stadium Our good friend and classmate Mike Din- hofer died of leukemia in 1995. Every year since, on or around Mike’s birthday, his brother, Philip Dinhofer (‘75), and friends Jon Friedman (‘73) and Philip Bashe (‘72), at- ther Philip and Jon Jon, a longtime tend a Yankees game above; the other Phil Manhattanite, recently team’s victory as and hoist a beer (or snapped the photo. celebrated his tenth being “a really big two) in his memory. Phil Dinhofer is an anniversary as the Me- deal” for the city. This year they went attorney with his own diaWatch columnist for We’ll have much on Mike’s actual b’day, practice on Long Island MarketWatch.com. Be May 23, a beautiful and in Manhattan. He sure to check his al- more about this in the fall issue — spring day, and saw lives in Merrick with ways entertaining and following the film’s the Bombers edge the his wife, Robin, and insightful viewpoint opening on the 55th anniversary of Philadelphia Phillies in son, Andrew, who will and interviews at the championship — but if you’d like a come-from-behind be a freshman at SUNY http://www.market to view the trailer now, go to bottom-of-the-ninth 5– Stony Brook come watch.com/commen- www.sixinningstodestiny.com. ■ 4 thriller. That’s bro- September. tary . ■ JHS Classes of 1971-1972-1973 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter • Summer 2009 Page 4 Nooz About Yooz 2007–08 issue (No. 18) of the newsletter. Continued from page 3 Jessica Pincus nal, had this to say about Gerschitz (1970) Robin’s unique clothing: “Bergman produces a line Jessica, today a resident of knitted chenille wear- of East Birchwood, is the ables that shimmer harmo- president and chief operat- niously in adjacent fields ing officer of Abilities, Inc., of luscious colors; the den- a facility dedicated to edu- sity of pattern is reminis- cation and training people cent of a starry sky. Each with disabilities — approxi- piece seems visually inex- mately six hundred a year. haustible.” She has been with the Robin is also a commu- agency, located at the Na- nity organizer and civic tional Center for Disability leader. When Boston lost Services, in Albertson, its progressive talk radio since 1978. Jessica re- station in 2006, she sin- ceived a masters degree in gle-handedly worked to rehabilitation counseling help return the format to from the University of the airwaves. Michigan. You can read about Above: (left) Marvin Schwartz and Adam Levy (right) with Robin and see some of her Marvin Schwartz their better halves at the preceremonial dinner held at designs in the winter (1969) Milleridge Inn. (Top): To truly prove that they belong in the Hall of Fame, all inductees must sit directly under a Marvin, CEO of Jarro Build- poster-sized blowup of their high school yearbook photo ing Industries Corp., has without bolting from the stage in tears. Here’s the stage been building things for as as it looked before showtime, minus all the scantily clad long as he can remember. dancers, dry-ice smoke, and laser light show. According to his good friend Dr. Neil Minikes, as a teenager, “he could take Adam Levy, MD tumor. The patient turned apart, fix, and put together (1986) out to be the son of an entire car engine.” He Adam’s childhood friend also turned his family Pediatric oncologist- and JHS soccer teammate home’s basement into a hematologist Adam Levy, Richard Fraser, who, sadly, fully refinished rec room. director of the fellowship died in the terrorist attacks Recently, he built an program at the Children’s on the World Trade Center. elaborate treehouse for Hospital at Montefiore Adam graduated from the Sunriser Camp, which Medical Center, can still be Cornell University, as did his wife, Caroline. The cou- serves children with can- found in Jericho, living in cer. Marvin, named Little West Birchwood. ple married in 1994. Flower Children’s and Dr. Levy, who partici- Family Services’ Man of pates in many charitable Daisy Khan the Year in 2006, is ac- activities, was named at- (1975) tively involved in many tending physician of the other charities as well. year in 2004. In a bitter- Daisy Khan, who was born He and his wife, Fran, sweet story, he is caring in Kashmir, was the first live in Plainview and have for a young Brooklyn boy Muslim student in the Jer- Jessica Pincus Gerschitz three grown sons. suffering from a rare neck Continued on page 31 JHS Classes of 1971-1972-1973 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter • Summer 2009 Page 5 In Tribute Memories of Deirdre (‘73) Deirdre Rasulo Laura Sheftman Strafer ('73): I am honored to write about my We’re truly saddened to have to report the friendship with Deirdre Rasulo. I’ll passing of the class of ‘73’s Deirdre Mary never forget how I first met Deirdre Rasulo of Sayville, Long Island, on March 26 Mary Bernadette Rasulo. (I always following a short battle with advanced ovar- thought her full name was really ian cancer. “It all happened very quickly, cool.) It was in the science hallway and we were just so shocked,” says her of Jericho Junior High School at the friend Randye Ringler, also from the class of beginning of seventh grade.