Issue No. 27, Winter-Spring 2013

“Lies! Lies! All of It, Lies!” Winter-Spring 2013 Jericho High School Issue No. 27 ’69-’70-’71-’72-’73 Online Magazine 10th Anniversary Issue!

Official Propaganda Tool of 1969-1973 JHS Alumni

State of the Re(Union) 1 In this is- Details about the first annual State of the (Re)Union Gathering ofsue: the Tribes on 4-13-13 1 he first annual Gathering of stead Restaurant-Bar in Oyster the Tribes, an informal get- Bay, on Saturday, April 13, 2013, Yearbook to Facebook 22 T together for the Jericho High from 8 p.m. until 4 a.m. Amy Rubin (’72), Donald

LoMurro (‘69), Seth Lerner School classes of 1969 through The concept is simple: the

(’73), Paul Bakalis (’70), Carrie 1975, will be held at the Home- Continued on page 32

Kass (’73), Conrad Gees (’72), Dory Berke (’71), Robert Brown 3 (’72)

Nooz About Yooz 3 Progeny of Amy Harmon (’72), 4 Jill Harmon (’72), and Marna Ludwig (‘72) 6 Catch Up With ... 5 Donna Rabena (’71)

Takin’ Care of Bidness: 118 Jerichonians at Work Marjorie Freedman (’73) 12

Book ’em, Danno! New Works 12 from Jericho Authors Jon Friedman (’’73) and

Ellen Meister (‘75)

15 Cartoons by Dan Clurman (’72) 16

Travelin’ Shoes: Jerichonians 17 Conquer the Globe Linda Caputo in Antarctica 17 Everything You Wanted to 1924 Know About ... 25 Edward Green (’69)

A Gathering of the Tribes from 2832 Forty Years Ago: Watkins Glen

Faculty Lounge 36 Mr. Raymond Matienzo 34

Rachel Glickman’s New York 47 New York A girl, a camera, and the greatest city in the world!

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In our travels around cyberspace, we frequently come upon photos of former classmates, especially on Facebook. Can you believe how good everyone looks?! Maybe they’re all robots. Yep, that must be it.

Amy Rubin Morey (’72) Paul Bakalis (’70) Dr. Seth Lerner (‘73) Jericho, NY Phoenix, AZ Fairfield, CT

Donald LoMurro (’69) Carrie Kass Rubin (’73) Freehold, NJ Simi Valley, CA

Conrad Gees (‘72) Dory Berke (’71) Robert Brown (’72) Nalick, MA Sacramento, CA Valley Stream, NY

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Happy Birfday to Us … Hippy Barfday to Us … Ten Years After

Do the clean-cut young folks above look familiar? They should. Their images graced the Jericho School News newsletter that was mailed to your parents to let them know just what it was you were supposedly doing on weekdays.

The happy couple: Alyssa and Meir.

“Just then, the family friend walked up to the table. “‘Meir? What are you doing It was ten years ago, on February here?’ 12, 2003, that the first issue of the “‘Dan, what are you doing here?’ Jericho High School Class of 1972 “And Alyssa said, ‘Whoa, guys, Quarterly Online Newsletter was what’s going on here?’ hawked on sidewalks by street ur- “It turned out that the two were chin newsboys hollering “Extra! Ex- friends and did business together. tra! Read all about it!” Marriages ’n Engagements Galore! “After Meir left, Dan told Alyssa That first issue featured a cover that she should definitely go out with story titled “Jericho Then Vs. Now: A Marna Ludwig Moseson (’72) emails Meir ‘because he’s a really good guy.’ Unique Perspective,” by Debbi from Dix Hills: “My daughter, Alissa, They wound up going out the very Nathel Kazan, who grew up in West got engaged in September. next night (neither could wait the ex- Birchwood and has lived in East “She’d moved to Los Angeles last tra day), and the rest is history: al- Birchwood with her family since June to start fresh and was meeting though they live in LA, they’ll be mar- 1984. The contents also included a family friend for coffee. She was ried in New York on June 6, 2013.” features by and about Eileen waiting at an outdoor table when In other big news on the Ludwig- Marder-Mirman, Caren Kushner Meir Kroll drove past, saw her, made Moseson home front, Marna and Gottesman, and George Ploskas; a U-turn, parked, and went to her ta- husband Michael became grandpar- news items about Patty Ryon-Spiers, ble and introduced himself.” Wow, ents last year when their son, Jordan, Stephen Spiers, Gary Roney, Arnold We’d say that’s chutzpah. With a and his love, Jacqueline, gave birth Tropper, and Bob Simon; and poetry capital Chutz. to a baby boy, Chase, whom Marna by Dan Clurman. Marna continues: “They talked calls “the light of our lives.” Turn the At eighteen pages, the first for about fifteen minutes, and he page, and you’ll see why. newsletter was a relative lightweight, asked for her phone number. Now, Both Jordan and Jackie are physi- and we didn’t start covering other normally, she never gives it out, but cians, as is Marna’s husband. (The classes until expanding in 2006. If she had a ’feeling’ about Meir and two met in 1977, when Marna was a we might brag for a moment, as a did. He asked her to go out with him registered nurse, and got married web-only publication, we were clearly two nights from then. He also told her later the same year.) “This has been ahead of our time. ◘ that she was the most beautiful girl a really hard year for them,” Marna he'd ever seen, and why was she still explains. “Jordan is doing his medical ☺←Click here to read issue no. 1! single? Continued on page 4

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Three-Part Harmon-y

Great photo at right of Harmon siblings Jill (’72), Jon (’70), and Amy (’72), taken in October. The occasion: the marriage of Jill and husband Frank Fairman’s son, Evart, in Putney, Vermont. Just two months earlier, Amy and husband Jeff Continued from page 3 Snodgrass gave away daughter Stephanie’s hand in marriage, in a fellowship in Shreveport, Louisiana, ceremony held outside of Boston. and Jacqueline is finishing her emer- Amy and Jeff, who also have a son, gency medicine residency in Brook- Brenton, live in nearby Sudbury, lyn. Jackie has hired someone to Massachusetts; Jill, in St. Paul, Min- watch Chase while she works, and nesota; and Jon, in Florida. ◘ Bet you didn’t know that all three we try to pick up as much slack as Harmons share the same birthday: we can, taking him for sleepovers a December 5. few days at a time so she can sleep when she comes off her twelve-hour shifts. It’s a very difficult job, but someone has to do it. “Thankfully, later this year, Jackie will be doing a critical-care fellowship in Bethlehem, Pennsyl- vania, and Jordan will get a job there, so they can finally live as a family.” ◘

Above: Hel-lo, baby! Jordan, Chase, and Jacqueline.

Upper right: The first of two Harmon family weddings last year. That’s mother of the bride Amy Harmon Snodgrass (center) with husband Jeff and beautiful bride Stephanie.

At right: In the fall, Jill’s son Evart (center) got married. From left to right, Frank Fairman, Jill, the groom, and his sisters, Jillian and Paley.

JHS Classes of 1969-1970-1971-1972-1973 Online Magazine • Winter-Spring 2013 Page 5 Catch Up With … Donna Rabena Queenan (‘71)

y parents, sister them at Waldbaums), and I zarro, and Mrs. Bernstein. Rose (’74), and I can remember my grand- Looking back, I realize that

M moved to West mother reading each volume we were exposed to college- Birchwood from Westbury in voraciously, because she'd level material. At Jericho, I'd 1967, just in time for eighth had only an eighth-grade get grades in the eighties grade. It was a difficult time education, and to her, this and think, I guess I'm not to be the new girl in school, was like, “What a coun- really aces. But then when I

because you don't have a try!” You can go to school went to SUNY Stony Brook, I

history with anyone. And if and learn to read! So every- was so much better prepared you remember, it seemed one in my family was a than most of my peers. We like seventh grade was when reader, of fiction especially. all were. everybody circled the wagons My favorite writers back I got my bachelor of arts and formed different groups then included Joyce Carol in elementary education and that were then set for all of Oates, J. D. Salinger, and also my master’s at Stony high school. Maybe Brook. But I actually that girl you were good didn't teach until many friends with in third years later. You know grade was suddenly a how it is: you get mar- hoochie mama, and ried, and your family ☼ now you were in differ- takes priority. I met my ent crowds. It was like husband, Steven a line had been drawn Queenan, on a blind “Eighth grade in the sand. date. We have two was a difficult So I was kind of grown daughters, Lisa time to be the quiet at first, until my and Danielle, who both last year of high live locally, and two new girl in school, when I de- grandchildren. school, because cided to try out for the In 1999 my hus- you don't have senior play. I was cast band took early retire- a history with as Henry Higgins’s ment from Lucent Tech- mother in My Fair nologies and went to anyone. And if Lady. Sage Johnston work at Lightpath, a you remember, played Henry Higgins, division of Cablevision. seventh grade Melanie Price starred Both of our children was when as Eliza Doolittle, and were already living on Dennis DiVito di- their own, and we'd al- everybody cir- rected. Plus a cast of ways wanted to live on cled the wagons thousands. the water. So we de- and formed dif- I was always a big cided to downsize and ferent groups reader. My grandpar- bought a cottage by the that were then ents were Italian immigrants, the classics, like Anna Karen- sea in Amity Harbor, Long and for them, to go to school ina. I never did the whole Island. set for all of was a true privilege. My Hobbit thing. I always I was working in an office high school.” mother used to buy the Ency- thought that we had great at the time, and Steven sug- clopedia Britannica at the English teachers at Jericho, gested, “If you don't like what supermarket (yes, they sold like Mr. Vigilante, Mr. Canni- Continued on page 6

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Donna Rabena At left, Donna and husband Steven Queenan bookend their Continued from page 5 younger daughter, Danielle, who is married to Andrew Link. Be- you’re doing, why don't low, Donna and Steven at the you take a year off and Bronx Botanical Garden. The figure it out?” I decided couple, who met on a blind date to throw my hat in the “a long, long time ago,” Donna ring and start substitute says, laughing, live on the water teaching, to see if I en- —and recently, underwater—in joyed it, and I sure did. Amity Harbor. One of the districts where I subbed, Levittown, then hired me to teach four elementary school classes a day in a remedial reading program. I loved it. I did that until last summer, when my husband and I were blindsided by his diagnosis of can- cer. We were traveling back and forth to the city, and the school year was just about to start, so I retired.

Donna’s “Book-et” List

My favorite writers these days include Jodi Picoult, a prolific author from Long Island. She’s had some of her novels made into movies, like The Pact. I love Sarah’s Key by the French author Tatiana De Rosnay. Anything like that enthralls me. If it’s a story about World War II, a people’s heritage and culture, any of that coming-to-America stuff, I’m there. In the back of my mind, I’d always wanted to write a Their friendship, incidentally, is modeled after my novel myself. Friends would tell me that I “wrote well,” own lifelong friendship with a woman that I met in kin- or that they enjoyed my letters and the way that I told a dergarten in Westbury. As for Jericho friends, I’ve re- story. But I didn’t know how to begin. Then 9/11 hap- mained close with Connie Migliozzi Warner and her hus- pened, and the nugget of a story occurred to me. band, Dean Warner, both from the class of 1971. They Now, I tend to be a goody two-shoes, I’m the type of live fairly close by, in Melville. We talk almost every day. I person who has done everything by the book, but I have also write back and forth on Facebook with Lorraine Trig- a criminal mind. I thought, What if two people were plan- giani Grant sometimes. ning on running away together, and 9/11 happens and I didn’t start writing the book for a number of years. gives them an opportunity to escape under cover? That But the idea kept tugging at me. I don’t mean to sound was the original idea. It kind of evolved from that. melodramatic, but it was like a calling. I had to get this What became my first novel, An Ordinary Tuesday in book out of my system. Around 2007, my husband had New York, is not about 9/11 per se. But the events of some health challenges that required major surgery. One that day serve as the catalyst for a story about a close whole summer, he was home receiving antibiotics, and friendship between two women: Maureen and Dina. me, being a teacher, I was off for July and August. I de- Maureen is at the World Trade Center that morning, and cided, “You know what? I’m going to get up early in the Dina, her friend, is worried sick, wondering if her friend is morning and write for an hour every day.” I had read au- alive. Each of them tells the story of how Maureen ended thors saying that’s what they do: you just write. If it’s up there. Maureen is the protagonist—everything is hap- bad, you fix it later. pening to her—while Dina is like the Greek chorus, I had no idea if anything would happen with it, but I speaking about her friend. They reflect on their friend- was going to write the book anyway. It was a bucket-list ship, what it was like for women growing up in the thing. 1960s, and their lives now. Continued on page 7

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Donna Rabena Continued from page 6

Help from a Jericho Connection lthough my That was kind Just before I started writing, I was in A book is fic- of the sensation a bookstore in Syosset, and there tion, the opening that I had on the was an author doing a book signing. is that day as I morning of 9/11. I I overheard the manager remark, remember it. In walked into my “Local girl makes good!” I wandered the summer of salon, and it was over, and it was Ellen Meister, there 2001, I had re- so early that the to promote her first book, Secret signed from my TV wasn’t on yet.

Confessions of the Applewood PTA. office job and was No one knew. We got to talking: “Oh, you’re from considering going “Turn on the TV,” I Jericho? So am I. What class?” Yada into teaching. The said. “You won’t yada. morning of Tues- believe what’s Later, I emailed Ellen: “You don’t day, September 11, was just a glo- happening.” I can still remember know me from Adam, but I ran into rious day. I had nothing more seri- the deadly silence afterward, when you at your book signing in Syosset.” ous on my mind than getting my they grounded all airplanes except She referred me to her website, hair done at the local salon. I can for the military. You’d hear a jet which had helpful advice on how to remember thinking, This is so engine overhead and run outside write query letters to publishers. I great. I’m not at work, and here it to make sure it was one of ours sent out lots of letters and received is mid-September, and I’m still in and that we weren’t being invaded. lots of nice declines. But I had put a shorts. My parents used to tell me, lot of work into the book, so I de- My husband was getting ready “Don’t forget, we were Depression- cided, “You know what? I’m going to for work, and suddenly I heard him era kids. We didn’t know how do this myself, just so I can have it say, Holy s**t! Look at this!” A mo- World War II was going to end and for posterity.” ment later, he said, “It’s terrorism.” whether we’d be speaking German Here in Amity Harbor, we have I said, “Nah, it’s probably a little or Japanese. They were first- lots of professional and amateur plane that flew into the building.” generation Americans and very artists and authors, and a neighbor He shook his head. “No. You’ve got proud of their country. My mom of mine had self-published a book. to see this. This is not a little always said, “They never fought on He was kind enough to read my plane.” our soil. They never dared touch manuscript and make suggestions. My mother, who is now eighty- America.” Now they had. I found a publisher, Rosedog Books, eight, lives near Rose, in Dobbs We own a boat, which we re- and they did a nice job—the book Ferry, New York. I remember her cently gave to our children. We’d jacket is beautiful!—so I was happy telling me, when I was kid, about be out on the water, and on a clear with it. the attack on Pearl Harbor. She day, you could see those twin tow- I didn’t write the book to make lived in Brooklyn and was playing ers. Suddenly they were gone. A a lot of money. And I feel funny self- with a friend. She must have heard day or two after, I passed a promoting it, but everybody keeps about what happened on the radio stranger on the street—we both telling me that’s what you have to or overheard people talking, had little American flags—and I do, so I threw it up on my Facebook because she went running home to said, “Home of the brave, land of page. Outside of my closest friends Sunday dinner with all the clan the free,” and she said, “Yep.” It and family, most people I know have gathered around. All the goomatas seemed like everybody was part of no idea that I did this, so I figured, and goombatas. She said, “We’re a common cause. No matter what let me put it out there and see what at war!” And none of the adults your political affiliation might have happens. believed her. They hadn’t heard been, we were all Americans first. One very famous author has the news yet. ☺← Click here to see the book. been so kind to me. Her name is Continued on page 31

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rowing up in the Princeton Park section of Jericho was the best. Debi McLaughlin and Cheryl Rassell were my best friends.Takin’ We were Care called ofthe “threeBidness! musketeers” and were inseparable. We were all tomboys — even “I teach nutrition at San Jose State University, but as a kid, I had terrible eating habits. Each month, my mother used to go to the Entenmann’s bakery outlet and bring back at least twenty cakes. Twenty! Every day we’d have another cake from the freezer.”

seemed like few of us had weight problems, myself included. But for me that changed in high school, probably due to puberty—and those bad eating habits. I was about fifteen pounds overweight, so it wasn’t a big issue. But as a sixteen-year-old girl, you become self-conscious, so I was always going on one diet or another. I was lucky to have a great, tight-knit group of friends in high school, like Diane Freedman and Jacqueline Schachter, who I’m still close with today. We hung out

with Brett Silvers and Barry Waters. On weekends, we’d go ice skating and then head over to Howard Johnson’s. Or sometimes people would have a party. I tended to escape to my friends’ homes a lot, because there was a Marjorie Freedman, PhD (’73) lot of conflict at home. Now I know why—my older brother Steven (’71) suffered from mental illness—but I didn’t Associate Professor understand it back then. Department of Nutrition, Food Science, and Packaging In school, one of my favorite classes was advanced placement biology, with Mrs. Reff. I never wanted to be a San Jose State University doctor, although my dad always wanted me to become San Jose, CA one, but I was really curious about science and especially about how the body worked. I read a lot, though, and was very meticulous about the lab assignments and teach nutrition at San the writeups. I remember it being a very competitive Jose State University, but class, because we had a lot of premeds who did go on to I as a kid growing up on be doctors, like Barry Waters, Andy Greenberg, and John Middle Lane in East Birch- Pellicone. But biology did have a direct connection to the wood, a couple of blocks from field I would ultimately go into: nutrition. the George Jackson Elemen- It’s funny, looking back, that the other thing I was tary School, I had terrible eat- really good at was home economics, with Mrs. McHale. I ing habits. Each month, my loved cooking and sewing. In fact, I was the president of mother used to go to the the Future Homemakers of America, and we used to Entenmann’s bakery outlet cook hotdogs and sell them after school to raise money. and bring back at least twenty I also used to crochet and sell pocketbooks, and sew my cakes. Twenty! Every day we’d have another cake from own clothes. Thinking back on this is almost comical, the freezer. because today, with both of my daughters grown, I‘m Because our generation was so active, always rid- about the furthest thing from a homemaker as one could ing our bikes everywhere and playing outside, it Continued on page 9

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Marjorie Freedman Continued from page 8 possibly be—I rarely cook, sew or clean. But I always enjoyed making things. Over the years, I’ve crocheted and assembled at least fifty blankets that have been donated to local shel- ters, and I’ve crocheted and given away about one hundred scarves. One thing you’ll quickly learn about me from reading my story is Associate Professor Freedman (front row, third from left), with some of her that not knowing exactly what I graduate students. wanted to do has been a recurring theme. From Jericho, I went to the First, I took a graduate biochem Then, that same year, someone University of Rochester in upstate course at the university hospital, from the Rockefeller Foundation New York, which had a really good Strong Memorial, and that class just spoke at U of R about world hunger. biology program. The problem was, changed my life. I thought, Wow this Rochester, as good a school as it everybody else in the major was pre- is really interesting. was, didn’t have any nutrition med, and there was just no way I Second, I wound up doing inde- classes. But hearing this guy speak— could compete. Or maybe I could, but pendent research with two profes- this was about the same time as Jane and husband Ed , I didn’t want to. Learn the name of sors at the medical school. I did famines in places like Biafra and who’s originally from every single muscle? Why bother? a research paper on brainEast mecha- Northport. TheBangladesh —really resonated with I’m more of a big-picture kind of per- nisms involved with overeatingcouple wed in in 1986.me. How wrong it was for so many son. the rat (hyperthalamic hyperphagia), people on the planet to be starving. In addition to chemistry, organic and I was involved with a research That made me want to study nutri- chemistry, and all that other stuff, I study that involved surgically tion. I actually have never worked in took a lot of liberal arts classes, removing the pineal gland from baby the area of international nutrition, which I loved. Existentialism. Paint- (weanling) rats. (The pineal gland but lately, I feel like I have something ing. Shakespeare. I started to drift in secretes melatonin, involved with left to do in my career—so who that direction. But then three defin- the sleep-wake cycle.) Brain function knows? ing things happened during my sen- and biochemistry really intrigued I often tell my students that you ior year to push me back to biology. me. have to be open to ideas, especially if you don’t know what you want to do. Sometimes things come to you at Everybody’s Got a Story to Tell — Even You! a particular moment, and you may not know when or what it’s going to How about sharing it in the pages of your JHS Classes of 1969-1970- be. But you may just hear something, 1971-1972-1973 Online Magazine? Feel free to write it yourself or, as or a mentor will come along, and is usually the case, feel like a real big-shot and be interviewed over the everything clicks for you. That’s what phone. Interested? Contact Phil at [email protected]. happened to me. Continued on page 10

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Jericho to Tucson, Marjorie with daughters Arizona, in 1978; Gabi, 22, and Rachael, 25,

my brother Steven in Paris. was also living there; and my oldest brother, Jeff (’70), lived in Los Angeles. And Davis, an agricul- Marjorie Freedman tural school (known as “the Continued from page 9 Aggies”) had a great nutrition de- A Brief Time Out partment. In the seven- As I said, the University of Rochester ties, and coming didn’t offer courses in nutrition, so from New York, I thought California was one big beach. But Davis was when I graduated after three years, about as far from the beach as you could get. It’s located in the Sacra- in 1976, I left there for good. I de- mento Valley, fifteen miles from the state capital of Sacramento and about cided to take some time off, which two hours from the beach. It’s totally flat and surrounded by rice paddies you could do back then! First I trav- and tomato fields. And as you drove to campus, all you smelled were cows. eled to Europe and Israel, on five As a New Yorker, it was about as much of a culture shock of you could dollars a day. (I went back with my imagine. Actually, I was just up there last September, and today it’s a much family a few years ago; now you can different place, in part because the Mondavi wine family has put millions of barely travel Europe on five hundred dollars into the campus. And all the new buildings seem to keep the smell dollars a day!) I flew Icelandic Air, got of cows to a minimum. my Euro Rail pass, and basically trav- When I started grad school, I ended up doing research in what was eled for six months until my money called the Food Intake Lab. I thought, How great, I can do food-intake stud- ran out. I came home just in time for ies using lab rats. Well, after one semester, I couldn’t stand it! Yes, you get my twenty-first birthday. to measure food intake, but you also have to measure the feces. It was My good friend Diane Freedman disgusting! So I switchedJane and my husbandmaster’s Ed project , and ended up studying com- had just graduated from Cornell Uni- munity nutrition. who’s originally from versity and moved to Boston. I Masters in hand, inEast 1980 Northport. I got a job The interning for a nutrition policy or- couple wed in 1986. thought that sounded like fun, so I ganization in Washington, DC, called the National Nutrition Consortium. It moved up there too, and we rented doesn’t exist anymore, but it was like a super-low-budget lobbying organi- an apartment together on Common- zation. The other two interns and I would attend hearings on Capitol Hill wealth Avenue in Brighton. I got a job and find out everything that was happening in DC related to nutrition. Then working in a research lab near Mas- we’d write up briefs and Fed Ex them to key people in different nutrition sachusetts General Hospital. After a societies to keep them informed as to what was going on in Washington. year, Diane moved back to Ithaca, This was before every organization known to man kept an office in DC. and I moved into a house in Cam- As interns, did we have a grand old time! I wasn’t earning much money, bridge’s Inman Square. But I was but I lived in a big house on P Street in Georgetown that belonged to some getting bored working in the lab and family in the foreign service. We had a maid, and a swimming pool in the figured it was time for me to apply to basement—it was party central. Unfortunately, when the internship ended, graduate school to pursue my dream there were no jobs to be had. So my boss suggested that I return to Davis of studying nutrition. and get my PhD. At first I was disappointed: “Oh, no, I’m headed back to I applied to a bunch of schools all Aggie-ville!” But it turned out to be a great thing, on several levels. During over the country, but in the end I my first two years in Davis while working on my MS, I hadn’t owned a car; I chose to study at the University of biked everywhere. But now I’d bought my brother Jeff’s old Toyota Corona, California at Davis. By this time, my and I discovered that there was actually life outside of Davis. The San Fran- entire family had relocated to the cisco Bay Area was only sixty miles west. So I had a much better time. West Coast: my parents moved from Continued on page 11

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gain this type of experience. For my PhD dissertation, I studied hormonal mechanisms of obesity, which introduced me to this type of rat called the Zucker rat, which has a 25 percent chance of becoming genetically obese. If you remove their adrenal glands (which I did), they became thin. And if you replaced the missing Marjorie Freedman hormones (which I also did), they fattened up again. We called our lab (Above) Marjorie in the early eight- Continued from page 10 the Fat Lab. The people I worked ies, trapped like a rat in the lab at with there, all us grad students, and UC Davis; and (below), in the mid- On campus, though, the only the lab techs remain my friends to- eighties, giving the skinny on thing to do was study, work, and do day. NutraSweet, in Chicago. lots of exercise. Everybody, it My returning to Davis turned out seemed, ran, biked and swam. That to be serendipitous for another rea- was life at Davis. Remember how, in son: that’s where I met my future high school, we had to go swimming husband. in the indoor pool? That was trau- matic for me, being a girl with long A Lengthy Courtship hair. You never could get it dry in time for your next class, and the Brien Kirk and I met in biochemistry chlorine led to bad hair days that lab. I noticed this guy who sat across lasted for months. You didn’t have the bench from me, and he always the great hair products like they do seemed to get out of there in just now. So I’d grown up with an aver- two hours, whereas I’d be there for sion to swimming. four hours or more. So I thought to But at Davis, I really came to love myself, I’ve got to take a page out of swimming year round. It didn’t hurt his book. We became friends, and I that the coach of the master’s swim- found out that his olderJane sister and husbandLiz Edworth , it if anything happens to you.” ming team was this blond specimen was in the Fat Lab, andwho’s I didn’t originally even fromHe got no argument from me! I went named Dave Scott, who was just a know. Once Brien and I Eaststarted Northport. dat- Theto Europe, South America, and plenty couple of years older than me. He ing, she freaked out: “Ohcouple my God, wed in 1986.of times, I was able to stop in Califor- was already a two-time winner of the you’re dating my younger brother!” nia to visit Brien. One time, he joined Hawaii Ironman Triathlon (and would Well, she’d never told me he was at me in Hawaii for a trade show. go on to win a total of six competi- the same school, so how was I sup- I really loved working at Nu- tions). I wound up getting into the posed to know? Besides, their last traSweet and gladly would have swim-bike-run routine, and many fel- names were different (since Liz had stayed there. When Brien was in his low nutrition grad students were ath- gotten married a few years back.) last semester of law school, my won- letes and triatheletes. One year I When I graduated with my doctor- derful boss set up interviews for him even did the Davis Double Century: ate, Brien still had a couple of years at some Chicago law firms. Unfortu- two hundred miles of bike riding in a of Davis law school left. I took a job nately, Brien, a native Californian— day. Thinking back, it’s hard to re- in Chicago at the NutraSweet Com- used to wearing shorts in February— member doing any of that, but I did! pany. I was in medical affairs, and flew out to Chicago in the dead of It was a healthy lifestyle, and it really although I loved the city, I did a ton winter. He didn’t even own an over- cemented me to California. of traveling—on sales call, to trade coat; I had to take him to the Mar- When I wasn’t running, swim- shows—which was great. I had this shall Field’s department store to buy ming, or biking, I was entombed in great boss who was like a father fig- one. (He still has it.) It was freezing the lab. I’d been advised that even if ure to me. He counseled, “Always be at the time, of course, and he had to I didn’t want to do lab work for the careful when you travel, and always go downtown on the Skokie Swift. rest of my life, it was a good idea to stay in nice hotels, because it’s not Continued on page 43

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Forget About Today Farewell, Dorothy Parker Perigree G. P. Putnam’s Sons By Jon Friedman By Ellen Meister

What was your first exposure to Bob Dylan’s music, and You were actually working on another book, weren’t you, how old were you? when the idea for Farewell, Dorothy Parker came out of the ether and grabbed you? It was singing “Blowin’ in the Wind” at West Hills Day Camp, in the sixties. Everybody sang this song, and we Right. I was struggling with another book proposal when all knew it was this great iconic song, but we didn’t know it occurred to me how many novels on the market were much about civil rights. We were little kids. But we knew devoted to the work of Jane Austen. I think that’s great— it was really catchy and fun to sing. Eveyone sang it. I’m thrilled about anything that gets people reading Then, a few years later, I heard “Like a Rolling Stone” more. But I found it curious that it seemed to be only on the radio. Again, I thought, What a great groove on Jane Austen. Certainly there were other beloved histori- the radio, and you wanted to hear it again and again, like cal female authors out there. I thought, “Somebody the latest Beatles hit or “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” should write a novel about Dorothy Parker!” But I don’t think that people heard “Like a Rolling Stone” My next thought was, “Oh, me!” on the radio in 1965 and thought, Wow, that song is going to change the world. How far back does your awareness of Dorothy Parker The real turning point for me in terms of realizing go? that Bob Dylan was truly something extraordinary came late on a Thursday night when I was in ninth grade. I Back to high school. I started reading about the Algon- should have been asleep, but I was listening to WFUV- quin Round Table, the group of writers, critics, and wits FM, the Fordham University station. It had this great dee- that she hung around with throughout the 1920s. They Continued on page 14 Continued on page 13

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Ellen Meister Continued from page 12 met at the Algon- quin Hotel on West Forty- Fourth Street in Manhattan every day to trade barbs and witti- cisms over lunch. There was Alexander Wooll- cott, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, and a number of others. I was particularly interested in Dorothy Parker, who seemed so re- markably ahead of her time and spoke right to my young heart. When Days and nights of the Round Table, as caricatured by Al Hirschfeld. I was in high school, I thought I was Clockwise from left: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander worldly. I was cynical about romance, Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Franklin P. Adams, Edna and I loved the things she said about Ferber, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood. In back from left to it. She just seemed so edgy and so right: frequent Algonquin guests Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, witty that I fell in love with her. I've Vanity Fair editor Frank Crowninshield and Frank Case. been a devotee ever since. When the Algonquin reopened The core members of the Algonquin I know you've been to the Algonquin. last year, it happened to be at the Round Table, which included Doro- What’s it like? same time as the BookExpo America thy Parker, was known as the convention. They put on a program “Vicious Circle.” It was very much a It reopened last June after a year of about Dorothy Parker there and in- male-dominated group. Would you renovations. The first time I went vited me and Marion Meade, who say she more than held her own? there was in the early 1980s. I wrote the seminal biography of Doro- walked into the lobby with a friend, thy Parker and who is probably the Yes, she certainly did. She was a tiny and sitting right there in the middle world’s greatest living expert on her. little thing, but a spitfire. on a couch, holding court with peo- She read from her biography, Doro- Continued on page 15 ple all around him, was Truman Ca- thy Parker: What pote—sounding exactly like you Fresh Hell is This?, would expect Truman Capote to and I did a short read- sound. ing from my novel, To this day, the Algonquin still even though it was feels very old world, as if you’re step- eight months away ping back in time. You can imagine from publication. Dorothy Parker getting off the eleva- The Algonquin is tor and sidling up to the bar for a gin central to Farewell, and tonic. (For the record, I have her Dorothy Parker, be- drinking gin in the book, while in real- cause it’s where the ity Dorothy Parker favored scotch. I ghost of Dorothy made the change because in this Parker materializes to case, the truth felt more anachronis- the main character, Ellen (left) participates in a panel discussion with tic than fiction.) movie critic Violet Epps. novelist and fellow native LI-er Alice Hoffman.

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Jon Friedman In 2009 I wanted to write a new book. I had some ideas, but they didn’t quite pan out. Then I met a literary agent on Facebook—Lynn Johnston—who Continued from page 12 wound up becoming my agent. She’d noticed my posts on Facebook, and we agreed to have coffee together one day. Lynn said to me, “You ought to jay named Lew write a book about Bob Dylan.” She might as well have said, “You should Goodman, and jump across the Grand Canyon.” I said, “What?” from out of no- But the more we talked about it, and about what might attract a pub- where, he played lisher’s eye, led us to the conclusion that I should write this book. However, “Ballad of a Thin I wanted to do something original; I wanted to write a book about Bob Dylan Man” from High- that nobody had tried to do before, for better or worse. way 61 Revis- The angle I took was to look at Bob Dylan as more than just a songwriter ited. Now, that or singer or performer or rock star, but as another Peter Drucker. His life album had been and career contain lessons that you can really learn from and improve your out for four years life, not just get enjoyment from his art. already, but for some reason, that night it just hit me that this was There have been business books and self-help books that revolve around something special and really inter- historical figures, football coaches, and so on, but had there ever been a esting. book based on a musician—or, for that matter, any popular artist? I can’t It wasn’t just a catchy song you think of any. heard on the radio, it was something extraordinarily powerful: his cocky I don’t think so. I realized that I was onto something unique. It’s funny: one delivery and the giggle in the first of the people I interviewed for the book was Robbie Robertson of the Band. chorus. Nobody laughs at his own When I told him that I joke, especially in the middle of a Dylan goes electric. was writing a book song, and I thought, What is this? Audience goes ballistic. about Dylan, his first Then I started to buy his albums, and Newport Folk Festival, response was, I started to take Dylan’s work very July 25, 1965. “Another one?” But seriously. I’m sure I’d heard the song once I explained the before, but it was like I was hearing it concept, he said, for the first time. “Hmmm, interesting, interesting.” It wasn’t Do you think maybe it had some- just another biogra- thing to do with the fact that you phy. were now older and could appreciate the music on a deeper level? The title, of course, comes from the last Probably. Or maybe it was hearing it line of the last verse in the middle of the night when I of “Mr. Tambourine should have been asleep! Man”: “Let me forget Then, in the summer of 1975, I about today until to- was home from college, and The morrow.” Were there any other book titles that you considered, using either Basement Tapes album had just a Dylan song title or lyric? come out on the heels of Blood on the Tracks. I must have played those Only about twenty-five! One day when I finished writing the book, and the records every day. From then on, I publisher accepted the manuscript, my editor said, “You know, you need a was completely hooked. title.” Right! A title! Good idea! I asked her, “What do you have in mind?”

How long ago did the concept for “Is there a song title or album title that you might suggest?” Forget About Today come to you? I said immediately, Forever Young. Was it one of those ideas that “No. Too clichéd.” And sure enough, a book about Dylan came out that formed instantly, or did it take a long very week called Forever Young. time to hammer into shape? Continued on page 15

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Jon Friedman Ellen Meister Continued from page 14 Continued from page 13

After I’d thrown about The thing about the Algonquin twenty-five possible titles Round Table was that people came at her, I offered Forget and went. Harpo Marx was part of it About Today. for a time, and the actress Tallulah “That’s it!” she said. Bankhead. Dorothy wasn't really “Forget About Today! crazy about most of the women; Wow! What does it mean?” she certainly didn't have any respect for their writing tal- It really does sum up what the book is about, in the ents. Edna Ferber, who wrote the musical Showboat, sense of refusing to live in the past and to always look was one. She might have had a little more respect for ahead. Another title I seriously considered was Keep On Neysa McMein, a woman artist who sometimes joined Keeping On—a line from the song “Tangled Up in Blue.” the group and did a famous portrait of Parker. She was closest to Robert Benchley, the humorist, and Robert The book’s subtitle is Bob Dylan's Genius for (Re) Sherwood, who was an author and playwright. invention, Shunning the Naysayers, and Creating a Per- sonal Revolution. Could you give an example from his How did you research Dorothy Parker, to learn how to career that illustrates each of those, starting with his channel her voice? genius for reinvention? That’s an interesting question. Of course, I read every Well, let’s start with Dylan’s going electric in 1965. That biography I could get my hands on, and it’s not that diffi- was the most controversial thing he ever did; probably cult to read her entire published body of work because the most controversial thing anybody ever did in music. there’s not that huge an amount of it. But to capture her Because he was revered as the king of the folkies, and voice, what I kept reading again and again was not her he could have kept on making a nice living in that guise, poems or short stories, it was her essays and her letters, but he thought it was time to follow the Beatles, the because that’s where Dorothy Parker truly revealed her- Stones, and the rest of them, and try his hand at some- self. thing new. Also, he recognized through the tea leaves that the Where did you find her letters? world was going more electric, and society was becoming more violent, and to keep doing the same thing over and In the current edition of the Portable Dorothy Parker over again, even though he was great at it, didn’t appeal (originally published in 1944), edited by Marion Meade. to him. So he took a major chance. We talk about it now, It’s all in there. I just reread it again and again and again, like, “Oh, Bob Dylan went electric, and of course he was and I heard her voice. That’s where it really came successful.” But there was no guarantee that he would- through to me. n’t lose his audience. For the next year, at practically every concert, people booed him when he’d take out his In your third book, 2011’s The Other Life, the main char- electric guitar. All for trying something radical and differ- acter, suburban mom Quinn Braverman, crosses ent. through a portal to another version of her life. In Fare- That’s an example of his reinvention. As for well, Violet Epps is befriended and mentored by the spirit “shunning the naysayers,” I think that you could say he of Dorothy Parker. Are you open to the idea of other, did that when he went country in 1969 with Nashville spiritual dimensions? Skyline. At the time, a lot of people thought that country music was for hicks, but the album was a huge success. It’s kind of interesting, because I didn't set out to write He was telling the naysayers, basically, “You don’t like it, books that have these strange paranormal themes. tough on you.” When I wrote The Other Life, I was interested in the idea And as far as “creating a personal revolution,” I think of escape and all the what-ifs of life. And once I freed he did that very early on through songs such as “Blowin’ myself to leave reality and write about things that aren't Continued on page 29 Continued on page 27

JHS Classes of 1969-1970-1971-1972-1973 Online Magazine • Winter-Spring 2013 Page 16 T O O N S C A R T O O N S C A R T O O T O O N S C A R T O O N S C A R T By Dan Clurman

About Dan: “I have been a coach and educator for the last thirty- plus years, delivering training and classes in nonprof- its organizations, universities, and corporations. “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 taken from Dan’s most recent 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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Travelin’ Shoes

Linda Caputo Friedmann (’72) in Antarctica Photography by Gene Friedmann

love to travel, and I’ve been lucky to get to do a lot of it, thanks I partly to my husband’s business. Gene is president of Hellma USA, located in Plainview, just five minutes from our house. It is a distributor of scientific component parts throughout North America, selling laser light sources, energy supplies, specialized spectropho- tometer cells, and other high-end quartz and glass products that are made in Germany and are used in analytical instruments manufactured here in the States. Or, as I usually tell people: “He makes widgets that go in giz- mos.” Much simpler. there were so nice. Gene’s company is ex- The business has changed and expanded tremendously since panding into South America now, which I’m he first started thirty years ago. I frequently go with him on busi- really happy about, because that’s ness trips—conventions, trade shows, and so on—and then we’ll my new area of concentration for travel. I’m add on a week either before or afterward. My favorite places tend looking forward to visiting a lot of countries to be the weirder ones. The South of France was lovely, but I liked there. Budapest, Hungary, a lot; and Costa Rica, because the people Continued on page 18

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Linda Caputo Continued from page 17

Going to Antarctica has been a dream of mine ever since I was around ten years old. I don’t know why, but I developed a fixation and read everything I could about it. The trip began to come together in 2011. My husband often travels with one of his work colleagues, Mi- chael, whose wife, Ingrid, also comes along. The two of us spent a lot of time together, and one day we were talking about places we’d like to visit. It turned out that going to Ant- arctica had always been her dream too, so we started planning. At first, the guys didn’t want to go. Ingrid got to work on convincing Michael, who finally agreed to come. The day I was booking the trip online, for February 2012, I called out to Gene, “Okay, Michael’s coming! I’m about to press the button right now ...” “All right, all right.” So it was the four us.

New York to Buenos Aries to Ushuaia

We traveled with National Geo- graphic, through Lindblad Expedi- tions, which I think is the best way to This is our ship, the National Geographic Explorer. go because you have access to their photographers, number one, and number two, they can get you places where other boats can’t go. For example, only National Geo- graphic can bring nonscientists to the science stations. First you fly down to Buenos Ai- res, Argentina, which is a great city. Then we took a Lindblad charter to Ushuaia, Chile. Don’t ask me how to pronounce it. Ushuaia is the last town in the province of Tierro del Fuego, at the southernmost tip of South America. It used to be a min- ing and fishing town, but now it’s Continued on page 19

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Pancake ice in the Bay of Paradise Linda Caputo Continued from page 18

mainly a place for a lot of boats to “I take off to Antarctica. It’s tiny. And the weather is wintery and gray. We stayed there for two days just to col- lect ourselves before the big excursion. Although they still mine semi- precious stones, the rest of the area is a national preserve. We went to a bird hatchery where they have all kinds of odd wildlife. Then it was time to leave. We had 165 people aboard our ship, including two oceanographers who were studying orca whales. They had tagged a bunch on a previous trip and were returning to find them, as well as tag more whales. So they knew exactly where the orcas were. We sailed straight to a pod of fifty. That was fantastic. The first two days were the roughest, as we crossed the Drake Passage, or Mar de Hoces, between the tip of South America and the Ant- arctic Peninsula, the northernmost part of the mainland. That is where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet, and it is one of the most of the most turbulent bodies of water in the world. The corridors of the ship have Clear water, cloudless sky. dispensers of vomit bags every few feet, and, believe, they got used. A A pod of orca whales: mother, child and auntie. lot. Plus, the reception desk had a bowl of what looked like mints. But they were Dramamine tablets. Compared to most of the people on the trip, Gene and I fared pretty well, except for one night at dinner. The small dining room is in the front of the ship, where you get the worst of the waves. I would say that two- thirds of our dinner companions turned green and had to go back to their cabins. And the ship’s doctor was running giving everybody injec- tions of Compazine all night. I did The girls usually travel together. The boys keep an eye have to barf at one point, although I out from a distance. Auntie is a spinster for now. Continued on page 20

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Linda Caputo (Inset) A distant view of an ice- Continued from page 19 berg. (Below) We’re closer to it, but still far away! kept telling Gene, “No, no, I’m not seasick. I must have a stomach vi- rus.”

Jaw-Dropping Scenery

Even before you reach Antarctica, the scenery changes radically. In fact, on the whole trip, you can’t believe what you’re seeing, and it’s very difficult to put into words. Like, seeing our first iceberg. It was amazing. Jaw dropping. You’re looking out at this iceberg from a distance, and you’re thinking, “Ohmigod, that’s an iceberg. It is big!” Then you get closer. “Wow, that is really big!” And then you get closer. “This thing is gigantic!” And, remember, most of it is under water. Our boat, which was an ice- breaker, by the way, was the first Lindblad ship to make it past the Antarctic Circle. For the whole trip, the boat is your home, because there is no place to land. It’s not as if there’s a hotel-casino to stay in. You take a Zodiac landing craft, which seats about a half dozen people, near the shore. But not to the shore. They’re extremely careful to keep the Blue ice indicates that it is very old, as the environment pristine. You wade oxygen gets compressed out over time. ashore wearing special gear made of rubber. Everything has to be washed down first, because they don’t want anyone to transfer any germs or other foreign substances onto the continent. Then when you return to the ship, they have to be sprayed down. One of the first impressions was the air: it smelled so clear; just so different from what we’re used to. It was exhilarating. February is the summer in Antarctica, so there are nearly twenty-four hours of daylight. Approaching the You make several excursions side of an iceberg. Continued on page 21

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throughout the day, in small groups. “I But by the end of the six days in Ant- (Below) Kids’ arctica, everybody aboard has seen backtalk occurs pretty much the same things. in all species. It’s very rocky when you first land, and then the ice sheet goes on for I don’t know how many miles. One thing that most people don’t realize is that most of the continent (Below) Happy is a desert—not a sandy desert, obvi- feet! Penguins ously, but it’s still an arid desert. You really do sing. go climbing up rocky promontories and walking on the glaciers, which are humungous. Some people went kayaking among the icebergs, but I was too chicken. (Actually, I wanted to go, but my husband refused to let me do that.) The temperature was surprisingly balmy; like, around thirty degrees. In the sun, it was nice. But the winds are very sharp, and when they blow, it cuts through you like a knife. We went to the British scientific research station at Rothera. That’s another advantage of going there with National Geographic: only their excursions are allowed there. It was there that we saw the water crea- tures who live under the ice, and let me tell you, they are weirdest-looking

things you’ve ever seen. So strange. (Left) “Beat it, buddy! We even got to hold some of them. I’m trying to sleep.” More than one person on the trip said that being in Antarctica is probably the closest you can come to traveling to another planet. It is just a completely different environment.

Penguins: A-d-o-r-a-b-l-e!

Wildlife on Antarctica consists mainly of penguins. On this trip, I learned more about penguins than anyone wants to know: For example, did you (Right) “What’re know that penguins commit suicide? you lookin’ at?” They are adorable. They’re funny. Continued on page 22

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They wander around. There are four different kinds of penguins on the “I think that in a peninsula, and then in the Falkland happy marriage, Islands and St. Georgia Islands, there are two other different kinds. the two partners The penguins walk right up to find a rhythm you, although you’re not allowed to that they can touch them. Because their only ex- dance to perience with people is the ones who together.” come to gawk at them, they don’t see us as predators. They’re very mild mannered, and they look at you as if to say, “So what the hell are you doing here?” February is the time of year when they hatch, molt, and start to trek inland, so we walked right among them as the mothers were feeding their babies. By the way, penguins really do sing, it’s so funny. I can’t even at- tempt, though, to describe or imitate the sound. And they’re social. They have families. They are serial mo- nogamists: one season a pair will stick together, and while some pairs may continue as a “couple,” most go off in search of a different mate. At night, everyone would assem- (Left) We made it! ble on the ship for what we called a (Above) Gene with Peter Hillary, recap. There they would show every- son of Sir Edmund Hillary. body’s pictures from the day, and then some of the scientists aboard would give a talk, and everybody would share stories about what they saw. One thing about this type of trip: you get a really interesting group of people, mainly American, British, and Canadian. One family brought along their teenagers (so obnoxious!), and the oldest passenger was this ninety- year-old doctor. He tottered a little bit, but he did everything that everyone else did. That was pretty cool. Many of the people were interested in photography, nature, and so on. Inevitably, with each couple, one person dragged the other one along. Sunrise or sunset? Continued on page 23

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Port Lockroy, in the British Antarctic Linda Caputo Territory. This is actually occupied Continued from page 22 even in winter.

And the person who had done the dragging—like me—had read“I allthink the booksthat in about a the famous explorers, Gene and Michael, the dragees, complained the whole way there. But happy marriage, halfway into the trip, they both said to me and Ingrid, “This is thethe most two partnersfantastic thing. Thank you for making us come.” Bothfind our a husbandsrhythm are excellent photographers, and they tookthat the they most can amazing photos. danceAmong to the people we met aboard the ship were David Doubilettogether.” and Peter Hillary. David, who was about sixty-five, One of the Zodiac landing crafts. is a hugely famous deep-sea underwater photography. That year he was the official National Geographic photographer. Very funny; just a tremendous person. He was accompanied by his wife, who is a biologist. As for Peter Hillary, if you haven’t heard of him, you’re certainly familiar with his father, Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to scale Mount Everest, in 1953. Peter, who’s our age and was born in Australia, is also a mountaineer and explorer. He gave several lectures and had amazing stories to tell, like how he, his father, the astronaut Neil Armstrong, and a couple of other guys camped out at the North Pole, and he had pictures of it. He also showed us photos from his own climb up Ever- View from the ship as we leave the har- est in 2003, the fiftieth anniversary of his father’s ascent. bor. He was accompanied by the son of his father’s Sherpa. When he reached the spot where his father had planted a flag, he used a phone to call Sir Edmund, who was then in his mideighties. Amazing! Not only did he give lectures, but you could just sit down and chat with him. Peter has been to the South Pole as well, dragging his own sled. That a human being could do that was incredible. Then you think back to men like Amundsen and Shackleton and how they reached the South Pole without any of the sophisticated equipment we have today. All they had were ... walking shoes! We also met a young couple from Texas. (I don’t know why, but whenever Gene and I go traveling, we seem to get adopted by younger couples; it’s very peculiar.) They were a lot of fun, and we wound up spending a lot of time with them. We’ve been emailing back and forth, and they may join us on a future trip to Israel.

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Think about how huge Antarctica is and then consider that only 2,500 people visit there in the summer (which is our winter) and a mere 300 people during the winter. That’s my size crowd! To give you a sense of the scale, the ar- It took two days to sail back to Tierro del Fuego. Gene rows are pointing to kayaks in the water. Continued on page 31

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strong, and it is sweet; it requires avant-garde classical concert pieces, National Bestseller discipline but also spontaneity. One atonal and athematic. Oh well, it was of the great sentences in Eli Siegel's the hip thing to do in those days, and book is this: “Beauty has to be seen I wanted to be impressive. as complete logic, good sense car- But it was a big mistake. Without warning, the bottom seemed to fall Everything you always ried further than usual:“I think resplendent that in a sanity.” out for me. It was during my sopho- happy marriage, wanted to know about Inspired by these great ideas, I more year that I began to struggle began studying musicthe far two more partners seri- with composition, and I soon found it ED GREEN (’69)* ously and with increasedfind a dedication. rhythm impossible to write anything at all. I Along with what Jerichothat offeredthey can— felt weighed down by an inability to and it really was a greatdance music to pro- compose freely and passionately, * But Were Too Self- gram back in the 1960s,together.” as we all and none of my professors could tell know—I took lessons with Morton me why. Absorbed to Ask! Estrin who lived in Hicksville. One professor, really drenched in I was lucky! He was a world- Freudian thinking, gave me the ri- class classical pianist and a profes- diculous advice not to be loyal to my sor at Hofstra University. He was also college girlfriend, but to sleep around o those of you who knew me Billy Joel’s piano teacher. (Do you promiscuously, as if that would “free back in junior high, and even remember Billy’s local band in our me up” creatively! I have to say, I’m T in elementary school, since I high school days? It was called the proud of myself for not taking his dreamt so much of outer space and Hassles, and had Jon Small of Jeri- absurd advice, which had in it such rocket ships, it may have looked as if cho [’65] on drums. I had their first contempt both for women and for I’d end up as an aerospace engineer. single, “You’ve Got Me Hummin’,” art. Well, anything but—I’m a com- But I lost it!) Anyway, not hearing any real ex- poser and a musicologist. Of course, I also took weekly trips into Man- planation of what had bottled me up, by high school, as you probably re- hattan to study composition with I dropped out of the conservatory member, I was already set at least Meyer Kupferman, a professor at and took a degree at Oberlin College on the first thing: composing. Becom- Sarah Lawrence College. After Jeri- instead. Fortunately, I did my senior ing a professor of musicology hap- cho, I went to Oberlin Conservatory in year at Oberlin in a program they had pened later. Ohio, where I penned all sorts of Continued on page 25 A little background: What changed my basic orientation from science to music was coming across, at age fourteen, a book that, it’s not too much to say, changed my life: Eli Siegel’s The Aesthetic Method in Self-Conflict, which explained the true importance of art. The slim, forty-page work was actually a chapter from his philosophic masterpiece Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism—a book unsur- passed in its field. It is, in my opin- ion, the only book that convincingly shows that what makes for beauty in art is exactly the same thing everyone is looking for in life in order to be happy. Music, like all the arts, puts opposites together-—and that's what we want to do. For example, music Ed (above) at the piano and (right) at Jericho High is, at once, orderly and free; it is School.

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Ed Green “One professor, really drenched in Continued from page 24 Freudian thinking, gave me the ridiculous advice not to be loyal to based in New York City. And at the same time, I began to study at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation—then on my college girlfriend, but to sleep Grove Street; now on Greene Street. Its faculty were well- known artist and scholars, all of whom had themselves around promiscuously, as if that studied with Eli Siegel. And it was there that I learned would ‘free me up’ creatively!” what I really needed to know. I got the perspective I needed to see what had gone wrong for me at Oberlin. You see, it wasn't the school's fault; it wasn’t my par- Aesthetic Realism is the philosophy developed by Eli ents’ fault; it wasn’t society’s fault. And it certainly was- Siegel, who was a renowned poet and critic of the arts— n’t my girlfriend’s fault! I came to see that even though I first famous for his prize-winning poem of 1925, “Hot was studying something very beautiful—music—my pur- Afternoons Have Been in Montana.” He began to teach it pose with it wasn't beautiful. I was living a contradiction in New York in 1941. I attended courses at the Aesthetic and didn't know it. It's a contradiction that many young Realism Foundation in SoHo starting in 1972, and two music students are in the midst of. I was using music to years later became a student with Eli Siegel, and studied be competitive with other people and to feel superior to with him until his death in 1978. After his death, Ellen people who weren't in the arts—people I very arrogantly Reiss, a very important poet and scholar in her own right, imagined weren't as “deep” as I was. It was a very ugly became chair of education at the Foundation; I studied way of using music. And among the people I did this with in the classes she taught, and still do. were my parents, which I regret very much. When I What I learned—with lots of detail and depth—is a learned from Aesthetic Realism how to criticize myself, new way of seeing the world, art, and people. I learned and how to have a kind and respectful purpose with mu- that beauty is the making one of opposites; that every- sic, I not only became a better person but also got my art one's deepest desire is to like the world on an honest back—and stronger than ever. Continued on page 26

Ed, in white shirt, confers with conductor David Gilbert before a celebratory concert of his music held last November 12 at the Manhattan School of Music. “The date was chosen because it was my sixty-first birthday,” he explains. Nice present!

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Ed Green great way to be insincere—to Continued from page 25 base decisions on what you basis; and that the desire to have think will im- contempt—the hope to make less of press other peo- other people as a way (seemingly) of ple rather than building oneself up—is the main on the basis of cause of unhappiness in this world, you really want and is definitely behind all unkind- most candidly to ness between people and social and say about your economic injustice. own feelings. So (On this point, let me mention I was actually Ed chats with some students at the Manhattan School of using music to that about a year ago, the online Music after the concert featuring his compositions. journal of Villanova University, Expo- hide from peo- sitions, published an essay of mine ple. When I changed, I saw that I history courses and courses on musi- titled “The Mind of Adolf Hitler: A wanted to write music that communi- cal composition, including film scor- Study in the Unconscious Appeal of cated something large and warm; ing and songwriting. I’m composer-in- Contempt.” It’s made some waves in music that would have big emotion residence for Imagery Films, whose academic circles and is even being in it, and could encourage people to president is the Emmy award- used as a text in universities as far like the world. winning filmmaker Ken Kimmel- away as Turkey. If you’d like a .pdf of And let me add this: melody ei- man. Among the films we’ve done it, just write me at edgreenmusic@ ther works or it doesn't. There is together was one sponsored by the gmail.com.) something universally communica- National Coalition for the Homeless I also learned that respect, the tive about a beautiful melody, and so called What Does a Person De- desire to see as much meaning and you can’t write real melody and hide. serve?, and is based on a crucial, value as possible in the world and in I really don’t want to write about my ethical question that Eli Siegel once other people, is the cause of art. And work in any detail. Let me just say asked: “What does a person deserve learning this changed my life. Eli that I’ve received various awards for by being alive? What does a person Siegel was not only the finest scholar it, including a Grammy nomination, deserve by being a person?” I ever met, he was also the kindest and that my music gets played by As for my life as a scholar, let me person. It was an extraordinary honor many orchestras and ensembles just mention that I’ve also been on to have been his student. around the world. There are some the faculty of the Aesthetic Realism samples on my website (www. Foundation since 1980, teaching an A New Sense of Purpose edgreenmusic.org) if you would like ongoing course titled “The Opposites to check it out, in Music.” I team-teach it with my As I continued my studies, both musi- The big thing is: I brought my re- colleagues Barbara Allen and Anne cal and philosophic, my musical com- newed outlook on composing to all Fielding. I love that kind of teaching! positions became increasingly me- aspects of my life, including my role And they both are marvelous artists: lodic. I changed technically, but more as a professor at the Manhattan Barbara Allen, on flute, and Anne importantly, I changed my purpose School of Music, where I’ve been Fielding both as a singer and an with music. I once wrote music to teaching since 1984. After almost actor. impress people with how much more two decades of teaching there— As for published scholarship, I’m complicated my mind was than mainly in the field of jazz composi- the editor of the forthcoming Cam- theirs-—which, though I didn't know it tion—I made the decision to go after bridge Companion to Duke Ellington, at the time, is contempt. But in the a graduate degree and felt immedi- as well as of the book China and the process of having this untrue pur- ately drawn to NYU. Between 2002 West: The Birth of a New Music, pose with music, I also robbed my- and 2008 I received two masters which appeared, in Chinese, from self and didn’t truly express my own degrees there, and also a doctorate. Shanghai Conservatory Press. I am feelings. Trying to be superior to The doctorate was in musicology--- also currently writing a book on the other people is no way of finding out and nowadays my teaching at MSM Beatles for Scarecrow Press. what you sincerely feel. In fact, it's a is equally divided between music Continued on page 27

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Ed Green (Left) Ed and wife Carrie in Paris; and Continued from page 26 (below) following

Love Comes Knocking her vocal recital in Rosario, I live on the Lower East Side of Manhat- Argentina— tan with my wife. Carrie, who goes by naturally with Ed her professional name, Carrie Wilson, is accompanying a great singer and actor. (This is not just her on piano. He a husband speaking, but a professional returned there critic of the arts! Just see her perform three years later some time.) She is also a consultant on as a Fulbright the faculty of the Aesthetic Realism lecturer. Foundation, where she specializes in women’s issues and the questions women have about love, family, and so on. In addition to teaching women in private consultations at the foundation, she’s also delivered many public seminar papers about these matters—and they are powerful, illuminating, moving. And often very funny! To say I love her very much and feel blessed to have such a happy marriage is only to give the brief- est hint of something I could write about at great, great length! But this doesn’t seem to be just the place to do so. We’ve been married for thirteen years, but (in keeping with our generation) were together eight years before that. So we’re really twenty- one years in. For each of us, it is our first marriage. Well worth the wait! ◘

Ellen Meister these days). Every reading he did for The Quotable random members of the audience Continued from page 15 was incredibly specific and dead on, Ms. Parker if you'll pardon the pun. I can be as necessarily of this earth, it opened cynical as anybody, but there was no “It's a small apartment, I've barely me up to the idea for Farewell, Doro- way that it was staged. enough room to lay my hat and a thy Parker. I enjoy the freedom to be few friends.” that creative; to write a grounded Tell us about Dorothy Parker’s writ- “You can lead a horticulture but you story but to leave reality behind and ing. She wasn't prolific, but yet her can't make her think.” go off in different, imaginative ways. writing was very influential. But as far as my believing in the “If all the girls who attended the paranormal, I do have to say that I've She was never able to write a novel, Yale prom were laid end to end, I been watching Long Island Me- and that filled her with angst. She wouldn't be a bit surprised.” dium religiously, on the Learning was one of those people who'd On an unwanted pregnancy: “It Channel, with Teresa Caputo. A spend weeks thinking about each serves me right for putting all my Hicksville mom, by the way. I can’t sentence. She was a very careful eggs in one bastard.” watch that and not believe. I also wordsmith, but she didn't rewrite, went to see the psychic medium she just did everything very cau- “The first thing I do in the morning is John Edward at Westbury Music tiously as she went along. I can re- brush my teeth and sharpen my Fair (or whatever they’re calling it Continued on page 28 tongue.”

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Ellen Meister wasn’t at the office. “Someone was using Continued from page 27 the pencil,” she said. She basically late to it, because I can be pretty scratched out a living. anal retentive too. But I think her She was always borrow- approach made it too hard for her to ing money and relying move forward. on the generosity of her friends, which is why Was she always able to earn her liv- she said that her two ing as a writer? favorite words in the English language were She started making a living at it check and enclosed. when she was a young woman. She worked for Vogue, and then for What did you learn Vanity Fair. In 1925 a young man about her personal life? named Harold Ross, who was a member of the Algonquin Round Ta- She was born Dorothy ble, started the weekly magazine Rothschild in New Jer- the New Yorker, and he hired Doro- sey in 1893 and had an thy as one of his first staff writers. unhappy childhood; her The New Yorker was a pretty rinky- mother died when she dink operation at first, apparently. was just five. At twenty- Once, Ross ran into Parker at a four she married a stock- Family photo: Max, husband Mike, Emma, Ellen, speakeasy in the middle of a work- broker named Edwin and Evan. FYI, Ellen lives in West Birchwood. day and demanded to know why she Parker. It was a terrible relationship: he came back from in a week writing screenplays than Essential Reading World War I addicted to drugs and they probably made in a year in New alcohol. Dorothy wasn't drinking at York. Dorothy Parker worked on a About D.P. that point; her problems with alcohol number of scripts but only received came later in life. The marriage credit on a couple of them. I don’t ended in 1928. Then in 1934, she think she was very happy in Califor- married Alan Campbell, a man who nia. She once quipped, “Hollywood, loved her and took good care of her. where the streets are paved with It was rumored that Alan Campbell, Goldwyn.” also a writer, was gay, although we don’t know the truth about that. But Was she a proto-feminist, would you it was a pretty tumultuous relation- say? ship, too. They divorced, and then Absolutely. And she had tremendous remarried, and they were still to- empathy. People tend to think of The Portable Dorothy Parker, gether, in Hollywood, when he com- Dorothy Parker as a wit and a cynic— edited by Marion Meade (New York: mitted suicide in 1963. and even as a drunk. They don’t usu- Penguin Classics, 2006). ally think of her as somebody who Like most of the writers at the Round had a big heart and a deep commit- Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is Table, Dorothy Parker also made the ment to civil rights and justice. In This? by Marion Meade (Penguin trek out to Hollywood to try her hand 1927 she traveled to Boston to pro- Books, 1989). at writing for motion pictures. test the biased trial of Sacco and

Vanzetti, a pair of Italian immigrant A Journey Into Dorothy Parker's It was impossible for them to resist anarchists who were accused of mur- New York, by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick the allure of the money, because dering two men during an armed rob- (Roaring Forties Press, 2005). there was so much of it in Hollywood in those days. They could earn more Continued on page 29

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Ellen Meister fourth or fifth time. I can’t say too Jon Friedman much about it, because it’s unsold, Continued from page 28 but suffice to say, it also has a mag- Continued from page 15 ical-realism element. I’m excited bery. Dorothy Parker was arrested for about it. in the Wind,” “The Times They Are protesting, which gave her great A-Changin,” “Masters of War,” “The pride. Still, the men were executed. It At this point, you've amassed a fam- Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.” was one of those dark moments in ily of four books. Is each book, as Those songs really shook the world American history. you’re working on it, your favorite? and gave the civil rights movement She was also a great proponent an anthem. He became the spokes- of civil rights, so much so that when One hundred percent. I think it has man of a generation—a title that he she died of a heart attack in 1967, to be. Writing a book is so hard. If always hated but is still attached to she left her entire state to Martin you’re not head over heels, raptur- him to this day. So I think that you Luther King, even though she’d ously in love with it on some level, can take any number of examples never met the man. Dorothy’s life you can’t do it. Because in between from his life and apply them to the ended sadly: she was a depressive those moments of rapture, there’s three concepts in the subtitle. and had attempted suicide several the utter despair where you hate times, and she died bitter and drunk. every word of it, you think your In terms of popularity, though cer- When I wrote Farewell, Dorothy career is over, and you think that tainly not in terms of influence, Dy- Parker, it was really important for me you’re never going to write another lan’s career has hit some lows. Was to show both sides of her. The idea word. there ever a time when he lost you? came to me pretty early on that her Writing is sort of an endless loop ghost would serve as a mentor to of love-hate. If the love isn't there, somebody who really needed her and you’re looping between hate and help; a woman, Violet Epps, who’s so lukewarm, you’re never going to timid that she can’t get out of her make it. own way. And I also decided quickly I teach creative writing at Hofstra that Violet would be a movie critic for University. Whenever my students a magazine; I thought it would lend start to despair and complain about itself to so many possibilities. how hard it is to constantly have to Jon at one of the many book Just to show you how a story rewrite, I tell them, “That’s what it signings/readings he’s done for forms, I decided that Violet’s timidity takes! If writing a book were easy, Forget About Today. would need to cost her dearly in everybody would do it.” ◘ some way. There had to be some- Yes, he lost me in the eighties. I thing big at stake, and I came up loved Slow Train Coming (1979), with a storyline about her seeking to Other Books by Ellen but I didn’t like Saved (1980), which regain custody of her niece, who’d was such a big thud that I didn’t pay lost her parents in a car accident. • Secret Confessions of the Apple- much attention to the following From there, I started to fill in the wood PTA (William Morrow, year’s Shot of Love. Then Infidels spaces and stitch together a story. I 2006) (1983) had such a forbidding title, wanted the character to have both • The Smart One (William Morrow, and even the cover photo is not very an inner arc, which is her needing to 2008) attractive, and then Empire Bur- overcome her timidity, and then an • The Other Life (G. P. Putnam’s lesque (1985), Knocked Out Loaded outer story, which is her gaining cus- Sons, 2011) (1986), and on down the line, these tody of her niece. And then I wanted • The Wishing Cake (novelette) weren’t very good albums. to give Dorothy Parker an arc too. (Amazon Digital Services, 2012) He had a period, after he and his wife, Sara, split up in 1977, Have you thought about your next Ellen on the Web where he was just frowning all the book? time. For a decade, he basically • www.ellenmeister.com frowned in pubic, and I think that • www.facebook.com/Dorothy Oh yeah, I’m working on the proposal affected his music. Basically, he ParkerQuotes now. Actually, I’m rewriting it for the Continued on page 30

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Jon Friedman me: “Nostalgia is death.” I thought that summed up his entire philosophy. It’s a Bob, Continued from page 29 great philosophy to live by, too. Let’s say Bob, you have a big success in business. You wasn’t having any fun making music, say, “I’m not going to be overwhelmed by Bobbin’ and if the artist isn’t enjoying himself, it. I’m going to appreciate it, enjoy it, but I it makes it hard for the audience to en- won’t let it suffocate me, and I’ll keep on Along joy the performance. Dylan was still out doing what I want to do.” Or, if you have a there: He put out a lot of records and failure: “I’m not going to let this ruin my did a lot of shows, but he was doing it life. I’m not going to take it as being as almost by rote. He would do a tour with assessment of me personally.” the Grateful Dead or Tom Petty or In terms of methodology, in terms of Santana or Joan Baez because he approaching his life, I looked at his life in thought he needed to be out there. And three ways. The first was to take any he probably needed the money at that given year between 1961, when he first point in his life too. I don’t think making hit, and now, and look at three different great art, like he did in the 1960s and factors: one, what was going on in his 1970s, was his top priority, and he lost personal life? Was he getting married? me for about seven, eight, nine years. Was he having a kid? Was he retiring Then, in 1988, he came back as from the road? Was he making a new part of the Traveling Wilburys—the album, a new statement? “supergroup” with Petty, George Harri- Two, what were the big trends in the son, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne—and music industry at a given time? Was it he was smiling and cheerful and enjoy- the arrival of MTV? Disco? Was Bruce ing music again. Springsteen coming along? And, three, what was going on in the In the eighties, it seemed like Dylan world around us? Was it Obama? Bush? was overly focused on just trying to Kennedy? Who was in power? What were sustain a career and fit himself into the dominant themes of the world? Were what was going on around him. And people afraid of war with Russia? Were often when artists create based on re- they afraid of terrorism after 9/11? A acting to what’s popular, they don’t recession? What was going on in the make their most inspired music. Then world that may have had an impact on It seemed like, starting in the 1990s, what Dylan was thinking and in terms of Dylan rediscovered the reason he’d his music? become a musician in the first place: his love of music. What came as the biggest surprise to you in assessing Bob Dylan’s career and his As I wrote in the book, he took seven place in the world? years off from making records. He was- n’t feeling inspired. Somebody close to The sheer courage he showed in making Dylan summed up for me what his life all these changes in his life and his art. was like in eighties: “He was famous He has done so much in his fifty-plus but not popular.” And when you think years as an artist; just the sheer volume about it, what a horrible condition that of work is incredible. You don’t always must be to be in: famous but not popular. think about it in those terms. He’s a cul- That makes you nothing more than a nos- tural giant, based on his accomplish- talgia act. It’s basically reliving old ments. But he’s also really hard working. glories. He’s worked hard his whole life. During an interview with Robert Hil- He always seems to be in situations burn of the Los Angeles Times, Dylan where he wants to show that he is au- said three words that mean the most to Continued on page 42

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Adriana Trigiani. She writes a lot of Right now, as of early February, my and I decided to extend our vacation. women’s fiction, and she has a New husband and I are displaced due to First we spent a few days in Buenos York Times best-seller at the mo- Hurricane Sandy, which struck the Aires, and then we flew about eight ment, The Shoemaker’s Wife. She Northeast on October 29, 2012. hundred miles north to Iguazu Falls. writes a lot about her own Italian- We’re living down the block from It’s one of the largest and most American experience. our home, in an upstairs apart- beautiful waterfalls in the world. I was reading The Shoemaker’s ment where the homeowner is (Iguazu means “big water” in Span- Wife, and she described something away while she has the work done ish.) So we went from the cold of Ant- that was so similar to a story that my downstairs. Our entire block has arctica to the jungle, where it was grandmother had told me, that I been a disaster area since the 110 degrees. Talk about extremes. wrote to her. And she was lovely. She storm. Then it was on to Sau Paolo, Brazil, wrote back and sent me her nonfic- We were told to evacuate, and for the final flight home. Once we we did. I was especially concerned were back in Woodbury, it took sev- for Steven, because if for any rea- eral days to decompress, because son he needed an ambulance, they the two of us were just so high from might not be able to get through. the journey. So we spent the first two weeks This coming summer, we’re going after the storm at our daughter’s in the opposite direction: to the house, in Bayshore. North Pole. Or as close as we can After two weeks, we figured get. Once again we’re taking a Na- we’d be able to move right back in, tional Geographic excursion to a sci- because if you looked at the ence station in Alaska’s Denali Na- house, it didn’t look too bad. But tional Park. As for Antarctica, I can’t Donna’s older daughter, Lisa, with water damage is worse than dam- wait to go back, although it won’t be husband Steve and granddaughters age from a fire. It’s unbelievable, for a while. What I’d really love to do Abby and Caroline. all the things that it affects. We is work there for a couple of months. needed new floors, new walls, new I found a different travel company tion memoir about her grandmother. electric, new plumbing, mold re- that can actually get you to the South I asked her if I could send her a copy moval. Basically, we’re rebuilding Pole, but I don’t think I’d have the of my finished book. She replied, “I from the inside out. I’m hopeful stamina for that. already bought it!” that we’ll finally be back in our I’ve already told Gene that if he Last fall, Adriana was appearing home by late February. doesn’t want to return to Antarctica, at Farmingdale Public Library, and I People ask, How could you live I’ll go myself! ◘ introduced myself. She actually pro- so close to the water? But Hurri- moted my book. It was very cool and cane Sandy was so unusual. In very selfless of her. I write to her fact, before we bought our house from time to time, and she’s very fourteen years ago, we checked gracious and willing to share knowl- first with the neighbors about edge with somebody that’s not of her flooding, and it had never hap- caliber but still a fellow writer. pened before. One couple had I would say that if writing is on been living here for thirty years at your bucket list, give it a try. Once that point, and nothing. Hurricane you get started, it is a very cathartic Sandy turned out to be the Perfect process, and if you end up writing Storm. even a short story, it’s very gratifying. But we’re surviving, so it’s You can say, “Okay, this was on my okay. At least we’re dry and have a See that tiny object on the list of things to do—and I did it!” ◘ place to stay in the meantime. horizon? Iceberg ahead!

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State of the Re(Union) Maurauding Motorcycle Gangs on Mescaline! Continued from page 1 Pooches on Acid! class of 1972 has had five reunions Horse Tranquilizer for the Masses! since 2002, the last three of which included other classes on either side of us. The parties are always a blast, but planning each one takes a long time. After the June 2012 class of ‘72 forty-year reunion, the reunion com- mittee of me, Larry Licht, Linda Caputo Friedmann, and Paula Wood decided to scale back for the next few years and throw an annual, cas- ual party for members of the classes of 1969 through 1975. (Really, though, anyone from Jericho is wel- come.) No paying in advance. Just show up for an evening of drinks, food (if you want), great conversa- tion, and, as always, lotsa laughs. Why come to a high school reunion, even an informal one? I think a gathering of the tribes from 40 years ago . . . Cynthia Greenberg Giusti (’72) ex- pressed this better than I can in an email she sent after flying in from her home in California to attend her very first reunion last year: In a Textbook Case of Cause and Effect, Watkins Glen Was My First Rock Festival — And My Last Personally, it was better than I By Philip Bashe ever imagined and healing for me. I got to really visit with people, reestablish old friendships, y friends and I were too fore he split for New Orleans two get acquainted with people I did- young to attend Wood- days later. n't know in high school, and be M stock in the summer of Another Jericho classmate reminded of what wonderful peo- 1969, much to our disappointment. joined us, along with a sixteen- ple I grew up with, and how caring So when the “Summer Jam: A Day of year-old friend of his. I’m sure that and cared for we were. It doesn't Music in the Country” was an- my friend wouldn’t mind my nam- matter that I couldn't appreciate nounced for Saturday, July 28, ing him, as he has a great sense it at the time—I do now. 1973, no way were we going to pass of humor, but I don’t want to be up our first rock-festival experience. presumptuous. Therefore, I’ll Beginning in late February, we’ll start My good friend Michael Dinhofer refer to him as “PB,” and the fourth an online guest list, to see who’s in. (’72), after having spent his fresh- member of our contingent, “J.” You can just show up that night, but man year of college at the University As could be expected from if you let us know in advance, we’ll of Rochester, was about to depart three rugged nineteen-year-olds have a photo-ID name tag waiting for for Tulane University. Seeing the from hardscrabble Jericho, we you. Not to insinuate that you’ve Allman Brothers, the Band, and Mi- packed sleeping bags, a Coleman changed so much that no one would chael’s beloved Grateful Dead camping stove, and enough pro- recognize you otherwise, but … ◘ seemed like a perfect send-off be- Continued on page 33

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1966 Buick LeSabre, pull- Indian attacks or drought. ing in around eleven o’clock Outtasight! on Thursday night. You had Friday was a gorgeous to park a good distance summer day, but brutally from the festival site, which hot—96 degrees—and didn’t open until the follow- dusty. Personally, I couldn’t ing day, so, like all the wait to immerse myself in other early arrivals, we the full rock-festival experi- Continued from page 32 slept in the cramped car. ence, so immediately after visions to cater a Bar Mitz- Friday morning, we we settled in, I headed over vah party of two hundred– started the Bataan-like to the portable toilets. plus at Westbury’s Foun- march to the raceway, Yes! The Portosans, tainbleu Caterers (where, in loaded down with so many undisputed stars of the high school, I worked as a supplies, it felt like taking a movieArtist’s rendering;Woodstock projected. They opening date: spring 2183 busboy. Oh, the stories I stroll on Jupiter. Along the seemed so exotic! I mean, could tell that would have way, though, we met lots of just the name alone: Puerto greatly interested the New friendly, hairy people. Wow, San. (Preferrably said with York Department of just like Woodstock, I a lush Ricardo Montalban exactly, but to the waiting Health.) thought happily. We even accent.) It sounded like a line. The units stood Summer Jam was just a bumped into a number of Caribbean island retreat. A proudly, sentinel-like, in a one-day event. But since Jerichonians, including Pe- desert oasis. Paradise, here perfect military row. we’d missed out on the ter Green and Laurie Huls- I come! On this day before the three days of fun, music, man from the class of ’73. Although the toilets, on concert, all three bands drugs, and rampant STDs The four of us were thrilled the other side of the site, would conduct onstage at Woodstock, we decided to find a spot no more than weren’t far away, it took an sound checks, which basi- to drive upstate two days a hundred yards from the hour to tip-toe around peo- cally treated the crowd to a early and stake our claim stage. Eureka! We felt like ple sprawled on blankets all miniconcert. The Band had as close to the stage as nineteenth-century home- along the increasingly con- already completed its short possible. We made the five- steaders, but without the gested grounds. But I made set. hour drive in Mike’s blue inconvenient threats of it. Not to the Portosans, My turn finally came just as the Allman Brothers Young Phil, nearly buried alive in one of the Band took the stage. I Portosans with people perched on top. “For God’s sake, stop closed the plastic door, sat down, closed my eyes, and rocking back and forth, deeply inhaled the in- you stupid hippies!” vogorarting scent of Pine- Sol. As Stevie Wonder might have said, “Wow. Port-O-San. Jus’ like ah pitchered it!” I hadn’t noticed all the young people perched atop the line of Portosans, which they’d more or less turned into a balcony for a better view of the stage. I grate- fully got down to business just as the Allmans launched into their set opener, a new song called “Ramblin’ Man.” Continued on page 34

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The ecstatic kids on top of the Portosan started rocking vigorously from side to side, causing the unit to do There was mu- likewise, with me trapped sic, too! (Above): inside. I was convinced that The Grateful the damn thing was going to Dead made time capsize. So this is how it stand still. Keith ends, I thought grimly. Buried Godcheaux’s alive in God knows many cu- World’s Longest bic feet of human waste at Piano actually the tender age of nineteen. placed the key- Luckily, the Allmans didn’t boardist in a dif- turn “Ramblin’ Man” into a ferent zip code! lengthy jam, and I bolted out (Right): The of there the second they Band pretty brought the song to an end. much stole the

show. Betts: “So, Bob, how do you put up with A Motorocycle Gang Garcia? The guy’s strung out and batshit Appears, and Our Food (Far right): After crazy, right?” Supply Disappears. Mere the Allmans’ fine Coincidence? You Decide! set, the obliga- Weir: “Oh, like your guy Gregg Allman is tory multiband jam ensued. Here, the picture of mental health and Copious amounts of drugs Dickey Betts and Bob Weir discuss the temperance?” Continued on page 35 Eternal Dilemma of Second Bananas. Betts: “Touche, brother. Touche.”

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I know: it was really mean. But it was really funny. Anyway, along with many in the crowd at Wat- Hi, Mom! kins Glen, my friend B.P. and young J. had ingested what they thought was pure THC. Late in the afternoon, Continued from page 34 someone announced from the stage, “How many of were making the rounds all you took some THC that’s day. I’ve never been into going ’round?” drugs; I prefer to wait until Half the assembled food was gone. It didn’t Symphony. Before the I’m in my eighties and no waved their hands in the air takeArtist’s long rendering; to locate projected it: a openingmo- date:Grateful spring Dead 2183 had finished longer care about preserv- and whooped and hollered. torcycle gang had taken up its concert-opening set, the ing brain cells. By then, I’ll “It’s horse tranquilizer, residence right behind us entire gang had cleared have stockpiled enough you assholes!” he sneered and helped themselves. out, enabling Michael and I acid to tide me over for at in disgust. Worst of all, they even stole to reclaim what was left of least a decade. If you, too, One by one, heads the precious can opener. I our food. And, praises be, should wind up in the Hali- around us lolled on their don’t think they were Hell’s the can opener. burton-operated Happy necks, which then turned to Angels, but they were pretty May I say a word about Acres old-age home and rubber, plunging everyone menacing looking all the Jerry Garcia and company? hear someone shrieking who’d indulged into a same. Besides, there were Now, I liked the Dead as Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant coma. This included P.B. at least a dozen of them, much as the next guy, but Song” while swatting at the and J., who proceeded to plus their “old ladies.” a bumpersticker from that purplemeltinginsectheaded sleep through the night, The bikers grinned time summed up my feel- nurses’ aides, that’ll be me. and virtually all of the next toothlessly, as if to say, ings about them: “Sure I So among my group of day’s concert, lying stiff on “Yeah, and what’re you like the Grateful Dead, but friends, I was the desig- their backs as if mummi- punks gonna do about it?” what’s the big deal?” Mike, nated driver long before it fied. Clearly, not much. I’d read a board-certified Dead- was called that. Occasion- Michael and I slept all about Altamont and did head, had harangued me ally, I liked to play a practi- soundly that night too, worn not wish to be beaten to a into finally seeing them in cal joke on ’em while they out by the heat and having pulp with pool cues. We Rochester a few months industriously rolled doobies spent the previous night grumbled under our breath before, and they were . . . in the backseat of my 1965 contorted in the Le Sabre and returned our attention very good—in part because Mustang. like figures in a Picasso to the stage. Soon the mu- the band had played an I’d glance in the rear- painting. sic would begin. abbreviated (by its stan- view mirror. “Uh-oh. Is that Now, I thought I heard We wound up getting a dards) two-hour-plus set. a cop behind us?” unfamiliar voices and measure of revenge, how- At Watkins Glen, the I’d try my best to keep movements behind us, but ever. Saturday was another Dead stood rooted to the from laughing as, in a full- either my subconscious blazing-hot day, and the stage for five hours, whiling scale panic, they fumbled dismissed it or I was too gang had gotten an early away much of the time with their bag of weed, half its deeply under to react. In start on cheap red wine the noodling jams that sent contents spilling onto the any event, when Mike and I and, from what I overheard all the patchouli-oiled, filthy car mat. woke up at daybreak, we them say, a desert’s worth peasant bloused cuties “Nope. Not a cop. False were surprised to see that of mescaline. around us into a frenzy. alarm.” Then came the mad the crowd had multiplied One by one, members As for me, I’m pretty scramble to scrape up the overnight, like mushrooms, began to stagger off to the sure that my circulation pot, producing a joint laced devouring any remaining bad-trip tent—or had their stopped sometime during with dog hair, sand from open space. limp carcasses carried an interminable “Nobody’s Jones Beach, and God We also noticed that there. It was like a perform- Fault but Mine.” Things got knows what else. I know, about three-quarters of our ance of Haydn’s Farewell Continued on page 41

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Wanna learn what some of your former teachers are up to? grades, I was always afraid to raise my hand and answer any questions. Then drop in, pull up a chair, set a spell, but most of all — But I was blessed with a fine boy’s NO TALKING ! — at the ... soprano voice, and as I got older, I began doing a lot of solo singing for school and church functions. Well, Faculty when you sing, you never stutter, so it was really through music that I gained the proper rhythm and tempo Lounge of speech and ultimately conquered that stutter. I began acting and directing plays and skits in high school. At St. Mary’s, I got permission to put on two Gilbert and Sullivan comic oper- ettas: H.M.S. Pinafore, and The Mi- kado. Since we were an all-boys’ school, there were no girls around, and “drag” was out of the question. I was told that if I wanted to do these musicals, I would have to rewrite the scripts—including many of the lyr- Mr. Raymond Matienzo: Once ics—eliminating the girls’ roles and changing the plots but keeping all A Teacher, Always a Teacher the music. So I did, and, honestly, the results were amazing, and all the was born in St. John’s Hospital in guys had fun. I Astoria, Queens, on May 1, 1931— Immediately after graduation, my the same day that the Empire State family moved from Queens to Hicks- Building opened. So we both made our ville, Long Island, settling in a house debuts five hours apart on the beautiful on Dartmouth Drive. My father died spring day. I came first. not too long after, so it was just me I was the tenth of eleven children: and my mother at home, but two of four girls and seven boys. (A brother my sisters and a brother and their born after me died in infancy.) Having all families lived around the corner, so those older siblings in this big household they were always around to help me was a wonderful experience; we were a take care of our mother. She died in very close family. 1970 at age seventy-six. I attended a private Catholic boys’ As much as I loved theater, I high school in Pennsylvania called St. knew that I wanted to go to college Mary’s. It was quite challenging, which and get a degree in education. I tried was fine with me because I received a one year of junior college and didn’t strong background in many areas, especially humanities and language. Of want to continue with that, so I de- course, I loved English and music best. I also played the piano and, later, in cided I would go to college full time. high school, the violin and the organ. It’s funny: my mother played the piano I called Fordham University, sent and taught me the basics as I was growing up. But of all my brothers and sis- them my transcripts, and within a ters, I was the only one interested in playing the piano we had. Music has week, I was accepted. Just like that. always been an important part of my life. I have hundreds of classical CDs, Like a lot of young people in the and I’m surrounded by music from the moment I wake up in the morning un- 1950s, I had to work my way through til I go to bed at night. college. I had a job with an engineer- Acting, too, came very early for me. What’s interesting about that is that I ing company that was stationed in had a stutter when I was little—sometimes a very severe stutter. In the early Continued on page 37

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Mr. Ray Matienzo most of the time, I could arrange my weekends and do whatever I wanted. Continued from page 36 I started the Quartermasters Com- Don’t go getting a mand Chorus and directed it for al- swelled head, but, the Empire State Building. They were most the entire two years I was in very good to work for; they gave me a the service. I made a lot of friends, according to Mr. lot of time off to do other things. I’d and my army experience was a re- Matienzo: “The study on the train ride to and from freshing break from many years of students at Jericho Manhattan. I also made extra money academics. Then it was back to civil- were down-to- on the side as a church organist, es- ian life. earth kids who pecially during the summer when the were very enthusi- regular organists went on vacation. First Teaching Job Funerals, weddings—I played them astic about learn- all, and it was easy work and helped In 1958 I applied for a teaching job ing, and were po- to pay for college. in Hicksville and was able to get the lite and respectful. I graduated in 1955 and then position right away. I began in the They made enrolled in Columbia University for a junior high, which was good for me teaching them a master’s degree in English. I had because I could learn what the skills pleasure.” completed my course work, but soon of the art of teaching demanded. I after, the Draft Board, which had had some wonderful colleagues who given me multiple deferments, gave me wise counsel. wouldn’t give me any more. So I was With my background in theater, group of three classes in the high drafted into the army. I did basic I was directing a lot of plays in addi- school Little Theater. All eighty or so training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and tion to teaching English. The princi- of the students were reading the play then was transferred to Fort Lee, Vir- pal at Hicksville Senior High wanted with their respective teachers. After ginia. I had hoped to be assigned me, so I was transferred there. Com- the students had filed out on their near NYC, but I was informed that a pared to Jericho, it was quite a lar- way to their next classes, a man who chaplain at Fort Lee had been ger, crowded school, with a total of had been standing in the rear of the screaming for years for a chaplain’s close to three thousand students. theater during the class came up to assistant who could play the organ. Everything there was big: we were me and introduced himself as the “And you,” they said, “are it.” able to put on large musical produc- superintendent of the Jericho School It turned out to be a dream as- tions on a professional-size stage District. signment. I had my own room, and with all sorts of amenities. The light- “Mr. Matienzo? I want you to teach ing, the curtains— for us.” Before I could even ask everything—was first about salary and other matters, he class. One of the stu- said, “Don’t worry about anything.” I dents that I remem- didn’t know at the time that Jericho ber (although he was was one of the highest-paying school not in my class) was districts in New York State. We shook a young Bill Joel. hands to seal the commitment, and As much as I en- that was that. I began teaching in joyed it, after six Jericho in September 1964. years in Hicksville, I The high school was in the proc- wanted to teach in a ess of revamping its English Depart- smaller school, so I ment. There were only about 180 applied to several students in the senior class, as I re- other districts, includ- member, and there were six other ing Great Neck and English teachers besides me and the Jericho. One day I reading teacher. John Tobin was was giving a lecture there, Pete Lawrence, and Ruth Mr. Matienzo, shown here with Mrs. Karen Schwartz, about a Sophocles Bernstein, too. It turned out to be a back in Jericho for the 2007 Hall of Fame ceremony. play to a combined Continued on page 38

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Mr. Ray Matienzo mandatory course in research tech- Continued from page 37 niques for all seniors as a solid most happy experience. There were preparation for twenty -five or less students per their future college class. The school grew very quickly, educations. It was however, and more talented teach- approved, and I ers were hired to meet the need, taught the course such as Charlie Vigilante, Estelle for the next several Stern Rankin, Austin McKeen, and years. The major Steve Piorkowski. We concentrated requirement was a on improving the English curriculum completed paper of and building a solid English Depart- the highest stan- ment. dards. I let the stu- Even though the world was dents choose their changing, and students were becom- own topics because Mr. Matienzo in 2009 with his friend and fellow actor ing more politically and socially that would ensure Brian Dennehy. “He always was urging me to go into aware, from the mid-1960s through their interest. I’m professional theater, but I’d stop him midsentence: the mid-1980s, the students at Jeri- sure many of them ‘Brian, you’re out of your mind! I’m only a few years cho were down-to-earth kids who still have copies of away from a very good pension!’” were very enthusiastic about learn- those papers and ing, and were polite and respectful. are proud of them. They might even In the sixties and seventies, re- They made teaching them a pleas- have kept Kate L. Turabian’s A Man- gional theater was very active be- ure. ual for Writers of Research Papers, cause many Long Islanders didn’t There were very few problems. I Theses, and Dissertations. During fancy the round-trip drive to NYC and can’t think of any serious confronta- the last years of my teaching career, to pay the price for Broadway enter- tions I ever had with a student. But I taught Advanced Placement Litera- tainment. Regional theater attracted then, I was not overly demanding in ture and/or Composition. talented actors, many with much the classroom: I wanted a classroom stage experience. I appeared in just that promoted a relaxed atmosphere Extracurricular Activities about every Neil Simon play, truly. In during which a love of learning—and Simon’s The Prisoner of Second Ave- specifically English—would be nur- As I did in Hicksville, I also directed nue, the actor who played my brother tured every day. plays and musicals at Jericho. A cou- was in real life a neurosurgeon—his So I was pretty fair. On the other ple of the students went on to be- “avocation“ was being an actor who hand, I would tell my students very come professionals, like Larry loved being onstage. clearly, “Don’t give me a hard time, Raiken, who incidentally, performed Some professional actors often because if you do, I’m going to have on Broadway in productions of Fol- started in regional theater. One of my you look for another teacher.” And lies and Woman of the Year. good friends is actor Brian Dennehy, several times, I followed up on that. While teaching, I began acting in whom you’ve undoubtedly seen in I should point out that the worst regional theaters in my spare time, many films and on TV. We did four or thing one of my students or the class principally with the Arena Players five plays together. In Stephen Sond- could do was to give my substitute and Theatre Five. Over the years, I heim’s A Funny Thing Happened on teachers a hard time, be rude to must have been in sixty or seventy the Way to the Forum, Brian was them, or interrupt the learning proc- plays and musicals. I won a regional Pseudolus, and I was Hysterium; in ess when I was not there. Some of award for my portrayal of the Devil Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, Brian those students may remember the (Mr. Applegate) in Damn Yankees. I was Oscar, and I was Felix consequences. The result: my subs also did dinner theater. As for plays, (naturally!); and in Anton Chekhov’s liked to sub for me. But overall, the I did Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, Brian was Astrov, and I students were dedicated. Shaw—the classics. I consider my was Vanya. We are still good friends One day I convinced the principal performance as Iago in Shake- to this day. Whenever Brian is ap- that we should offer a one-semester speare’s Othello as my finest work. Continued on page 39

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Mr. Ray Matienzo the high school was faced with Presenting letting two English teachers Mr. Matienzo Onstage Continued from page 38 go. Emil Voigt, our teacher rep- resentative, wanted to do all pearing in a play on Broadway, he could to save those jobs, In The Lion in Winter he’ll leave a ticket for me at since both men were married the box office, and I’ll meet with families. The school board him backstage after the per- asked Emil if there was an formance, and then we’ll go English teacher who had yet to out for a drink. He always was take a sabbatical leave. He urging me to go into profes- said he’d check, and he re- sional theater, but I’d stop him ported back that Ray Matienzo mid-sentence: “Brian, you’re was the senior member in the out of your mind! I’m only a school who had never applied In Iago few years away from a very for a leave. The board said, good pension!” “Get him to take a year’s sabbatical at full pay, and we’ll The Peter Principle in Action keep those two teachers on for another year.” After four years of teaching in So in mid-June—the time Jericho, I was asked to take when teachers are beginning over as chairman of the Eng- to complete testing, compute lish Department, from 1968 grades; all that sort of paper- to 1972. (It seemed like an work before vacation—Emil eternity.) Suddenly I went from comes to me and says, “You’re teaching five classes to just taking a year’s sabbatical!” one, and my days became pre- “I’m what? I’m not pre- In Kismet occupied with things like or- pared for that.” dering books, doing the Emil says, “You take a sab- budget, and evaluating other batical, at full pay, and we teachers. I’ll tell you, I almost save two jobs. You can pre- went berserk! It just wasn’t pare later when you start your me. It wasn’t my style and was- leave, okay?” n’t what I was really meant to I ask, “Did you say full do. I couldn’t wait to get out. pay? Well, okay, why not?” You know, I can honestly I moved temporarily from say that as a teacher, there Long Island to Greenwich Vil- wasn’t one day that I didn’t lage, and studied with Uta In Uncle Vanya look forward to going to work. Hagen, the legendary actress That’s absolutely true. Sure, and drama teacher at the you would have your bad days, Berghof School of Acting, but those were extremely rare. which she had cofounded with After four years as chairman, I her husband in 1945. I found decided I preferred not do it an apartment three blocks anymore; I wanted back in the from the studio and began an classroom full time. In the fall absolutely wonderful year. of 1972, I was a full-time Uta, too, wanted me to con- teacher again and directing sider a professional acting ca- plays and musicals, and every- reer. “No, Miss Hagen, I can’t,” thing was copasetic again. I said. “I’m too old to start an- By 1974, enrollment was other career. I’m learning all beginning to fall, and by 1979, Continued on page 40

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Mr. Ray Matienzo I did and eventually found myself substituting for various teachers for a full year. While I was there, the music Continued from page 39 teacher wanted me to help with the annual musical pro- duction. I wound up playing the piano with the school this so I can pass it on to my drama and acting stu- orchestra; we did Grease, Guys and Dolls, Music Man, dents.” and a couple of others. I also did two plays with the Eng- The next year, it was back to teaching. But I liked lish Players of San Juan. living in the city so much that I stayed there another four You know, I didn’t need to do any of this; I wasn’t years, reverse commuting to Jericho. My apartment was looking for this. Yes, it was interesting and fun. But peo- in an old brownstone between Jane ple have always told me, “Ray, your and Horatio Streets. One day I was biggest problem is that you can never told that the brownstone was sold; say no.” And that is so true. the new owners were asking some- By 2000, I had only two sisters thing like a 700 percent raise in rent. “After four years of left. They were living practically next I packed up and returned to Hicks- teaching in Jeri- door to each other in Sarasota, Flor- ville with my Baldwin baby grand. The cho, I was asked to ida. One was eighty-three, the other piano is here in Sarasota with me—it take over as chair- eighty-eight. They wanted very much has done a lot of travelling. man of the English for me to move there, for moral sup- Department, from port more than anything else. I felt I The Beachcomber owed it to them because they had 1968 to 1972. (It been so good to me all my life. So I I’d decided to retire at the end of the seemed like an sold my condo in PR and bought a 1986-87 school year. For many eternity.) I’ll tell condo in Sarasota two miles from my years during the winter vacations, I you, I almost went sisters, and that’s where I live now— used to fly down to Puerto Rico for a berserk! It just was- with my Baldwin baby grand piano! week or so to relax on the beach and n’t me and wasn’t My oldest sister, Gloria, passed away in 2004 at age ninety-two. Now my get my golden tan. During the Christ- what I was really mas break in 1986, I was walking sister Clarice and I are the last of the along the beach in my bathing suit meant to do.” eleven children. Clarice is ninety-five and with a hat on my bald pate, and, and suffers from dementia. She still as I passed the Marriott Hotel, I saw lives here with her son, my nephew, a condominium next to the hotel. It who cares for her. was right on the beach, about sixty feet from the waves, With so many older brothers and sisters, I became and all the balconies faced the water. I noticed a For an uncle when I was ten and a half. Today I can’t count Sale sign on a third-floor condo. Now, I don’t like the number of grand and great-grand nieces and neph- heights—the third floor is as high as I go. Then I thought, ews I have. I don’t even know who all of them are! When What the hell!” So I bought it. I go to our biannual family reunions on Long Island and I retired in June and stayed in New York through the see a kid I don’t recognize, I’ll ask, “And who are you? fall, because I love October up north. I used the condo on Who are your parents?” And he or she will point at some- a fairly regular basis. I confess that I was basically a body, and run off to play with other adorable “Who-are- beach bum for the next thirteen years. It was a great your-parents?” change, you know? I did a lot of reading, played a lot of Florida is Florida, but Sarasota is in a class of its bridge. But, of course, I couldn’t stay inactive for too own. Its beach at Siesta Key was voted the best in the long. United States, and that’s well deserved. It’s a strongly One day I met some Americans who worked for the cultural city: concert halls, opera house, equity theaters Defense Department as teachers at the local army base, and regional theaters, museums, art galleries. It really is Fort Buchanan; it was a military installation that had an a very beautiful city. And most of the year we have gor- elementary school, middle school, and senior high geous weather. school for the children of the families of the US person- A few months after moving here, I stopped in at the nel there: army, CIA, customs, immigration, and so on. local James Joyce Society of Sarasota because I like One of the teachers I met taught English at the high Joyce’s works very much. In fact, I just recently heard school there, and asked if I’d like to substitute for him. Continued on page 41

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Mr. Ray Matienzo to us. Admittedly, we’d come to Watkins Glen hop- Continued from page 40 ing to see at least some nudity. I mean, that’s what from my former student Robert Hahn (class of ’70), people did at rock festivals, who’s now a professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois wasn’t it? But this was University Carbondale. Rob did some independent study 1973, not 1969, and, be- with me during his senior year, and we tackled some of sides, there was the Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses. He ultimately became the Continued from page 35 scorching sun to contend youngest member of the New York James Joyce Society. with. So there was little Anyway, I joined the Sarasota Joyce Society and be- off to an unpromising start bare flesh to be seen any- came the president for about six years. I was a group when I thought that their where. facilitator for most of Joyce’s works (not Finnegans first song was ten minutes Except for Joseph, who, Wake!). Teaching Ulysses—which was named the great- of the band tuning up. Even I’m guessing, was about est novel of the twentieth century—takes a year of bi- devout Deadheads will ad- thirty, a career hippie, and weekly sessions to complete. The groups I have worked mit—after days of withhold- unnaturally trim from a diet with were mostly made up of retired seniors, many pro- ing their munchies snack of wood chips and bark. fessionals, lawyers, retired doctors, and so on. They at- foods—that the group was Mellow Joseph informed us tend because, like many people, they say, ”I’ve always hardly at its best. that he was tripping wanted to read Ulysses.” Or they say, “Well, I read it a fiercely. He doffed his long time ago, but I don’t remember much about it.” Walkin’ the Dog clothes and began to per- When someone says that, you know they’ve never read form this odd, undulating, it! Anyway, the sessions—basically seminar style—are in- The Band were very good. wiggly-jiggly dance without tellectually invigorating and fun! The group also studies However, I have little mem- ever stopping. By now it many other modernists. ory of the Allmans’ festival- was late afternoon, and the In January 2012 I took a leave-of-absence from the ending set. A young woman grounds were littered with Joyce Society and all other literary involvements to work sitting near us was tripping, garbage, including broken for the Democratic Party here. I manned the phone and she worried aloud that glass. Tripping Joseph kept banks for hours, wrote letters, and did all I could to see her dog, a handsome me- tripping over his own feet that President Barack Obama was reelected. And it dium-size collie, might have and falling hard onto the worked! In Florida, no less. Now, next week I begin ses- swallowed or licked her shards of glass, yet he sions on Joyce’s Dubliners! People tell me I’m looking tabs of Orange Sunshine, never got cut. The Mes- pretty good, although I am slowing down. On May 1, I or Goofy Grape, or what- siah? I wondered. turn eighty-two. (So does the Empire State Building.) Not ever the hell it was. Perhaps his nonstop bad! Is it because I can’t say no? I’m not sure that the dancing summoned the pooch was actually halluci- rain, because at night, dur- Once a Teacher, Always a . . . nating, but the poor thing ing the grand finale jam was so dehydrated and featuring members of all I was more than fortunate to teach for almost thirty-two hungry that it might as well three acts, it began to years, twenty-three of those at Jericho. Being a teacher is have been. So I spent sprinkle. Nothing could like being a religious person: if you’re a religious person, much of the Allmans’ set have felt better. you’ll probably be religious all your life. I believe that. cooling him off with water The rain woke up B.P. Making the critical choice to go into teaching formed ex- from my canteen, feeding but not his friend J., whom actly what who I am today. him some Sloppy Joe from Mike and I took turns lug- I’m a teacher. I’ve always been a teacher, even to- a can, and petting him ging several miles back to day. For example, I will be watching TV, and I’m always while he sat in my lap, the car, cursing his sorry correcting people’s English. Somebody will say, “between panting heavily. sixteen-year-old ass the him and I,” and I’ll shout back at the screen, “It’s be- While I played canine whole way. It took forever tween him and me!” Or they’ll say, ”I brought back this massage therapist, I began to drive out of the immedi- pretty momento.” “No! Memento!!!” to think that maybe I was ate vicinity, but we were You never get over it: once a teacher, always a hallucinating, because of a finally headed home. teacher. ◘ hippie guy sitting next Continued on page 42

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Jon Friedman Lennon were in a class unto themselves. Nobody else touched Continued from page 30 them. Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Pete thentic, too. Whether he’s doing Townshend, Brian Wilson—they’re country, or folk, or blues, or mes- all great—but Lennon and Dylan sage music, or rock & roll— are at the top of the totem pole, whatever style of music he’s play- looking down on everybody else. I Continued from page 41 ing—he’s giving it his all. It wasn’t think that Dylan himself probably as if, with Nashville Skyline, for had that same kind of realization The torture wasn’t over just yet, however. example, he thought, “Oh, coun- and wrote about it. Not by a long shot. try’s really hot right now; I’ll make All in all, I think that the music As we sped east on route 17, dreaming a country record.” It was anything on Tempest is really interesting of warm showers and hot food, Mike’s eye- but at the time. But he puts him- and the lyrics are great. I do wish lids started to droop. He pulled off at the self completely into it. his voice were stronger, but that’s next exit, barked at B.P., “You drive!” and the way it goes when you get climbed into the backseat to nod off. Dylan will turn seventy-two this older, and I appreciate what he’s I was asleep in front. When I stirred May. Do you think he’ll ever stop trying to do with it. awake, I was surprised to find B.P. behind making music? the wheel. And after about ten minutes of Last question: name your favorite observing the road signs, I was even more No. I think he’s one of these peo- Dylan song, favorite Dylan album, startled that we appeared to be headed ple who will keep on until his last and your fave Dylan live perform- back toward Watkins Glen. B.P. had eased breath. I asked Robbie Robertson ance. the Le Sabre onto route 17 in the wrong about that: “Why do you think Bob direction and drove obliviously for about, tours so much? What does he get Favorite song, “Mr. Tambourine oh, two hours. out of it?” And Robertson, who’s a Man,” of course. My second favor- This time I barked at B.P., “I’ll drive!” very smart but understated per- ite would be “One of Must Know ordered him to the back and slid into the son, said, “Bob loves the thrill of (Sooner or Later),” from Blonde driver’s seat. At last, we made it home by discovery. Whether it’s a perform- on Blonde. nightfall. Meanwhile, through the whole ance, or a new venue, or a song Favorite album: Highway 61 ordeal, J. slept as peacefully as a baby that he hasn’t sung before or has Revisited, barely beating out who’d been chloroformed, further infuriat- sung a million times, the thrill of Blonde on Blonde. ing me and Mike. If it weren’t for B.P.’s discovery is what keeps him go- Favorite performance: Dylan strenuous objections, we would have ing.” I think that makes a lot of and the Band at Madison Square pitched him out of the moving car. sense. Garden on January 31, 1974. Un- I resolved never to attend another one believable. I love the Band almost of these hellish events again, and never What do you think of his most as much as I love Bob Dylan, and did. Still, it was an “experience”—one of recent album, last year’s Tem- seeing them together onstage at those stupid things you do just so that you pest, and how do you seeing it their best, in New York City, I still can say you survived it. And it did make for fitting into his career overall? can’t believe I got to see that an appropriate farewell party for my good show. ◘ friend Michael, who, tragically, would die of I like it. I think it’s another new leukemia in 1995. In the end, being one of step. You can’t say that Tempest Other Books by Jon six hundred thousand souls at the Watkins is like Love and Theft (2001), or • House of Cards: Inside the Glen festival was worth it if only for the that it sounds like an album he Troubled Empire of American countless laughs it supplied me and Mike did five years ago or twenty years Express (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, for years afterward. ◘ ago. It’s something new. And I 1992) think he’s at a point now in his life where he’s reflecting on a lot. Jon on the Web “Roll On John,” the song for John • http://jonfriedman.net Lennon, is incredibly moving. I always thought that Dylan and

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Hey, kids, take a tip from Marjorie. Put down your damn video games and cell phones, get up on your feet, and start running! She hikes, too.

It turned out to be a moot point, of course, because all flights were Marjorie Freedman suspended for several days. But that got me to thinking that it was Continued from page 11 time to do something else, especially with the girls now in middle After that experience, he had no school. desire to move there. Luckily a full-time, tenure-track But Brien proposed to me that job opened up in the Department of weekend in February. As much as I Nutrition at San Jose State Univer- liked my job, I agreed that if he got a job offer in Califor- sity (SJSU); they needed somebody to teach community nia, I’d move back there to be with him, and that’s ex- nutrition and nutrition education. I had taught at Sacra- actly what happened. We married in Davis in September mento State as a grad student and had been presenting 1987, by which time I was already pregnant with our first seminars for fourteen years, so I figured I could teach. I daughter, Rachael (conceived when I came out to San didn’t realize at the time that even though I knew the Francisco in the spring), and we lived in the Noe Valley subject matter well, I really didn’t know anything about area of San Francisco. I was able to work as a part-time teaching. Now I know that there’s a real art to being a consultant for NutraSweet. Then, after our second child, good teacher. Gabrielle, was born in 1990, I took a new job with a local SJSU is a very unique place. It’s one of the most di- company called the Institute of Natural Resources (INR). verse universities in the United States, and many of the I stayed at INR for the next fourteen years. INR con- students are the first in their families to attend college. ducts full-day seminars for health care professionals like In California, you have the top-tier state schools that fall nurses, dietitians, dental professionals, nursing home under the umbrella of “the University of California,” like administrators, and so on, who need continuing educa- UC Berkeley, UCLA, Davis, Santa Cruz, and so on. And tion credits. This position, too, involved a lot of travel. then you have the California state schools, like SF State, I’ve been to forty-eight of the fifty states, the only excep- Cal State Long Beach, SJSU, etc., where a high percent- tions being Mississippi and West Virginia. After a long age of the freshmen students have to take remedial Eng- business trip, I could take off a week or ten days to be lish and/or math. with Brien and my girls. Now, we grew up in Jericho. We knew how to read, So I really was able to have the best of both worlds. write, and do calculus. Remember Mrs. Broadwin, who I got to visit friends from high school, college, grad taught calculus and loved to say, “Calculus is beautiful”? school, and NutraSweet days on my travels. I was able So I came to SJSU with the expectation that college stu- to bring my family along to some great places, like Ha- dents knew how to read, write, and do arithmetic. And, at waii, New York, Boston, Vegas, and the Canadian Rock- first, it was like slamming into a brick wall at a hundred ies. Plus, my mom and dad, who are now eighty-two and miles per hour. I’d be grading assignments, and I literally eighty-eight, and in great health, would often help out, could not understand what a student had written. I’d even though they lived in Tucson. It’s funny to think how show it to Gabi, who was then in ninth grade, and she young some of our parents were when they had us. I would say, “Mom, that doesn’t make sense.” Then there didn’t have my first child until I was thirty-three. My was the rampant plagiarism. During my first year at San mother married at nineteen and had three kids in quick Jose State, I can’t tell you how many students I reported succession. She was only fifty when I graduated from UC for plagiarism. Davis with my MS. It’s been an interesting journey. Seven and a half Then September 11, 2001, happened. The very next years later, I am a tenured associate professor. I worked day, my boss was pressuring me to fly to New York to my butt off 24/7, getting grants, doing research, publish- present a seminar, and no way was I getting on a plane. Continued on page 44

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Marjorie Freedman Continued from page 43 ing articles, and teaching. I’ve had kind of a love-hate relationship with my students. Some of them think I’m the best professor they ever had in their lives, and others think I should be fired (even though I’m tenured.) It’s really been a struggle for me, be- The Kirk-Freedman family at daughter Gabrielle’s graduation from UC Santa cause it seems at times that it’s not Cruz last June. Left to right: Rachael, Marjorie, Gabi, and Brien. the right fit. I feel great because I’ve influenced a lot of students in posi- Policy. He wrote about obesity as an Why do we have this obesity tive ways. And I have become kinder American crisis way back in the problem, if we have so much poverty and gentler. But I really can’t change 1960s and 1970s. Ironically, he was and food insecurity? You’re talking my standards, and I really don’t think also part of President Richard about a broken food system, where, I should. The educational system is Nixon’s task force on hunger. In for most people, it’s cheaper to buy in a crisis, and I don’t let students off 1986, in his paper entitled “Social junk food rather than healthy food. I the hook. I’m not going to pass stu- Responsibilities of Nutritionists,” had my community nutrition students who cheat or don’t know the published in the American Journal of dents take the food-stamp challenge material. Sorry, not on my watch. But Clinical Nutrition, he wrote: for a week. They had to eat on about the larger system is putting pressure “The goal of nutrition is to apply four dollars a day and then figure out on me, and it just doesn’t feel good. scientific knowledge to feed people, the nutritional quality of their diet. A lot of my attitude stems from to feed them well, and to feed them It’s an eye-opening experience. Even having grown up in Jericho. We got a all. Nutrition is an agenda ... by its my students, who have every advan- damn good education there, and nature, nutrition is a set of scientific tage, including nutrition “knowl- that’s why I take my job as a profes- disciplines whose end is action.” edge,” found it hard to eat healthy sor so seriously. To educate some- That’s exactly how I think of nu- on such a low budget. body is to empower them to make a trition and how I see the past ten Though it’s true that there are difference in the world. Just like my years of my professional life. some people who live in poverty and teachers and professors did for me. It’s interesting to think back on eat healthy, most don’t. There are what Jean Mayer wrote about dec- just too many barriers. Even if you America’s Obesity Epidemic (Again) ades ago and see that today we have had access to healthy foods, you the twin problems of hunger and need to know how to cook and pre- A lot of my thinking has been shaped obesity, often in the same person. pare these foods, and you need by Jean Mayer, a nutrition professor There are currently forty-three million access to a stove and a refrigerator. who moved from the Harvard School Americans on food stamps, and that You also need to like the taste of of Public Health to become the presi- probably represents only about half foods such as beans, rice, and vege- dent of Tufts University. Mayer of all people who suffer from what tables, and not get tired of the same founded the only graduate school of we call food insecurity. It is abso- foods over and over. And then you nutrition in the country: the Friedman lutely mind boggling, and a societal have to convince your kids to eat School of Nutrition Science and disgrace. Continued on page 45

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crisis is to make the healthy choice And I have two marathons under my the easy choice. I say, no, you have belt. to make the healthy choice the only Perhaps we need to adopt more choice, period. of a European attitude toward eating, But how do you do that? How do where it’s more of a social endeavor: you get somebody to choose a piece you eat surrounded by other people, of fruit over a cookie? Well, the fruit talking, and truly savoring and enjoy- has to be affordable, it has to taste ing your food, versus just shoving it good, and you have to overcome the into your mouth while watching TV Marjorie Freedman neurochemistry of having been and barely giving it a thought. Continued from page 44 raised on cookies (or Entenmann’s We have to make eating healthy cakes!) But even if you could change the social norm. And it needs to start eating habits, to fight the obesity cri- at an early age. In Santa Clara these foods too. But what do kids sis you also have to look at physical County, where I live, I’ve been in- like to eat? Kids have been exposed activity patterns. volved with getting the junk food out to so many ads for sweet, fat, salty Today we have the double of the school vending machines and foods—and these highly processed whammy of kids not being as physi- the student store. This was back foods are not only convenient for cally active as they used to be, due when my daughter Gabi was in mid- busy parents but also taste good. mainly to our fixation with technol- dle school. We were one of the first Think about all the kids who have ogy. There has to be some balance counties in the country to make been raised on these foods from an between the time kids spend in front these changes. I got it done by dint early age. And what kid of my perseverance; I doesn’t want to eat a food can be like a bulldog with a cartoon character that doesn’t let go! on the label? So we have I’m not afraid to the perfect storm of con- speak out on issues con- venience, taste, and mar- cerning health, but some keting that has resulted in people don’t want to one in three kids in the hear it. And not every- United States aged two to body likes my abrasive nineteen being overweight New York personality. or obese. Some are like, “Hey, We also know what she’s a New Yorker; those foods do to brain that’s how they are.” And chemistry. Eating these others, mainly native sweet-fat-salty foods trig- Californians, will be like, gers brain chemicals like “Ohmigod, who is this dopamine, which is tied woman?” So poor Gabi to the “reward” centers Marjorie (far r.): “The US Centers for Disease Control and had to live through her of the brain. The more Prevention believes that the solution to the obesity crisis is to mom taking away all the you eat, the more your make the healthy choice the easy choice. I say, no, you have junk food from her brain tells you to con- to make the healthy choice the only choice, period.” school. Even though we tinue to eat. Patterns have different last developed at such a young age are of a screen and the time they spend names—I still go by my maiden nearly impossible to overcome with- being active. Hey, I’m a Mac user, I name—she looks a lot like me, so her out strong “cognitive” control. And have an iPhone, and I love Facebook. friends knew: “Gabi, it was your mom let’s be honest: a carrot is never go- But I also try to fit exercise into my who did that, right?” Luckily, she has ing to have the same effect on brain busy life. I love to hike, and I’m lucky forgiven me. chemistry as a cookie. that there is great hiking within min- Speaking of childhood obesity, At this point, the US Centers for utes of my home. My husband and I last year I made a video to showcase Disease Control and Prevention be- have hiked just about every national the work I was doing in the faith- lieves that the solution to the obesity park west of the Rocky Mountains. Continued on page 46

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for sustainability. Since we all know that an undergradu- ate degree isn’t enough these days, I suggested that she get her master’s at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutri- tion Science and Policy. Since I couldn’t go there, I figured that Rachael’s going there was the next best thing. Now, it was as huge a culture shock for Rachael to move from Berkeley to Boston as it had been for me to move from Boston to Davis almost thirty-five years ago. The funniest thing is that Rachael ended up moving into Marjorie Freedman a house in Cambridge that is literally next door to where I Continued from page 45 had lived. Here’s another Jericho connection: when I flew to Rachael’s graduation in Boston last May, I was able to meet up with my good friend Jackie Schachter (a profes- based community of East San Jose to fight childhood sional psychologist working in Manhattan), whose son obesity. I entered the video into Michelle Obama’s Let’s was graduating from Brandeis University. That was fun. Move Faith and Communities Video Challenge and was But Rachael didn’t want to stay in Boston. After get- thrilled when it won an honorable mention. You can ting her MS degree in the Food, Agriculture and Environ- watch it here: http://communities.challenge.gov/ ment emphasis, she came back to the Bay Area. She got submissions/6908-sjsu-mht-food-justice-communities- a job at Jamba Juice corporate headquarters in Emery- on-the-move-video-challenge. I’m still waiting for my invi- ville, which is right next to Berkeley. She bikes to work tation to the White House! almost every day. At work, she handles all issues relating to sustainability. She got her own apartment in Oakland. Gabrielle and Rachael After her having lived in a house with 120 other people, I said to Rachael, “Isn’t it great to finally have your own Though my husband isn’t Jewish, I’m proud to say that place?” “No, Mom,” she replied. “I’m lonely.” But then, we raised our girls Jewish. I’m really happy that they both she’s more of a social animal than I am. have a strong Jewish identity. Raising kids Jewish in At this point, both of my beautiful daughters have no California is much more difficult that it was for our folks intention whatsoever of coming back to San Jose. Which in Jericho. Both girls were involved with the youth organi- is fine. That’s kind of a zation BBYO for years, and participated in the March of good thing, if your kids the Living, and they traveled to Poland and Israel. I was are able to support them- lucky to go the same year as Gabi and did part of the selves and are doing march with her. something that they like. With Gabrielle, who’s now twenty-two, the good parts Given their fields of inter- of me rubbed off on her. Although she wasn’t interested est, I know they’ll have in nutrition per se, she became very interested in food successful and meaning- systems, the environment and sustainability. She went to ful careers, like their UC Santa Cruz and worked in the Chancellor’s Office of mom. Sustainability. Last June she graduated with a double And then you have major in environmental studies and history. She’s now in me: I still don’t know Israel “WWOOFing” on an organic goat farm in the what my next challenge Negev. Like her mom, she’s very outspoken, and she’d will entail. But I’m jazzed. make a good environmental lawyer one day, I think. I know there’s a big world When she gets back to the States, she wants to live in out there, and I believe the Bay Area. my professional and per- Rachael, twenty-five, studied social welfare at UC sonal experiences and Berkeley. Interestingly, she wanted nothing to do with contacts will bring me full nutrition while growing up, but in college she lived in a circle. Back to New York? zany co-op (Casa Zimbabwe), consisting of over 120 peo- Overseas? San Fran- ple, where she worked as the food manager in exchange cisco? You never know. for room and board. She purchased all the food for the I’m really looking forward co-op, and, of course, UC Berkeley was the place to be to the next chapter. ◘

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