“Lies! Lies! All of It, Lies!” Winter-Spring 2012 Jericho High School Issue No. 26 ’69-’70-’71-’72-’73 Online Newsletter Our 10th Year of Reunion-y Excellence! Official Propaganda Tool of ’69-’73 JHS Alumni Yearbook to Facebook 2 SharonIn Sussman this Kusek is- (’72), ClassClass ofof ’72’s’72’s 4040--YearYear ReunionReunion ComingComing UpUp sue: Joe Piscitello (’69), Cindy Rosa June 23, 2012 Pelzar (’71), Roberta Matican 1 Feldman (’73), Michael Milgrom (’71), Melissa Gordon 2 Yurucko (‘72), Gwen Dowsey (’73), Meryl Cantor Lewis (’72) Nooz About Yooz 3 Bob Simon (‘72), Amy Lubow 3 Downs (‘72), Larry Friedman (‘69), a tribute to Mr. Louis Boroson, reunion update 4 Takin’ Care of Bidness: 6 Jerichonians at Work Ken McLaughlin (‘69) 6 Cartoons by Dan Clurman (’72) 11 Beatles ’75: What Would the 1112 Beatles Have Sounded Like if They’d Stayed Together 12 Another Five Years? Listen and Find Out Our Annual Romance Issue ♥ Lori Small (’73) + Seth 18 Cohan (’73) 15 ♥ David Kass (‘69) 22 ♥ Eileen Feirman Fraser (’70) 25 ♥ Patty Ryon (’72) and 29 Stephen Spiers (’72) ♥ Beverly Weissman (’72) and 30 Steven Marksohn (’71) 17 ♥ Gail Murphy (’71) 1931 ♥ Manon Fielding (’72) 2536 Faculty Lounge 40 Mr. Robert Hoffman on the 28 Education Crisis Fan Mail and Threatening 47 Letters 34 Rachel Glickman’s New York 48 New York A girl, a camera, and the great- est city in the world! JHS Classes of 1969-1970-1971-1972-1973 Online Newsletter • Winter-Spring 2012 Page 2 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. Cindy Rosa Pelzar Matuza (’71) Sharon Lee Sussman Kusek (’72) Roberta Matican-Feldman (‘73) Jericho, NY Carlsbad, CA New York, NY Joe Piscitello (‘69) Meryl Cantor Lewis (’72) Bayville, NY New York, NY Michael Milgrom (‘71) Melissa Gordon Yuruckso (‘72) Gwen Dowsey (’73) New York, NY Medford, NY Roseboom, NY JHS Classes of 1969-1970-1971-1972-1973 Online Newsletter • Winter-Spring 2012 Page 3 In Tribute Mr. Louis Boroson Mr. Louis Boroson, undoubtedly one of the most popular faculty mem- bers ever to teach at Jericho High School, passed away in November at the age of eighty-four. The most fitting tribute we could think of is to in- clude just some of the comments that JHS alumni wrote in emails and Do the clean-cut young folks above look posted on our JHS Facebook page. familiar? They should. Their images graced Wedding Bells the Jericho School News newsletter that “I still remember where I sat in his class: second row from the was mailed to your parents to let them door, first seat. (Pretty sure that Janet Rhoads sat right behind know just what it was you were supposedly doing on weekdays. me.) Mr. Boroson almost had me convinced that trigonometry was in my future. He was a truly great teacher.” — Debra Schwartz (‘71), Ann Arbor, MI “Mr. Boroson was one of the best teachers (if not the best teacher) I ever had in public school, college, or law school. He actually made math inter- esting, which is no small feat for someone who much prefers words to numbers.” — Lawrence Friedman (‘69), Bridgewater, NJ “So sad. One of the great teachers and an inspiration to all of his students.” — Donna Rabena Queenan (’71), Reunion Update Amityville, NY Date: Saturday, June 23, 2012, 7:30 “One of my favorite teachers. He got me through algebra. May he rest in peace.” — Bonnie Colgan Kosonovitch (’73), Saint Joseph, MI p.m. to 4:30 a.m. The Homestead, 107 South Street, “Jericho was fortunate to have him as a teacher. I was fortu- Oyster Bay, LI. nate to have seen him a few months ago.” Bruce Steiner (’68), New York, NY For the JHS class of ’72 and friends, including all other classes! “I am ♥ broken.” — Wendy Foxmyn (’72), Leeds, MA Cocktail hour, open bar, dinner buf- fet, dancing, music, giveaways, fabu- lous conversation, and lotsa laughs. Mr. Boroson with his wife, Florence, last Cost: $90 per person through May 1; spring at the JHS $100 after that. Alumni Hall of Fame Awards dinner at Click here for your invitation: →●← Milleridge Inn. Click here for information on where to stay, including discounted group If you’d like to read rates at three area hotels. →●← about Mr. Boroson’s life, click here for the Click here for the LIRR train sched- article about him in ule to Oyster Bay (station just a few the Fall 2005 issue. blocks from the Homestead). →●← Continued on page 4 JHS Classes of 1969-1970-1971-1972-1973 Online Newsletter • Winter-Spring 2012 Page 4 Mr. Boroson Continued from page 3 “He was such a nice man, as well as a good teacher.” — Amy Klinow Hal- Continued from page 3 sey (’71), Miami, FL Wedding Bells for Larry “Mr. Boroson was Friedman (’69) truly a wonderful man. Math not be- Some exciting news from Lawrence ing my strong suit, Friedman (‘69) of Bridgewater, New had it not been for Jersey: “Leslie Smith and I got married that sweet soul, I'd in November at the Basking Ridge still be in high school.” — Jane Country Club in New Jersey. It’s the Altvater Duda (’72), Tarpon second marriage for both of us. Leslie Clockwise from top left are Ian, Keith, Springs, FL and I are the all-American modern baby boomer love story. We met on Dan, and Amy (Lubow) Downs. “I used to tell Mr. Boroson Match.com, and after a mere five and that he was really a social a half years, we are newlyweds. It’s Catch Up with Amy Lubow studies teacher in math kind of ironic, though, that we grew up Downs (’72) teacher drag. Because back about five miles apart on Long Island in eleventh grade, when bomb (Leslie is a 1972 graduate of East Amy Lubow Downs of Brooklyn writes scares were practically a Meadow High School), but met in Som- with an update on her and her family: scheduled activity at JHS, he erset County, New Jersey after we both “Our son Ian is graduating from used to regularly interrupt divorced.” Cornell this year and is applying to math class to discuss with us Congratulations to Larry and Les- medical school. And our son Keith the political and social issues lie! is enjoying his freshman year at SUNY of the day. Sometimes school New Paltz, where he is seemed divorced from the majoring in vocal perform- real world, but not in Mr. Bor- ance.” Amy works at the oson’s classroom. A fantastic world-famous Macy’s in teacher and person.” — Philip Herald Square, and her Bashe (‘72), Baldwin, NY husband, Dan Downs, is a middle school art teacher in Brooklyn and a wedding “I loved Mr. Boro- photographer. son. I’m so glad that I got tell him what a great Bob Simon (’72): Jungle Fever teacher he was at For the foreseeable future, cancel any the last reunion, in plans you might have for Tuesday 2010. I actually remembered nights, because you’re going to want the things he taught me when to watch the new TV series The River, my boys took math in high produced by our own Bob Simon. The school. And I can't even re- show premiered on ABC-TV member what I had for lunch Continued on page 5 yesterday!”— Deb McLaughlin JHS Classes of 1969-1970-1971-1972-1973 Online Newsletter • Winter-Spring 2012 Page 5 much, spending eighteen of the last twenty-four months on location in Austin, Texas, and Hawaii. “The best quote about liv- ing in Hawaii,” says Bob, “was uttered by George Clooney's Matt King in The Descendants, Continued from page 4 when he ranted, ‘My friends on on February 7, in a special the mainland think just be- two-hour episode. cause I live in Hawaii, I live in During Bob’s successful paradise. Like a permanent four-decade career in Holly- vacation: we’re all just drinking wood, he’s produced such hit mai-tais, shaking our hips, and shows as CSI: New York, City catching waves. Are they “My morning commute to the Diamond Head of Angels, and The Agency, as nuts?’ That voiceover, accom- Film Studios.” well as several TV movies. panied by visuals of the home- Some of his early credits in- less on Waikiki and bumper-to- clude Miami Vice, as first as- bumper traffic in Honolulu, tell sistant director, and coproduc- a good part of the story. ing some two dozen episodes “It's not at all a bad place of David Lynch’s classic Twin to be, especially on vacation,” Peaks. He also produced a he continues, “but living there, dramatic series called Jericho. your entire world shrinks and (Funny, I don’t know about any is connected by two roads— of you, but don’t recall ever and that’s not a metaphor! having received residuals.) “Making TV is a sixteen- Now comes The River. hour-a- day job. Some days are Where is Dr. Emmett Cole? even longer, but the great The popular wildlife expert and thing is that every day, and TV star (played by Bruce every show, is different. “This is the Magus midway through construc- Green- “In Hawaii, it’s trickier tion. While a real boat was used in the pilot, it wood of than in other locations, was impractical for many reasons. So I devised Star Trek), because goods and services a plan to make a floating set that draws a mere who’s are separated by three thou- eight inches.” been film- sand miles of ocean and a ing his three– to six-hour time differ- trek ence with vendors and associ- around the ates.