“Lies! Lies! All of It, Lies!” Fall 2008 Issue No. 20 JHS Classes of ‘71, ‘72, ‘73 The Big Two-Oh! Thirderly On-Line Newsletter Welcome to this, the 20th news- letter of the JHS classes of ‘71, Official Propaganda Tool of ‘71, ‘72, ‘73 Jericho High Alumni ‘72, and ‘73, and friends. JerichoIn thisGirls Gone issue: Wild! 1 Featuring salacious clothing Jericho Girls styles guaranteed to doom 1 those who wore them to a gone wild! nunnery. With commentary 2 by Amy Lubow, Wendy Fox- myn, Benita Zahn, Carol Rosenblum, others First It Was Culottes! Then Pants! Then Hot Pants! Nooz About Yooz: Mike Ste- 32 bel, Ken Kraus, Larry Licht, Then Clogs and Platforms! Roy Pollack, Ellen Meister, more 4 Who Could Have Foreseen It Catch Up With … 3 Dan Clurman Would Lead to This?!? → 6 And Now for the Youngsters 10 Progeny of Janet Penn The JHS Administration, Finklestein That’s Who! 11 First Person Singular: 11 Cheryl Goldenberg — her 12 story in her words ears before the women’s march “I was told that my skirt was a dis- down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue traction,” she recalls, “and asked to go Takin’ Care of Bidness — 14 on August 26, 1970, which home and change.” Y Jerichonians at Work: more or less kicked off the women’s Women teachers were subject to Virtuoso violist Ann Roggen liberation movement, at least symboli- the same rules, incidentally. Social- 15 cally, girls at Jericho High and Junior studies teacher Ms. Maureen Tracy re- Cartoons by Dan Clurman 16 High were standing up for their fashion members administrators reprimanding rights. her for wearing a pantsuit, which they Everything You Ever Wanted 17 to Know about: Keith Steiner For a time, it seemed like if you deemed “unprofessional.” were a young women, your artorial The female dress code became Faculty Lounge: 1721 choices were limited pretty much to something of a political flashpoint, not Mr. Alan Arnold 19 skirts or a burka, as school administra- on the scale of the Vietnam War, of 25 tors prohibited culottes, pants, clogs, course, but a source of outrage none- 23 Strings Still Attached: and short skirts. Even long skirts could theless. During junior high, girls from Updates on JHS musicians Helene Millman, Wendy Chin, 28 earn you a trip to the principal’s office, the class of ‘72 defiantly wore culottes Jaclyn Stanger, Gail Murphy, as Amy Lubow Downs (’72) found out at to school, only to be told to go home Jill Harmon, Stephen Molina, George A. Jackson Elementary School. Continued on page 7 Carol Sadowski, others 34 Your Back Pages: 31 It’s Party Time Again! Number one with a mullet: Details on page 2! Hits through the years JHS Classes of 1971-1972-1973 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter • Fall 2008 Page 2 Ilise Zimmerman, president and CEO of Northern NJ Maternal/Child Health Consortium. Eraserhead On the home front, Ilise’s daugh- ter Stephanie just graduated from IIise Zimmerman, who lives in Har- Cornell, her mom’s alma mater, worth, New Jersey, recently had while younger daughter Michelle just lunch with fellow New Jerseyan and entered Washington University. “It’s fellow former West Birchwood-ite amazing,” she notes, “that they are Mark Albin. “He reminded me that in aging while we are not.” So true. ■ second grade we were awarded the Do the clean-cut young folks above look titles Eraser King and Queen,” she Shutterbug Stebel familiar? They should. Their images graced says. Explanation, please? the Jericho School News newsletter that When not was mailed to your parents to let them “Apparently our class played a know just what it was you were supposedly game during recess where the girls on the job doing on weekdays. would chase the boys, who had eras- as vice ers placed on their heads. The boy president Mrs. Cohen in Newsweek who was able to keep it from falling of product off was named king; the same con- develop- The June 23, 2008, cept applied to the girls, only in re- ment, mar- issue of Newsweek verse. keting, and sales for software devel- featured a letter to “I felt so pleased that Mark re- oper QuickQuote, Mike Stebel (‘71) editor from retired membered me in this leadership takes photos. Good ones, too. To see Jericho math teacher role. Of course, I reminded him that for yourself, visit his website at www. Mrs. Irma Cohen in the reason we won was due to the michaelstebelimages.com. response to a previ- fact that we were the only kids with Mike’s latest images include sev- eral taken on his and wife Beth’s re- ous “My Turn” column about today’s thick, curly hair that held the erasers female students and science: snug to our scalps!” cent trip to Vermont to visit his fa- Small wonder that Ilise was in- ther. Now living in Delray Beach, Flor- I am a 1950 graduate of Rensselaer ducted into the JHS Hall of Fame in ida, he has two children, Jacob and Polytechnic Institute with a degree in 1992. Actually, that probably had Meryl. ■ mechanical engineering. There were more to do with her ongoing work as Continued on page 10 many other coeds in the fields of ar- chitecture, electrical engineering, Next Reunion aeronautical engineering, chemical engineering, biology, chemistry, phys- Announced! ics, and metallurgy during my time there. We did not think of ourselves The next reunion for the JHS as nerds or nerdettes. We were sci- classes of 1971, 1972, and 1973 ence and engineering students just is all set for Saturday, October 9, as much as the men were. We got 2010, at the Milleridge Cottage, in professional jobs upon graduation Jericho, New York, from 1 p.m. to and made commercial, industrial 6 p.m. You don’t have to be from and academic contributions. There those classes in order to attend, was no feeling of being a misfit in a though; everyone’s invited. Once field that we thought was as suited again, we’ll be organizing other to us as to males. Fortunately there activities to make it a fun-filled are now even more opportunities for weekend, with lotsa laughs. For women who are interested and good more information, stop into the in math and science. “Senior Lounge” section of our website. We promise you the best Irma S. Cohen party ever. Tickets will go on sale Hempstead, NY ■ next summer. ■ JHS Classes of 1971-1972-1973 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter • Fall 2008 Page 3 Catch Up With … Dan Clurman eing in high school at that we were fortunate to duced us to Carl Rogers and the start of the have opportunities to study Abraham Maslow and encour- B 1970s felt challeng- subjects like existentialism aged asking big questions: ing to me. The sixties and and futurism. For example, What was the purpose of edu- post-sixties era had such a Steve Piorkowski encour- cation? What did we truly feel fervent quality to them that I aged enlivening discussions passionate about? What did often longed to be some- about Shakespeare, Albert freedom to learn entail? where besides school. The Camus, and Samuel Beckett I also had a memorable cultural shifts of that era in our AP English course. I English class with Howard had a big impact on so felt inspired to have a Damon. He’d written a book on many of us. I loved sixties teacher who cared deeply language with Neil Postman, music: Dylan, the Beatles, about our personal re- the media critic at New York the Doors, the Stones, sponses to great literature. University. I wrote a paper for Cream. And I read a lot of How often does that hap- that class on poetry therapy. I beat poetry: Jack Kerouac, pen? visited poetry therapy groups Allan Ginsberg, Lawrence Jack Bartul, head of the in New York City lead by Jack Ferlinghetti. The counter- social studies department, Leedy, a psychiatrist who culture and beats figured also created rich opportuni- wrote pioneering books on us- strongly in my perspective ties for learning. He gave us ing poetry therapeutically. How on life. the freedom to explore top- extraordinary to have teachers Even so, Jericho offered ics that went beyond the who encouraged us to be curi- progressive educational op- curriculum through inde- ous and passionate about sub- tions. Looking back, I think pendent projects. He intro- Continued on page 4 “Dentistry is so different Dan in Bali. today than when I went to dental school. Years ago, you mainly did ‘drill and fill,’ and clean teeth. That was it. Now, of course, a lot of my work involves cosmetic dentistry.” JHS Classes of 1971-1972-1973 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter • Fall 2008 Page 4 Dan Clurman At Columbia, I helped to set up and run an agency called Student Help for the Elderly, which placed stu- Continued from page 3 dents in helping relationships with older people on the Upper West Side. The students provided all kinds of as- jects that interested us. (I’d put Bob Hoffman, Chuck sistance: helping around the apartment, shopping, or Vigilante, and Ray Matienzo in that category too.) I’ve simple companionship. I interviewed the older people always been excited by ideas, so I felt a great connection who requested services and placed the students with with these teachers. They set a tone for what was to fol- them. Some famous people called. One woman I met, low, as most of my work Babette Deutsch, had now involves education in translated Pushkin (the various settings. Dan and Mudita in Bali.