“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! JHS Classes of 1969-1970-1971-1972-1973 Online Magazine • Winter-Spring 2013 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. 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 JHS Classes of 1969-1970-1971-1972-1973 Online Magazine • Winter-Spring 2013 Page 3 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 JHS Classes of 1969-1970-1971-1972-1973 Online Magazine • Winter-Spring 2013 Page 4 Three-Part Harmon-y Great photo at right of Harmon sib- lings Jill (’72), Jon (’70), and Amy (’72), taken in October. The occa- sion: the marriage of Jill and hus- band 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.