“Lies! Lies! All of It, Lies!” Spring 2006 JHS Class of 1972 Thirderly Issue No. 12 On-Line Newsletter Welcome to this, the twelfth newsletter of the Jericho High Official Propaganda Tool of Jericho High School’s Class of ’72 School class of 1972 and friends. In this issue: Save This Date! Reunion Update: Reunion in 1 3-D to be held on 10-6-07 October 2007 Catch Up With … Donna Flynn 2 Kordecki and Rich Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Kordecki Checking In With the Classes 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 of 1971 and 1973: Jon Go to Post Friedman, Janet Rhoads Office Leslie, and Pat Franklin 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Jung Bingo First Person Singular: 5 Benita Zahn Stulmaker 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Wash hair And Now, for the Youngshturs: 8 Progeny of Linda Caputo 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Friedmann and Randy San Antonio Bingo 28 29 30 31 Things-to-do list for November — Cartoons by Dan Clurman 10 inventory paperclip collection!!! Dry hair Book review thirty-five years 12 too late: The Underground Guide to the College of You Got Anything Better to Do on 10-6-07? Your Choice — How Did Your School Measure THE 35-YEAR REUNION IN 3-D, FEA- equipment rather than having it deliv- Up? turing the classes of 1972, 1973, and ered, we’re able to keep admission to 1971, will be held at Jericho’s Milleridge $110 per adult ($125 for late payers) Public Service Announcement 19 Cottage on Saturday, October 6, 2007, and $60 per child under twelve — the Faculty Lounge: 20 beginning at 1 P.M. same as for our 30th reunion and our Mr. Herbert Kramer We’d originally set a date of Sep- communal 50th birthday party. If some- tember 29, but some young couple beat thing comes up last minute and you “Seasons”: Original fiction by 22 us to it and booked the joint for their can’t make it, you can get a full refund Arlene Brimer Mailing wedding. But the deposit has been up until two weeks before the party. Your Back Pages: 1962–63 29 made, and the October 6 date — Colum- We’d like to welcome four newcom- bus Day Weekend — is firm. For more ers to the reunion committee: Beth We hope that you will contribute information about the big party, you can Fischer Gemmill and Cathy Morway news about you and yours to always go to the Senior Lounge section Bloomberg, from the class of ‘73; and future issues. You can find all of our Web site. There you’ll find infor- Janet Rhoads Leslie and Lorraine Trig- issues of the newsletter on our mation on the menu, airfares, and a giani Grant, from ‘71. They join ‘72 stal- official Web site, at http://www. jhs1972.net. Best wishes to the breakdown of the price. Because we do warts Ilene Pincus, Larry Licht, Linda JHS class of 1972! much of the work ourselves, from print- Caputo, and Philip Bashe. ing the invitations to picking up Continued on page 28 JHS Class of 1972 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter • Spring 2006 Page 2 Apparently not a single memorable thing happened to even one member of the class of 1972, 1973, or 1971 the last three months. Nada, zilch, zero. Here’s hoping the next three months are more exciting No and that you’ll have some nooz for us next issue. Catch Up With … Donna Flynn and Rich Kordecki When we did the “Love, Jericho Style” cover story in issue No. 4 two years ago, we somehow overlooked another intra-Jericho marriage, this one between our class's Donna Flynn and Richard Kordecki from the class of 1973. The couple have been married for twenty-four years and have lived in Suntree, Florida, since 1996 with their three sons. How They Met for Northrop Grumman as weather, because it’s so a logistics engineer on the hot sometimes. And, well, Richie and I both grew up EC2 plane, the one with it’s not New York, you in White Birch. I knew him the big radar. In the mid- know what I mean? The when we were both little 1990s, he took a job trans- schools are lousy, the kids. He was friends with fer down here; the com- medical is lousy. But it’s my brother, Richard, who pany has a big facility nice. I had a nice new also is one year younger. down here, in Melbourne. house built, and if we were We didn’t date or anything Suntree is a little area in back on Long Island, I’d like that in high school, Melbourne, right by the have to work. Here I can we just used to hang out Kennedy Space Center. stay home and raise our together. I like Florida. Richie boys. In the late 1970s, a hates it. He hates the Continued on page 28 bunch of us from Jericho rented a house together in Donna Levittown: me, my brother, and Rich Tommy Navarra [‘72], Kordecki Frankie Bovino [‘73, and and, the cousin of our class’s below, Dino Patelis], and Richie. sons We were just friends still at Mikey, that point. Then around Billy, and 1980 we started going out, A.J. and we waited a couple of Donna and Rich years to get married. have known each other from the time The Move to Florida they were little, We lived in Amityville, growing up in Bethpage, and Plainview, White Birch. then out to Suffolk County for a while. Richie works JHS Class of 1972 Thirderly On-Line Newsletter • Spring 2006 Page 3 Your 1¢ Your 1¢ (used to be 2¢, but if you Roll Call: Checking In With (used to be 2¢, but if you factor in inflation …) factor in inflation …) The Classes of 1971 and 1973 The Class of ‘71 The Class of ‘73 Sounds Off About Since we’ll all be getting together again at next year’s joint 35-year Sounds Off About Our Joint Reunion reunion, we thought we’d reacquaint everyone by profiling several Our Joint Reunion members of the classes of 1971 and 1973 in each issue. I would be inter- We all have our own definitions of success. It could be our fami- It sounds like a ested in attending lies, our careers, or winning the award for Most Back Hair at the great idea and a lot the joint reunion in county fair. Just still being here after fifty-plus years is an accom- of fun. — Laurie September '07. plishment in itself. Everyone’s life is uniquely interesting. If you’d like Ross Schneider Thank you for your to share your story in a future issue, please get in touch; we’d love to efforts. — Leslie hear from you and about you. Great news about Glassman the reunion. Was at Jonathan those he interviews, suggesting the ’73 reunion Thanks for your Friedman that he understands that he three years ago and work on the news- writes for his readers, not his had a great time. letter. It’s fun and (‘73) subjects.” Over the years, those — Robert Kanowitz brings some blasts interview subjects have included from the past. I Journalist Jon authors John Updike and Nick Thanks for working would be interested Friedman’s ca- Hornby, musicians Graham Nash on the reunion. I in the reunion. — reer has taken and Robbie Robertson, and for- can't wait to see Laurie Bieg Miller him from USA mer New York Knicks stars Earl everyone! — Lynn Today, to Investor's Business Monroe and Walt Frazier. Balaban Chapkin Yes! I would love to Daily, to BusinessWeek, to “I jokingly asked Clyde how join this reunion. Bloomberg News, and for the his Knicks would have compared Idea for joint reun- Thanks for organiz- past seven years, the online site to the Michael Jordan–era Chi- ion among the ing this. — Lorraine Marketwatch. To categorize him cago Bulls,” he recalls. “Rather three classes is a Triggiani Grant as a business report-er, though, than laugh it off, Frazier thought great one. — Marc doesn’t do justice to the scope of for a second and said seriously, Sacks For this I would his work. Although he’s covered ‘We'd have given them a game.’ make an exception Wall Street extensively, Jon uses No wonder his competitive fire Thanks for the and traverse the the business world as a spring- led the Knicks to two titles. newsletter; I en- Belt Parkway. — board to explore everything from “The only time in my career joyed reading it! I Steven Hirschberg pop culture to his current beat, that I was ever nervous was wonder if anyone is the media. when I interviewed Robbie living in the Ra- Yes, I would be in- Jon writes three Web col- Continued on page 4 leigh, NC, area be- terested in attend- umns per week (Mondays, sides me and ing and would even Wednesdays, and Fridays) on the Michael James. It is try to get my media. No less a journalism fig- becoming the NY/ brother from the ure than Ken Auletta, the media NJ of the South. — class of ‘72 to writer for the New Yorker, Paula Doherty Cox come up from praised Jon in a profile that re- Florida to attend. — cently appeared in PR Week. Count me in. I Joe Friedlander, MD “Jon works harder than most missed the last reporters and bares none of the reunion and won’t arrogance that usually emotes I will be interested.