From: Gdanski, Martin: to Steve Lieberman:
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:38 AM
*Subject:* RE: BronxHigh School of Science 40th Reunion
Hello, Steve. I confess also to having the dubious distinction of having graduated from both JHS 141 and BHSS - it has all been downhill since then!
Alas, I will not be able to attend the reunion but I see that others will fly the flag for us poor souls.
If any of you were also members of the chorus, I do hope you will, for old time's sake, sing "Science Evermore", interspersing the obligatory "Oh baby" before the last verse and using the unadulterated last line!
Best regards
Martin Gdanski
Paris, France
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Hi Martin,
How about people from elementary school PS 11? ;-) It was great to see your name again, although we didn’t hang out much at Science.
I don’t think I’ll be able to make it to see everyone at our 40th, although I did make the 30th reunion. Martin, maybe my husband and I can stop and see you sometime in Paris on the way to visiting my daughter (who lives in Italy). Meantime, have some smelly cheese for me! (Comme les pieds des anges.)
Shelly (Michelle Goldstein) Schneider
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Greetings all,
I have been in Anchorage, Alaska since 1976 and am pretty sure that I will be able to make this reunion. And yes, I have met Sarah Palin, and no, I won’t talk about her here. But when I do see all of you, I might!
I am currently the Chair of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly, even though I was elected less than a year ago, and am very busy with this public service position and all it entails, but Memorial Day weekend with Bronx Science friends would be a blast. And I’ll bet I will be coming from about as far away as anyone else!
I do have a 1969 Bronx Science yearbook and will dig it out and either bring it with me or ask about classmates in a future email. Meanwhile, I have changed my email personality so you will recognize me as Harriet Anagnostis. I do have a Facebook page, under Harriet Drummond, and Bronx Science is listed as a public item. So visit and ask to be friends. And if anyone is creating a Facebook page for our class, I am all in!
Looking forward to time in Da Bronx,
Harriet (Anagnostis) Drummond
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(To Harriet Anagnostis Drummond):
Although I don't think I will be able to make this reunion (I was at the 20th), I believe we were in most classes together from the 5th grade at PS 95 (when I moved from PS 122) and all through JHS 143. I heard 143 was closed about a year ago. After Science, I went to NYU and CCNY, and lived in NJ for 23 years; I have now settled in Charlotte, NC.
Jay Parton
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JHS 143 here! PS7 anybody? I went on to Lehman, class of '73. I was Alumni Board of Directors president; am now on the Foundation Board. Anyone from Lehman out there in cyberspace?
Susan
Susan E. Greenberg, President
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Hi Susan.
I went from BS to the Univ of Puerto Rico for a a year and a half then transferred to Lehman. I graduated in 74. Small world!!!
BTW, I was JHS 133 and PS 62.
Ismael Lezcano
203-253-2048
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Hi All,
I've been in touch with several of you directly, but I thought I'd add my voice to the emails flying across the country (and the world - you know who you are Martin Gdanski).
My story - short version - , PS7, JHS 143, Science, Lehman BA '73, CCNY MA '79; married 30 years, Evan Schneider ( ) two daughters, Rachel, Brandeis '04 and Emily,Cornell '08 (photo attached); own an art consulting firm in Manhattan, _ ( . Live in Manhattan, weekend house at the JerseyShore.
A good life, far away from the Marble Hill projects where I grew up. I do make it up to the Bronx on a regular basis though, as I was on the Lehman Alumni Board of Directors for six years and am now a Director on the Foundation Board there. Haven't been inside Science since the last day of school in 1969.
Just came back from a week in California, where I met up with Roger Wapner in San Francisco for a cup of coffee (see photo). After comparing notes and names and thumbing through the yearbook we realized that we were in the same EP class in JHS 143, both played violin in the orchestra, and that he was popular in high school and I wasn't!
Any one interested in touring the school on the Saturday afternoon of the reunion? Any one know how we could go about setting that up,Tom, Sandy? I think it would be an amazing walk down memory lane. Looking forward to seeing everyone in May.
All the best,
Susan Greenberg
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Hi All;
Like many of you, I can't remember many faces and names writing here, but I love all the great energy flowing through the emails.
Here's some of what I've been doing for the last 30 years:
Went to Lehman, MA in cinema studies, NYU (while trying to get an MA inEnglish at Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury simultaneously -reading 6 Victorian novels in as many weeks and being in two MA programs intwo states just didn't last - I finished at NYU). I have worked in advertising for the past 25 years.mostly in pharmaceutical, life sciences,and IT (before that I was on the team that launched the Acura car - I've never owned a car but that doesn't seem to have hurt the sales of Acura).
12 years ago I started my own company and I write, speak and publish aboutmarketing (my book is called Lies Startups Tell Themselves to Avoid Marketing) and Intellectual Property. I'm currently the Chair of the NY Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society, one of the founders of a new org called CleanTech Corridor, and on the Board of Directors of The Open Eye Theater (founded by Joseph Campbell). In my spare time I bowl on a league in Brooklyn (imagine Laverne and Shirley and you have an idea of where I bowl),
hike with the Appalachian Mountain Club and the American Littoral Society and travel to lecture (ok so Rochester and Winnipeg in the winter weren't so appealing.but Shanghai and Jamaica were). I never married but have been in two very long term relationships (if you were at the last reunion, my last significant other attended with me).Would love to hear more from everyone on the list.
Best,
Sandy Sandra Holtzman" <
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Dear all,
It's such a pleasure to read these emails and see what we've all been up to. We're such an accomplished bunch. I don't remember most of the names but I do recognize many of the photos in the yearbook, at least. The only person from Science I've stayed in touch with it Sandy Wohl, now Sandy Wolman.
I never left New York: After Science I went to CityCollege and BrooklynCollege. I got my MLS (Master's in Library Science) at Pratt in Brooklyn and worked for New York Public and Brooklyn Public, and then, after my son was born, moved to the NYC Board of Ed. I've been a middle school librarian in SheepsheadBay ever since. I've had two biographies for children, on Oprah Winfrey and Stephen King, published, and a short story I wrote won the Adria Schwartz Award for Women's Fiction, given by the English Dept. of City College of New York.
I got married in 1972 and divorced in 2008 (the first too early, the second too late). My son is now 23, a graduate of Hofstra, and an ice hockey coach and referee. I am currently enrolled in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at CityCollege, and I've discovered yoga.Did anyone from our class become a literary agent or a publishing house editor? I've been looking for one.I'll be at the reunion, and I'll be bringing Sandy with me.
Anne Saidman - but at Science I was Anne Gottlieb, so for this I'll sign off as
Anne Gottlieb Saidman.
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Okay guys...this is Steve Budabin… here is my two cents worth. I too have enjoyed reading all of the E-mails and remembering Science. I have only recognized several names out of a graduating class of 980 (I think it was 980). I remember Harriet A being in my physiology class with Mr. Galasco.
After Science, I attended FairleighDickinsonUniversity, Rutherford, New Jersey and majored in Biology. I then went on to obtain a Master's in Physiology at NYU, Washington Square. I moved to Miami Beach in 1978, and got a job as a Medical Technologist at the Miami VA Medical Center and worked there for about 3 years. Following that, I transferred to an Air Force Base in Utah and became the Chemistry Supervisor there for 5 years. Then in 1986, I transferred to the WashingtonDC area and worked in the Special Chemistry section at WalterReedArmyMedicalCenter. In 1990, I transferred to the Food and Drug Administration where I work as a Consumer Safety Officer, which is basically enforcement of the medical device and quality system regulation. It's a combination of a regulatory/scientific position.
I was married to my beautiful and smart wife Judy in 1996 (today happens to be our 13th wedding anniversary). We have no children but we do have a loving and cute 5-year old Labrador/Beagle female who we love dearly.
If anyone remembers me, please let me know how you are doing. I
probably won't be able to attend the reunion, but my thoughts will be with you.
Steve Budabin
Vascular & Circulatory Support Devices Branch
Division of Enforcement B
Office of Compliance
Center for Devices & Radiological Health
Food and Drug Administration
240-276-0291
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I guess I’ll throw my hat (or e-mail) into the ring. My name is Andy Hano. I was a 4 year “super senior” who commuted everyday from Manhattan (IRT #2/6). I look at my graduation picture and ask “Who is that 10 year old kid?”. I eventually got taller (and older). I didn’t really participate in anything at Science but now I like to run, golf, scuba and my main extracurricular activity, lead guitar and vocals in a classic rock cover band.
I am amazed at how little I remember of my years at Science. I have more memories of the subway rides from Manhattan than I do of classes or teachers. I wasn't doing anything to burn brain cells in those years and I maintain an excellent memory now! I remember Julius Beckenstein the health teacher and Judy Engel, the math teacher. I would like to know the whereabouts of Tony Gallagher and Bob Hartmayer.
I went to NorthwesternUniversity then med school in Iowa and post-graduate training in Detroit. I have been practicing Hematology/Oncology the last 25 years in the Tampa Bay, Florida area (near Clearwater). I have been married nearly 30 years and have two sons; the younger just graduated UNF in Jacksonville and is now a UCG (unemployed college graduate). The older went to UF (GO GATORS!!). He now works for the American League champion Tampa Bay Rays (FEEL THE HEAT, RAYS!!). I have had essentially no contact with anyone since graduation but I am entranced by the flurry of e-mail activity and I am considering flying up for the weekend. Will I know anyone?? Not sure if it matters, but might be nice. I added a recent picture of me and my wife just for fun….a dramatic difference from the yearbook picture (but whose isn’t ?) Life is good here and I wish the best to everyone!
Andy Hano
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Hi Everyone!
My turn. I'm Sarah Sherman (Poncz). I've really enjoyed all the e-mails and look forward to attending the reunion. A special thanks to the organizers! After City I married and relocated to Philadelphia where my husband Morty and I finished grad school, raised our girls and still reside. (In the suburb of Wynnewood.)
At some level I never finished high school because I am there on a daily basis as a math teacher. No surprise that I'm about to enter my 35th year as a mathematics educator. The last 25 have been spent as the Department Head at RoxboroughHigh School in Philadelphia.While attending many professional conferences over the years I often ran into Miss Engel. She was exactly the same as I remembered her from 11th grade. I also was in touch with Mr. Binghi for a while.I'd love to correspond with any of you, but especially my fellow graduates of JHS 135- Frank D. Whalen Jr. High- Cheer, cheer for 135- where are you guys? P.S. 121? I lived across the street.Lately we visit Brooklyn at least once a month the see our one year old granddaughter. Coming from Pelham Parkway, I didn't even know what Brooklyn looked like when I lived in the northeast Bronx!Keep those messages coming. I can't (won't) join Facebook because I don't want to enter a world where my students rule! Maybe when I retire.
Take care,
Sarah Sherman (Poncz).
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At the risk of sounding pathetic, I don't think anyone will remember me, but I need to give it a shot.
I was in the class of 1969 for 9th grade only. I went to HunterCollegeElementary School 58-64. My father was a writer for Jackie Gleason's TV show, which then moved to Miami. After 7th grade there, he left the show and we moved back to NYC. I took the test, skipped 8th grade and got into Science. So I knew nobody when I arrived.
My father couldn't find a TV writing job in NYC, so we moved to LA after a year. Then I went to Caltech, Stanford and I'm finishing 30 yrs ofprofessing math at the University of Illinois. Been together that long with Robin, a computer scientist/classical singer/equestrienne from New Jersey who would have fit into Science as well as I would have. My high school in LA (Uni) was good -- it had four Caltech acceptances -- yet I regretted not being at Science. To this day, I much prefer the sharp New Yorker's vowels to the honking Chicagoan or the laid-back Angeleno.
So I was younger than the rest of you, and I was completely a math kid in my interests, bumped up to algebra-trig, where the classmates were mostly from the class of 1967. I do recall a group of five of us walking to the train going south and there were at least three guys named Bruce. If you actually do remember me, please drop me a line, off-list. My web-page, with jokes, is below the sig.
Bruce Reznick
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Well, after reading these incredible string of emails, I thought I'd throw my name and a bit of history into the mix. This is Les (known as Leslie in 1969) Rudner, living happily for the last 23 years in Fort Collins, Colorado (I saw some other Coloradoan emails earlier). I am currently visiting my mother in New Jersey so I don't have my Science yearbook which I will need to look at faces though alas, most of the names thus far are unfamiliar (of course my memory being what it is, I may have known many of you). On the other hand we had what, 980 kids in our graduating class, so at this rate the emails will continue to arrive, to enlighten and confound.
Stu Solomon, Laura Holtzman and Miccio ring a bell and of course Dennis Zezas, who emailed me and will visit me tomorrow while I am in NJ (first time seeing each other in approx 27 years). Prior to Science I attended PS 64, and JHS 117 (Wade) (anyone else?), and at Science I played on the baseball team and along with Eugene Schwartz (we are still in touch) and Eric Cohen (are you
out there Eric?) regularly attended basketball games with our cow bell in hand (remember?). Howie Fuchs and I trade emails-mostly jokes- (Howie you weighing in here?) but has anyone heard from Ralph Salvietti?
I then attended Brandeis and University of Pennsylvania (MSW). After time in Denver, upstate NY and Florida, my wife and I and our 2 kids settled in Colorado. My career has been in social work with various social service agencies and for 21 years with state Probation in Colorado. I am now happily retired and working part time as a Starbucks Barista (a wonderful change), Alas, I most
likely won't be at the Reunion BUT I have been enjoying seeing all of the words of encouragement as well as emails from all over the place catching everyone up. To be continued I imagine but all of my best regards to all of you.
Les Rudner ______
Hey Les,
How are you? Another NY'er transplanted to CO.
I've been in Co since '02 and have been teaching at the SturmCollege ofLaw since then as well. Prior to that I was on faculty at Albany LawSchool, where I started the Family Violence Clinic and taught as amember of the clinical faculty. I came to teaching after working as anADA in the Bronx and after founding the first legal services center inthe US for battered women (Center for Battered Women's Legal Services ofSanctuary for Families). Law is a second career of sorts-I was acollege prof. and taught political theory and women studies. I went toAntioch LawSchool for the JD and then to ColumbiaLawSchool for myLL.M and J.S.D. It's been a good life and I enjoy my family (daughteris 21, studying to be a Chef, partner is a senior account exec. and an artist) and the amazing hiking, skiing that CO has-I've even taken up flying. Who would have thought a Bronx kid would be into nature and flying?
Unlike so many of my Science compadres-I went to Our Lady of Refuge Grammar School and was a "Super Senior." The off to Marymount College of Fordham U, SUNYA (MA) and then the law schools.
Anyone know how to contact Toby Luria, Joan Friedman, Helen Leffler, Judy Leiman, Fay Koutrolis, Peter Galderisi?
Regards to all.
Kris (Gaye) Miccio
G. Kristian Miccio, LL.M, J.S.D.
Associate Professor of Law
SturmCollege of Law
University of Denver