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August 9, 2012
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* Helen Sauter called me and told me that
classmate Billy Williams had died in South
Carolina.
Obit here.
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March 13, 2012
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* Bob Samuels has a new book. "Blue
Water, White Water". It's about his struggles
with Guillain-Barré Syndrome.
Link to reviews
and exerpt is on Bob's Highlights page here
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April 4, 2011
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* Former Nyack Teacher Joe Rowland died at the
age of 93 in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Obit and 1955
yearbook photo here.
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April 4, 2011
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* The USPS is honoring former Nyack resident
Helen Hayes with a stamp on April 25, 2011
Journal
News article here
.
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Nov. 11, 2010
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* Continuing on with the yearbook pictures, the
Senior Class Homeroom pictures have been added.
Homerooms
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Nov. 5, 2010
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* Another addition from the NHS 1955 Yearbook has
been added to the site. The Faculty and Staff picture
pages. faculty.htm
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Nov. 1, 2010
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* James McArthur dies at 72.
Although
not a Nyack 1955 graduate, 'Jamie' did attend NHS
with us in the Freshman class of 1951.
RC Journal News Obituary
and special tribute here.
jamesmacarthur.htm
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Oct. 19, 2010
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* The Reunion booklet we received at the 55th
reunion
is now online. It is in PDF format, so all our classmates
can read it in the website or print it out.
55@55-reunion/55reunionbooklet.htm
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Oct. 18, 2010
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* Another great reunion thanks to Bob Merkert.
Although the attendance at "55@55" was
less than the 50th, the atmosphere was just as good.
See the pics at 55@55-reunion/55@55.htm
If anyone had taken any pics at the dinner and/or
brunch, send them to me either by snail mail or
email and I will put them up on the web site. If
you know of any other news or pics that the
classmates might be interested in, send them to
me or let me know at willshak@hvc.rr.com.
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Oct. 16,2010
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* Sandy Hill Choudry has updated her Highlights
section with what she has done in the past ten years.
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Oct. 15, 2010
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* Bob Merkert has added pictures from his 50th Wedding Anniversary to his Highlights
section.
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Sept. 1, 2010
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* I added something new to the site. When I was
colorizing the classmates yearbook pictures for
the Highlights and Memorial pages back in 2000,
I had scanned the 29 senior picture pages from the
yearbook and saved them to disk so I wouldn't have
to rescan a single photo from the book in case someone
new was added to the Highlights pages. I could just
select the individual photo from the saved page
to add to the site. It reduced the number of scanning
sessions to select a classmate's photo, which wasn't
good for the yearbook's spine. I just uploaded
the 29 pages to the site at yearbook
seniors.htm
Maybe it will benefit those who
have misplaced their yearbooks over the years.
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Aug.24,2010
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* Bob Merkert has received word that classmate
Patricia Horn had died on May 6, 2009. I
was able to find her obit on the JN site. Obituary,
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Aug.15, 2010
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* Details for the "55@55" reunion
added to the main page, but you've probably seen
it already. :-)
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April 17, 2010
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* Congrats to Jerry Koblin for receiving
the Outstanding Citizen Award by Friends of the
Nyacks.
Nyack Villager page 4. http://www.nyackvillager.com/PDF/Villager-04-10.pdf
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Feb.18, 2010
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* Georgia Maskell Whitten has authored
and illustrated a book, "The Cautious Coyoty
Family".
Press release and cover art on
her 'Other pics' page. highlights/gmaskellfam.html
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June 21, 2009
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* What's New at Nyack55.com? Well, some
of your email addresses aren't! I sent a Nyack
group email message yesterday and got about 20 returned
undeliverable replies. Give us your new email
addresses, or we'll have to show up at your house
to deliver mail. :-)
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May 5, 2009
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* Carolyn Cummings has been found. Address,
phone, and email in the Address
List Page (password required). Bio in Highlights.
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Feb. 5, 2009
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* The NHS Class of '55
Scholarship Fund presented its 2008 award to
Jessica Gilpin of Valley Cottage
Pics here NHS55Scholarship.htm
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Feb. 5, 2009
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* Bob Merkert presented a copy of Firth Haring Fabend's book 'Land So Fair' to the Nyack Library on June 5, 2008.. Pics here Highlights/Other
Pics page
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May 12, 2008
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* There is a new page for the NHS Class of '55
Scholarship Fund here
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May 12, 2008
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* Catherine Lang Rice has a new email
address on the Address
List
page (password required)
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Feb. 20, 2008
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* Firth Haring Fabend has a new book out.
"Land So Fair" is her sixth novel. Cover
pic and review at her Highlights/Other
Pics page.
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Dec. 31, 2007
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* Helen Sauter Coyle has moved. New address
on the Address
List
page (password required). Also a phone number added for Carol
Dec Streichert
on the Address
List
page
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Dec. 31, 2007
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* Firth Haring Fabend reports that Martin
Roberts died on December 16th, 2007. Firth received
this information from Martin's wife Joyce. His obituary
and family remembrances are here.
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June 7, 2007
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* Our first 'Nyack High School Class of '55
Scholarship Fund' award was presented to Prashant
Bendala, NHS Class of 2007.
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Feb. 8, 2006
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* Virginia Sandberg Smith reports that Gloria
Capowski has died. Her obituary is here.
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Oct. 3, 2005
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* A Large Panoramic Graduate group photo ( 1 MB ) taken at the Nyack Grande
is here.
Pass
your cursor over the faces to see the names.
Bob sent me some 200+ photos for the web
site. I'll try to get as many up as possible, but
my daughter is getting married this weekend, so
time will be limited. |
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Sept 25, 2005
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* What a Weekend! A
Million thanks to Frank Welles and Prentiss
Breland for the Friday Night Gala they put on
in Welles' Studio in Garnerville. A little music
combo for Hors D'ouevres and a 5 piece band for
the dinner, topped off with a private tour of Welles'
"Chicken Country Furniture Gallery". I
didn't count them, but there must have been over
50 graduates and spouses there.
Saturday
night at the Nyack Grande for a formal dinner and
dance with a cast of thousands (or about 95 anyway).
Sunday brunch at the Comfort Inn in Nanuet. Once
again, Bob Merkert has put on quite a show
for us. First of a plethera of pictures soon
to be sent to me are the ones that I took at the
Nyack Grande here.
(Aside to Irene. I rescinded
your electrical license.) :-)
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Sept. 4, 2005
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* Firth's book, "A
Catch of Grandmothers", has gone into a second printing since publication last fall by the
Historical Society of Rockland County and has been nominated for a
prestigious poetry prize to be decided later in the year.
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Aug. 31, 2005
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* There is an interactive Graduating Class
Photo at grad.htm . Hold
your cursor over the individual faces to get the
names. There are two males that I couldn't identify, so
if you can identify them, let me know.
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Aug. 29, 2005
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* Added changes for Pete Crane on the Address
List
page (password required).
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Aug. 24, 2005
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* Added changes to addresses, phones, or email for
Zita Abel Emerson and Roger Kostmayer
on the Address
List
page (password required).
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Aug. 23, 2005
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* Additional attendees for the 50th reunion. Roger Kostmayer, Virginia 'Babe' Moore Shorter, Connie Gaeta Pepe, Dave
McConnell (Sunday), and Margie Ziegler Arlt (Sunday).
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Aug. 22, 2005
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* New letter about the 50th Reunion,
with discount Hotel arrangements, downloadable reunion reservation form, maps
to the hotels and Frank Welles/Prentiss Breland's Friday Night
Gala.
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Aug. 22, 2005
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* Added changes to addresses, phones, or email for Everett
Charters, Justine Fenning Mutinsky, Martha Jersey Keene, Irving
Pollard, Joan Seward Willey, Pete Valligny, Larry Wolcott on the Address
List
page (password required).
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Aug. 22, 2005
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* Bob Merkert reports that Ruth Frohling has died.
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July 29, 2005
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* New address for Janet Rippey Chesnut on the Address
List page (password required).
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July 28, 2005
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* New letter about the 50th Reunion with additional
information
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June 9, 2005
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* New pics added:
Martin Roberts sent new family
pictures. Mary D'Auria Kesting sent a class pic of the
Liberty Street School 3rd grade
(2nd pic on First page). A "Now" pic
added for Jean Lemm Jansen
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June 7, 2005
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* Changes to addresses and/or e-mail for Mickey Walter, Steve
and Janet Orbine Wanamaker, Stephanie Peterman Iachetta, Joan Priest Jamison,
Georgia Maskell Whitten, Elaine Alpert Lawrence, Richard
Ganley, and Sylvia Spector Fazio on the Address
List
page (password required).
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May 21, 2005
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* New classmate additions for Larry Wolcott and Walter
Metlitz, and change of address and/or email for classmates
Jean Lemm Jansen, Roberta Frae Mathsen, Hedy Sasse
Griffin,
and Courtney Smith, on the Address
List
page (password required).
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May 18, 2005
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* Plans are being made for the 50th Anniversary Reunion to be
held September 24, 2005 at the Nyack Grande Restaurant, 65 Main Street,
Nyack, NY. Read letter here
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Sept.19, 2004
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* Classmate Gerald M (Jerry) Bohr died on September 13, 2004
in Newburgh, NY. Obit
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Jan. 22, 2004
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* From 'Reporter At Large' in the January 2004 edition
of the Nyack Villager.
"In a light turnout, by a
margin of 410 to 89, Nyack school district voters approved the 4.3
million dollar bond issue to pay for repairs to the old Nyack High
School. The 75-year old building is scheduled to get new heating and
electrical systems. The bond issue is not expected to cost taxpayers
more as older bond issues were retired in '03".
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Jan. 13, 2004
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* The St Ann's Reunion pages
have been reformatted in the Nyack55, Old Pics, and Memorabilia pages format.
Thumbnails, Slide Show, etc.
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Dec. 29, 2003
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* I updated the Memorabilia page. No more waiting for the whole
page to load as before. I set it up like the Reunion page and the
Old Pics page, thumbnails and pop ups.
By the way: Happy New
Year!
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August 4, 2003
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* I just had a great experience strolling down memory lane in
Nyack. The
Nyack Villager has a Nyack trivia page called "Remember the
Days" by James F Leiner. Get the page link from the left column
menu in the main Nyack
Villager page. See if you can name the stores, owners,
and places from the 50's. Don't cheat, the answers are right under
the questions. Be sure to hit the 'more Remember the Days' link
at the bottom of the page for more Nyack trivia.
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July 31, 2003
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* Everett "Wally" Charters has changed his e-mail address.
Get it on the Address
List page.
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May 21, 2003
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* Bob Merkert sent an e-mail he received. A humorous stroll down the
50's Memory Lane
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Feb. 9, 2003
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* Bob Merkert reports that Janet Holt Farino's sister told her that classmate Joe Newman
had died. Obit on page.
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Dec.14, 2002
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* As you have already noticed, it's time to drag out the politically
correct Holiday
decorations and get out there and do some shopping. Or, you can
save some time and gas and do it all online. Isn't this great? Where
was all this when we were young? Happy Holidays to all.
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Dec. 14, 2002
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* Frank Welles wrote and told me of his new websites. "My
art is on www.FrankWelles.com, more of
my art is on www.EnclosuresUnlimited.com, and
my tung oil business is on www.tungoilfinish.com. I'd also
like to say hello to all my Class of 55 friends!" |
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July 1, 2002
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* Sadly, Dick Lyman reports that his sister, our classmate, Janet
Lyman Smithers, died after a long illness at her daughters house
in San Francisco. No details posted at the request of Janet and
her family. |
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Feb. 16, 2002
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* My cousin, George Petry, called this morning and told me that
Walter "Wally" Petry died this morning at 1:30 AM in Florida.
Walter is survived by his wife; Deborah Will Petry, one son; Walter
III, and 2 daughters; Jeanne Marie Johnson and Beth Anne Solak,
and 3 grandchildren.
It's good that we got to see him one last
time at the reunion.
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Feb. 7, 2002
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* I received a report this morning that classmate Fran McGovern
has died of a heart attack. Fran and I spent 38 years together at
Orangetown PD, both joining on April 1, 1961, and retiring within days of
each other in mid 1999. Fran is survived by his wife Dale Mulholland
McGovern, one son; Robert,
two daughters; twins Laurie O'Connell and Michelle Jochum, and 3 grandchildren.
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Feb. 6, 2002
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* You have all heard "Rock Around the Clock" often
enough, so I moved it to another page. I created a new
page where I am collecting songs from 1954-1955 when we were
in our Senior year. They are all in synthesized midi format (no
vocals). I'll add more when I find some good ones. I can't find
my favorite Schmitts song, "That's All I Want from You"
by Jaye P. Morgan.
I added buttons for this midi page in the
main menus.
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Jan. 17, 2002
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* Bob Merkert sent in a 1955 Duncan YoYo book cover
(Page 3). I don't know where he's
getting all this stuff. He's probably got the attic all torn up. That
Memorabilia page is getting quite large and slow to load. I may have to
think of some other way to cut down on the size.
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Jan. 17, 2002
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* I started putting copyright watermarks on some of the images. A few
are showing up on other web pages without our permission. Not that it
will stop anyone from taking the images, but just make it a little harder
to conceal where they came from. I have saved the original unmarked and
full sized images in case anyone wants them.
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Jan. 16, 2002
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* Added a 1931 postcard of Nyack HS
sent by Bob Merkert. who got it from his cousin, Barbara Charles Patierno who got it
from a friend who collects postcards. Click on the postcard to read the
back
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Jan 11, 2002
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* Bob Merkert sent in some more family pics
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Jan. 9, 2002
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* Added a highlights page for Jean Lemm. She didn't send one in but
said for us to use the comments from her e-mail message. She was given
Detention for not using the right form. |
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Dec. 2, 2001
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* "Deck the Site with Scenes of Christmas, Fa-la-la-la-la, la,
la, la, la."
(I waited until after Thanksgiving).
I
also added links to some great pictures of Nyack. The first is from
a Prudential-Rand site and has some great
aerial photos and downtown pics. The second is from a Journal
News site that has current
and past pictures of Nyack
The History pictures are older
than we are (makes ya feel pretty good, eh?)
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Nov. 30, 2001
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* Has anyone visited the Nyack
High Forum? There are a lot of former alumni posting there.
I'm the only one from 1955. You can visit the forum as a guest and
read all the messages, but if you want to post or reply, you'll
have to register (free). There's a lot of talk about new and old
Nyack, the town, the school, the teachers, the students and what
was/is going on there. Stop in and see if it is worth your time.
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| Nov. 20, 2001 |
* Added 4 more old St. Ann's pics to the St.
Ann's Reunion page. Sent in by Pat Trubiroha Vander Beek
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| Nov. 19, 2001 |
* Added Orange Co. NY, Times-Herald Record newspaper article
quoting Dr. Dave McConnell
sent in by Helen Sauter Coyle.
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| Nov. 14, 2001 |
* Added two pics to the old
pics page sent in by Bill Weschler. The 5th or 6th grade Liberty
Street Band (page 1) and also Bill Weschler, Bill Bacon, and Sammy Shaw at
Summer Camp (Page 2)
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| Oct. 26, 2001 |
* Jane Ann and Frederick Forte have been located. Address
page updated (need password)
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| Oct. 16, 2001 |
* Added 15 Reunion pics sent in by Karen Dahlberg Vander Ven (#122
- #136) on page 8 and 9 in Reunion
Pics.
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| Oct. 8, 2001 |
* Added some more pictures of the St.
Ann's School, Class of '51 reunion submitted by Anne Tribert
Dinan.
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| Sept. 27,2001 |
* Added article on the closing of Traverson's
Wooden Indian Restaurant and excerpts of book reviews of Firth
Haring Fabend's
latest book "Zion
on the Hudson"
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| Sept. 11, 2001 |
God bless us all.
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| August 9, 2001 |
* Sadly, another classmate has been reported to have passed on.
Homer Fefee died in a private plane crash in 1990. Added
to Memorial page.
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| August 8, 2001 |
* Added 27 more 'Memories'. 26 to the Memories
page and a 1954 St. Ann's Bulletin cover with a picture of Msgn.Giblin to the St. Ann's Reunion page.
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| July 10, 2001 |
* Added pictures from the St Ann's School, Class of '51, 50th
anniversary reunion.
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| June 25, 2001 |
* Unfortunately, I have had to add another classmate to the Memorial
page. Madeline O'Neal Flournoy died
on May 27, 2001.
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| May 28, 2001 |
* I was told by my cousin George Petry, that classmate Kay Cota
had died some years ago. George had heard this at O&RU when
both George and Kay's father worked there. Added
to Memorial page.
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| May 27, 2001 |
* Nothing much added, but I was inside all week due to the weeklong
rain we've had in NY, and since I was bored, I made some changes
to certain pages.
I dressed up the Reunion
Page format with some graphics and added each picture's comments
to the slide show feature.
I hope you all have had an enjoyable (and Dry) Memorial Day weekend.
My little family get-together had to be cancelled.
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| April 26, 2001 |
* Added 11 reunion pics from Bob Mock (#111 - 121, on pages 7 and
8 in Reunion
Pics)
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| April 24, 2001 |
* Added 10 reunion pics from Bob Mock (#101 - 110, on page 7 in
Reunion
Pics)
More to come.
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| April 6, 2001 |
* Added article written by Bob Dallow - Tribute to his wife Jo An
who passed away December 2000. Memories
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| April 4, 2001 |
* Added 5th, 6th, and 7th Grade Valley Cottage class pictures sent
in by Bob Dallow. Last pics, page 2, of the Old
Pics page.
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| March 8, 2001 |
* Added letter from NHS Principal, Avna Laraia, about our reunion.
(letter) (sent by Bob Merkert)
* Added this "What's New"
page.
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| March 6, 2001 |
* Added 4 reunion pics from Alison Church Hyde (#097 - 100, on page
7 in Reunion
Pics).
* Added newspaper article of Carl Fabend's company
receiving "Best New Product" award (Carl
Fabend Highlights - Other Pics page).
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| Jan. 24, 2001 |
* Added 3 reunion pics from Sandy Hill Choudry (#082, 083, 086.
on page 6 in Reunion
Pics).
* Added 12 reunion pics from Joe Merkert (#084, 085,
and 087 - 096, on page 6 in Reunion
Pics)
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| Jan. 18, 2001 |
* Added a 'Get a Nyack55.com E-Mail
address' page.
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| Dec. 23, 2000 |
* Added watercolor painting from Karen Dahlberg Vander Ven's father
('TZ Bridge' in Other Pics
on her Highlights Page).
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| Nov. 28, 2000 |
* Added 2 reunion pics from Lovey Waldman Bash (#078, 079, on page
5 of Reunion
Pics)
* Added 2 reunion pics from Bob Mock (#080, 081, on
page 5 of Reunion
Pics)
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| Nov. 18, 2000 |
* Added 20 reunion pics from Millie Vice Dunn (#058 - 077, on pages
4 and 5 of Reunion
Pics)
* Added 1 family pic from Sandy Hill Choudry ('New
Granchild Jenna' on her Highlights page)
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| Nov. 17, 2000 |
* Added 19 reunion pics from Bob Merkert (#041 - 057, on pages 3
and 4 of Reunion
Pics)
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| Nov. 16, 2000 |
* Added 15 reunion pics from Bob Merkert (#026 - 040, on pages 2
and 3 of Reunion
Pics)
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| Nov. 15, 2000 |
* Added a page for the Alma Mater words and music (Alma
Mater)
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| Nov. 13, 2000 |
* Added 4 family pics from Mary D'Auria Kesting (Other
Pics on her Highlights page)
* Added 6 reunion pics from
Bob Merkert (#020 - 025, on page 2 of Reunion
Pics)
* Added 2 family pics from Bob Merkert (Other
Pics on his Highlights page)
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| Nov. 12, 2000 |
* Created Reunion Pics pages and added 19 reunion pics taken
by me. (*001 - 019 on pages 1 and 2 of the Reunion
Pics)
* Added watercolor painting by Karen Dahlberg's father
('NHS' on her Highlights
page)
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