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Updated July 25, 2002

AS OF 10/21/00 THE MOST RECENT STORIES ARE AT THE TOP

A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR:

October 2008, No one has sent me anything to post in the last 6 years. We hope to arrange a reunion in the Fall of 2009.

Welcome to the Lawrence High School Class of 1959 Alumni Newspaper. We will be pleased to post your stories if you attended Lawrence in the late 50s and early 60s. The only criteria is that they be deemed of interest to the alumni and conform to generally acceptable community standards of the Five Towns circa 1959 era. Please send by email to barryend@aol.com.

Read the current Mental Pabulum for Lawrence High School. See if things have changed.

We look forward to your contributions.

From Victor Milt June 2001.

Victor and Eric Grondahl.

From Barbara Freifeld, June 4, 2001.

1959 Class Reunion Fund Scholarships:

For the website:
The following two names are not to be released until after 7pm tonight when
LHS awards ceremony starts. Two separate scholarships, in the amount of
$500.00 each, will be awarded to:

Kristal Giacalone attending CUNY Queens College
Andrew Hendricks attending CUNY Hunter College

When I sent the money to LHS, I requested that it go to students financially
in need, not necessarily high scholars, and attending a city or state
university.

From the letter from Principal Steven S. Kussin, Ph.D.:     "...  delighted
we are at receiving this unexpected windfall...sincere appreciation for this
thoughtful and most generous donation...."

Barbara

From: Victor Milt, April 23, 2001

Hi -
I'm pleased to announce that our son Adam has been accepted by the Dreyfoos
School of Performing Arts in Palm Beach, Florida for his senior year in high
school. The competition was quite keen, and he had to submit a portfolio of
his work, a live audition, his award winning TV commercial, and a "live"
impromptu written assignment, plus interview with a jury of teachers.

Over 2,000 students competed to get into the Dreyfoos school and only 225
were finally accepted. Of these only 3 were seniors. We are very proud of
Adam's achievement.

As a result of this and other considerations, we will be moving to our home
in Boca Raton, on August 1, 2001.

Our address there will be:
1305 Bridgewood Drive
Boca Raton, FL  33434
tel: 561-482-1635

We will continue to work out of our Florida address. The telephones, FedEx
deliveries and internet services are equally effective.

Please think about visiting us in our new residence.

Best wishes to all,
Kim and Victor Milt

4/1/2001 Well, nobody has sent me anything in 6 months so here is a new photo. Bob Lewitt (left) has once again invited me to ski Tahoe. We had 4 days of great spring skiing 3/22/01. Here we are having lunch on a balmy day at Heavenly Valley, CA. You should have seen the beautiful blonde who took our picture.
Please send in articles and photos about other alumni to barryend@aol.com.

11/18/00 Victor Milt will be an exhibiting photographic artist at the Studio 4 West Gallery, 4 Round House Rd., Piermont, NY 10969. (845) 398-3243. www.studio.west.com. November 15-December 5th. Reception November 18, 2 - 5 Victor will be there. Piermont is a lovely riverfront village with fine shops and resturants. It is just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Take Rt. 9W south from the bridge and look for the signs to Piermont in 2 miles.

10/17/100 FROM: BARBARA FREIFIELD

Ruth Glasser Sommers, Class of 1959, is Director of The Festival Chamber
Music Society.
"...relaxed atmosphere...delightful works...drink champagne and chat with
performers after performances...Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th St., NY.
For further information please call the Society at 212 678-6970

Concerts Oct. 18, Dec. 6, Feb.7, Mar.21 and May 2. Prices $18.00, $20.00,
$22.00.
Email: fchamber@aol.com Website: www.festivalchamber.org

10/17/100 FROM: BARBARA FREIFIELD

8th Annual LHS Art Alumni Association Celebration of the Visual Arts
Nov.5th-Dec.7th

All former students of Lawrence High are invited to exhibit work in the
alumni art show.
Receiving date for art work: Friday, Nov.3rd, 2-7pm. Please bring your work
to the Christina Mazzitelli Gallery in Lawrence High School. If you wish to
enter pieces but cannot bring your work at this given time, please contact
Barbara Freifeld ( 516-569-1679; barbced@email.msn.com ). Contact
LHSAAA@aol.com for forms and further instructions.
Opening reception: Sunday, November 5th, 2000 at 4-6pm
There is a $10.00 show fee to defray costs of hanging and refreshments.

10/15/00 FROM BOB SCHLEIN

Hi: Well we moved West, fires in New Mexico eliminated our selection there,so we are in western Washington in a place called Nine Mile Falls. Email stays the same. While moving I came across the PS#1 graduation book with individual pictures of the whole class. If you would like me to send it to you to place on the net let me know. My son made the front page of the Burlington Vermont news paper for his work as head of the Walden Project, which is an alternative school attached to the Vergennes School District(he has been teaching senior English the past few years) and my daughter is teaching Art in a school in NYC for challenged students, She is also instructing in Yoga.Blessings to all Schlein

Joel Gallof to Linda Glick, August 2000.

Linda Lipton and David Kopper, July 2000.

FROM GRETA SELKOWE FERTIK:

We both leave (I on Thursday and B on Saturday) for Italy for the rest of the month. He's shooting and I am involved in two events in Italy - both historic and rather important.

That is to say, a friend of mine (Rabbi) Rami Banin has been revivifying the Jewish presence in the Venetian Ghetto for roughly 8 years, the results of which are very obvious to those who have traveled to Venice since his arrival. He's a Bolognese who decided to "take back" the Ghetto for the Jews who were, until the pope's edict decreeing a "Getto" in 1565, the most important and flourishing community in Italy!!! I am helping him put together a formal fundraising arm that will enable him to "grow" the community with greater facility.

Secondly, I am involved in the founding (can you believe this!!!) of the first-EVER Reformed (Progressive) Congregation in Italy's history!!! (Rabbi) David Goldberg, Senior Rabbi of London's largest Progressive Synagogue, is spearheading this historic event and I have been asked to "come on board" as we move forward to concretize the plans. There are many reasons why Italian Jews want to have a Reformed congregation, but the most manifest is that there are many mixed marriages in Italy and for many years, especially since the War, Jews have been somewhat reluctant to identify themselves. Now, because of all the world attention to Holocaust history, Jews are more comfortable about "coming out of closet" and they want to have a congregation that accepts and supports them and their families whether religiously mixed or not. Since Orthodoxy was, until now, the only available religious choice in Italy, these people - from ALL over Italy - have appealed to the Reformed Movement to send a rabbi to help them get established. David Goldberg has been there twice to hold preliminary meetings, and this weekend we are going forward to "put this event on the map!"

So, while Bill is filming I, too, am quite busy with meetings in various locations in Italy, and it's an exciting time to be there.
I probably mentioned that I have been involved in Holocaust research for some time now, and these commitments are very important to me.

From Lewis Sussman.

Barry--nice ski shots! Looks like you were having fun. I'm finishing up my term as chairman here and going on sabbatical leave at the end of the summer. We'll be cruising the Mediterranean for a few weeks and then off to France for a bit. I can't wait! I'll try to remember to send you some photos.
Best,
Lewis A. Sussman, PO Box 117435, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7435. Fax: 352-846-0297,Tel. 352-392-2075 ext. 268. e-mail: Sussman@classics.ufl.edu, sussman@ufl.edu
HomePage:http://web.classics.ufl.edu/sussman/index.html
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

11/10/99: Regarding this football season: If anyone still cares about this stuff (and I may be the only one left who does), LHS tied for the division title . The playoffs begin this weekend. I usually go to all the games if anyone is intereted in meeting us at one of the games please contact me at Doug Dreilinger