Montclair High School

Class Of 1960

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•		Ed Hanke 5/11
•		Bob Barton 5/9
•		David Fitzpatrick 4/13
•		Lawrence Robinson 4/7
•		Ben Ritter 4/1

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9 live in Arizona
21 live in California
5 live in Colorado
14 live in Connecticut
2 live in District Of Columbia
32 live in Florida
10 live in Georgia
1 lives in Hawaii
2 live in Idaho
1 lives in Illinois
1 lives in Kansas
3 live in Maine
6 live in Maryland
15 live in Massachusetts
2 live in Michigan
1 lives in Minnesota
1 lives in Missouri
2 live in Nebraska
2 live in Nevada
5 live in New Hampshire
106 live in New Jersey
1 lives in New Mexico
20 live in New York
8 live in North Carolina
4 live in Ohio
2 live in Oregon
12 live in Pennsylvania
1 lives in Rhode Island
10 live in South Carolina
1 lives in South Dakota
1 lives in Tennessee
5 live in Texas
2 live in Utah
1 lives in Vermont
1 lives in Virgin Islands
7 live in Virginia
1 lives in Washington
1 lives in West Virginia
1 lives in Ontario
2 live in Norway
1 lives in Spain
1 lives in United Kingdom
62 location unknown
60 are deceased

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Welcome to the MHS '60 Website!

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UPDATE April 1, 2012 in GREEN

WHO and WHERE?

Who is this classmate? And where is he? We're taking guesses.

Here's a photo of the MHS Band in 1959. Thanks to Tony Montesione, Class of '62 for sending it for our web site. Tony says, "Sue Becker is at the head of the band as you can see. Many from your class of 1960 are there as well. I played clarinet in that band. Your class has a great site. My class, Class of 1962, will be having our 50th reunion soon."

YOUR NEWS

Nick Serpico recently joined our MHS '60 website. You can see nice photos of Nick on his Profile Page. Welcome Nick!

Rinna Block Flohr writes, "My birthday is April 21. I will be turning 70 as will many others. I am planning a big bash of a birthday party and would like to invite anyone who will be in this area on the 21st to come. It will be at my Art Gallery: Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Ave., Berkeley, CA 94703. RSVP to me at Rinna@msn.com or call me at 510-849-3111 any morning from 8AM-Noon (Pacific Time).

Roxine Clark Garriss sent this photo. She says, "I found a picture of me, Bobby Barton, and Diane Harris at our 1960 graduation. Bobby and I want to know who that fellow is standing behind us with his hand to his chin.

Roxine continues, "As for me, I'm looking after my dad who will be 91 on March 19. I'm taking him to Savannah so he can eat all the fresh seafood he wants and see the ocean again. It will be a family affair with my daughter, sister, and cousins. Retirement has been good to me. I sold my house just before the real estate crash in '06 and purchased a lovely little ranch house (no more stairs). I went back to Montclair and got my dad and now I spend a good deal of time tending my gardens."

Barbara Mansell Ramsay says, "I am now officially retired and this is my new email: barbara.ramsay@aol.com My new cell phone is 201-618-1065. I am playing paddle, tennis, golf, and taking an art class so far. Not sure that is going to do it. Need to find some volunteer work where I can make a difference in someone's life. We just returned from a wonderful exotic Southeast Asia Trip. Page traveled Asia for his job and made arrangements for us to go to Singapore, take the Orient Express to Bangkok, and then fly to Cambodia, Chiang Mai (Thailand), Hong Kong, and back through Singapore. Very plush, very interesting. Home seems very ordinary right now.

Lou Ray has updated his address:

14225 Beddingfield Way, Centreville, VA 20121

Here's his preferred email: Lou.Ray@LHR-Systems.com

Steve Clifford continues his humor/satire blogs for The Huffington Post. You can see a long list of his columns at www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-clifford

If you would like to be on Steve's distribution list, just send him an email at s.clifford@comcast.net

David Appleton writes, "I'm still vertical but slowing down a bit with my nautical adventures as I look at the big 70 comin' at me."

David was recently in Annapolis giving a presentation on ocean sailing to a "Singles on Sailboats" club. Unfortunately, I (Linda) was somewhere else and missed him.

Brooke Hench Guida sent this photo of a mini reunion with Paul Doran and his wife, Denise. She writes, "On March 10, Paul and Denise came to our rental home in Oro Valley, Arizona and had a long, leisurely lunch with Tony and me, catching up on old friends since reunion. Lots of discussion about Nan and Jane (Peppard) whom we both saw so much of as children and teens. Also took a wonderful hike to work off lunch in the high desert and had an obliging hiker take our picture.

Brooke and Paul in the center with Brooke's husband, Tony, and Paul's wife, Denise.

Rick Boschen sent this advice: "Find out how long you will live. Check out the Lifespan Calculator. www.lifespancalc.com. You may live to be older than you think. You may live a lot longer than you realize. I took the quiz. My lifespan was 95. I wonder if Social Security or this government will still be around."

Rick adds, "Still working at Prudential Florida Realty and in the middle of the 2012 "Snowbird Season." Not ready to retire.... Golf two times per week is plenty for my back. (Never thought I would think or type that comment.) In April, I plan to really work on my book, THE TRADER. The previous movies on Wall Street did not tell the whole story. Names will be changed to protect their reputations, etc." Be well.

Jane Hall Manning celebrated her 70th birthday on Super Bowl Sunday. Her sister, Connie Hall Stanco, MHS '64, took these photos of Jane with fellow Colorado 60s, Annette Hannemann McGrew and Joan Crunden Lewis and Jane's older sister, Virginia Hall Snedecor, MHS '51.

Nancy Pierson Tolley sends good news about her granddaughter, Bea. She writes, "Bobbye Stoeber Greene...kindly lent us the use of her wonderful beach house on the Florida Panhandle last week. Our granddaughter is in remission and very well at the moment. We had great weather and lots of fun with the kids. Now we are home and the sun is shining. The most amazing discovery of our visit to Georgia is that wisteria grows wild there at this time of year. Looks beautiful and the scent is heavenly. English gardeners would be most jealous as it is highly prized here.

Jim Newman writes, "I've wanted to see Peru ever since Miss Martin taught about the Incas in 5th grade. Machu Picchu, October 2011.

Jim Newman writes about his visit to Versailles in February 2012. "Gold leaf, paintings, and sculpture on every surface! My son performed in an opera at the Opera Royale in Versailles. It was performed with the original sets from the last performance in 1780, starring Marie Antoinette. That's my granddaughter Anya in the foreground.

WEBSITE BOUNCEBACKS

Do you have current email addresses for any of these classmates? All of them were "bouncebacks" on from our last update.

Terry Allen, Patricia Payne (Wallace), Teddy Africano (Morris), Ralph Holt, Judy Kirby (Lyman), Julie Stockwell (Forbes), Carol Vreeland (Quackenbush), Ed Fitt, Rahim Islam (Eugene Duncan), Gwynne Brown, Arnold Fox, Judy Wing (Andrade), Sam Gugliotta, Joan Malone (Decker), Linda Olsen (Patton), Jim Bruett.

That's it for now. I hope spring is beautiful wherever you are. Lots of good wishes to all of you. Please keep in touch.

Linda

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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From Steve Clifford:

After working on a book for 2 years, I am back blogging for The Huffington Post. Last two post are:

I put blogging on hiatus to write a book. This took more time than expected due to my editor's frequent objections, shown in his emails:

Dec. 10, 2010

Steve,

Your book, The Election of 2012, will make a superb satirical novel satire after one small change.

Your fictional Republican presidential candidate, Michele Mannbach crosses the line of satire and becomes farce.

To continue click on: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-clifford/gop-candidates_b_1294226.html

Take this news quiz and test your memory of this past week's events:

1. Mitt Romney stated that he has many great friends who own:

a. Two Cadillacs
b. Two Super PACs
c. Congress
d. Slaves

To continue click on: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-clifford/weekly-news-quiz_b_1321691.html

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From Brooke Hench Gieda

My younger sister, Jean, and I traveled to the East Coast last month to fulfill a family obligation which has haunted us for years. Our great grandfather, Charles Booth, a 1872 West Point graduate, wrote 22 letters to our great grandmother during the years 1873 and 1877 while he was stationed in Montana Territory during the Indian Plains Campaign. The letters have been in my possession since my father's death in 1973. Two of the letters deal directly with the battle at Little Big Horn, one of which was 7 pages long. He arrived there with Gibbons' troops the day after the battle concluded in June 1876 and helped bury U.S. Army soldiers. West Point had been nagging my father to donate the collection (including an 1881 essay and diary from the Spanish-American War) for many years. It was only this summer that the family -- with some stalwart dissenters -- decided to finally donate the collection! Jean and I and my son, Andy, who lives in NYC, all made the presentation. It was an incredible experience! Jean and I then drove to Vergennes, VT, where Charley (as he was lovingly called) and other family members lived and died. We had a monumental 2-day trip, staying at Basin Harbor Inn and nosing around Vergennes finding the old family home and business right on the town square. Talk about nostalgia! We also found about 10 gravestones from family members going back about 150 years! Loved our trip but not the mosquitoes! Hope all are well. Brookie

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To use the Instant Messaging feature, you have to do 2 things first:

1. Make sure that you are allowing pop-ups on your computer. (On my computer, I go to the "Tools" tab and look for the Pop-Up blocker setting. I don't know how the Pop-Up option works on other computers.)

2. Go to "EDIT PROFILE" and check the Instant Message box at the very bottom of your page. (You'll find "Edit Profile" on the Home Page in the blue margin on the left side in the "Member Functions" section. This is not your regular public Profile page.

Now, here's what you do: When you log onto the Home Page, you should see a narrow horizontal box at the bottom right of your screen. (If you don't see it you might have to "clear the cache," delete the "cookies," whatever that means, or the "history" to unblock the blockage.)

Click on the up arrow (white triangle) to open up the box. If another classmate is online, his/her name will appear. You can then click on the classmate's name to "invite them to a private chat." A chat box should open to the left. You write your message in the bottom strip below the happy face icon. Write everything in one paragraph and don't hit "Enter" (or "Return") on your keyboard until you're ready to send your message. When you're finished writing, hit Enter (or "Return").

If all goes well, the person you are writing to will receive a message that you have invited them to a private chat. When they click on "Join Private Chat", they can answer you by writing their response in their own chat box in the band below the happy face icon. To send the message, they click click Enter (or Return). That's all there is to it.

The black arrow (black triangle) lets you indicate whether you are available or not. When you click on the black arrow, you'll see 4 options. "Online" means you are available for receiving a message. "Away" means you are temporarily away from your computer. "Do not disturb" means that you're busy with something else. If you want to be online without anybody knowing you are there, click on "Invisible".

If you want the message box to return to its small size at the bottom of your screen, click the down arrow (white triangle).

To get more complete instructions, click on the ? icon (question mark icon) in the blue circle.

Remember that this new Instant Messaging (IM) feature allows for private real-time chatting with other logged-in members. I am told that from any IM chat, you can also start a multiple-person private chat, where only invited members can participate in the conversation. We'll have to see how that works. At any rate, nobody can join in the private (IM) chat unless they are invited by a member already in the private chat.

In case you're confused, remember that this new Instant Messaging feature is different from the Live Chat system which is still available. Live Chat allows you to chat publicly with multiple classmates at once. On Live Chat, everybody sees what everybody else has written. To do a Live Chat, click on "Live Chat" on the blue margin on the left side of the Home page. You should see a set of instructions.

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