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Subj: Fwd: Chick posting
Date:
12/23/2006 10:31:30 A.M. Central Standard Time
From: Saldonreyn
To: Luciagreer2
Hi,
We are hooking up well with the two meaningful sites,
'57 and '60.
If you hear from or about Dave, He is Dave Williams, sitemaker
'60class
If you hear from or about Bill, He is Bill Miller, who provides
'57 class
'57 is working on a reunion (their 50th it will be for autumn
2007) and hell or highwater excluded, I;ll be there wiith as many old guarders
as can be enc ouraged when the time gets closer.
Merry Christmas
Don
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Subj: Chick posting
Date: 12/22/2006 5:12:21 P.M. Central Standard
Time
From: ArtPollock
To: Saldonreyn
Very nice tribute.
Thanks so much. He's had some very good days recently. This is an up-and-down
disease. We will spend Christmas Day with him.
By the way, I played choirmaster
(and closet drunk) Simon Stimson in our junior class production of Our Town in
the fall of 1963.
Have a great Christmas!
Love and peace, ART
In
a message dated 12/22/2006 12:40:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Saldonreyn writes:
Hi
Art,
I have linked our l930-50 site with '57 and '60 sites for HG.
If you google HGHS alumni, mouse the top entry, and go the class of '57, followed
by FYI you will see a new entry I've posted in Dad's honor. Let me know if you
find it.
Merry Christmas
Don
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Subj:
Re: Great effort for Greeley
Date: 12/22/2006 1:27:40 P.M. Central Standard
Time
From: Saldonreyn
To: bmiller@hghs57.org
CC: flicker16@msn.com,
Luciagreer2
Hi to both of my younger alumni friends.
Bill, as I recall you asked something to the nature of "how do we put
this merger together"? For our "Old Guard" entry, beginning thru
1950 at Bell School (nee Horace Greeley School), the bond is architecture and
something stronger. I've never heard any high school graduates...in my 83 years...as
bonkers about their school days as this group.
I believe part of the loyalty
is that great little "downtown", Cadman;s Pharmacy, etc, that Dave seduces
all with on his site. I can only surmise that transplanting the last four years
to a location between "town" and Mt Kisco would tend to minimize our
emotion toward exhibit A. And that may be why we who did it all in "the center
of town" have dis covered this fondness. I did many more exciting things,,the
Thames to the Rhine in one piece for one, and while I get a kick out of Normandy,
Brittany, and Paris, etc, it's not the same. Fraternity and college gatherings
are, for me, not the same as King Street and Greeley Avenue
The "mid-century
alumni", graduates with similar interests and recall...not to be exclusive,
but entirely practical, are the people who would attract.
A mountain out
of a mole hill?
Merry Christmas,
Don '41
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Believing
the strongest bond with Chappaqua school days is the original "Horace Greeley",
that fieldstone, Tudor, architectural masterpiece on such a hokey named location
as "Senter" Street, I think the "vintage" classes, the Depression
Dandies who provided for the "Boomers" are the most truly relevant and
believing alumni available. Dr, Bell brought it all about in 1929 and stayed long
enough to forge the system. Going to school in the same building with upper classes
--, grades 3-12 may be old school, but it worked.
Class of '41 was the
10th graduating class and I believe the middle-school concept was applied in '58
when the school was renamed"Bell School".. I cannot locate the final
year of graduation from "Horace Greeley (Center St). or find the total number
of graduating classes from the HS near the Digest. Any efforts to localize the
interested alumni to the original building--then base for Edith Sliker, Ruth Walker,
Julia and Ed Twining, Herb Oakes, Pete Houmiel and Sylvia Kurson...now there's
the "tie that binds." We went to that school because it was there, not
because it was a choice topic for a college admissions interview.
You're
a good girl, charley brown.
Regards
Don
Reynolds
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