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Rivertowns Enterprise, Oct. 11, 2009

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Glenn finally has his own tv show!

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Birthday Bash - PICTURES!

They are slowly trickling in. Please send if you have.

Click here!

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NEW Barry Symonds Swim Meet Results!

Barry just finished swimming in the Empire State Games again.  The participants were from all over NY State. Here are his he results compared to last year:

	Event	Place	Time
	200 Yard Individual Medley	Gold	2:34.88
	50 Yard Breaststroke	Gold	34.63
	100 Yard Breaststroke	Gold	1:16.60
	400 Yard Individual Medley	Gold	5:43.19
	200 Yard Butterfly	Gold	2:55.92
	100 Yard Individual Medley	Silver	1:09.71

Congratulations Barry!

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Hastings Teachers' Stickball League featured in the
Sunday New York Times, June 10th, 2007.
Click here to read the article.

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Holly Paquette-Capuano from the Class of 1977 asked if we could mention their site - www.hastingsclassof77.com, because people from many classes visit here, and we could help spread the word that this year will be their 30th reunion, on August 17, 18 and 19th. Hope this helps..

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Pictures from the Youth Council Fundraiser - 6/2/07

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Who's ASSES are these?
March 19, 1974

Click on the picture for more detail.

From left to right are:
Joe Pagan, Pierre Belarge, Chuck Caruso and Nick McMaster.
(Other guesses were Dave Richter, Larry Kaiser, Billy Kotiatis, and Keith Olbermann)

Here is the real story, from Barbara Schmidt:

"Barbara Minkewitz and I had a bet with these boys (in writing) that they would STREAK across 5 corners on this day at this time. (how or why this bet evolved I have no idea?). If they did, we would each pay them $25.00 dollars!! And of course we paid!! But what they did not know was that we advised every teacher and student in HHS of this event!! Oh and we also called the news and the police!! The morning of the STREAK, we all met at my parent’s apartment on Main Street. By this time the boys started getting cold feet…they grabbed various disguises from my fathers closet (his ski mask etc) , had a quick “whiskey shot” to calm the nerves and off they went. To see their faces when we arrived and they saw all the people on each corner and the police car and the news cameras….. it was hysterical! But they still went ahead…..they were so much fun!!!"

To which Pierre Belarge answered:

"Barbara says she cannot remember how the bet started, so I will relate my vague memory of it. During wrestling practice we would walk from the wrestling room upstairs down to the locker room. One day we were walking down with very little clothing (ah... no clothing) and the cheerleaders (some of them) were in the hall down by the locker room. After we showered and dressed, they saw us in the hall and made the bet. I remember Barbara Schmidt and Barbara Minkowitz were there. If there were others, then my memory fails me...whats new? Dave Richter and a few others ran through the school a couple of days later. I believe Dave broke his leg or ankle falling."

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Found: Heather Schmeltz Grimm

For more, please go to our scrapbook page or click here.

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Photo -Pat Sinatra

Marcine Weiner on her 80th birthday which was 4/21/07.

"My husband and I moved to Northbrook, Il seventeen years ago to be near Neil our son and his family. Northbrook is just about the same distance from Chicago as Hastings is from Manhattan. We are north of Chicago and have made a great adjustment considering we left such a lovely area as Westchester and moved to the flat lands of Illinois. But we have two granddaughters who were seven and three when we moved here and are now young adults. One is in law school here in Chicago and the younger one is finishing her second year at Tufts.
We still miss Hastings and New York and sometimes we get to make a visit there."

Well wishers can send her birthday greetings at arthurweiner@sbcglobal.net.

Mrs. Weiner in 1965
Click on the picture to see her Grade 2 class,
(with Keith Olbermann in the back row)
along with a few other classics of Mrs. Appl and Miss. Sponder
found by Greg Vaughn.

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An ABC Action News story
about Jamie Shillinglaw's dad,
honored as an Eagle Scout 65 years later.

Windows Media Player / Quicktime

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A found photo from Jan Sidebotham
You're gonna love this one. (It was left large so you can pan right, left, up and down or zoom to see everyone in detail.)

An Explanation From Jan: "Hi All... Over the last few months, I've been reorganizing (overhauling) my personal life, and in the course of going through old stuff, I found this photo, that I've been meaning -- since the 30th reunion -- to get to Alan to put on the website... It's a photo of the conservation club in the fall of (I think) 1973, when we were in tenth grade. A bunch of us went up to Elmira, NY, after a bad flood to canvass neighborhoods on behalf of some organization to see who needed help... It's like something out of central casting for a 1970's movie -- by Will Ferrell, I'm afraid. Anyway, can you find: Peter Andrews, Jane Gaughran, the lovely Louise, Corey Shaff, Robbie Carlson, Peter Hazou, Jeffrey Feinstein, Michael Schmais, David Heston, Barbara Harnack, Cindy Barr, Emily Singer...? Hey Virrill, how come you weren't there? Didn't you want to help the flood victims?"

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Jean Zimmerman's New Book!

Jean's new book is out from Harcourt, The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty. Classmates might be interested because it chronicles the Philipse family of the Hudson Valley -- she writes a lot about Philipse Manor Hall in Yonkers. The book’s a Borders Original Voices selection for August and September.

FROM JEAN HERSELF:

Happy holidays!

By this time in the festive season, the Dutch colonists of early New York would have already set out their carrots in wooden shoes by the fireside for St. Nicholas’ white steed, and they’d be well into the mulled cider, but we’ve only just begun to celebrate... and shop...

Since The Women of the House came out I have signed quite a few copies for people who wanted to pass them on as gifts. Which gave me the following idea:

If you plan to give The Women of the House for a present, why not give a signed copy?

But I live all the way across the country! How can I get a signed copy?

Here’s how we do it.

1. Send me the book. Get it from your favorite local independent bookseller, from Amazon or B&N or elsewhere on line, or purchase a copy directly from me (email me to make arrangements). You can also buy a book from the wonderful shop in my village, Good Yarns Bookstore (914-478-0014) and they will ensure I get it.

2. Let me know if you’d prefer an unadorned signature or an inscription to Mom or Aunt Mabel, whomever.

3. I will mail the book wherever you say -- with no additional shipping charge. That’s my gift to you, with all kinds of thanks for your support and your interest in The Women of the House.

Best of holiday wishes,

Jean

Please visit her web site at http://thewomenofthehouse.com.

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Doug Nolan's CD!

If your memory of our classmate, Doug Nolan, is fuzzy,
this picture shouldn't change anything.

This is the cover art to his CD. Click here for a sample.

http://www.backtonowhereband.com/

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How many kids can you name?

More Pictures from Ann Kapfer Fahey. Click here

Be ready to scroll a lot, because these are big pictures, full of detail!

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David Walters on ABC's "20/20"

Oysters as an Aphrodisiac?

Ah, the oyster! We've all heard what a hot commodity oysters will make you between the sheets.

The Oyster Bar in New York City serves thousands of raw oysters every day. Just why do people find them so sexy?

"It's a very sensual experience. I mean you don't chew an oyster. You kind of like swallow it down completely. And it's wonderful. And your mind sort of just wanders along to sex," said David Walters, who spoke to "20/20" at the landmark restaurant.

A recent study lent credence to that popular belief. Rats were injected with amino acids found in shellfish, and researchers found it caused them to release sex hormones.

However, one of the doctors involved in the study says there's no evidence that oysters are an aphrodisiac in human beings.

One of ABC News' medical consultants, Yale University's Dr. David Katz, agrees. "The new research is many steps away from showing that oysters are an aphrodisiac, or in any way enhance sexual performance," he said.

What about the people though who swear that oysters are an aphrodisiac?

"As of today, if we ask the question do we know that oysters are an aphrodisiac, or for that matter, any shellfish, we'd have to say, no, it's a myth," Katz said.

But what's not a myth is that eating raw shellfish can make you sick. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that thousands of people get ill from eating shellfish every year, particularly oysters, and a handful die. But that in no way deters the faithful.

"My son was conceived the night my wife and I each downed a dozen oysters. So that's not completely scientific but it certainly passes an empirical test," said Walters.

"Are they an aphrodisiac because of properties in the oyster, per se? No. Regrettably, it's a myth. Unless, you think they're an aphrodisiac. Because if you think they will put you in the mood, they will put you in the mood," said Katz.