Classmate Photos & Bio : OHS

Rose Kappel Mekulik

Date: Sep. 19, 2009
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Rose Kappel Mekulik

After Graduation I went to work for the Beltone company. I married my high school boyfriend Nov. 1959 that I was engaged to in my senior year. We had 3 children, 2 girls and 1 boy. We also have 8 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. I have been working in the health field for 30 years and still working for outpatient surgery center full time as an instrument technologist. One of my many accomplishments in life is that I mastered riding a Harley at the young age of 50 ( I know one guy in our school that would be immensely surprised of this feat). I have attended many bike rallies since and plan on many more!!!!!!!!

My husband and I will be married 50 years in November.

We enjoy camping and traveling many places.

My memories of high school are football games, dances, also how much cheaper things were in that era including the ice cream sodas for 25 cents and movies on Saturdays. Remembering the great times at Cozy Corners and other places.

I moved south 20 years ago and now live in Gastonia, North Carolina ( 45 minutes from Charlotte) and absolutely love the weather not having to face the northern winters with snow and ice.

My best wishes to all the class of 1959 as I will not be attending due to my oldest grandson graduating early from college.

Best Wishes

Rose Kappel Mekulik

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Elly Kaufman Miller

Date: Sep. 12, 2009
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Here's a note of trivia from Elly:

According to today's New York Daily News (which I nostalgically purchase on a daily basis in memory of my Dad, at whose knee I began reading it), the new judge coming to "American Idol" in the next season was born and raised in Ossining, New York. (Kara DioGuardi, age 37, graduated from the Masters School and Duke University.)

On a more important note, Murray and I were blessed to see the daughter of our beloved classmate and friend, Pam Wilcox Cheek, of blessed memory, walk down the aisle as a beautiful bride on the 28th of June on Martha's Vineyard. As we witnessed the recitation of vows of the adorable couple, Christen and Brad Peterson, I couldn't help but think that we were watching "a marriage made in heaven." Blessings to the newlyweds and to all of the children and grandchildren of the OHS Class of '59 from Elly and Murray Miller!

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Wendy (Warshof) Schoen

Date: Aug. 28, 2009
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Wendy (Warshof) Schoen

9817 Freestate Pl., Montgomery Village, MD 20886

wendy.schoen@comcast.net

I couldn’t let this important event pass without contributing something to this wonderful OHS web site on the eve of our class’ 50^th Reunion. I’m enjoying reading all of the bios submitted so far. However, discovering that so many of our classmates are no longer with us has deeply saddened me.

I will try to summarize the last 50 years of my life in a few short paragraphs. I graduated from SUNY Albany with a BS in Business Education in 1963. OHS classmates who graduated with me from SUNY were Elly Kaufman, Pat Pulcini, and Tony Bardari. My husband Neil and I met while in college. Neil graduated from nearby Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) that same year and then went on to graduate school at Lehigh University where he eventually earned his PhD in physics. Immediately after college I moved to New York City and worked in the Radio and TV Department of Young & Rubicam Advertising Agency for a couple of years (loved the 2-hour lunches and spending most of my meager salary in the wonderful Manhattan shops).

Neil and I married in 1965, and over the next 44 years we have lived in Allentown, PA, Hightstown, NJ, Lindenwald, NJ, Andover, MA, Irvine, CA, and Montgomery Village, MD. We have two wonderful children: Kim was born in 1969 and Darren in 1972. I stayed home to raise them for the first 10 years. I was an avid tennis player, and soon after we moved to California I met a few other new residents interested in tennis. We founded the Irvine Tennis Association (ITA) in 1979, and this association is still active today. While in Irvine I went back to work part time for the National Wheelchair Tennis Foundation. By this time Neil had begun what was to be a 40-year career in the aerospace industry, working for TRW, TASC, and Boeing.

We moved back to the East Coast in 1984 and purchased our current home in Maryland. I worked for the next 24 years for the American Occupational Therapy Association as an administrator and copy editor. Neil and I both retired this past January. Our daughter Kim graduated from Boston University and holds masters degrees from CalArts, and the Royal College of Art in London. She is an artist and an art director, currently living in Los Angeles. Our son Darren graduated from the University of Michigan with an aerospace engineering degree, but decided he was really a techie at heart and became a computer game programmer and developer. He also is a drummer in a band that plays throughout the Seattle area. He and his wife Marisa have been busy renovating their 1924 Craftsman house in Seattle.

Neil and I have done a lot of traveling for fun as well. My top 3 favorite trips were to Israel, Italy, and the beautiful Greek Islands. My current interests include swimming laps, ushering for 2 area theaters, tutoring elementary school students, and playing the piano.

Fond OHS memories: dissecting a frog in Abe Fischler’s biology class, Miss Com’s “crumbs,” working on the Features section of the Wizard with Julie Free, singing with the Choraliers, movies at the Victoria Theater, Bandstand, and stopping at Toretta’s Pharmacy for an after-school Coke.

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Tony Nacinovich

Date: Jun. 2, 2009
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I have been very lucky. Thanks to the urging of assistant football coach John Lupetin, I went to Ithaca College graduating with a major in Communications and double minor in History and Philosophy. I woke up sometime in my freshman year and learning became fun. The last month of my senior year, I met Ellen Royce. She was an Ithacan and had transferred in from Alfred University. We married in 1965, settled in Tarrytown and are celebrating our 44 anniversary as I write this. Our son Mark arrived in 1970 and daughter Christy in 1972. We have two granddaughters and are about to have a third.

After graduation in ‘63, I enlisted in the Army Reserve, did my active duty at Fort Dix and subsequently spent the remaining five and a half years in Civil Affairs.

With my major, I seemed well suited to advertising (…as the old saw goes, ‘don’t tell my mother I’m in advertising, she thinks I play a piano in a bordello’). My first job was working on the Lever Brothers accounts at SSC&B—today it’s Lintas/Interpublic. After two years, I moved to the agency that became my career—Ogilvy & Mather. Ogilvy was hot and creative. I spent 28 years working on some of the best accounts in the business, including Maxwell House Coffees, Hershey, Campbell Soup, Sears, Pepperidge Farms, Duracell, Longines, Hallmark, and Smith Barney, serving as Senior VP and Media Director. I was very fortunate to work with industry giants, David Ogilvy among them. Icons. I won major agency and industry awards for creativity in Television, Radio, Magazines and Newspapers, convinced my management in 1983 to introduce personal computers into the workplace, created the best training program in the business, lectured at colleges and universities, served as Chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies Newspaper Committee and never dreaded having the clock radio going off in the morning (especially with Don Imus lambasting me and praising Maxwell House).

By 1989, the industry was changing. Ogilvy was acquired by a British holding company, WPP headed by Martin Sorrell, whom David Ogilvy called “an odious little shit” and who cared less about “creating advertising that sells” than wringing every penny out of the company and its people. I left in 1994 and started Compass Communications—a media and marketing consultancy that I ran for 12 years.

In 2005, we vacationed in Sarasota, FL—a pearl on the Gulf Coast and decided the time had come to leave the cold and snow and play in paradise. We bought a little bigger house and made the move final in 2008 when we sold Tarrytown. We’ve retired to a beautiful place with diverse activities. We are as active as we can stand. I swim daily at the Y Aquatics Center. We bike daily. I’m a competitive clay target shooter (trap) and won the Florida State Doubles Championship in 2007 having previously won Connecticut State championships (5 times) and was twice appointed to the New York State team. The culture here is limitless and the people couldn’t be lovelier. For diversion, I fish the many lakes near by and grow orchids. Ellen and I hold office in the Venice Area Orchid Society (vaos.org) and publish their monthly newsletter.

I am reminded daily of the richness of the education we got in Ossining. So many of the things I know and values I hold came from great educators like Messrs. Watson (who taught me FINAFI—find a need and fill it), Fischler (who taught me the scientific method of thinking), Bonelli (who taught me to be competitive and to want to win), and so many of you who shared in molding me into the person I am. Thank you.

Tony Nacinovich,

Sarasota, Florida

Editor's Note: Retirement life is serving Tony quite well. Look at that bod! Coach Bonelli would have wished Tony was in such good shape during football season.

Here's a shot of Tony with the fish that didn't get away. Actually, if you look close enough you can see the imprint of the fish store where, I have it on good authority, that said fish was purchased ;-)

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Jim Worden Update

Date: Nov. 22, 2008
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To the Class of ‘59

After “Doc” Reilly annointed me the class Poet Laureate several months ago, I have had a chance to look back through my archives and explore my humble poetic beginnings.

My initiation into the wonderful world of poetry began in late 1967 when the Army sent me to their Poetry College secretly located at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey to work on my “Poetic License”. (I eventually received my Masters in Poetry there). The 6 month class was a revelation for me both in subject content as well as for the friends I made there. In addition, I was whelmed as I looked through old yearbooks with pictures of past alumni such as Byron B.Shelly, or Eddy Poe who seems to have been the class prankster. Allan Ginzburg even attended earlier in the ‘60’s but was eventually kicked out for “unauthorized trips”.

I have now added a new honor to my incredible resume by recently being awarded the title of Poet Laureate of the Ak-Chin indian tribe here in Arizona largely as the result of several original poetry readings I gave at the tribe’s casino. I had no reservations about accepting this honor. It all started when I was asked to install the electrical wiring in the main bathroom (or head as they call it) for the reservation. Thus I actually became the first person to wire a head for a reservation.

In Hoc Signo Vinces,
Big Duck

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Mical and Wines in Hawaii

Date: Nov. 21, 2008
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Received this note and photos from Bill "Wines" O'Connor:

WHILE VISITING FAMILY IN HAWAII, MICAL AND NEIL FOGEL JOINED THE O'CONNOR'S FOR LUNCH---IT WAS A WONDERFUL DAY AND MICAL HASN'T CHANGED A BIT.

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Patrick Pulcini

Date: Sep. 22, 2008
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Patrick Pulcini

Address: 32 Schrade Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY

Phone: 914-762-2330

What did you do immediately following high school?

I attended SUNY Albany and graduated in 1963 with a BS in Mathematics and Chemistry. Earned my MA in mathematics from SUNY Stony Brook and a second masters’ degree in Education Administration from CW Post College at LIU.

What have you been doing since?

I went on to teach high school mathematics in Seaford, NY for 25 years and then moved to upstate NY and become the Assistant Superintendent for Business for the Chatham Central School District. Left Chatham and accepted the position as Assistant Superintendent for Business and Personnel for the Bronxville School District. I retired from Bronxville in 2000 and decided to go back into teaching. I am now teaching mathematics in Connecticut. I can’t believe that I have been an educator for over 45 years. YIKES!!

I have travelled extensively throughout the US and Europe over the years. The most recent trip was this past summer when several friends and I rented a villa in southern France for three weeks.

I am an automobile fanatic having had 226 cars in my lifetime – so far – and I am not ready to settle on one particular model just yet.

Family:

I was married for more than 25 years and then divorced, but I’m looking!. I have two wonderful sons, Kevin and John. Kevin lives in Westchester and is in the mortgage business, and John lives in South Carolina and owns his own business. No grandchildren yet. (At least none that I am aware of.)

Do you have a favorite OHS memory?

I remember “Skinny Minnie”, dirty dancing, make-out parties at Tommy Dichter’s, Mr. Repp, Gunzy’s Grimy Gremlins, “Dino”….

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Donald Mc Ginness

Date: Sep. 14, 2008
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Donald Mc Ginness

Address: 85 Sand Hill Road

Dover Plains, New York 12522

Phone: 845-877-3909 Cell Phone:

What did you do immediately following high school?

Westchester Community College 1960 - 1961

U.S. Navy 1964 - 1967

N.Y. Tel./Verizon 1968 - 2003

What have you been doing since?

Retired from Verizon November 2003

Relaxing spending summers in New York and winters in Englewood, Florida

Enjoying biking, walking, and basking in the sun.

Family:

Wife Karen (married 1975)

Daughter Jessica (30)

Son Patrick (28)

Granddaughter Abbigail (3)

Do you have a favorite OHS memory?

Great friends in great years!

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Helen Wright

Date: Sep. 14, 2008
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Helen “Wright” Briggs

Address: 980 Colonial Drive, St. Augustine, FL 32086

Phone: 904-794-1014 Cell Phone: 904-501-3246

What did you do immediately following high school?

Education: Berkeley Secretarial School, White Plains, NY

What have you been doing since?

It doesn’t seem possible, but I’ve been working for 48 years now. My first job was with American Airlines in NY City in their corporate offices. For over 30 years I worked as a paralegal in national law firms in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, Florida. My favorite area of law was probate and environmental land use law. I retired from full-time work about 3 years ago in St. Augustine, Florida, and now work part-time as a financial secretary for an historical church (Memorial Presbyterian Church) in downtown St. Augustine. Henry Flagler built the church in the late 1800’s and is buried there with his wife and daughter.

I was married early on and divorced about 1968. I was not able to have any children. I moved from New York to South Florida in 1969 and never looked back. I married again and lost my husband a few years later to cancer. Then about 15 years ago I married my present husband, Peter Briggs. I robbed the cradle - - he’s only 59! About 13 years ago Peter and I moved from South Florida to North Florida (St. Augustine), where, at the moment, we are ducking hurricanes and tropical storms. We live within 2 miles of the ocean in a beautiful home that my husband co-built. Peter is a Florida residential contractor with his own remodeling and repair business.

In the past three years, Peter &I have started to travel. First a cruise to Panama, then down the Amazon, and recently a scenic cruise to Alaska. Last month my twin sister and I went to Twinsburg, Ohio to the annual Twins Convention. Quite an event with over 2,000 sets of identical twins!!

Family:

Spouse: Peter Briggs

No children: Numerous nieces and nephews

Siblings: Twin sister, Gail Wright Greene, Jacksonville, Florida

Brother, Ellery Stephen Wright, Juneau, AK (works for the Dept. of Fish

Game)

Animals: Two cats (Geronimo & Pocahontas

Do you have a favorite OHS memory?

I was very active in sports and remember fondly cheering for “Teddy” Anderson at the football games (rain or shine). Many of us actually had fun walking to school every day. We would pick up someone new on every corner.

I’m sure at the reunion a lot more memories will come to the forefront.

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Gail Wright

Date: Sep. 14, 2008
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Gail Wright Greene

Address: 5978 Rocky Mount Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32258

Cell Phone: 904-501-3644

What did you do immediately following high school?

Education: New Rochelle School of Nursing – RN 1962

What have you been doing since?

I have been working as an RN, mostly in skilled nursing facilities, for 47 years. For the past year I’m working part-time teaching nursing at one of the local colleges.

I moved to South Florida in 1962; then to Iowa City, Iowa in 1983; and then back to Florida in 1993. Two marriages ended in divorce, but the good news is that I ended up with two beautiful children who are fifteen years apart in age.

My daughter, son-in-law, and grand-daughter live in Ocala, Florida, and my grand-daughter just started her second year at the University of Miami. My son became an attorney, recently married, and is practicing law in Phoenix

The third time is a charm!! I got married again two years ago and live in Jacksonville, Florida. We met at a ballroom dance club, and continue dancing every week. We have been on many cruises - - Bahamas, Western and Southern Caribbean, Panama Canal, Greek Islands, etc. My husband, David, and I just returned from his 50^th High School Reunion in Westerly, Rhode Island.

Family:

Spouse: David F. Greene

Children: Sharon E. Hutcheson and S. Gary Shullaw

Grandchildren: Erika E. Hutcheson

Siblings: Twin sister, Helen Wright Briggs, St. Augustine, Florida

Brother, Ellery Stephen Wright, Juneau, Alaska

Do you have a favorite OHS memory?

Dancing with full skirts and crinolines at OHS.

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Richard Tompkins

Date: Aug. 31, 2008
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Richard Tompkins

What did you do immediately following high school?

Owned Ossining Pet Shop, sold that and went into retail sales. Moved to Pennsylvania. Sold fireplaces at whole sale level. Retired in 2006.

What have you been doing since?

Built our retirement home in Moshannon Forest in Pa.on 17 acres of woods. Turned my hobby of woodworking in to a new business, Eagle Wood Products, artistry in wood, scroll sawing and making furniture the way it was made in the 1700 and 1800’s.

Family:

married Dorothy Ann Jansen (Dee) 47 years in October. Have 2 sons and 4 grandsons.

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Harriet Otto St.Amant

Date: Aug. 29, 2008
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Harriet Otto St.Amant

Address: 3121 Kleinert Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70806

Phone: (225) 344-0768

What did you do immediately following high school?
Immediately? Spent my summer working for Andy Sargis at the Rec Center and on the OHS playground. I'm surprised I remember the man's name. Then I went to Oswego State and graduated in '63.

What have you been doing since?
Actually, I'd be interested in seeing what sort of bio “Big Duck” could come up with for me, because he couldn't begin to top my real life. I could no more have guessed back in 1959 what life held in store for me, than I could have leaped tall buildings in a single bound. Phil and I were married two days before I graduated from Oswego, and two days after he graduated from West Point. He stayed on active duty with the Army for the allowable 30 years, retiring as a Colonel in 1993 - really, Jim!

In the interim, we moved around the world, doing our best to make it safe for Democracy. We started out at Ft. Bragg, NC, 82nd Airborne DivArty. Then he pulled the first of two tours in Vietnam and I went back to Ossining. Next we went to Ft. Sill, OK, Ft. Bliss, TX, and back to Sill before he returned to Vietnam. This time I came down here. Missed the '69 reunion because I was busy being a single parent to 2 little kids. When he got home this time, we went to Paris where Phil studied at the Alliance Francaise and the Sorbonne, and then to West Point where he taught French for three years. This was followed by a year at Ft. Leavenworth, followed by six more at Bragg, including a battalion command. Don't remember being contacted for the '79 reunion but made up for it by going to Phil's in Fayetteville (he was an Army brat). These six years were followed by one at the Naval War College in Newport, RI. Then Phil went to the Middle East (Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt) working with the multinational UN Truce Supervision Org. The kids and I were able to join him for a month after school got out in June of '84. In the meantime, though, we returned to our house in F'ville. The Middle East was followed by four years at the Pentagon (we lived in Vienna, VA), then two years in Greece for a NATO unit brigade command (why I missed the '89 reunion), and then three years in Anchorage, Alaska - truly God's country. We moved down here following his retirement and have been here ever since. I guess I was officially "missing" by this time, because I didn't hear about the '99 reunion either. I taught First Grade in Fayetteville, Kindergarten at Ft Bragg, and am now teaching Pre-K in a very small private school, which is why I'll be missing the '09 reunion - we're so small we have no subs. But if you plan a visit to this part of the country, I'd be glad to serve you a meal and/or give you a guided tour of our capital city and LSU. Geaux Tigers!

Family:
Our son Phil III was born at Ft Bragg in Sept, '64; daughter Renée was born at West Point in Dec, '65 (while Phil was in Vietnam); and daughter Lys was born in France in Nov, '70. Phil was killed in a car crash in '91 while a student at LSU-Shreveport and we were in Alaska. Renée is married to Karl, an Air Force retiree (20 years), and they have two girls, Kristina and Emily. Lys is married to Ronnie, a computer geek who served a stint in the Navy (where did we go wrong?). They have a son, Niko and a daughter, Rayne.

Do you have a favorite OHS memory?
I always enjoy remembering the pep rallies where we marched through Ossining, singing at the tops of our voices. And the football games on Saturday. Are our teams still the Indians, or has political correctness eliminated that, too? I also enjoyed singing with the Choraliers, especially at Graduation. On a personal note with an Ossining connection, one of our groomsmen, Pete Benson, was the last of Phil's classmates to be killed in Vietnam. He was Peggy Jupe's (OHS '60) first husband.

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Dick Weiermiller

Date: Aug. 28, 2008
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Richard Weiermiller (Dick)

Address: 9823 Burning Tree

Grand Blanc, Mi. 48439

Phone: 810 695-3356 Cell Phone: 810 265-3356

Email: dweiermiller@aol.com

What did you do immediately following high school?

Attended the University of Michigan for 4.5 yrs achieving a BS in Electrical Engineering. Played Freshman Baseball. Had to quit BB in order to get to classes! After graduation I continued to work on my masters in business while working for General Motors. I started as a first line supervisor at the Willow Run plant. I transferred to Lordstown, Ohio as a supervisor and progressed to Plant Engineer. I transferred to Fremont, Calif. as Director of Quality Control. In 1979, I attended Harvard in a program for management development. Leaving Harvard, I was promoted to Plant manager of the truck plant in Flint, Mi. I held several staff positions ending my career as Program manufacturing manager for new product programs for the Full sized truck platform. I was in charge of launching all new products in 7 assembly plants from Canada to Mexico. One of my more enjoyable assignments was as platform manager of the motor home and commercial chassis platform.

What have you been doing since?

I retired in 2003 and am now enjoying golf, water sports, skiing grandchildren and what ever seems like a good thing to do!

Family:

I married a Michigan girl I met in college. She raised our 3 boys while I worked! I coached soccer for all three for over 25 years. I also refereed youth and high school soccer games. My brother, Gary (He played football as a freshman and sophomore at Ossining) lives in Michigan and is a wood turner with a shop in Cheboygan, Mi. called the turnery studio. My sister, Paula is married and lives in Florida.

Do you have a favorite OHS memory?

Since I did not start my high school in Ossining until December of my junior year, I did not have much time to generate memorable events. However, coming from the Midwest where things are at least 2 years behind either coast, I was awed by the fights we were involved in at basketball games. I remember a great fight at Tappan Zee high the first game I suited up for. Another as a senior at Tarrytown was a bute as well! I remember coach Cousins getting a few blows in at Tappan Zee. Even the cheerleaders were going at it! That was memorable.

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Eileen Tucci

Date: Aug. 27, 2008
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From her starring role in the Senior Play "Dino"

Eileen Ann Tucci

Address:

1228 West Sycamore Street

Lakeland, Florida 33815-4372

Phone: 1-863-686-9735

What did you do immediately following high school?

Immediately following High School I very much wanted to go to Art School, but was being highly discouraged at home. My Mom and Dad were very much against my wanting to draw, and finally I capitulated, and went on to study at Squire Business School in Ossining. It's probably not even in existence any more. I worked for awhile as a nurse’s aide at Elkind Nursing Home, and then worked as a dental assistant for a local dentist. Mom and Dad moved to Florida, and I moved to New York City and worked for the Diners Club as a Comptometer Operator, ( a skill I learned at Squire Business School). Now I took advantage of my being alone in New York and attended The Art Students League. I loved it! It remains a fond memory. As a matter of fact I was at school when President Kennedy was shot...that made me very unhappy. In New York I worked at an answering service and as a receptionist for a Law firm....my Dad kept calling me begging me to come to Florida.

Finally I gave in, and came to Melbourne, Florida where Mom and Dad were. At that time I had a cat, Mittens, I couldn't bare to part with.....but Dad would keep saying,"Don't bring the "cat"! Where was I going to leave a cat in New York City....in the park? So he came along with me on the airplane....no, he didn't have the seat next to me....He was in a cat carrier with all the other animals. It was a turbulent ride as I remember, and I haven't wanted to go on a plane since. I do enjoy trains though. It wasn't long after I arrived that my Dad fell ill with cancer. Within 6 months Dad was gone, and it was a difficult time for my Mom and me. My brother Frank and my sister Lucille, and brother Charles all had families, and lived elsewhere. They were there for a short time, but then they were gone. Well it was time to learn how to drive....either you walked everywhere or you drove. So I learned how to drive....got a car....and then a job.....at J.M.Fields....similar to a Target. It is no longer in existence either. There I worked in the cash office, and also met my future husband, Duane. He was studying to become a Methodist Minister, and so during our 10 years of marriage he pastored 4 churches. I enjoyed my duties as a Preachers wife, even though I was raised a Catholic, my Dad taught us to be open minded to all faiths....so it wasn't a hard transition for me. During those years I was busy raising our 3 children, David, Rebekah, and John, and didn't realize Duane was already choosing a different lifestyle. He left the church and us. The years following were physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially trying, but we got through it without his help. I eventually went to school to be a florist and a cake decorator....which in a way....filled my artistic longing....not fully, but it sure helped. I retired from those trades earlier than I had anticipated because of an earlier injury and an auto accident.

I have since become diabled....gosh I don't like that word at all....but here I am. My eldest son David, lives in North Carolina, and works for Rite Aid. David is deaf, but he manages very well. He is a whiz at lip reading! My daughter Rebekah is currently living in St. Petersburg, Florida with husband Jim, and children Elaine, Emily and Samantha. Rebekah and Jim will be attending Law school soon. My youngest son John lives here in Lakeland with his 4 year old daughter Isabella, who by the way is here with me now, while Dad manages a local restaurant. I will try to send pictures at some point when Rebekah is in town to help me to do that.....not familiar enough with the computer to do it myself. Health wise I have had a few setbacks, like everyone else I am sure. I have had 2 different kinds of cancer, which only through the power of God and an excellent doctor, I survived. It has been 5 years now, and so far there have not been any recurrences. God bless me. I wish my Mom, my Dad and my sister Lucille had been as fortunate. Unfortunately, arthritis has taken quite a liking to me, and because of its residence, I will not be attending our 50th reunion, but I can assure you I will be there in spirit, if not in body. I send you and yours my love and best wishes, and I pray that the reunion is a big success.

What have you been doing since?

I have mostly been looking after my grandchildren while their parents work....and sometimes you could even find me reading a good book or drawing a picture of two. Gardening is also a favorite of mine, but I can't do too much of that these days.

Family:

My children are: David Elisha Webb, Rebekah Anne Tucci, (she changed her name to mine, and kept it), and John Timothy Webb

My grandchildren are: Elaine Anne Campbell, 18, Emily Lauren Campbell, 16, Samantha , 14, and Isabella Lucia Tucci, 4, (Her last name which in reality should be Webb...was given my last name, which made me very happy, and it sure makes her name sound especially pretty.

Do you have a favorite OHS memory?

Yes, I do.....Working on the yearbook.....I enjoyed that very much. Singing in the chorale group was also a favorite.

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Whatever Happened to Jim Worden?

Date: Jul. 14, 2008
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The long awaited BIOGRAPHY OF COLONEL JAMES C. WORDEN

One of the most complicated military men of all time, Colonel James C. Worden was born December 19, 1941 in Mt. Kisco, New York. He was known for his outstanding good looks and his intemperate manner, and is regarded as one of the most successful United States officers of all time. He continually strove to train his troops to the highest standard of excellence.

OK, I didn’t think anyone would buy that.
Let me start over: Even though my history to date is not as illustrious or accomplished as some others, I will still refrain from making up any unverifiable accomplishments to pad my resume.

I entered St. Lawrence Univ. in upstate New York in the fall of 1959, pledged Sigma Chi the following spring, skied every possible weekend as studies and money would allow at Whiteface, Stowe, Lake Placid, Mt. tremblant & Killington and somehow made it through to graduation day in June 1963 - and on that same day also got commissioned a 2nd Lt. in the Army and got married to a Pi Phi classmate. Both of us Economics majors. Due to a number of factors, I decided once again, not to try out for the NY Rangers at this time. Ditto for the NY Yankees. I did however spend 2 years at the Univ. of Michigan Business School and received an MBA in Marketing and Statistics.

Then there was 2 years active duty at Ft. Gordon, Georgia (where I spent 2 unbelievable days at the 1965 Masters and where Jack Niclaus sweated on me as he was leaving the 17th green) and Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas where I was Security Officer, Training Officer, Crypto Officer, Company Commander, Administrative Officer, etc., etc. - a typical Lieutenant. Kansas, however, was kept free from invasion the entire time!

The next 8 years were all a kind of blur with The Coca-Cola Co. in Boston, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston and finally with an industry association in Washington, D.C. in various marketing and advertising positions. Finally, after too much commuting, too many unproductive and endless meetings, too many airline miles, fancy hotels, 2 & 3 drink meals, ad agency jerks and expensive suits & shoes I quit it all, moved to Phoenix, AZ and bought a printing business in 1976. Even then after too much expansion, too many employees and government regulations and not enough free time - I cut it all back to a manageable size with a no equipment, no insurance requirements, and no employees or lease payments and worked the same amount of business from home.

Anecdotally, during the late ‘80’s and early ‘90’s, the company managed to do much of the printing for Senator John McCain’s office and Senate campaigns. However our one crowning achievment was in printing the official invitations for George H. W. Bush’s innaugaration party to which we managed to get my big black Lab invited. (He was unable to attend due to a previous barking engagement.)

So at this point I’m semi-active/semi-retired from printing and just do enough business to have something to do besides mowing the lawn and keep from dipping into any IRAs. Karen (wife) and I raise and show (Karen) miniature wire haired dachshunds. I still ski up at Flagstaff now and then and play racketball 2 or 3 times a week. And read a lot if there are not a lot of big words in the book.

As I sit here writing this bio, I keep coming up with flashbacks of High School and before. Things that occurred almost 60 years ago. Why do I remember these things yet couldn’t remember that “ITC” on my Geology final stood for Inter Tropical Convergence zone that I had studied just the night before?

Anyway, I also remember: buying $1.00 worth of gas from George Dando at a gas station on Croton Ave.; walking home from a late night hockey game with Rich Lovelace down some very cold and slippery streets; filling up the boy’s shower room 3 feet deep after a baseball game, Bobby Wood’s ‘57 baby blue Chevy; one way traffic in the halls at OHS, Chinos with a belt in the back; “engineer boots; slow songs at Bandstand; sack dresses; eighth grade dance club; nylons with a seam up the back; “Doc” Reilly getting stuck in the janitor’s trash can before a hockey game; noticing “Buffalo Bob” Smith at a baseball game with Pleasantville HS; mind numbing Latin classes; surrealistic music classes with John Crowley; someones stink bomb in 3rd year Latin class; listening for that siren that would signal a no school snow day; working for the Town of Ossining for $1.50/hour during the summer, the 4 pound placemat I made in Mrs. Walker’s 3rd grade class, the library book I swore I had returned only to find it 6 months later at the end of the school year, disecting a frog in 8th grade Biology class with Irene Wynant, and many more, too numerous and tedious to mention.

What did you do immediately following high school?

Cutting weeds for the Town of Ossining.

What have you been doing since?

My exploits, both real and imagined, have already been reported on. They should be amended to include the fact that I started playing golf again.

Family:

As previously reported: 2 marriages, 5 combined kids and 6 grandchildren – all still in Phoenix. Of the 5 kids, 2 are adopted – one from the USA and one Korean. Six grandchildren include one Chinese and one Floridian adoptions.

Do you have a favorite OHS memory?

Yes! Rich Lovelace walking off the field in the middle of a baseball game at Nelson Park. We all saw him walk out to center field and then keep walking out to his car and driving off! Jerry Tyson couldn’t understand it.

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Editor Note: Here is an essay that Jim forgot to hand in to Ms Cominsky as part of his last English assignment.

To: OHS Alumni
A possible replacement for the our present vehicles
by J. C. Worden

Ladies & Gentlemen, or to paraphrase an election speech by one John “Doc” Reilly:
“Hello A students, B students, C students and my friends...”

During my spare time, I have been working on a completely new concept for a truck/suv that will radically alter the way we drive in the future! With a price tag estimated at around $53,290, I can honestly say that it will be one of the finest performing vehicles anyone has ever seen. The following is a paraphrasing of the quintessential operating elements that make it such an improved machine. I know you will want to review this synopsis and then get one as soon as they become available in your area. Because of the deplorable level of gas mileage exhibited in larger vehicles around the country, I have been working on a drive system that would not only supply inverse reactive torque in fast-paced power requirements, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing the in-town sapience needed for better maneuvering capabilities. Such a car, invented not by the Japanese, the Germans or the French, but by yours truly, is what I am calling the Turbo-Encabulator. Basically, the technological breakthrough involved is that instead of torque forces being solely effectuated by the relative motion of cams and pistons, they are produced by the modial interaction of magnor-reluctance planes and capacitive directance substrates.

The new truck/suv has a semi-hard engine of prefarulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings in the front end are in a direct line with the pentametric web fan. The latter consists simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambificient lumar waneshaft that side fumbline of the input/output modalities is effectively prevented. The main winding is of the normal lotuc-o-delta type, placed in pantemetric semi-blolid slots in the stator; every third ductor being connected by a nonreversible tremie port to the differential girdle-spring on the "up" end of the grammeters.

In order to fabricate this re-engineered engine, forty one nanestically spaced grouting brushes are arranged to feed into the glastic bit stream a mixture of high S-value phenylhydrobenzamine ions and five percent reminative tetryloidhexamine as an anticoagulant. Both of these quasi-plastic liquids have specific paricosities given by P = 2.50 ± .0067, where n is the diathetical evolute of retrograde temperature phase disposition and C is Cholmodelay's annular grillage coefficient. Initially n was measured with the aid of a metapolar refractive pilfrometer (for a description of this ingenious instrument, see I. E. Rumpleverste in "Zeitachrift for Elactortechniststischs Donnerbritz", Vol. VII), but since that time nothing has been found to equal the transcendental hopper dadescope. (See "Proceedings of the Rochester Academy of Skatological Sciences", June, 1984)

Most ergonometric engineers obviously appreciate the difficulty of nubing together a regurtive purwell and a supramitive wennel sprocket. Indeed, this proved to be a stumbling block for all hypo-glastic engines until it was developed further in late 1986 by the young Icelandic scholar, Spandor Loctuss, of differential ablative fame. It was found that the use of anhydrous nangling spines enabled the kyrtonastic bolling shard to become fully encapsulated if sufficient torque could be applied to the tankerd. In addition,the early attempts to construct a sufficiently robust pharing system failed largely because of a lack of appreciation of the large philogesic stresses in the gremlin studs which were specially designed to hold the foffit bars to the snapshaft. When, however, it was discovered that wending could be prevented by the simple addition of cleft holes to the delivery sprockets, almost perfect ratchet and ductor roller alignment was secured.

The competitive edge, which we all try for, is maintained for the user as near as possible to the h.f. ranging peak by constantly fornaging the bitumogenous spanders. This is a distinct advance on the standard nivel-sheave since no flosall realignment is required after the swing detractors have remissed. We all know how trying this can be!

Undoubtedly, the Turbo-Encabulator has now reached a very high level of technical development and will begin to dominate all large off road vehicles in the future! They have successfully replaced the operative nofer trunions in previous (experimental) models with a more reliable phastic output system. In addition, whenever a burescent skor motion is required for faster shifting, it is accomplished automatically through the reciprocating dingle arm which reduces the annoying sinuscidal depleneration.

So far it is my opinion that this vehicle, the Turbo-Encabulator, will eventually supercede all on and off road vehicles as it is much easier to understand and use. On the other hand, I could be wrong. Let me know what you think.

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Margot Wins Cardinal Cushing Award

Date: Jun. 25, 2008
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Congratulations to Margot (Gensler) Connell recipient of the Richard Cardinal Cushing Award

St. Mary’s High School in Lynn MA honored Margot C. (Gensler) Connell of Swampscott with the 12th Richard Cardinal Cushing Award, presented annually to an individual who has vigorously championed Catholic education and whose personal and professional life mirrors the mission of St. Mary’s.

“The entire St. Mary’s family is proud and honored to recognize such a great friend and advocate for our beloved school,” said St. Mary’s pastor Rev. Monsignor Paul V. Garrity. “Margot Connell, a champion of Catholic education and many other notable charitable causes, successful business person and devoted family woman, personifies the St. Mary’s vision and spirit.”

A self-described wife, teacher, mother, grandmother and friend, Connell serves as chairman and member of the advisory board of Connell Limited Partnership. She is a member of the board of governors of the Tournament Players Club of Boston and a board member of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Born and raised in Ossining, a suburb of New York City, Connell earned her bachelor’s degree at Michigan State University and taught at the elementary level in both New York and California. She married William F. Connell, St. Mary’s class of ’55, in 1965.
Margot and her six children — Monica, Lisa, Courtenay, William, Terence and Timothy — have remained active members of the St. Mary’s family, with Monica sitting on the board of trustees.

Source: http://www.wickedlocal.com/swampscott/news/education/x540392204

And to think, it all began back in kindergarten ;-)

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The Fed Ex arrow

Date: Jun. 12, 2008
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I was back East last month (reunited with Wayne and Betty). My sister Nancy (married to John Delfino; lives in Greenwich, CT) drove myself and sister Sheila (OHS 1952; married to Chuck Rockefeller, Tarrytown) up to Rome to visit my 95 year-old Aunt Florence (my Mother's sister). During the trip I teased my sisters about finding the arrow on the FedEx trucks. It baffled them at first. Give it a try yourself on the truck sign below. Don't give up!

Doc Sheila Aunt Florence Nancy

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Youngest Classmate

Date: Mar. 13, 2008
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Who's the Youngest Classmate of OHS 1959?

Wayne started off the quest for the youngest with this e-mail message:

"I had an interesting conversation with Bill O'Connor this week. He brought up the subject of who is the youngest in our class--and suggested that it is Doc Reilly, born in March of 1942. Are there any challengers to this claim? Birth certificates may be required. I don't think we would have been having this same conversation in 1959!"

Mike Doorley quickly responded: "My birthday is 3/27/42" This could be a great honor for me… being the youngest member of our class to be served beer by Mr. Fitzgerald in the “old” Cozy Tavern in Briarcliff. I must have been at least 15 the first time. I’m sure George Dando and the “Wines” weren’t with me (ha ha). (Doc notes that Tom Kane must have been all of 14 when first served at the Cozy. Should have seen the expression on Fitzgerald's face when Tom finally celebrated his 18th birthday at the Cozy bar!)

Wayne came back with: "Here's a response from Mike Doorley. Can anyone beat this?"

Doc -- never known for his math skills -- answered:
"Sorry Mike, but my birthday is 3/25/42."

Wayne: I think Mike's 3/27/42 trumps your 3/25/42 as being the youngest. He's even produced a Baptismal Certificate as documentation!

Harriett Otto beat Mike by several months: "Since we're all old (and thankfully getting older), it really doesn't matter, but I was born on May 8, 1942. Harriet Otto St.Amant"

Mike responds: "Harriet you’re just a baby…"

And, then Eileen Tucci comes along with the youngest birthdate so far, that of May 21, 1942:

"Hi Everyone...It was wonderful to hear from you .... so there is a debate about the youngest heh? I thought you all knew that I was the youngest....guess it slipped your minds. My birthday is May 21, 1942. Can you imagine a woman willing to give up her age just to inform everyone she is the youngest of her class of 1959. Sure is fantastic seeing all these familiar names. I wonder if anyone out there in our class has an extra 1959 Yearbook....mine was lost many years ago during a move. I called Ossining High School a few years back, but of course they don't have any extras. If anyone does please let me know. You can contact me at Springtimeruth@msn.com. Thanks so much...again I loved hearing from you. Best wishes to all and Happy Easter."