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This coming Thursday will mark two months since we gathered to celebrate our 50th H.S. Reunion.  I don’t know about any of you — but for us — we are still in awe of that night and how it all came together.

It was a great success due to how many of you were in attendance, some with spouses and those that married their high school sweethearts.

When we first started this project, we hoped to get at least 50 in attendance to meet the requirement of the venue.  We far exceeded our goal and the final count was eighty-two.

With that said, we were able to do a buffet dinner, dessert, prizes, decorations, party favors and offer an open bar of beer and wine.  

Money still remained after all the bills were paid.  The wait staff each got an $80 tip. A  donation was made to the F.P.M. Marching Band and to an Eagle Scout that contacted us through the school for his project (see copy of his email below).  Each of these were made in the amount of $170.  The reason for the delay in brining you up to speed is that school board needed to approve our donation prior to sending in the money.

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving filled with lots of family, friends and Blessings.

With warmest regards,

Eileen May Brady
and
Christine Oliva Morby

Dear Mrs. Brady,

My name is David Talero, I am a Life Scout from Troop 298, and I am planning an Eagle Scout project at Floral Park Memorial High School. The project will consist of the construction of a brick patio behind the school to offer a place for spectators to sit at tables and have refreshments during school games. It would be appreciated if your Alumni Association of 1968 would consider making a donation or monetary contribution to the project. The project is scheduled for this fall and will be brought out by scouts, students, and staff alike. If you have any more questions or are interested you can call me at xxx-xxx-xxxx or e-mail me at xxxx@xxx.com. Thank you for your time and have a nice day.

Yours in Scouting,
David Talero
Life Scout
Troop 298

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Hello Christine and Eileen,

I am (for whatever reason) unable to "reply all" and hope you can share this.

I have been in the non-profit world on and off my entire adult life.  I co-founded a non-profit and have worked with those in need.  $170. does not sound like a lot, but it means so much to each person or group who is at the receiving end.  Thank you for choosing these deserving recipients, for being generous with the wait staff, for organizing, for putting your hearts and souls into our reunion and especially thank you for a lovely evening.

Wishing all of my former classmates the most wonderful of holidays, safe travels, an adventurous 2019 and many, many blessings,

Mary Titone Millican

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I’d like to comment on the recent reunion tour of FPM school. For the most part it still looked the same except for the new and beautiful addition on the front. As I walked around with my wife and kids Nelysa, Kyle and Katrina I started to think about how different I am now as a person than I was back in those days and in fact I’ve probably had a few different personalities over the past 50 years partly defined by different jobs, people I’ve associated with and spouses. Gone are the insecurities that come with our teenage years and the anxiety associated with trying to figure out the direction our lives will go. Yeah, now this is really the best me I’ve been in all those years-great wife, job and kids. My little girl who just entered 1st grade this year made an interesting comment- she asked me why there are all old people at my school and she said that all the people were young at her school. Well, I told her daddy went to school here but it was a long time ago and we were all young then too. She then said but daddy you’re not old! Hmm. Yes it’s true we are all kind of old now and our lives have changed and so too our appearances. In fact I hardly recognized most of you but the school looked the same and as we drove around the village of FP, I noticed that it too was pretty much the same. Too bad we can’t be the same too, if just for reunion day.

Neil Petersen

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Our FPM Class of 1968 50th reunion is set for Sept 29, 2018.

Currently our means of communications revolve around:

{Primary Source)
Floral Park Memorial High School Class of 1968
https://www.classcreator.com/Floral-Park-NY-Floral-Park-Memorial-1968/

Facebook (Class of FPM68)

Classmates web site
http://www.classmates.com/places/school/Floral-Park-Memorial-High-School/1301?startYear=1964&endYear=1968

Please take a moment to check each of these resources for information. We want to use either Classmates of the Class of 68 for photos, bios and other information about our class