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Welcome to the Lynbrook High School Class Of 1963 web site. This was been created as a way to remain in touch and find classmates enabling us to build our 50th Reunion which was held on Saturday, May 18, 2013, at the Lynbrook Elks Lodge. Please help us find other classmates and visit periodically for updates. John Tedaldi will be putting togehter our next reunion in the spring of 2018 with help from Mike Galgano (and anyone else who volunteers).
Below are two poems: one Wally wrote on the plane returning to Seattle and the other is the poem Jerry wrote for the Reunion.
Welcome.
Jerry Tuckman and Wally Parsons
Reunion
I wanted to kiss the girls
and dance.
It was nostalgia
not lust.
Room buzzing with stories
Bees with no sting
just honey-
coated versions
of past exploits.
Beyond the words
spoken and not,
though,
was the hum.
Like the background radiation
from the big bang.
Evidence of past energy
and feelings
filled the room…
and me.
WP 5/20/13
LHS ’63 50th Reunion Poem
What we say together is in “italics”
Wally:
Callow youth
Few knew the truth
With Dylan and Beatles
Soon to come.
Lost Bobby & Martin
& JFK
Yet made our way
Though somewhat numb
We have aged
And have lost classmates
While St. Helens spewed
Her ash
Celebrated a centennial
As we all made and lost
Cash
Jerry:
The Supreme Court
Got a black justice
And a woman followed soon
Woodstock happened to the north
And Neil Armstrong
took the moon
But sad to say
AIDs had its day
And the Challenger
lost in the sky
As we cheered the fall
Of the Berlin Wall
And we all managed to get by
Together:
We started off together
Often clique-y, not all friends
Now we live in many cities
See the world through our own lens
As we gather back in Lynbrook
Greeting folks we haven’t seen
Let’s appreciate the moments
And the places where we’ve been.
Bob:
Its now 50 years later
and Zanettis is long gone
Early birds now at 5:30
we at 10 begin to yawn,
Stagger Lee and Bye Bye Love
Seem far into the Past
We danced to “Shout”, Now some are stout
But certain mem’ries last
Steiger was our math guy,
hands covered with chalk
Syllogisms and geometry,
if you hoped to walk his walk
Arnie asked Dagnija out,
then found his wedding bell(e)
Everyone would drive, survive,
and love our Mister Mel.
Gail:
Florin was the President
Now he finds movies big
Sue Campbell secretary
Has a belly dancing gig
The treasury’s Tedaldi’s thing
Now he sits by a Florida pool
And Jerry’s old friend, Kenny F,
Did class scheduling for a NY school.
Howie Litvack gave us shoes
Ronnie Littenberg is a “shrink”
Mike Galgano did collections
Parsons made sure no ship would sink
Gelber became a dentist
Lewis, Weisburst each a doc
Sue G would have been your favorite nurse
Klasson ran concerts: hard rock
Ronnie
We soon spread all over –
to Florida, West Coast
Jobs and kids and military
occupied the most
Left behind old Breakwell’s songs,
Hodnett and Wagner’s plays
Powell’s crazy physics
and games that Jaeger plays
Together:
We started off together
Often clique-y, not all friends
Now we live in many cities
See the world through our own lens
As we gather back in Lynbrook
Our reunion quickly nears
Let’s appreciate the moments
Valuing past and future years
Ronnie:
So Schiller is a music prof,
Rob Lebow to Microsoft
Kampe to Big Tobacco,
Shaw to his Tribeca loft
Mady Stone wrote songs, Gail Greenstein sang
Many others taught or teach,
Lawyer, Longshoreman, Ranger, Techie
All things within our reach
Jerry:
We know we have lost classmates
As we moved along our way
Some to illness, some to accident
Over years or in a day
Now we hold them in our hearts
As we catch up, drink and dance
Thinking how they played their parts,
Knowing what we owe to chance
Where does all this leave us?
Rich or Poor,
Gay or Straight.
It leaves us reminiscing
50 years after the date
That we put LHS behind us
“rear-view mirror” if you will
But there are some things we’ll always share:
We are classmates still.
Together:
So tonight we come together
As old classmates and old friends
We view our past and then, at last
See where each path now bends
As we gather back in Lynbrook
We joyfully greet our peers
Let’s appreciate the moments
Valuing past and future years.
Jerry 5/17/13
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