Todd Stark

Just wondering if anyone has kept up with any of the teachers from our NEHS class.  How many of them are still around? 

Mindy Etkins

Todd

I live down the shore now , so I wouldn't know.  But I'd like to know if Mr Bernstein is still there.  Does  anybody know where Sue Silver or Linda Cohen are?  Please let me know!!!!!  They were my best friends in high school & I have been trying to find them for years  Please let me know!!!    

Thanks Mindi

you can e-mail me at mietkins@hotmail.com

Brenda Jorett (Breskin)

Ed Richardson is still teaching @ Northeast. He'll probably retire in another year or so. I am quite good friends with Ed & his wife, Rona.

Sue Langendorf (Zambino)

 Mindy - Sue Silver is on facebook. You can find her there.

Roxanne Bolden (Lubisky)

Kevin Berju

Suzin Kline who taught Spanish is now a realtor with Prudential Fax and Roach in Centery City. I see her quite often and she is doing great.

James Dunlap

I discovered this website way too late. Which is a real shame.  Would have loved to have attended the most recent reunion.  Hope all my former classmates are doing well.  All The Best ..                Jim Dunlap

Curt Santner

Does anyone remember a person named Jules Lynch. I believe he lived on Fanshawe Street, or Magee Ave, 1100 block back in the lats 70's

Stuart Lakernick

Hey Curt, I remember him. We used to hang out at Cottman Lanes. He was a great bowler. Lost touch after graduation. 

Stu

Vince Cesario

I too was aquainted with Jules Lynch in the late 70s and early 80s through Cottman Lanes. I don't know what happened to him either though. He was a very good bowler. He didn't talk much. Red hair. Glasses (wire frame I think). Stocky. I think he was a bit older than me. He had a hunched over style of bowling. I'd see him on Saturdays (& Sundays too I think) at the alley when we'd bowl sweeps there for the better part of the afternoon. He bowled scratch games for money. His main competitor for a time was my good friend Jim Quinn. 

Vince Cesario

P.S.: We called him "Munch".

Curt Santner

I had forgotten about Jules' nickname, "Munch", thanks, made me laugh! I bowled with him a few times but I was a terrible bowler. Jules was very good! I wonder why he passed away so young? I tried googling for an obituary but nothing came up. Jules used to annoy the heck out of the Cukers, they owned the soda fountain/candy store at Magee and Summerdale.

Scott Goodman

I lived on the second floor in the 800 block of Parlin Street in the mid to late 80's and Jules and Mitchell Pravitz (spelling?) were my downstairs neighbor's. Really nice guys!

Vince Cesario

Curt: I am very sorry to know that Jules passed... especially at a young age. Thank you telling me though. I will tell my good friend, Jim Quinn about his passing. Jim would want to know as he spent much more time with Jules than I did and was closer to him than I.  

Scott: Thanks for info on Jules whereabouts in mid to late 80's. P.S.: Mitch Pravitz was another bowler from Cottman Lanes. He had long hair parted in the middle. He seemed more like a loose cannon... somewhat intimidating to me... if I remember correctly... but I never had a problem with him.

Stuart Lakernick

Hey Vince, I used to hang out with Jim Quinn "Back in the day".  Lost touch after graduation, a zillion years ago!   Give him my regards as well.  Sorry to hear that Jules passed away.  He was a good guy! 

Here is my email address you can give him:

bakfixer@gmail.com

Vince Cesario

Stuart,

Hey, good morning. I passed your regards along with your e-mail address to Jim. FYI: Jim lives in Massechusetts now. P.S.: I know you were probably a familiar face to me back in the day at the Cottman Lanes. Hope to see you at the 50 year renunion.

Stuart Lakernick

I'll try to be there...  Can't believe we are going on 50 years..

Stu

Curt Santner

Where the heck did fifty years go? Now, we are all on social security, medicare and either retired or semi retired. I still work part time driving a bus for the local senior center. 

There are so many classmates who have not joined this group and I wonder if they are still above ground and doing ok. 

I have not made it back for any of the reunions but did travel back to Philadelphia about 4-5 years ago. My first stop was Steve's Prince of Steaks on Bustleton avenue.  Just as good as I remembered! It was a little sad seeing how the Castor Gardens neighborhood had changed over the years.   

Wishing everyone in the class of 76 continued good health!

Curt Santner

Back in high school I belonged to one of the worst bands that ever picked up instruments. We would "practice" regularly at the home of LEE LEITNER who played the electric piano. He was actually pretty good. I attempted to play guitar but I was awful, I had no natural talent or ability for music. TODD SHUSTER also played guitar and he was quite a bit better than me. We also had a bass player, but I can't remember his name. A fellow student with the first name of Morrie was on drums. We had a total of two gigs. The first one was at a local bar where we took to the stage and started in on our first song. We were booed off the stage! Even people half in the bag thought we were terrible!  I admit, we were. Our "practice" sessions always devolved into a free for all and we never really learned one song all the way to the end. Our second gig was at the old Shriners hospital for children on the Boulevard. This was an outdoor venue.  The kids loved us but the parents retreated as far away from the noise as possible, glaring at us from the back rows. Another embarrasing disappointment. After that we all had the good sense to abandon a career in music as it was just not in the cards for us. I remember TODD SHUSTER really liking the music of David Bowie and Queen so our playlist was mostly those two artists.

When we arrived at LEE LEITNER'S home for a band practice, his parents had the good sense to leave the house for a few hours. They knew we were awful, but like most parents,they did not want to demoralize us kids! They told us we sounded "fine" which was code for "you guys really suck"!