Juliana Savino

Hi, Steve, Jon, Jennifer, Arthur, and anyone I missed,

Juliana with one "n" was always my full name, I just never used it back in the day. as they say, call me Julie, call me Juliana, just don't call me late for dinner. 

Steve, how fun was it to run into you at the Phoenix on Lee Road!  The people I remember fondly from days gone by, I still regard fondly.  It's a satisfaction as we get older to realize we got to know people who matter to us down the road.

Regards to all.

Jon Bittinger

Juliana (and Crew):

The Phoenix (Coffee Shop as I looked it up)...#1-Sounds like a great place to grab a coffee and hang-out a bit.

I Googled it...as it's Lee Road location struck a chord with me...and LO...it is just a few steps from a place I used to frequent back in 1981 - 1984...now "Brennan's Colony"...I remember it as just "The Colony". I lived with my brother in an apartment on Euclid Heights Blvd. after graduating KSU...you all obviously know of that area...quite vibrant...Coventry was always my favorite place to head for a meal...again, just steps from our Apt.

Anyway, we played in several softball leagues and after about every game we'd head to The Colony.

I can now picture myself heading to the Phoenix...

See you ...

Delores Brown (Gardner )

Just having fun daily reading your responses and reminisces to each other....   :-)   Time for another reunion so we can catch up in person....

Jon Bittinger

DJ:

A voyeur, eh..? Well, join the conversation... I missed the All-Class Reunion by 24 hours...long story but did have a great reunion with Mike Burley, his Mom and brother and sister the next night.

It is interesting how you end up gravitating to people...example is me and Burls. His Mom and mine worked together, his as a 2nd Grade Teacher and Mine as a School Nurse..in Brookpark. Mike and I met in 7th at the now defunct Roehm...unrelated to anything our Moms had in common to that point. Later my folks would occasionally sit-in at "Bridge Parties" with the Burleys and their friends/neighbors.

After HS, I attended Kent State...quit to teach tennis in 1974...then went back in '78 to graduate in '81 (I refer to this as my 10-year plan to get my 5-year degree)...anyway, I worked in the Architectural Metals business for years and would see Mr. and Mrs. Burley at related Trade Shows; we'd have a drink or dinner together and it was always a nice "touch-base" meeting. Another coincidence that I found out at our last Class Reunion is that Jim Mounts has had about the same career, in the exact reverse order as mine...to the point that he was leaving a southern GA location as I was moving in. Now that is...interesting...or maybe cosmically spooky..?

Mr. Burley passed about 10 years ago, so, seeing Mrs. Burley after many years was great.

You still talking to Linda (Rowan)..? Aren't you a part of a BIG Clan of BHS girls..?

Gotta run...later..?

Delores Brown (Gardner )

hmmmm, I've been called a lot of things, but voyeur is a new one...  I accept it!!  :-)

I moved to Florida in 1984, so lost touch with the locals and didn't make it back to any reunions (for one reason or another), but yes, I AM part of the Infamous BHS girls group..   if there is such a thing.   Because of FB and email, a group of us who have been friends since elementary school and were always a group going to the same parties, etc., have come back together and we go away for a Girls' weekend once a year.   We've become a strong support system for each other and are part of each other's lives on a daily basis now, even tho we are spread all over the country.

I was back to Berea a couple of years ago for a short visit and it felt good, but also strange - the statement that you can't go back home is sure true.  My house, my street, so many things, felt so different from the way I remembered them.  But it will always be a great place to be from..

Anyway, carry on with your conversations  - I'll quietly watch.. :-)

Dj the Voyeur....

Michael Burley

Uh-oh.   Bitt, are you claiming me as a friend?

James Mounts

Hey, Jon (Scott)

I caught some of the conversation lately and noticed the reference you made about the common denominator between us. I am still detailing my way through the world of architectural glass and aluminum exterior building facades. But we are not alone. I believe Leslie Erb's (Shaffer) husband, Gregory, is also a career guy in the aluminum and glazing industry with one of the major companies but I don't know which one. On the other hand, I could have used some of your tennis instruction more recently though.  Late in life I have found the game to my liking, just wish I would have tied it sooner.

Delores Brown (Gardner )

I checked with Leslie and this was her response..:

The company that Greg works for is  

Architectural Window Mfg. Corp.

359 Veterans Blvd.

Rutherford, NJ 07070

(201) 939-2200

My son, Bret works for Pella windows commercial division and Bryan works for a major contractor in NYC as project mgr.  so all are in the building industry one way or another.

Steven Rowsey

Not to change the subject, but my memory isn't what it used to be. I mean, we graduated in 1971, I remember 4 years of college, and before I knew it, a decade had passed. I don't remember much of the 80's...I hear they were great fun. But I digress...

There was a Student Night show. In my most controlling manner, I choreograph a dance routine to Everybody Ought To Have A Maid from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.

We were to dance in toga's with feather dusters--all at my direction. John Cecelich was one of the dancers, along with a thin black guy--also an athlete, unlike myself. How this group got paired together I'll never know.

Anybody know who the 3rd guy was? Joddie Lott?

We were the last act of the first half and a big hit--the biggest of the show up to then. The loudest applause of the evening.  And the reason was because John Cecelich traded his feather duster for a toilet plunger and kept hitting me in the ass with it throughout the entire number. (I had no idea what was going on until the curtain was down-some control. But I didn't care--he made us a hit.)

It was my only interaction with John during high school but I saw his great sense of humor.

After the show, I asked my dad how he liked our routine. He replied, "I saw it on Broadway with Zero Mostel...."

Yeah, but did he have a plunger?

Susan Long (Morrison )

Hi Steve-

I remember that act - hilarious!! Don't think Jodie Lott was the other guy. Maybe Greg Evans??

Sue Long Morrison

Arthur Rohlik

Not even a whisper of a memory of that act.

Jon Bittinger

Rick Andrisek

Steve:

Now that you've brought it up, I remember that Student Night as well. I think we were juniors at the time. For some inexplicable reason I can still recall John C. doing some TV weatherman bit with the line "This here is the temperature dial, this here is the humidity dial and this here is the Buddy Dial".

I only remember having a cameo role myself. Playing a drunk, at a climatic point in the show, I staggered across the stage and slurred out "This looks like a job for the Senior Men.", then proceeded to collapse on the stage with as loud a thud as I could.

Maybe I'm confusing senior and junior years. I don't know. I did, after all, play the part of a drunk.

Linda Wetzel

Steve, et al.

It was definitely Greg Evans.  Don't you all remember that you did that bit for Drama class with Miss Blakslee?  She loved it so much she dragged you all down to the auditorium to do it on stage for the Stagecraft class. Then you all decided to do it for Student Night. We were in stitches!  And there's a photo of the performance in the yearbook, I believe.

But what I remember most is Steve, a long-forgotten classmate, and my sister Mary doing "Super Thimble" in Drama class.  Steve opening his hatbox and stuffing fake muscles into his shirt while Mary shown a Christmas tree spinning light on him, and playing the Olympic theme from a tape recorder.

"And now it's off the thwart the Giant Hand and save the damsel in distress!"

LindaW

Steven Rowsey

I was shaving this morning and the name Greg Evans popped into my head--I knew exactly why. I've got to say, I'm with Arthur--I haven't a whisper of a memory of the events you all recall. I don't doubt it, just don't remember. Did we have a President who used to grow peanuts? I think I used to drink with his brother.....

Arthur Rohlik

Shall we resume the banter, the witty repartee? Marcia and I harvested two week's worth of paid vacation time out of our respective employers and we spent eight days of that in a cabin on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It rained every day and prepared for it, we went down to the beach every day and walked, and we took some forest trails every day, photographed many different mushrooms, made popcorn, read for many hours and in short: Enjoyed those days away from work. Of course there were many other lovely things, cocktails, naps, playing music...

Twas wonderful. What is a leisure experience for you all?

Doc

John Farner

Doc,

Sadly, we don't have any bluffs in Florida, but the good news is that we won't be having much rain until March or so, meaning it's time to say, "Screw it, let's ride!"

I'll try to figure out how to post a picture.  

John

Jon Bittinger

Art: We have a cabin on a TN Lake...when it rains, it pours (my salty dog reference)...the mornings are really the most dramatic though...snapped this PIC a month ago around 6:40 AM, just as a heavy fog started burning skyward... It was like the surface was steaming... Enjoy.

Kathleen Goodwin

Hello from another voyeur.  Had to respond when I was the phrase 'witty repartee'.  Haven't heard that in a long time but it certainly applies to your conversations.  I have enjoyed your conversations.  Always wondered what became of Doc and John Farner.  Good to see all of you doing so well.  It is too bad that not many classmates use this forum.  There are a bunch of us on facebook.

Tah Tah for now.

Kathy

Arthur Rohlik

Scott, great photo. I am guessing that you have this enlarged and printed and framed and on display.

When you are out here we'll take you to our favorite places and someday perhaps Marcia and I will be in your neck of the woods. We'll engage in face to face witty repartee and maybe tell a few tall tales, too. Doc

John Farner

Hi, Kathy,

Your profile says "Retired."  I am so envious.  We're looking at 2017 or 18, but work is still fun most of the time, and we're already in Florida riding around with one of the blinkers on in our spare time, so don't feel too sorry for me.

You'd think that somebody who has been working in IT for 37 years would be more fluent with social media, but Facebook only confuses me.

Fall in Ohio is beautiful.  We really miss it.  A hayride at Seidell's would be great!

John

Arthur Rohlik

Oh, John, do not fret over facebook and it's confusion. Operating in that environment is not a technical issue at all, it is commercial. facebook is all about the harvesting of information about it's users (  or members, or associates or whatever freekin' noun they are using this version ) for sale to third parties. They don't care a whit about your real name, just where you live and what you buy and what you "like" and you become a digitized entity with your meta-data classified and sold to third party merchants. They 'need' to aim advertising to likely consumers and facebook is one of the tools created to harvest the information. 

                                                                                                                                                                              Another example: Have you heard of ADP, the payroll service? They too reap income by selling harvested meta-data supplied by their customers. Small to large, companies contract with ADP to handle their payroll tasks. Companies -let's make one up: Doc Froon's Magic Worm Farm- supply names and addresses and bank account numbers of their employees.  ADP does the direct deposit payrolls, and keeps track of earned Paid-Time-Off (PTO) and ADP know when PTO is used and how much of it etc. So when my employee Charles Magicworm gets his direct deposit, ADP knows how much money is going into what zipcode and that is useful data, saleable to many advertisers. ADP is often the supplier of information for quarterly economic information. News agencies often consult ADP for economic meta-data. For example: "How does this economic indicator from the Department Of Labor affect employment figures, ADP?" ADP can report how many new employees are being paid through ADP; ADP knows how many employees are no longer being paid through ADP clients. ADP is so massive that the information they harvest is valuable and therefore SALEABLE. It IS all about $$$$. 

Anyway, be mindful of this stuff and feel GOOD about leaving facebook to others.

Jon Bittinger

Seidell's...I think they had a cable over a creek...that you had to negotiate to get across to the other side... via either hanging upside down, legs over the cable, sort of inching along or the tougher and quicker 'hand-over-hand' method...

Anyway, I think it was there...but on a coed hayride (might have been a CYO or YMCA sponsored gig) I remember calculating my release from the cable about 5 feet short of shore...thinking I could swing to the bank...I dropped into the cold 18 or so inches of water...getting a dreaded "SOAKER"... once back in the wagon, I received some sympathy from a few girls (I think Becky Bremkamp was my date for this thing)...of course, their's was a nice gesture but it actually added to my embarrassment...ah, the teen years...

The had a Hay Bale Maze too didn't they..? Wriggling through that thing was one of the few times I felt claustrophobic..!!!

I may be mixing some of my "hayride memories" from the early 70's...a somewhat blurry period for me...as I guess I averaged about 3 hours sleep per night...

John Farner

Becky Bowman

Hello everyone!  I too have been a voyeur, now that the others are coming out, I thought I'd put in my 2 cents worth.  I just got home last week from a week in Berea.  It was the first time I've spent much time on a return trip since I moved to Orlando in 1981!  And also the first time I've returned to the Northeast when the fall leaves were changing.  I sure took that for granted when I lived there!  Would love to become a 'snowbird' and be able to return when the Florida weather gets too hot.  I am still not ruling that out....

I was impressed by many of the improvements not only to Berea, but to the Cleveland area in general. The Metroparks seem to have made many vast improvements (although I missed the park entrance by the fire station where we used to take our sleds when we were little).   My trip downtown to check out the new sports facilities (well I didn't even have to leave Berea to start THAT trip!) and the R&RHOF, Public and Playhouse Square, and the former locations of many of my old haunts, did not disappoint!  I found the spot where I used to meet my dad for breakfast or lunch occasionally (on W 6th), and it was replaced by some Lofts for Sale, some nice eateries, and of course is now more of a hub than a run down part of the warehouse district.  And the Steelyard Commons!  What a great place to stick the mega discount department srores.  Wish we had some old steelyards in Orlando (or old anything for that matter) to put them in rather than our back yards. 

But the thing that I loved the most was the thing I loved (and also took for granted) when I lived there.  The friendliness and charm of the local people.  I kept looking at people thinking they looked familiar, but after all these years....who knows?!  If I ran into anyone and did not recognize you, I must aplogize!  And those of you who I saw, it was a wonderful week! 

I was told that each July there is a huge Berea Reunion in the Polish Village.  If anyone discovers the dates of this event, post them here as soon as you know, it would be a great way for some of us to come back again and see more old friends!!! Or look for a summer home.....

Take care one and all,

Becky Bowman