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02/11/09 03:42 PM	#483
Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer) Mitch You are speaking from experience.

02/11/09 03:51 PM	#484
Louis Berman my mom likes the dark she has kept me there for years

02/11/09 08:31 PM

#485

Shelley Hornik (Lloyd)

OK...here's Jan Basilone's Coconut bar recipe (if she happens to see this..I'm reading that recipe off of the SAME index cards she gave me...typed...in college).

First make the cake

Butter Cream Sponge Cake

2 cups sifted cake flour
2 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup milk scalded
1 stick butter

Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt four times. Beat eggs, add sugar gradually until thick and light about 10 minutes. Add vanilla. Fold in dry ingredients (the sifted ones)a small amount at a time. Dissolve butter in hot milk and mix in quickly until batter is smooth. Batter will be thin. Pour int a lined pan (I think I used a jelly roll pan but it might have been 13x9x2)...Bake at 350 25-30 minutes.

Cool and cut into "bar" slices.

Frosting for Coconut Bars

Make the Frosting the DAY AHEAD...and refrigerate.

1/2 cup cocoa
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups boiling water
1 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt

Mix cocoa, sugar and salt. Add to boiling water and simmer for 20 minutes. Add vanilla. Cool. I then pour it into a large flat pan. Dip the cake slices into the frosting making sure all sides are covered. Then roll in grated coconut.

I haven't made these in YEARS but they were terrific (but a bit time consuming).

02/11/09 11:54 PM

#486

Sheryl Weiss (Levine)

Thanks for the recipie, Shelley. I will try making those for the next potluck we have at work. No one bakes anymore, and my co-workers will devour anything homemade!

02/12/09 09:41 AM

#487

Steven A. Fox

Guilt.... Jews invented it
Catholics perfected it…..
:)

02/12/09 10:09 PM

#488

Anne Gutow (Chapman)

To quote Bill, "Also, did anyone besides me and a few of my reprobate friends go to" ...
... a coffee house, or coffee shop, or named something like that on Euclid, on the north side of the street over by where Free Clinic is now? I think it was run by a black minister named Cleo and had poetry readings.

Steve,
It's hard to say whether it's "perfected" to spread the guilt and confessions over all 52 weeks of the year, or to hit us hard and keep it concentrated all in one day. =)

Shelley,
Great recipe! Thanks!!

Louie,
Have you sent that snow to Chuck yet?

02/13/09 07:47 AM	#489
Louis Berman anne i did send chuck some snow and i had some left over and send to a care package. we 63 on wednesday and the rest of the snow melted and now i have more room for more snow

02/13/09 10:40 AM

#490

Val Iberall (O'Connor)

That was beautiful Mitchell. I hope you and your family and especially Carter have a wonderful Val and Tiny's Day!

02/13/09 11:12 AM	#491
Sue Kozack (Katz) Mitchell That was heart warming about your son Carter. I totally understand as our older daughter was born with microcephally and was with us until she was a month shy of her tenth birthday. Sara was such a joy to us and taught my husband and daughter about the gifts of life and to not be blindsighted by special needs. Kudos to you and your family.

02/13/09 01:38 PM

#492

Anne Gutow (Chapman)

Mitch and Sue,

Having spent most of the past 14 years doing home health peds nursing and private duty peds, I've gotten to know many of these children and their families. They really are beautiful. I've had some intense experiences, wonderful laughs, and shared joys with them. Kudos to you all.

Anne

02/13/09 06:38 PM

#493

Joel Newman

Mitchell.....Carter (the Boy-check) is the shining star for all of our Hearts !! What a love..Its bersshirt meaning meant to be! God bless your family!! Please excuse my spelling - life is a loving learning experience at any age.

LOVE AND PRAYERS
NEWMAN FAMILY

02/13/09 06:44 PM	#494
Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer) Mitch Joel couldn't have said that any better. We all feel the same about Carter.....send him our love and kisses.

02/13/09 11:11 PM

#495

Kenny Cohen

mitch may god bless your family!Carter is special and so are you and your wife.best wishes kenny

02/13/09 11:31 PM

#496

Stephen Marshall

Mitch -- isn't it amazing how stupid and unfeeling "friends" can be when they mean well? I was so taken with Carter when I saw him in your profile.

I was blessed for 17 years with my angel Cassie until she died unexpectedly three years ago. Her diagnosis of cerebral palsy and limited vision never stopped her from living life to the fullest and speeding through school in her power wheelchair. Though she never spoke, her one word "yeah!" expressed everything from "gesundheit" to "bye-bye for now."

I miss her every second of my life, and so do my two surviving daughters. God never "gave" us these special-needs to punish us -- He blessed us with their presence, for they teach us what truly is important in life.

Give Carter a big hug and kiss from me...

02/14/09 09:25 AM	#497
Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer) Steve I am very happy that you read Mitchs' note, because I was thinking of your Cassie, when I read it and knew that you could share. Bonnie

02/14/09 09:36 AM

#498

Donna Kaufman (Walter)

Hello everyone - it is about 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Valentine's Day - I thought I would check the web site for a few minutes - never expecting to be crying while I was reading it. It is all beautiful.

Everyone's messages and comments are extremely heartwarming. We all have our special blessings in life, some, our children, some our parents (both of mine and alive and healthy at age 83).

My love to everyone on this day - stay well.

02/14/09 10:29 AM

#499

Kenny Cohen

Donna please give my regards to your parents! i have great memories of your parents and my grandparents with your grandparents! it was like a flashback in time to some wonderful memoties. also to Steve Marshall--your story is heartwarming and sad,however,you are strong person and an ispiration to me!!! Steve again best regards and looking forward to seeing again kenny

02/14/09 11:02 AM

#500

Scott Poffenberger (Poffenberger)

Mitch, Sue & Steve...

Having been "in the biz" for a lot of years, I have come to believe that an exceptional child is a God given gift...an opportunity to show either the best or the worst in all of us.

You folks have obviously embraced the best in yourselves... God bless you all.

02/14/09 11:42 AM

#501

Sandy Beksa (White)

God Bless all of you and Happy Valentines Day

02/14/09 04:49 PM	#502
Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer) Sandy To add to the list of bars.........The Kings Pub and the NoName at Cedar Center. Faragher's on Taylor. Library, the Ground Floor.......

02/14/09 09:55 PM

#503

Lesley Corwin (Shafran)

Hello Everyone-
I am so amazed, proud and impressed with where everyone has gone and what has been accomplished-it's mind boggling what WE have done and now come back around to 'hook-up' and reconnect again. I marvel at where we ended up and moreover what you all have endured, accomplished and are willing to share. It is so heartwarming to know we all still have each other, even if a lot of us didn't really know each other well.
I am so grateful to be part of this wonderful phenomenon. Lesley

02/15/09 03:45 PM

#504

Shelley Hornik (Lloyd)

You know....we were quite a diverse crowd in high school...all 1000 or so of us. AND it's nice to see that we have remained so. I'm enjoying hearing about the families of all of you...even those of you who I didn't really know in high school. I, too, am looking forward to putting current faces to the names of all of you. And please...remember to bring pics of your families with you in October.

Thanks to Val for the new section "Pictures-Then and Now". She (of course I'm assuming it's Val) did a great job of culling the BEST pictures we've posted of ourselves from the website, and is consolidating them in this area.

I'm digging around for some old Choir pictures...things from tours and concerts. I know I have some...somewhere.

02/15/09 04:14 PM

#505

Joel Newman

VAL...WOW.. thank you for all the pictures ..now I can show my kids that I actauly attended Elementry school and Jr. high!! and had a full head of hair !! They already no about high school (ah o)!! Also thanks for the great memories of the other class mates that i can connect a face too. Also thanks to Jim and Sue and Bonnie and Sandy@Paul (my Man) and Kenny and Louis and Bert and Steven and Mitch and Cindy And Shelly and Stephan And Norman and David and Marc and Irving and Bruce And Larry And Pat and Jim and Bill and Cherll@Mike( My main Man ) Joseph AND Jackie and Steve and Gerald and Scott and Lenny and Mike and leslie ...And And... .Its all good .no..no.. Its All ! ! !GREAT !!!!

Thanks For the Memories Joel

PS.. David DeSatnick where are you?

02/15/09 04:58 PM	#506
Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer) Joel You are very welcome........looking forward to seeing you at the reunion! Bonnie

02/15/09 06:26 PM

#507

Bill Kent

For those interested in Cleveland bands, venues, record labels, radio stations, etc. from our time visit www.buckeyebeat.com

This is an excerpt from an interview with one of the founders of December's Children (who I saw at Fat Molly's) about some of the clubs they played:

"As for clubs, we played at the Plato, The Agora,(both the one on Cornell and the one downtown) The Ramp, Socrates Cave, Otto's Grotto, Chesterland Hullabaloo, Mentor Hullabaloo, Cyrus Erie West, Admiral Bimbos, Pickle Bills in the Flats, The Inn Spot in Mayfield Hts., Nagles (a very popular neighborhood bar in Cleveland Hts.) 8 Miles High (the old Heidleburg Lounge on W. 25th Street), The Akron Agora..."

I remember going to Nagles, but can't remember the location. Anyone?

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