Jonathan Dreazen

Best wishes for a wonderful birthday and may the New Year bring ongoing good health!

Posted on: Mar 25, 2023 at 4:33 AM

It took me a while to image Roger but then it all came back to me.  A red haired goalie for one of Bill Powley's excellent soccer teams.  And now I image the classic match up against Hackensack in our senior year.  One goal only by Hackensack.  Heaven has yet another 6T9 classmate.  We will all meet him there in time.  Let us live each day the best we can in the memory of those who go before us.   Jon Dreazen

Hello after many years having probably crossed paths in honor English with Miss Shelby and her in the edges writing with her mechanics pen and well as French. I attended med school at the U of R just after you left the Eastman School. Eastman has recently had a lovely expansion of their facilities. My good friend from medical school took organ lessons during his medical school years with the head of the organ department. I would often accompany him (as a spectator) while he practiced. I cannot read or play music but I revere organ music as well as the complexity of a true tracker organ. Best wishes and hope to see you at our 50th reunion if possible. JRD

I, as with all others who have shared, will miss Jeff and remember him fondly.  He was my first friend when we moved to Teaneck in 1956 as we were only 2 blocks from each othere.  I remember sitting on the stoop of the back door of the house pretending that we were pilot and copilot of the Starship Enterprise as we were both "Trekies".  I remember when Jeff was with me at the Whittier School field, saw a rabbit and let go with a fastball that hit the poor thing in the head and did it in!  He did have a wicked fastball back then.  Unfortuantely, as the years passed, I allowed our relationship to become minimal as I did with so many others.  Now, I must mourn the loss of a friend from my past with whom I did not keep in contact and therefore missed being part of the life of the wonderful man and doctor he became.  A lesson learned I hope.  May he rest in peace and may Dianne be embraced by the love of those around her.  Jon Dreazen

Posted on: Oct 17, 2017 at 8:48 AM

Greeting from Reading, PA. My wife is a breast cancer survivor of 15 years. She found the offending lump herself so I am an advocate of breast self exam speaking both as a husband and a physician. I always tell those with cancer to never look at statistics--each of us is unique and all statistics are wrong since they reflect treatments that were used 5-10 years ago. Best wishes and blessings for your ongoing treatments and recovery. JRD

Happy birthday, Jon. Hope all is well with you and yours.

Jane and classmates--As I check the wonderful website that Andy so masterfully put up, I find it sobering to note the increasing number of little flowers by the names of our departed classmates.  I see the yearbook picture and my mind flashes back to my memory of them when we were all young back in high school.  My mother, may she rest in peace, used to say "youth is wasted on the young".  I have come to understand the meaning of that expression more and more as I age and as I note the passing of those I remember.  Sic transit gloria.  My father used to say, "if you ain't got your health, you ain't got nothing" (he really could speak English correctly!!).  I would respectfully disagree and say that happiness, peace and contentmen come first without which a long and healthy life has little value.  May it be so for all of us.  Blessed be--Jon Dreazen