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| updated Sept. 26, 2005 |
| Valley Stream South Class of '70 Class News - Page 8. This page contains postingsfrom classmates. The postings are alphabetical -- and others follow on subsequent pages. Items in RED indicate new postings since the last publication. Click on the photo links in blue to view the corresponding photos. |
| Pat Keenan (posted June 5, 2005)
I find it hard to believe that 35 years have come and gone since high school. I remember thinking back then that anyone over 30 was “old” and that it would take “forever” for me to get there! Boy was I wrong! In those 35 years, I went to business school, then worked all year so I could take wonderful vacations around the world, got married to a terrific man named Bob, owned a business for 12 years and now work for a chiropractor, which I really enjoy. We still live in Valley Stream (Bob is a Central graduate) with our “fur baby, honey”. Since I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis 14 years ago, I started doing volunteer work with the Arthritis Foundation, including facilitating a support group, teaching arthritis workshops, phone counseling and whatever else they ask me to do. Not only do I meet with, and help many people, but I have learned a tremendous amount – not only about RA, but also other autoimmune diseases and how best to help myself with this disease. My husband has taken an active part in working with me with the Arthritis Foundation as well. I also volunteer with the Ladies Auxiliary of the Valley Stream Fire Dept. as well as some church activities. Though my life has not turned out exactly the way I planned it al those years ago, I must say I have a good life and am very blessed to have a great husband, family, and many friends to surround me. I am still best friends with Grace Anne Haass-Abbatemarco (She, Pat Cascardi-DiMichelle and I take a girls’ vacation together every summer) as well as Suzanne Sessano-Fitzgibbon and Connie DiCarlo-Anastasia. All of us together with Diane Dudley-Kaempf, Emma Barranello-Didonato, June Dwyer, Joanne Staci and Christine McNair had a fun night at the Irish Coffee Pub recently with Mr. Gibson. I do periodically see others from the class that still live in and around Valley Stream, though from looking over Steve’s site, most everyone has move elsewhere. Time marches on, doesn’t it? (see photo 4) Levy, Celeste (posted March 1, 2005) Hi Steve -- You can publish my e-mail address on the web site. As for a little bit about myself.... I am married to Alan Levy so I got to keep my maiden name forever! We live in Oceanside with our Toy Poodle Augie. I own a cosmetic store on the North Shore of Long Island with my parents who by the way still live in Valley Stream. That's it for now. Let me know about the reunion. Celeste Levy-Levy Lobell, Marilyn (posted Sept. 27, 2005) Marilyn reports she is married to Richard Trownsell from Syracuse NY, They have a son Jonathan Scott Trownsell now studying to be an accountant at VCU She would love to hear from any class member of 1970. Steven Lockwood (posted June 5, 2005) You can definitely post my name and email address on the web site. Louise Hartstein emailed me several weeks ago about the upcoming reunion and told me to contact you so that I would no longer be missing. I live in Pleasantville in Westchester County. Wanda and I moved there in 1987 from NYC after our first daughter was born. Our second daughter was born two years later. They are now 18 and 16. We just celebrated our 20th anniversary last August. My oldest daughter just got accepted to the University of Pennsylvania (my alma mater) last week and she'll be starting there in the fall. I practiced as a tax and pension lawyer for several Manhattan law firms until about 10 years ago. I left to set up Lockwood Pension Services, Inc. back in 1994 to specialize in tax, pension and estate planning for high net worth individuals. We're located in midtown Manhattan and have grown quite large. I'm also the author of the Individual Retirement Account Answer Book, a really great text that will cure insomnia in no time. More importantly, I'm still playing a lot of tennis and golf. I play indoors in a singles league in Armonk in the winter. I learned golf about 10 years ago so I'll have something to do when my tennis legs start to deteriorate. I checked out your web site and can't believe that all those old people are contemporaries of mine. What happened to everybody? Looking forward to seeing you in September. |