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Reunion Updates to be Posted on Website
As we approach our 45th reunion John and I will post updates on the website as they occur. We will keep you informed as to the date, location, activities and perhaps of most importance we will post the names of those who are planning to attend. It is our hope that as classmates see your plans to attend that will encourage them to participate as well.
We are looking into the possibility that you might register for the reunion through the website and even indicate your preference for certain optional acitivies on line.
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Possible reunion activities include:
At this time we are giving some thought to having a band for Friday night. We are considering several bands in the Maryland area and have already had some reunion committee members happily volunteering to use some of their weekend hours going to clubs in the area and "evaluating" the bands. Tough job but somebody has to do it.
We are thinking about having a golf tournament as long as I get to assign the pairings and validate the handicaps. Gil Dudrow wants to do this but he is well known down here in Myrtle Beach as a hustler and a sand bagger of the worst sort. Can't be trusted - unless he's your partner, of course.
For those smart enough not to play golf we are considering a picnic Saturday and are still coming up with other alternatives. What about a cruise? a crab feast?
Some thoughts about a Saturday night event as well. What if the Baltimore Orioles do the impossible and make it to the playoffs? Do we host events both Friday and Saturday night like we did in Annapolis?
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Malca Sternberg Giblin
Congratulations to Malca Sternberg Giblin for her recent 2008 WATCH award! On March 1st, the Washington Area Theatre Community Awards (WATCH) ceremony was held and the musical that Malca produced for Kensington Arts Theatre (KAT), "A New Brain" not only won "Best Musical", but also won awards for "Best Actor in a Musical", "Best Music Director" and tied for "Best Director" - an all-around success. And the show (actually Malca) goes on... this May 8th-23rd, Malca will produce another show for KAT, "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" at the Kensington Town Center.
Actually, congratulations also could go to Malca and her husband Den Giblin for their continuing artistic work together as a couple. the empty nest syndrome never had time to take hold of Malca and Den after their children Josh and Leah flew off to Philadelphia and Brooklyn, and a new little bird appeared - Oscar, the grandson. Malca and Den have had one hobby/interest that has continued to consume much of their spare time - community theater.They can attest that the Washington, DC, area is home to numerous excellent theater groups.
At first, Malca and her husband confined themselves to activities with the Music and Drama Club at Goddard Space Flight Center, where Den spent his federal career. As Den was mentored by his late friend, John Lindsay, he became more and more adept at designing stage lighting. Most recently, after Malca's WATCH-winning play with KAT, Den helped run the lights for KAT's March production, "One Red Flower". Malca's skills moved from makeup and hair design to ticket sales, costuming, props and sets, serving as house manager, and now, producing - a real Renaissance woman, she even acts when she gets the chance.
Seeking new challenges, the couple has gone on to lend their talents and energy to productions at Kensington Arts Theater, Greenbelt Arts Center, Rockville Music Theater and at Dominion Stage and Port City Playhouse. However, not all the world's a stage, and after their full careers as Federal employees, Den still finds time for contract work with NIH and teaching classes in practical math applications and popular music for SAGE and UM's LC/OLLI while Malca serves as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for a youngster in the Prince Georges foster care system. With so much to do, and with their family not too far away, Malca and her husband say they expect to remain in University Park and be engaged in the community for many more years!
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Our website: Classreport.org vs. the "other" website
NHS Reunion Committee (NHS65) offers a prayer that all NHS65 Classmates using the "OTHER" Website immediately desist and LOG IN to our website at Classreport.org in order to take full advantage of the absolutely free ($ and spam) message board, personal/business website link capability, recent book/movie reviews, biographies, family news, recommended recipes, prayer requests, and the featured links (with 22 topics).
A few interesting facts and figures from your hard-working reunion committee:
1. NHS65 has identified 968 members and can account for 751 (78%) of them. while many have posted their own email contact information, some have chosen to protect their privacy. For the latter, contact information may be obtainable from NHS65. Email me for specifics.
2. Of the 751 classmates accounted for, 261 or 35% have logged in (using their own password) or have asked an NHS65 website administrator to post information for them, with 101 having posted biographies of varying length, detail, and exaggeration.
If you haven't already done so, please take a few minutes to log on, enter your profile and update it. We would all love to know a little about what you are doing. Even if its just a sentence or two for those more modest classmates!
3. Sixteen of our classmates have taken it upon themselves to FULLY FUND the NHS65 CLASSREPORT.ORG website - NO ADDITIONAL WEBSITE FUNDING IS REQUIRED OR REQUESTED!!
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We all remember, offhand, the major stuff that was unique to our senior year of high school - Vietnam, muscle cars, fast food, diet drinks, the Great Society, soul music, the British invasion, Malcolm X assassinated in Harlem, miniskirts, the Watts riots, first shopping malls, and "I Can't get No Satisfaction," contemporaneous with "Like A Rolling Stone" - because Bob Dylan was "going electric" - (unlike Peter, Paul & Mary, the Chad Mitchell Trio, the Kingston Trio and Pete Seeger). Tuition to Harvard was $1,760 and stamps were 5 cents. You could still burn leaves in your yard, and before you burned them, you raked them into huge piles and jumped in them.
But how about some of the rest of the avalanche of social change? We were the first to skateboard - 1965 was the year of the first skateboard "championship". Surfing was huge - "cowabunga" - "hang ten". Boutique shops are credited to '65. The super ball; government warnings on cigarette packs; a revolutionary new electronic product - Betamax; also, hot off the shelves, other inventions like Polaroid cameras and the ubiquitous transistor radio. Medicare. It was the year of the great power blackout, and the spike in the birthrate in the Northeast 9 months later. Goldfinger was out in theatres and Amos "N Andy was pulled off of TV. Kevlar was developed, "clad" coins replaced silver, Allen Ginsberg coined the phrase "flower power", and Timothy Leary advised his readers to "drop out, turn on, tune in." J. Edgar Hoover claimed that Martin Luther King was a communist agent.
Of interest to the 1965 graduates of NHS, My Fair Lady won 8 Academy Awards. The first Peanuts television special aired - "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Gemini 6 rendezvoused with Gemini 7 in Earth orbit, but the Russians still always did everything ahead of us. All the same, we developed Tang. Also, the Florida football team's needs for electrolytes during practice began the first development of Gatorade, and the Houston Astrodome opened. "Ladybird" began her campaign against billboards, and a new character, the Pillsbury doughboy, was "poppin fresh".
Do you remember the sugar cubes we took with vaccine to avoid polio? Did you know anyone with a fallout, or bomb, shelter? Did you really have pennies in your loafers - hmmmm? OK, which of you guys had a Nehru jacket, polka dot tie, or a flouncy, paisley shirt? We did the twist, someone invented twister. You might have just been getting your first color TV; you got the newest releases on 45 records (both sides were always hits for the Beatles); your little sister had troll dolls, and you raced slot cars. Ask a kid nowadays what a "Sadie Hawkins Dance" is. Ask them to diagram a sentence. Also, in our day, it was obvious and literal what a "garage band" was, and we had them first. The party line was not a chat site, or triggered by a 900 number - we actually had phone lines with our neighbors.
We caught lightening bugs, wore madras shorts, and avoided that "greasy kid stuff". Half of us tried to act like James Bond; the other half considered it an option to wear beehive hairdos. There was butch wax. There was "The Girl From Ipanema" and there was Goldfinger. Canada changed their flag and added the maple leaf - Winston Churchill died, St Louis built an arch, and, for the first time, a Pope visited the U.S. There was "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama and the SDS conducted "teach-ins" to avoid the riot police. We had the first stadium concert in the history of rock - the Beatles in Shea Stadium. Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead played their first rock concert on the west coast. Our Batman was not dark or mysterious, and it was impossible to take him seriously.
We created our own little version of Spring Break at Ocean City, Maryland. Racing home from there, Pete Sharnikow, sadly, showed us that the corvair was "unsafe at any speed." The military draft was doubled to 35,000 kids a month. Fidel announced that anyone who wanted to, could fly out of Cuba, and the flights began; he also announced that Che had left Cuba. A new TV series began - "Days of Our Lives" - "Man of La Mancha" opened in Greenwich Village. Nearby, some NHS students attended the New York World's Fair. The success of Diners Card and American Express caused banks to begin issuing credit cards of their own. Australian Aborigines were given the vote.
Many historians consider the '60's the decade of greatest social change in America, so it is easy (and a little numbing) to "talk this talk." I'd like to conclude with two small tableaus:
1. Bette Nesmith Graham was fired for using her employer's letterhead (she worked at a bank) to market her new tempura-based office product and decided to devote 100 % of her time to create a shed in her back yard in 1965 where she and her son filled thousands of bottles with the product she made in her kitchen - "Mistake Out", later renamed "White Out". Her son's photos are on Dwight's "then and now" series on our class website.
2. At 59, Satchel Paige pitched three innings against the Boston Red Sox on behalf of the Kansas City Athletics. Before he took the mound in each inning, as the oldest active player in baseball history, he took a seat in the bullpen in a rocking chair, with a nurse next to him, serving him "coffee". But that was just to highlight the publicity stunt. When he pitches, he permits one hit over those three innings - a double by Carl Yastrzemski. At the time, he's just about the same age that we are.
Frank Murray
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Your Reunion Committee
Nancy Crowther Price Mary DiCarlo Tadle
Gil Dudrow
Dwight Gentry
Terry Herren Gilead
Bill Holmes
Ed Lee
John Newquist
Stan Poole
Randi Rose
Jeanne Sparrough Chicca
Karen Walker Lowman
We mourn the loss of Linda Seaton LaCoss who helped in our reunion activities over the years and we welcome the addition of Stan Poole who has volunteered to help Ed Lee and Karen Walker Lowman in locating some of our "lost" classmates.
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NHS '65 News
