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The other kid at the reunion, in addition to Cheryl Goldenberg's daughter, Taylor, was Justin Bashe, son of Philip ('72) and Patty Bashe. Justin, eighteen, has been helping out his dad on reunion-related errands since 2001.
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"Quite brilliant, if we say so ourselves: We wanted to infiltrate the women's restroom too, but all inhabitants of the planet OBGYN are male. (In your language, I suppose that would be called irony. The same word translated into our language is tungsten-y.)
"A lowly advance scout by the name of Trinitron (Earth name: Mrs. Butterworth) volunteered to cross-dress so as to blend right in with the Earth women using the powder room. Come to think of it, he volunteered before I'd even asked anyone to wear a woman's skirt. Not only that, he went and got it out of his his own closet ... "In any event, not one female Earthling noticed the bright-green towel-dispensing 'lady' with the bulging head and humongous eyes. And from what we observed, your feminine species spends hours at a clip in the ladies room, making Mrs. B.'s espionage even more impressive and deserving of a promotion. "Uh-oh [swelling with either pride or an Earth-based virus], I feel a stirring rendition of our OBGYN national anthem coming on ..." |
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Bored to pieces already? No problem! You could browse the tables and read about the the future as it was imagined back when we were kids. Space colonies!
Astral travel! Robots to perform our jobs for us while we lounge in the hammock drinking lemonade! And yet no one ever foresaw the advent of the personal
computer ...
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Or you could peruse the artifacts that people brought, such as Michael Milner's 1969 yearbook; a bunch of yearbooks that Mr. D' Amato brought with him; or Roberta Goldberg's ('72) numerous photos on her Notebook.
You could also read the most recent issue of the JHS Classes of 1971-1972-1973 Newsletter (summer 2010, no. 24), which contained feature stories about several folks at the reunion, such as Annie Koff Abramson ('72), Susan Markman Starr ('71), Evalyn Block Merrick ('71), Roberta Blond Tropper ('72), and faculty member Mr. Ira Greene. |
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From left to right, Bill Brancati, Howard Blank, and Mark Elowsky, all from '71. |