It brought back a lot of memories, especailly listening to Alan Freed play those songs.

Knee replacement can be a bummer.  My sister had one done a couple of years ago and she still has issues every now and then.  Think of it this way - you're still vertical and breathing and on the right side of the grass!

Linc & Suzy, congrats on your 50th.  Not too many people staytogether that long these days.  Gail and I celebrated our 45th a couple of weeks ago.

Dear Friends,

Just wanted to say congratulations to Suzy and Lincoln on your 50th wedding anniversary!!  Welcome home Bill and Marlene!  So glad all is well with all of you!

I'm currently in rehabilitation therapy after a knee replacement revision.  That means I had knee replacement surgery seventeen years ago, and have had that knee replacement replaced!  They call it a revision.  I have been in rehabilitative therapy to get the knee bending again for several weeks, but am looking forward to going home soon.  With 92-100 degrees movement now, I should be able to get around by myself soon. 

By the way, Ed, I loved the quiz!  It lifted my spirit during a particularly painful time during my knee replacement surgery recovery. 

Good to hear from everyone!

Harriet

Suzy and Linc. Wow. So happy for you. You both look so good.

To all my dear friends,

Last year, I wrote a note about what is important and what is not. I still believe it - maybe even more deeply. My wife and I just spent 6 months in China teaching at a medical school. 

We loved the Chinese people, particulary the medical students, but every one of us living here needs to thank whoever or whatever we worship that we live in the US. Sounds like the innocent 50s, I know, but it is sooooo good to be home. We won't be leaving again.

I wrote last year that, as crazy as it sounds, my only happy dreams at that time were of our 30th reunion. I know you won't believe me, but I have had maybe four or five dreams over the past year about our 50th, the most recent last night. They are so warm and accepting. I wake up smiling. It was best weekend I ever remember. 

So, a year later, I send my gratitude to the committee, Neil, Ed, Nicky, on and on, and to all my friends, for the warmth with which you greeted my wife and me. We will never forget you.

Bill Gould

We, Suzy Abeles Boehm and Lincoln Boehm, renewed our vows at our 50th wedding anniversary with Governor Dannel Malloy presiding at our Stamford, CT home as 100 family and friends celebraing with us.

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Thanks Ed, this was a real good brain tickler, I wonder if anyone got them all, I will retake it since I did miss a few.  Wishing I was looking forward to a reunion this September too.  Hope everyone has had a great Summer. and looking forward to a beautiful Fall.  

1. When did ''Little Suzie'' finally wake up?
(a) The movie's over, it's 2 o'clock
(b) The movie's over, it's 3 o'clock
(c) The movie's over, it's 4 o'clock

2. ''Rock Around The Clock'' was used in what movie?
(a) Rebel Without A Cause
(b) Blackboard Jungle
(c) The Wild Ones

3. What's missing from a Rock & Roll standpoint? Earth _____
(a) Angel
(b) Mother
(c) Worm

4. ''I found my thrill . . .'' where?
(a) Kansas City
(b) Heartbreak Hotel
(c) Blueberry Hill

5. 'Please turn on your magic beam, _____ _____ bring me a dream,'':
(a) Mr. Sandman
(b) Earth Angel
(c) Dream Lover

6. For which label did Elvis Presley first record?
(a) Atlantic
(b) RCA
(c) Sun

7. He asked, ''Why's everybody always pickin' on me?'' Who was he?
(a) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
(b) Charlie Brown
(c) Buster Brown

8. In Bobby Darin's ''Mack The Knife,'' the one with the knife, was named:
(a) Mac Heath
(b) Mac Cloud
(c) McNamara

9. Name the song with ''A-wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom.''
(a) Good Golly, Miss Molly
(b) Be-Bop-A-Lula
(c) Tutti Fruitti

10. Who is generally given credit for originating the term ''Rock And
Roll''?
(a) Dick Clark
(b) Wolfman Jack
(c) Alan Freed

11. In 1957, he left the music business to become a preacher:
(a) Little Richard
(b) Frankie Lymon
(c) Tony Orlando

12. Paul Anka's ''Puppy Love'' is written to what star?
(a) Brenda Lee
(b) Connie Francis
(c) Annette Funicello

13. The Everly Brothers were.....
(a) Pete and Dick
(b) Don and Phil
(c) Bob and Bill

14. The Big Bopper's real name was:
(a) Jiles P. Richardson
(b) Roy Harold Scherer Jr.
(c) Marion Michael Morrison

15. In 1959, Berry Gordy, Jr. started a small record company called...
(a) Decca
(b) Cameo
(c) Motown

16. Edd Brynes had a hit with ''Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb''.
What TV show was he on?
(a) 77 Sunset Strip
(b) Hawaiian Eye
(c) Surfside Six

17. In 1960 Bobby Darin married:
(a) Carol Lynley
(b) Sandra Dee
(c) Natalie Wood

18.. They were a one hit wonder with ''Book Of Love'':
(a) The Penguins
(b) The Monotones
(c) The Moonglows

19. The Everly Brothers sang a song called ''Till I ______ You.''
(a) Loved
(b) Kissed
(c) Met

20. Chuck Berry sang ''Oh, ___________, why can't you be true?''
(a) Suzie Q
(b) Peggy Sue
(c) Maybelline*

21. ''Wooly _______''
(a) Mammouth
(b) Bully
(c) Pully

22. ''I'm like a one-eyed cat . . . .."
(a) can't go into town no more
(b) sleepin' on a cold hard floor
(c) peepin' in a seafood store

23. ''Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do . . . . ..''
(a) cause there ain't no answer for a life without booze
(b) cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
(c) cause my car's gassed up and I'm ready to cruise

24. ''They often call me Speedo, but my real name is ......''
(a) Mr. Earl
(b) Jackie Pearl
(c) Milton Berle

25. ''Be Bop A Lula ....''
(a) she's got the rabies
(b) she's my baby.
(c) she loves me, maybe

26. ''Fine Love, Fine Kissing …..''
(a) right here
(b) fifty cents
(c) just for you

27. ''He wore black denim trousers and …..''
(a) a pink carnation
(b) pink leotards
(c) motorcycle boots

28. ''I got a gal named……....''
(a) Jenny Zamboni
(b) Gerri Mahoney
(c) Boney Maroney*
Answers:

1  (c) The movie's over, it's 4 o'clock
2. (b) Blackboard Jungle
3. (a) Angel
4. (c) Blueberry Hill
5. (a) Mr. Sandman
6. (c) Sun
7. (b) Charlie Brown
8. (a) Mac Heath
9. (c) Tutti Fruitti
10. (c) Alan Freed
11. (a) Little Richard
12. (c) Annette Funicello
13. (b) Don and Phil
14. (a) Jiles P. Richardson
15. (c) Motown
16. (a) 77 Sunset Strip
17. (b) Sandra Dee
18. (b) The Monotones
19. (b) Kissed
20. (c) Maybelline
21. (b) Bully
22. (c) peepin' in a sea food store
23. (b) cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
24. (a) Mr. Earl
25. (b) she's my baby
26. (a) right here
27. (c) motorcycle boots
28. (c) Boney Maroney

Hello Classmates

We have a crisis in our education system. Two million students a year graduate high school unable to properly speak and write the basics of our own language. This is robbing them of a better life and future.

The following link describes a program I created to do something about this. The graph shows the results it has produced.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/235891/emal/1346126

To help schools implement my program I am seeking grass roots support of many small donations. You can change the life of a student by donating as little as $5. A bit more and you receive a book you can give to a niece/nephew, grandson/granddaughter, or friend.

If you feel this is a worthy cause I hope you’ll consider helping, and will also share the project via Facebook and other social media, so others become aware of it.

The education bureaucracy that allowed this problem to develop is not going to fix it, so thousands of kids that are counting on us, as concerned parents and adults, to do something.
 
Best, Richard
www.speak4success.co

I was in Boston in May and had lunch with Claire Taylor and her husand Richard at their home in Jamaica Plain. Their house is a quaint 3 story that was built in 1878 and Clair and Richard have done a fantasitc job of renovating it.

Claire looks great and has lost none of her bubbly evervesant upbeat personality. It's still amazing that she actually went to private school after Eastview, she was an integral part of our class just as if she had been with us.

Claire says she got a D in Latin in 9th grade at Eastview, so her father thought her classmates (that's us) were a bad influence on her and made her go to private school. I apologized on behalf of all of us at Eastview who contributed to her poor academic performance.

Walter Popper was going join us but unfortunately was unable to make it.

Claire, thanks for lunch and for being part of our class.

Richard Berger