Garden City High School Class of '64

Name: Bill McDavid

Address: 33Norman Drive, Rye, NY 10580

Telephone #’s: Home: 914 698 4354. Cell 914 255 1909.

Email: whmcdavid@gmail.com

Spouse’s name: Sylvia

Children: Andrew (31), Madeline (22), Will (20), Flora (18) and Daniel (6)

Occupation: retired lawyer

Education: Columbia (College and Graduate School in philosophy); Yale Law School

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

College: I majored in philosophy. I had to support myself during college, so I played and sang in Rock’n’Roll bands. I wasn’t great, and I never made big money or anything, but I had some great times and managed to earn enough money to live well and get through college without too much debt. Then I missed Vietnam because I failed my draft physical -- perforated eardrums. (A consequence of a childhood infection, or too many hours in front of the amps?)

Grad School. I did one year and then decided I didn’t want to be a philosopher, so I went to law school at Yale.

Work. After school, I worked as a corporate lawyer in New York City – first at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton and later at Bankers Trust Company. In 1988 I became the General Counsel of the Chemical Banking Corporation. Then I worked on some big bank mergers, combining Chemical with Manufacturers Hanover, Chase, JP Morgan and Bank One, among others, and serving as General Counsel of all those combined banks. I retired from JP Morgan Chase in 2006.

Family. I married Catherine Gleboff, a Barnard girl, during law school and had my first child (Andrew) with her. That marriage ended in divorce in 1978. Andrew lives in Maryland and teaches pre-school.

I met my wonderful second wife Sylvia, who is French, in 1981. It was what the French call a coup de foudre (love at first sight). After a few weeks of amour fou, we had to live mostly apart for two years because she was still in college (Sciences-Po) in Paris. When she finished college in 1984, she moved to NY, and we got married. She then did graduate work in math and economics at Columbia but ultimately dropped her academic/professional plans to raise our 4 children. Our eldest, Madeline (22), graduated from Columbia and is now in the Graduate School of Journalism at Sciences-Po in Paris. Will (20) just finished his 3^rd year of college at Columbia and seems to be on an express train to Wall Street. Flora (18) is a senior in high school, headed for Columbia in the fall. Daniel is a very cool seven-year-old. We speak both French and English at home -- certainly an unanticipated feature of my life. Our kids are all bilingual, and the ones who are old enough have done their French Baccalaureats in addition to their American education.

Other. I have traveled a lot on business, and my family also travels a lot for fun. We have an apartment in Paris, where we go several times a year and where Madeline is living while she’s in school there. I am fortunate to be in good health and I try to stay in decent physical shape. I do a lot of skiing, tennis, running, etc., and I work out almost every day. I still play the guitar and sing when I have time. Since I retired, I’ve been trading stocks quite a bit.

Most salient high school memory: Michelle Murphy. (My son Will is in love with a red-haired beauty. Do you think aesthetic tastes are inherited?)
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Name: Susan (Denton) Larsen

Address: 418 N. Main Street, Fort Bragg, CA 95437

Telephone #’s: 707-964-2300 707-964-9800

Email: larsen@mcn.org website:www.therestaurantfortbragg.com

Spouse’s name: Jim

Children: Cayo (37), Jim's children: Peter (48), Kristan (44)

Occupation: Restaurateur

Education: B. A. English Lit., University of California, Berkeley 1968

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

My life since high school has not been as conventional as my upbringing would have indicated. The past 45 years have been filled with all manner of experiences, adventures and locales. My life seems like a series of vignettes and amusing anecdotes, following my heart and intuition. My time at U.C. Berkeley was squandered on the usual vices and distractions of the era, and I graduated as an undistinguished student. It was a great time to be in Berkeley and the Bay Area and I loved California from the first day

After graduation I abandoned my plans for graduate school and headed north to rural Mendocino County. I lived a simple life and made a living doing odds jobs. I moved to British Honduras (now Belize) with my partner David, searching for Eden but finding mostly heat and mosquitoes. My daughter Cayo was conceived there. Back in California the marriage fell apart and I moved to a mountaintop log cabin where Cayo and I lived without benefit of indoor plumbing or electricity, cooking on a wood stove. Here I met my second husband, Olaf Palm.

Olaf and I had an eventful and productive 17 years together. He was an artist (oil painter) and musician. I took up hand spinning and weaving. For many years I had a business creating and selling my own hand-woven articles for shops, galleries and at shows. We traveled to Europe on many occasions on funds provided by art patrons who wanted paintings from the countries we visited. We went to the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific and Olaf painted a portrait of their King. We traveled to Prague after the Velvet Revolution and lived there for five weeks. We built our own homes on two occasions, raised goats and chickens. In 1980 we moved to southern Arizona and, on a lark, bought a bar/grocery store/restaurant on the Mexican border in the National Forest, 18 miles from Nogales on a dirt road. We became ranch hands for a local rancher in spite of our lack of experience with cows or horses. It was like living in a western movie.

We moved back to California and lived at the edge of the Pacific in the village of Westport. Here we had an art gallery selling our own work. We organized and led art tours to Ireland, Scotland and Greece. We created and ran art camps for adults.

In spite of all the adventures, the marriage was beset with problems and we were divorced in 1993. I became interested in textile conservation, (the preservation of antique and historical textiles), and after a year as a volunteer at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco, I was accepted as an apprentice conservator at a small non-profit workshop north of New York City. After a year there I was hired as a fulltime conservator in a position funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. One summer they sent me to Chile to work in the Andes at an archeological museum conserving the textiles from pre-Columbian mummies.

During my time in New York, I got to spend some quality time with Chris Tassone Kovner in Manhattan and on Fire Island.

Due to a lack of social life and decent wages as a conservator, I moved to Louisville, Kentucky and worked with a good friend at her wildly popular restaurant, Lynn's Paradise Cafe, for five years.

On a brief trip back to Fort Bragg, California I was reunited with an old friend, Jim Larsen. I had known Jim for over 25 years, he was Olaf's best friend, and our families had grown up together. The timing was perfect for us, we were immediately smitten and within three months I moved back to California. We were married in 2000. The third time really is a charm and Jim is the perfect partner. Jim started The Restaurant (see our website listed above) in Fort Bragg in 1973 and he is still owner/operator and chef. My years in the restaurant business in Louisville proved to be good training. I am now fully involved in every aspect of running our place. We are open for dinner five nights a week, seating up to 70, and we have a staff of 10. The Restaurant is listed in Zagat's and we have an excellent local reputation. Jim and I do most everything from cooking to plumbing to schmoozing. Our building was built as the first hospital in 1895 and we live upstairs, with a view of the Pacific. Jim taught me to play golf and I love it. Our families bring us immense joy and we are fortunate to have good health. My Mom (92) lives about a mile away from us. Our kids and grandkids are in San Francisco and Louisville. Life is good and we are grateful every day for what we have.

Parting thought: I invite everyone to come visit and have dinner on us. (not all at once!)

Most interesting/funny fact about my life thus far: I played tenor sax for three years when I lived in Louisville.

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Name: Michelle Murphy

Address: P. O. Box 7116 Amagansett, Long Island, NY, 11930

Telephone #’s: Home: 1 631 267 6828 Cell: 1 631 645 3909

Email: michelle murphy@mac.com

Spouse’s name: Robert Strada

Children: Alexandra (20) Antonia “Annie” (14)

Occupation: Artist (painter, writer)

Education: Alfred University, NY 1964/65

Adelphi University, NY BA (Psychology) 1966-68

Art Student’s League, National Academy School of Fine Art, Parsons, School of Visual Arts, NYC, 1970-80’s

Stonybrook University, NY 2007-present (Masters in Creative Writing )

Since graduating from Garden City High School in, 1964:

Living in GC from age two through college was a wholesome & privileged way to start my life…it shaped a lot of my very non-middle class values…the poetic, the rebellious, and a taste for the really good things in life. And along with that came a sense of outrage at any kind of social injustice…hard to believe all of that was growing back on the green lawns of Stratford Ave. and 10th St.

My post high school venture out into the world was off to a good start at Alfred University until my father’s sudden death from a massive heart attack when I was 18 and just beginning my second year at college. He was only 48 at the time of his death, and my mom was (what seems like now!) a very young 39 who suddenly had 3 teenagers to raise and support. I came home from upstate NY, enrolled in nearby Adelphi & put myself through school by working for Sears Roebuck at night. After graduation, I moved into NYC, where I have lived, at least partially, ever since. (My first roommate was the beautiful GC alumni, Trudy Ryan, who we all remember fondly.) With the unique youthful combination of energy and enthusiasm, I pursued everything that interested me, and enjoyed the famous 70’s city life.

It was indeed an amazing time: I became an Eileen Ford model; acted in a few soap operas and movies; performed in many national TV commercials (one w/Joe DiMaggio whom I’d barely heard of…not being a sports fan, which was a major drawback in GCHS, even though I later dated a Chicago Cubs pitcher when they were in the World Series…. who knew?). I also flew internationally for 3 yrs. as a Pan Am Stewardess, back in the day when layovers were long & saw much of the world (including Beirut, Bangkok, &Pakistan, during a time when a girl could wander exotic cities safely on her own); studied and wrote poetry for 10 years; and delved into photography, sculpture, singing. I tried my hand and voice at writing lyrics with my 1st husband (who had a few Stevie Wonder gold records under his belt) as well as with my brother- the singer songwriter, Elliott Murphy (who has lived in Paris for the past 20 years.) Speaking of which, Elliott’s son and my nephew, Gaspard, is now on tour w/ Bruce Springsteen as an apprentice on the road crew….not bad for an 18 yr old…I am sure Elliott must attribute his amazing career in music in part to my having seen Bob Dylan at Princeton in the early 60s back when we were all teens and I was the guest of a GC guy in his Freshman year, and Bob was booed off the stage- but I thought he was what I’d always been looking for-a poet in dungarees.

At 32, I found my true love, and we have been married ever since. He is a self -made artistic genius of a guy. We have much in common, both having lost a parent at a young age, and each kind of raising ourselves, and not having had the easiest of times, in that sense. He encouraged me to take my painting seriously, and I have done so for the last 3 decades, building up a long resume…. showing work around the country. Although I have created pieces of art in every medium, I am best known for my watercolor paintings. They are generally large, emotionally charged, and quite detailed, with a deep influence from two of my heroes, Andrew Wyeth, & Edward Hopper.

I am a curious person, and will probably be a student for all of my life. Currently, I am working on my Masters degree in Creative Writing, and have found professors such as Frank McCourt, Jules Feiffer, and Roger Rosenblatt, who continually blow me away with encouragement and inspiration. I am now at work on several plays, as well as collaborating on a Broadway musical. It is based on my father, Elliott Murphy Sr., and his Aquashow at the site of the World’s Fair which was on Ed Sullivan twice and ran from 1945’s thru ‘58, (later, he opened Elliott Murphy’s Sky Club at Roosevelt Field….remember? he invited our whole class for dinner after our graduation in June ‘64......and back in the 50’s he hosted my 3^rd grade [Miss Hamilton’s] Stratford Ave class for a visit to his Aquashow ).

Thirty years ago when we first married, Robert and I bought a 120 yr old farmhouse out in the Hamptons, which we still cherish and are currently renovating. Next door is our studio – another old farmhouse -and 2 garages, where we keep an ever expanding car collection…robert’s other passion…;-)...3 Ferraris, 2 Porsches, a ‘52 MG and a ’60 Corvette. When we are not in Amagansett, we are either in Greenwich Village, or in Paris, where we are on the look out for a pied -a -terre. We love antiques, and have renovated many historic buildings here and abroad. We have had pets: a parakeet, 3 cats, and now, our beloved Bichon Frise, Maggie.

We are blessed with two beautiful daughters. Alexandra just returned from her Junior year in India, and, after a summer at NYU, will complete her Senior year at Bates College in Maine in 2010 where she studies photojournalism. “Annie” just finished 8^th grade at The Ross School here in East Hampton, and loves sports, playing the drums, and The Jonas Brothers. Childbirth was not so easy at 42 with Alex, & adoption was almost as difficult at 48 with Annie. Both experiences were deeply gratifying and I was fully present for each; even there in the delivery room in Texas for the birth of Antonia.

Other than my brother, Elliott, many of you also remember Matthew who is 6 years younger, lives in NYC, (as does our marvelous mother, Jo) and also has a house out in the Hamptons. Matthew is a rock and roll tour manager & has traveled all over the world with The B52s, The Talking Heads, The Eurhythmics, Tony Bennett, The Blue Man Group, Bryan Ferry, Blondie, Incubus, etc. What stories he could tell if he were not so discreet!

I will close on a note some of you may find interesting…. I seem to have a bit of Beetles karma…Yoko Ono rented our townhouse in Greenwich Village, NYC for two years, and it was filled with John’s guitars finally buying the brownstone for John’s son, Sean just last year. Our next-door neighbor in Amagansett is Paul McCartney. I’m waiting for Ringo to show up at the front door….

Most salient high school memory: Being crowned Snow Queen of our class….it was a magical night for me….

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Bob Sullivan

Winchester, MA 01890

c- 781-856-1895

b3sullivan@hotmail.com

Linda and 3 sons

Medical sales

Boston College- B.S.-marketing, MBA

Received letter from Tom Schenck proclaiming I was still officially in Class of ‘64

even though my family moved to Rochester, NY following our junior year and I did

not “graduate with you guys”. I appreciate his graciousness; we’ll see how the rest of you feel. When I did graduate, I headed off to Boston College and freshman year

helped start a lacrosse team (2 yrs club, then Varsity status). I saw no way of avoiding military after graduation (and thought I was wasting my Dad’s money!), so

I left after sophomore year and volunteered for the draft, so I could do 2 years and return to BC and finish up (Mother was really thrilled!). Did 1 yr at Ft. Gordon, GA

and finished with 9^th Inf Div, Viet Nam. Ran into Geof Kohart at my base camp in

Mekong Delta. Amid all the crap, I got to Sydney, Aust. and Hong Kong for R&R’s.

After Army, I returned to BC for marketing degree and they had hired their first lacrosse coach…Gene Uchacz (GC’65)…and he’s been making me run laps ever since. After BC, I worked, selling for Xerox for 9 years while working on an MBA. Then sold for J & J and a series of smaller medical/surgical device companies prior to starting Winchester Medical, Inc. I distributed Cranial/Spinal products for a dozen years and spent a lot of time in the O.R. w/Neurosurgeons all along the East Coast. This was a very vibrant and rewarding period of my career. Had to shut down the business when Medtronic bought 3 of the top four companies I represented. I then went with a distributor for exclusive sales of GE Medical Systems products. Sold CT, MRI, X-ray and many of the first FFDM (Digital Mammography) systems. I’m still in the Radiology arena.

Wife- Linda (Schantz) from Emmaus, PA and Penn State ’69-Home Ec/Business and synchronized swimmer. Great cook, mother and wife, still working for Shaw Industries. Sells to architects and interior designers.

Andrew –b.’78, Boston College, Capt. of baseball in 2000 as LHP. Played professionally in Germany, recently inducted into Winchester H.S. Hall of Fame. Is currently selling for Morgan Stanley.

Mark – b.’80, Boston College, Capt of baseball in 2002 as RHP. Spent 2 years w/

Texas Rangers, blew out his shoulder. Is currently w/Fidelity-Institutional Sales

David – b.’82, Amherst, Baseball, RHP. Won Coaches Award. Played professionally

in Germany, then Capetown, S.A. Currently selling for Paychex, Inc.

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Name:R. Bruce McLean

Address:     2820 31^st St., N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20008

Telephone #’s: Office: 202 887 4022

                      Cell: 202 297 8789

Email:bmclean@Akingump.com

Spouse’s name: Rachel Adams

Children: Christopher, Emily and Max

Occupation: Attorney

Education: Indiana University, B.S. 1968, J.D. 1971

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

Shortly after graduation my family moved to Indianapolis and I attended Indiana University. Although my parents were thrilled that I had been separated from my hooligan high school friends , my perspective was that I might as well have moved to Saturn. Like many of us, I was drafted immediately after graduation but the Army rejected me so I followed a hastily conceived plan and started in Law School that fall.

Though I was sure that I wanted to return to New York, I was smitten with Potomac fever and moved to Washington instead where I went to work for the government. Two years later, I threw in with a group of guys at a firm that nobody in Washington had ever heard of. Today our firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, has almost 1000 lawyers in fifteen cities around the world including New York. Since 1993 I have been the firm’s Chairman and CEO. I have travelled extensively; met lots of really interesting people, made a few really good friends, and had a wonderful family life.

My son, Chris who just turned 30 is an attorney in D.C. practicing with a New York firm. My daughter, Emily is 29, a teacher in Bethesda, Maryland and is engaged to be married this fall. My youngest, Max, is four. No that is not a typo. Apparently, there is no prize for having the youngest child which I am pretty sure I would have won. I am married to a wonderful woman, Rachel Adams who is also a lawyer. We have a terrific life in together in DC. I am not a grandfather yet, but hope to be soon.

Although I have seen and done a lot since leaving New York forty five years ago, my heart will always be in GC. Even today, after more than 35 years in Washington, when someone asks where I am from I proudly say, Garden City.

Parting Thought: I have too many great memories to pick one so I’ll end with this thought. Garden City was a special place and we were together at a special time in our country’s history. We were the first class of Boomers at a time when America’s promise was unlimited and when our optimism about the future was unbounded. Who knew then that the assassination of President Kennedy in our senior year, news we learned over the school’s PA system, would mark the beginning of two decades of social and political upheaval. Our nostalgia for our high school days is a longing for both place and time but most of all for the wonderful, lifelong friends we made and the great times we had together.

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Helen Karel Dorman

Address : 20 Pamela Place - Millwood, New York 10546

Telephone nos Home 914 762 5131 Work 914 238 2476

Email Helid@AOL.com

Spouse's Name Neal Dorman

Children Karen Kipnes (34) Deborah" Debbie" Grishman( 29)

Current Profession Real Estate Broker, former professions Ocularist, Elementary Teacher

EducationCornell University (BA), Adelphi University( MS)

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

Well, although I am not accustomed to do things at the 11th hour ( in college I could never stay up for all-nighters - a reason I never went to med. school!) I find myself at the computer to write my "mini bio" as I know our hardworking class president, Tom ( a big shout out to you and a huge thanks, Tom!) is packing to come east and turning off his computer.

I intended to write this much sooner but life got in the way. I think that I am writing this to myself as much as any of you who care to read. I guess we have all gotten to the point in life where stepping back and "reviewing" is appropriate.

But I am going to do mine backwards, starting with now and then working my way to high school.

As I write this, I am in our pied d' terre apartment on the upper east side in Manhattan that I share with my husband ( and best friend ) of 37+ years, Neal. I think the secret of our very happy relationship is laughter and our philosophy to "celebrate everything".

We have made our home and raised our 2 daughters ( Karen 34, a child advocacy attorney, the mother of a 3 year old and expecting our second granddaughter) and Debbie (29, MBA, Senior Manager at Amex and recently married to her middle school sweetheart) in Chappaqua in Westchester County.

Neal is an attorney who works too hard ( don't all lawyers?) and I am a real estate broker with Sothebys in northern Westchester.

Since our nest has emptied we've done a lot of traveling. We just returned from a wonderful safari in Botswana 3 weeks ago. Ask to see my pictures!

The apartment is really our "playhouse" and we have a lot of good times when we are here. We have owned the apartment for the last 5 years but started on the project when I was diagnosed with breast cancer ( 8 years ago next week) and we both realized "carpe diem", which has always been our philosophy.

I am a proud, grateful, happy and healthy survivor and am very active in raising money for Komen. Neal and I organize a large group of friends to walk in Central Park every September and serve brunch to all who join us after the walk. Anyone interested in joining us? As I said before, Neal is my best friend but when I was diagnosed he became my super hero and to this day, I have never gone to any doctor's appointment without his company and support.

I became a realtor 23 years ago when Debbie started school and never thought that I would remain in that profession, but it has been good to me and allowed me to be a very " hands on " mom which was very important to me. Both daughters followed me to Cornell and it remains an important part of our lives.

Before starting a family, I worked at Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in Manhattan as an Ocularist. I worked directly with patients and opthamologists designing, creating and fitting artificial eyes ! I was also working at the hospital with the FDA testing soft contact lenses when they were first invented in the late 1960s. That was as close as I came to becoming a physician myself.

I have a couple of funny memories of our times at GCHS - maybe some of you also remember:

Senior Year - last period English class with Mr. Horton when a few girls started knitting in class and soon all the girls were knitting.   One day, Mr. Horton got up in front of the class and announced. "Any girl has permission to knit in my class....... as long as she is pregnant!" Well, that was the end of knitting for all of us.

I also remember going to dances, all dressed up and watching a pile of our heels grow along a wall in the cafeteria as we kicked off our shoes to dance. Will anyone kick off shoes this weekend?

So, here we are about to convene after ( gulp) 45 years. Can it be? I guess on some level, I thought that I was going to change the world.. be somebody important... make a difference..... but then again.. maybe I did? I have a super family, great friendships, a wonderful life and "until further notice, I intend to CELEBRATE EVERYTHING

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Name: John R. Fitzpatrick

Address: 3429 Breton Circle NE, Atlanta, GA 30319

Telephone #’s: 404-256-9440

Email: jrfddf@aol.com

Spouse’s name: Diane D. Fitzpatrick

Children: Leslie F. Tyrone, Charles B. Fitzpatrick, Matthew D. Fitzpatrick

Occupation: federal prosecutor, U.S. Dept. of Justice

Education: Yale University, BA, 1968; University of Virginia, JD, 1971

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

In 1969, I married a girl I met in Law School, Diane DeLong, who works in Advertising. In 1974, after clerking at a federal court and working in Washington DC for a law firm, we moved to Atlanta, where I took a job with the U.S. Department of Justice.

We have three grown children. Our daughter, Leslie, an architect, is married to an attorney, Nelson Tyrone, and lives in Atlanta. Our son Charles lives in the Atlanta area and is an auto mechanic. Our son Matthew lives in Denver and is an architect. Leslie is expecting our first grandchild this summer.

I return to Garden City often to see my parents, who live in the same house on Arthur Street that I grew up in, and my younger sister Leslie, who is married and lives in Roslyn.

I collect Olympic pins from all over the world and have attended five Olympics. We are planning to make it six in Vancouver. Then, on to London in 2012!

Most salient high school memory: Watching Tim Sullivan follow a teacher’s instruction and go into the street to play in the traffic. The teacher panicked!

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April (Sparacino) Roach

Cell: 215-499-2506

Email: Sweetwise14@yahoo.com

Occupation: Speech Pathologist

Education: BA English Literature – Boston University; MA Speech Pathology – Temple University

Divorced, no children

Since Graduation from High School:

Got married in 1969, moved to Palo Alto, California where my husband was finishing his MBA at Stanford. Moved to Chicago area then Philadelphia where I got a masters in speech pathology at Temple. Moved to Bucks County, Pa. Originally worked with brain-injured children in a special school. Got divorced, went to work in a rehab hospital with brain-injured adults. Had my own home-care business for 10 years until 2007, now working in a nursing and rehab center in Philadelphia, still with brain-injured adults

Was always interested in traveling. In addition to Europe and Caribbean islands, visited Hong Kong, Japan, Kenya, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Peru, Nepal, Thailand. Also travelled the U.S. a bit. Especially loved a trip rafting down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

Somewhere along the line, got involved in rowing. Something of a surprise, since I was never especially athletic when younger – although when my father was alive, my whole family spent almost every summer weekend and vacation on our cabin cruiser, and I rowed a regular rowboat.

I am a competitive masters rower (over 27!) for one of the Philadelphia boathouses on Boathouse Row. For those of you who know rowing, I both scull and sweep and mostly compete in a master women’s 8, although I also row smaller boats and in mixed events as well. Now for vacation I look to see where there is a race I might enter. Went to Monaco in 2007 for a coastal rowing regatta.

I find great richness in both my job and my choice of recreation. Right now I can’t imagine retiring. Pretty much all I do is work and row. I am fond of saying that I am boring but not bored.

I have enjoyed reading all the other mini-bios – a good way to connect before meeting in person. I thought Frank Quayle’s description of the fight he had with Jack Farrell was hilarious. Michelle Murphy, I remember your Dad’s Sky Club well. Sue Denton, I would love to come to your restaurant next time I am in California. Athene, I’m sure you remember Mr. Biviano’s geometry class – we used to discuss the tough problems. Really, the math and science faculty were the best: good teachers and down-to-earth people too. Another favorite was John Orban and his chemistry class. And Mr. Decker! Not only a sweetheart, but the best-dressed teacher ever. I wasn’t the greatest physics student, but now we talk physics on a regular basis when discussing how to make boats go faster. I also remember Mrs. McNally and Mr. Slocum.

I still live in Bucks County, Pa., where it’s easy to get to both Philadelphia and New York. I do get to Garden City a lot. My mother now lives in East Williston, and I visit her regularly. I still think Garden City is one of the most beautiful towns in the U.S.

Parting Thought: I seek to emphasize the positive in life and minimize regrets. I wish everyone well.
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