NAME: Tom Laboda
Address: 510 NW 84th Ave., Apt. 445, Plantation, Fl. 33324
Telephone #’s: 954-452-3170 (winter); 828-733-6140 (summer)
Email: southernridge@aol.com
Spouse’s name: Rosa
Children: Steve and Debbie; Grandchildren: Morgan (10), Katelyn (10), Alexis (8), and Lauren (8).
Occupation: Retired from Centex Homes in 2000 as VP-Product Development and General Contractor; retired from Plantation Vol. Fire Dept. as Station Captain in 1994.
Education: BS from Ithaca College (1969)
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964: (Seems so long ago_) After taking the wrong fork in the road after graduation and ending up in a military academy for less than a semester and working for Nabisco in Market Research in NYC til the Fall of ‘65, I entered Ithaca College and graduated in the Summer of ‘69 with a BS in Business Administration, which was a new major for Ithaca, packed my VW with all I owned and headed to North Miami Beach. (During Spring Break, while all my IC buddies were hanging on the beach at the Castaways, I was interviewing.) I started working for Winston Development, which later became Centex Homes, on a high-rise condo on the beach as asst. superintendent. I couldn’t believe I was on the beach all day and getting paid.
I met Rosa (her Alabama accent did the trick) during the summer of ‘70 and we were married three months later. (As I am writing this she is on her way down to the gym to work out to make me feel guilty.) We’ve been blessed with two great kids (their spouses are great too). Steven and Debbie both graduated from the University of Alabama (Steve, all 6'-5_ and 300 lbs of him played a little football for Coach Perkins) and Debbie was a manager at Office Depot before becoming a mom. Steve’s wife Abbe also graduated from Bama and Debbie’s husband graduated from FAU with a Master’s and is a VP at Verizon in Dallas. Steve is a custom builder in Atlanta. Our gifts from both of them are four beautiful and active grand-daughters. (We hope they’re saving for the weddings_)
Centex was in the lead when homebuilding was peaking in Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties and I was in the right place at the right time. When I left GC who would have thought construction was even an option? I had positions of Field Supt., Project Engineer, Project Manager, and Production Manager, all leading to VP of Product Development when I retired in July of 2000. Way back in 1970 I had become a Fla. General Contractor and Real Estate Salesman for Centex, which I still keep current because you never know, especially now.
Since my Grandfather was a Captain in the Mineola FD, I had that bug, so I joined the Plantation FD in 1974 as a firefighter, then driver-engineer, lieutenant, and finally station captain. Plantation was and is still volunteer, with 6 stations, over 22 trucks and 200 members, and while not putting up buildings, was on call whenever home, but I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. After retiring as Captain, I became a Fire Municipal Fire Inspector to help out Plantation, as well as Association Secretary, until ‘95.
Rosa and I are enjoying retirement (she had five tennis pro shops for several years in Broward County, until the discounters came along) and only wish the kids were closer. We built a summer home in the NC mountains in 1986 which we are now able to enjoy each summer and fall. We’re called “half-backs” because we only went halfway back to NY as opposed to “Snowbirds.” Condo living has made it easy to just lock the door, load the car and head to the mountains or the beach. We both enjoy playing golf, Rosa loves her tennis (I stay clear of her on the court–her Plantation team went all the way to the Volvo Finals in Palm Springs back in the 90's and placed Second), I target and trap shoot and sell military items in a shop in NC.
I still remember being in the cafeteria when the yearbooks were passed out and signed like it was yesterday and being fortunate that all those Wetson cheeseburgers and the draft beer at the Gold Coast didn’t prove to be toxic, at least in the long term.
My best to all of you.
Most salient high school memory: Hanging out with the “Tranny-Men” and learning to leave a patch in a Buick Invicta, and getting scolded by Margaret McNally and giving her grief while in the NHS courtyard.
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NAME: Robert G. Liming
Address: Suite 167, 1520 Senate Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201 USA
Telephone #’s: 803-252-2167
Email: rliming@sc.rr.com
Spouse’s name: None
Children: Two sons, William, 39, and Luke, 35, and five grandchildren
Occupation: CEO, Trebor Limited, Government and Marketing Communications
Education: BFA from Texas Christian University (68) MMC from University of South Carolina (77)
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:
August 1968 to December 1969---graduate teaching assistant at the University of South Carolina College of Journalism and also a reporter for The Columbia Record; December 1969 to December 1970---press secretary to Congressman Albert W. Watson from South Carolina’s second congressional district; December 1970 to December 1974---governmental affairs writer for The State, Columbia, South Carolina; December 1974 to January 1979---executive assistant for public affairs to South Carolina Governor James B. Edwards coordinating all media relations and serving as spokesman for the governor; January 1979 to January 1991---state director of tourism responsible for the management of South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism’s travel and tourism marketing efforts;. January 1991 to December 1997---served as director of PRT’s International Marketing Division; December 1997 to November 2001---director of PRT’s New Market Development Office developing new international travel markets for the state, including the establishment of a marketing program in Japan; November 2001 to April 2003---senior editor for the department; July 2003 to November 2008--- Special Projects Manager, Office of Constituent Services, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services; assume CEO position of Trebor Limited, marketing and communications, December 2008 to present.
Parting thought: Jeremiah 29:11-13
Most salient high school memory: Totaling Steve Planson’s father’s Chrysler
Most interesting/funny fact about my life thus far: Meeting four Presidents
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Name: Frank Quayle
Address: 800 Covey Hill, Charlottesville, Va. 22901
Telephone #’s: 434-971-5962/434-951-5100
Email: fjqiii@aol.com
Spouse’s name:Peggy
Children: Jay, Willie, Kelly
Occupation: Real Estate brokerage
Education: University of Virginia (’69) BS
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:
Following college I played a couple of years in the NFL and would work in the off season in Charlottesville at UVa. I ended up making Charlottesville home and now some 38 years later reflect on what a good decision that was for me. It has proven to be a wonderful place to live and raise a family. I got started selling real estate and after a time found myself with the opportunity to buy the company I worked for…., Roy Wheeler Realty, a local company that had been started in 1927 by an UVa law school graduate. It has been a great ride but a little bumpy recently! The silver lining, however, is all the free time I have to work on my golf game!
My family has been, without question, the highlight of my life. I have a wonderful wife (thirty-eight years and counting) Peggy, a William and Mary graduate and a Virginia native. My oldest child, Jay, is a surgeon living in Durango with his wife (a urologist) and our three grandchildren. My second son, Will, is on the Big Island of Hawaii and is anticipating the arrival of his first child in May. My daughter Kelly is teaching at a charter school in Oakland, California. There are a hundred reasons I am proud of my children but one of the most unique reasons is that each of them got to play on a national championship college lacrosse team (Jay and Kelly at Princeton and Willie at UVa). I feel a little awkward in relaying that after reading Tommy Schenck’s bio where he didn’t mention that his daughter Annie was a first team college All-American soccer player for Emory and received a much coveted NCAA graduate scholarship award given each year to just a handful of truly outstanding scholar-athletes.
I have stayed close to Tommy and his family. We have vacationed together in Hilton Head each August for twenty-five or so years. In addition, Tommy and I have played together in my club member-guest tournament for over twenty years……remarkably without ever winning it. Makes me understand what it feels like to be a Chicago Cubs fan! I have also stayed close to Dave Lawton and was thrilled to watch Dave and Laurie (Loranger) get together, subsequently get married, and today enjoy such a wonderful relationship. I also need to mention Rick Fortney who has been kind enough to host me at the Garden City Golf Club on my infrequent trips to Garden City. I hope Rick realizes what a treat it is for me to play that very special golf course where I first started playing the game on caddy days!
Salient high school memory:
I recently received one of those emails we all receive from buddies sharing the latest, funniest, and wittiest of material. This one was entitled High School: 1958 – 2008 and here is one of the examples offered:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1958 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2008 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.
It brought back a rush of memories, though instead of it being Johnny and Mark it was Jack (Farrell) and yours truly. It was the early spring of 1960, after school one day. The setting was the grounds of the Garden City Hotel across from our Junior H.S. In my mind there were hundreds of classmates there but now I guess the true number was closer to twenty-five! I have no idea what precipitated the fight but I do remember coming out on the short end of it. One might think that was a pretty insignificant event but it proved to be a meaningful catalyst for me…..life changing actually. I was pretty small at the time (wrestling at under 103 lbs.) and had broken my hand in four places that past fall, when Todd Middleton, at 200 pounds stepped on it in the last game of our freshman football season. I had not gotten any bigger by spring and had decided that as much as I loved football I was just too small to play at the high school level. As a result of my fight with Jack and (in my mind) subsequent humiliation, I recommitted myself to getting bigger, stronger, faster.
Fast forward to 1999, nearly forty years later. I was back in Garden City for perhaps the first time in some fifteen or twenty years. I was in Leo’s on a Friday night and someone at the opposite end of the bar was staring at me; and than he smiled. I started walking down to him and half-way there realized it was Jack Farrell. That we were both there was pretty remarkable in itself, as Jack shared with me that he was living in up state New York and didn’t get back to GC to often; though he was there to see his daughter who was a sophomore at GC High and on the girl’s basketball team. I shared my story with Jack and let him know that over the years I have thought of him often and when doing so almost always offered a prayer of thanks for what happened on that early spring day in 1960, on the grounds of the GC hotel.
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NAME: Ed Rea
Address: 122 Pine St, Portland, Maine 04102
Telephone #’s: 207-899-3902 (h)
Email: ed@mainelyrea.com
Spouse’s name: Karen
Children: Chris & Melissa
Occupation: (currently) Non-profit Executive Director
Education: BA, Williams College, 1968
MPA, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 1972
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:
US Navy 1968-1971; political science background led to assignments as engineering officer on 2 destroyers before participation in the anti-war Concerned Officers Movement led to an early out. On graduation from Syracuse went to the Federal Office of Management and Budget. Was with the National Security Division 1972-1982 and the Budget Review Division 1982-2002; Branch Chief 1986-2002. Active with St. George’s Episcopal Church in Arlington, Virginia 1975-2005. Executive Director of the Arlington-Alexandria Coalition for the Homeless in Arlington, Virginia, 2002-2007. Executive Director of the Ocean Park Association in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, 2007-present. OPA, founded in 1881, is one of a handful of surviving Chautauqua communities. See us at
www.oceanpark.org.
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NAME: Doris (Duncan) Howard
Address: 103 Maple Street, Norwood, MA 02062
Telephone #’s: 781-762-0005
Email: dhowartist@verizon.net
Spouse’s name: Andrew
Children: Emily, age 22
Occupation: Retired Art Teacher: Docent for the MFA of Boston
Education: B.F.A. Syracuse University,
MFA Boston University
Hobbies: Traveling, Artistic endeavors, teaching children
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:
I worked for 35 years as an art instructor in the Norwood Massachusetts Public School system, teaching all levels K-12; secured a one year Artist in Residence assignment in Arizona; am now having a ball -although totally volunteer- taking classes and being a docent for the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
I have one daughter, Emily Elizabeth who is 22 going on 35 and proving that puberty and menopause do not mix… She graduated Cum Laude from Bates College last June and I went to visit her while she had semesters abroad in Russia and Australia. I LOVE to travel and must admit I have been to some
amazing places in my life (China, Egypt, Africa, Greece, Turkey, New Zealand, Spain, etc.) collecting local artwork and taking
1000s of photos.
I am a professional artist who does commission children and pet portraits -and the occasional house or second life crisis car- and I also “write” Byzantine Icons (a painting style of the Orthodox religion
that has not deviated for almost 2000 years!)
I am planning on going to the reunion in June and catching up with
everyone’s lives beyond facebook!
Parting thought: …Life is not a dress rehearsal…
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