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Name: Susan Walrich (Behm)
Address:13487 Landons Lane, Brandy Station, VA 22714
Email: sbwalrich@gmail.com
Spouse’s name: Todd Children: none
Occupation: Chief Financial Officer – Republican Majority for Choice
Education: AA- Marymount College, Arlington, Virginia, 1966
BA – Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 1968
M Ed – Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 1972
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:
I have come to realize that I was lucky enough to have experienced the wit, wisdom and challenges posed (and imposed) by truly gifted professionals, starting with those at GCHS, in the worlds of academia, public education and juvenile justice not to mention the energies and improbabilities of the national political arena. I discovered that while one career may not have been quite enough for me I have also come to understand that a resume peppered with interesting facts or a shelf loaded down with tributes is not really the true measure of a person but really just a dusting challenge. I’m proud that I had the chance to try a variety of professional paths – each requiring a different set of skills – and now see retirement in the horizon as just another path to venture down with enthusiasm and curiosity.
Along the way I have grown to appreciate the wisdom of stepping back and looking at problems as if they did not affect me at all. I have learned that the sound the head of a golf club makes when coming in perfect contact with a ball is as sweet as anything Motown produced in the 60’s. I continue to be mystified that there are those who religiously read my web column and take the time to tell me how much they like it. I believe a home grown tomato has it all over the ones at a farm stand. I know there is no better sound than my husband’s laugh, no better scare than watching him race his vintage car at a world class track and no better time than the all too few moments each year I get to spend with members of my family.
Parting Thoughts: If there was ever a golden generation, it has been ours. We have been the superlative of every possible category, so if I had only one wish it would be that we continue to be just exactly what we have been – the biggest, the brightest, the kindest, the most creative, the happiest and most importantly, the most generous.
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Name: Martha Tuck Rozett
Address: 124 South Pine Ave, Albany NY 12208
Telephone #’s: 518 482 0739 (home)
Email: rozett@albany.edu
Spouse’s name: John M. Rozett
Occupation: professor of English at the University at Albany
Education: BA English 1968, Radcliffe (Harvard); PhD English, University of Michigan 1973
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:
I’ve never left school, actually. I went straight from high school to college, and then to the University of Michigan, where I spent five years in graduate school. In 1973 I became a faculty member at UAlbany and I’ve been here ever since, teaching Shakespeare, contemporary historical fiction, writing courses, and occasionally offering lectures and courses in the community. I teach undergraduates and graduate students, supervise theses and dissertations, and have held a variety of administrative positions in my department and the university over the years. I've written three scholarly books, only one of which, I believe, is still in print. Altogether, it has been a great career, and I'm not quite ready to retire yet.
Albany is a wonderful small city to live and work in, and I've become involved with the professional theatre as a board member and education adviser, with the local branch of the English Speaking Union, which has a Shakespeare competition for high school students each year, and with Congregation B'nai Shalom, where I served as the chair of the religious school committee for several years.
My husband John retired from his position as an economic development analyst with the state Legislature a few years ago and spends winters playing golf in Florida, returning to Albany when the snows melt. We have a small apartment in NYC -- a no-maintenance vacation home -- where we spend weekends and vacations enjoying everything NYC has to offer (I began doing that when I was in high school and have never tired of the city).
My brother Dan Tuck still lives in Garden City, but I haven't spent much time there over the years. Has it changed?
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Name: Michael D Dobise (Mike)
Address: 43 Parkedge Dr, Feeding Hills, MA 01030
Telephone #’s: home – 413-786-6235 cell – 413-530-6665
Email: mikedobise@earthlink.net
Spouse’s name: Lynne
Children: Barbara (35), Michael (33), Jennifer (25)
Occupation: Treasurer, Springfield College
Education: BS, Accounting – CWPost College
CPA Maryland, Massachusetts
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:
I graduated from CWPost in February 1969. Attended law school through May 1971. Commissioned 2nd L, Army 1971, requested active duty and was turned down and assigned to Army reserve. Worked at a variety of jobs, Watergate Improvement Associates (the firm that built and managed the Watergate complex, and yes, I was there during the break-in), three of the then Big 8 CPA firms, in DC, Hartford and Springfield, (I was on the national insurance specialty group for one of them), private accounting for large and small companies, two regional CPA firms, and had my own practice for about ten years before I came to Springfield College about ten years ago. (It’s amazing how a heart attack can change your perspective.) Now I teach one course a semester because I enjoy it and work about seven hours a day. I don’t seem to use all my vacation each year. In between those jobs I taught at the jr. high and high school level, sold insurance and worked as a head hunter. Looking at it as I write this, I guess I didn’t know what I wanted to do, and still don’t. Maybe I need to grow up first. I have served or am now serving on a variety of Boards.
Married June 1970 to someone who puts up with me. (I followed her home and she kept me). Lynne worked as a systems analyst, ultimately retired from Mass Mutual and now works just because. She is from Massachusetts originally which is why after I took her away to DC for about seven years we ended up back here. We have lived in Massachusetts for a little over 30 years.
Barbara lives about an hour from us, out with the cows, and sheep and llamas. She is a stay at home Mom. Her three kids are Antonia (5) and Jacob and Gabriella (2 1/2). Mike is about ten minutes from us and Jennifer is still at home, but plans to move out within a year. Neither one is married yet. With the kids I coached soccer, coached at the high school, and was a referee.
I like to play golf whenever I can. Not good, but I’m not sure what that means. I can shoot anywhere from the low 80s to the mid 90s, it just depends how often I’m playing and my mood. I enjoy playing golf with Lynne. I enjoy doing anything with Lynne. I enjoy cooking. The problem with that is a 30-minute meal will usually take me about an hour and a half. I am not the fastest cook in the world. I cook with wine, and tend to sip now and then while cooking, and talk, and just putter. Also I tend to sort of follow the recipe, or not.
I have been in the Knights of Columbus since 1965 and am a Past Grand Knight and a Former District Deputy.
Parting thought: We can’t go back to where we were. But we can take those memories of the class of 64, and look to where we are going. We have grown, built on the base we had when we looked to the future with hope and not a little naiveté. I look forward to our reunion. I’m really not sure what this means but I wanted to write something.
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Name: Linda J. Bennett (Accardo)
Address: 50 Arbor Lane, Dix Hills, New York 11746
Telephone #’s: 631-421-9008
Email: lindajbennett47@yahoo.com
Spouse’s name: Christopher
Children: 2 Christopher & Kim
Occupation: retired Nassau County Probation Officer
Education: Master’s Degree from C.W.Post in Criminal Justice; undergraduate degree in Early Childhood Education
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:
Following H.S. graduation I completed College in 1968 and immediately started working for Nassau Co. as a Social worker ( Dep’t of Soc Services) and the went on to work for 25 yrs as a Probation Officer (Nassau Co). For most of that time I worked in the Family Court Div handling all family and juvenile matters. After retirement, I worked as a paralegal for GEICO. Currently, I volunteer at Huntington Hospital, supervising the Jr. Volunteers and I pursue my lifelong passion for art through oil painting. I have had my work shown in art exhibits.
Most interesting/funny fact about my life thus far: this spring I will be touring China
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Name: Jack Biggane
Address: 168 Euston Rd., Garden City, New York 11530
Telephone #’s: 5168163623
Email: bigganej@optonline.net
Spouse’s name: Maggie
Children: Julie, John, Mollie and Cara
Occupation: Retired
Education: St. Leo University BA
Hobbies: Golf, racquetball and tennis
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:
Since graduating college in 1968, I was drafted into the Army where I spent fourteen months in Korea. In 1970, I hooked up with Dave Lawton and he we began a job search. I landed a job at IBM where I spent almost twenty years before joining Atalla, a data encryption company in Silicon Valley . I finished my career as a VP of Sales at VeriSign (Internet Security…Digital Certificates) and retired in 2002.
I married Maggie Glennon from New Jersey in 1975. We have four children, three work and live in New York City and Mollie we lost to melanoma in year 2000 when she was a sophomore in college. We started a foundation in her name, The Mollie Biggane melanoma Foundation www.molliesfund.org.. We spend a good deal of time on melanoma awareness programs through educational materials, conferences and symposiums.
Maggie and I split our time between Garden City and Cutchogue on the North Folk of Long Island. We often get together with Al Vanasco, Rick Fortney, Martha Harrington Kennedy and Kathy McGroaty Mabry.
Parting Thought: Whoever painted the chimney of the High School in 1964 should come clean at our 45th reunion.
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Name: Bruce David Myers
Address: 693 Evangeline Road, Forest Park, OH 45240
Telephone #’s: 513-742-1361 or 513-532-9863 (cell)
Email: bruishous@cinci.rr.com
Spouse’s name: Marcia Jeanne
Children: Shawn, Brian, Heidi, Heather – 3 married one to go; four grandchildren with one on the way
Occupation: Construction Project Manger - Retired
Education: BS from Bradley University, MBA from Findlay University
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:
After attending Bradley University from 1964 to 1966, majoring in fun with a minor in academics, I enlisted in the US Navy October 1966 hoping to avoid Vietnam. Spent two years aboard the USS Preble and made two WestPac tours in the Tonkin Gulf. In 1968 transferred to Mare Island for Mobile Riverine Training for Patrol Boat River duty (PBR- the small boat featured in Apocalypse Now) and spent 1969 patrolling the Mekong Delta in South Vietnam. Was honorably discharged December 1969 and returned to GC.
September 1970, returned to Bradley U and graduated with a BS in Construction Management. Also met and married Marcia J Reece before graduation. Our first son was also born during this time.
From 1973 to 1986 worked for MW Kellogg and Rust Engineering building refineries and chemical plants in Joliet IL; Yosu, South Korea; New Orleans, LA; Clinton, Iowa; Los Angles, CA; Hackensack, NJ; and Mobile, AL.
1986 had a chance to settle down, working on a DOE feed plant in Cincinnati. This started as a building program and ended as a demolition program. In 2003 was laid off and spend six months looking for work.
2003 found a job with a Charlotte company again moving around the country on numerous projects in Tomah WI; Hattiesburg MS; Tampa FL; and Washington DC. In June of 2008 retired at 62.
Currently enjoying retirement, but looking for a part time job preferably on a golf course.
Parting thought:
During my childhood we moved five times before settling in GC and upon high school graduation I told mom that after college I was never going to move again, well that did not happen. One has to make the best of what life deals out.
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Name: Paul Pickhardt
Address: 6 Black Pine Court
Simpsonville, SC 29681
Telephone #’s: 864-962-5213 Home
Email: PGPick@aol.com
Spouse’s name: Susan
Children: Jonathan (34) & Kurt (24)
Occupation: SBA lender
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:
Right after graduation, my family moved to the Pittsburgh, PA area and I attended Memphis State. Although we all received a tremendous education at GC High, I found that I was unprepared for college and left during my freshman year to join the Army.
I graduated from Officer Candidate School at Fort Knox and was commissioned as an Armor 2nd Lieutenant. I served as a platoon leader with the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam in 1967 & 1968 and returned back to the US as a Captain assigned to Ft. Bragg in North Carolina, where I met my future wife, Susan.
After the military, I began a career in the apparel manufacturing business and moved my family all over the East Coast from Maine to Alabama for the next 33 years as I chased the corporate dream until that entire industry left the country.
Out of necessity I remade myself into a commercial lender at age 56 and now specialize in SBA lending, an industry which allows me to utilize some of the experience and consulting skills I was able to develop during my previous professional experiences.
We have 2 grandchildren from our oldest son, Griffin (age 5) and Jackson (age 1), who live 3 miles from us in the Greenville, SC area.
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Name: Steve Vince (MD)
Address: 5505 Oak Lane in Ames, IA 50014 (in Iowa State Cyclone country.)
Telephone #’s: 515-296-2589 (home) 515-291-3505 (cell)
Email: swvmd@aol.com
Family Info: Married to Kathy Kay since December 30th 1997 with a 9 1/2 yr old teen wannabe son Zach. Kathy is a registered nurse and a yoga, belly dance and kick-boxing instructor.
I retired in June '08 after 25 years as a diagnostic radiologist, and after surviving open heart surgery and a stroke. Add 2 straightened knees and a trip to Belgium for 2 really cool hips and I'm only about 80% original parts (to date)!
Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:
After GCHS I spent 4 years at Lafayette College (AB Psych) playing lacrosse and soccer and ROTC, and then spent 7 years in the regular US Army in Armored and Air Cav jumping out of and then flying helicopters and a tour in Viet Nam with the 11th Armored Cav before hanging things up in March, 1975.
Then I was off to the Dominican Republic for 4 1/2 years of med school and thesis prep, a return for tests to prove I'd learned more than Spanish and could still speak English, a year of lab/path training at the North Shore University Hospital and 5 years at the U of Iowa (Hawkeyes) and the local VA Hospital learning x-ray. Then lots of jobs all over (11 active state medical licenses at one point) filling in for other guys, a 5 1/2 year stint at the county hospital in rural Boone, IA and then 10 more years all over Iowa and Minnesota while my family got older.
Then the wheels came off and got fixed and things were quasi-normal until I picked up a heart infection so exotic that no one had any idea what it was, and after caving it out, and half the mitral valve along with it, and some major rebuilding, I capped it all off with a stroke in Dec '07 which pretty much knocked me out of the game.
On the bright side, I'm back to doing aerobics and catching most of my own typos. I've just recently discovered facebook and a number of classmates and friends and will keep up with everyone as long as I'm able. I knew Hank Carde and his mom pretty well and talked with him shortly before he died. A hero to the end! And I was saddened to see so many names of our classmates' names on the memorial wall. As my brother Clint told me at my folk’s memorial service 5 years ago (they passed within 8 days of each other), "We're next." And so, on that happy note I wish you all well and if I'm able to get there from here, I'll see many of you end of June!
Warm regards,
Steve
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