Name:  Priscilla Small

Address:  PO Box 426 Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948

Telephone #’s:  252 441 6111; 252 256 4334

Email:  sunnysmall@charter.net

Spouse’s name:  Richard Baer

Children:  Luke (29); Alex (27); Zoë (22)

Occupation:  Retired Registered Nurse

Education:  BFA ’68 University of Kansas;  Nursing Diploma ’75 Washington Hospital Center School of Nursing

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

I started college at Hofstra in pre-nursing, and then transferred to University of Kansas to be with my senior year boyfriend, Rue Chagoll.  We parted ways after a semester, but I stayed on at KU and switched to studying commercial art, but graduated with a degree in fashion illustration.  I picked up the nickname “Sunny” in college, which has stuck with me.  For a few years I designed financial graphics for Chase Manhattan Bank.  I made woodblock prints before traveling in Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for ten weeks with a group organized through So. Illinois University.  I returned to school to become a nurse, after all, and worked in general surgery and became head nurse of neurosurgery, while living on Capitol Hill in DC.  After the rigors of working through a month long nurses’ strike, understaffing, and the usual problems associated with nursing, I left my job.  I traveled to Mexico with a friend and upon my return managed to get pregnant.  Whoops!  After a short stint working back at the hospital, I moved in with a group of friends in Herndon, VA including Patch Adams.  Patch and his wife, Linda, became my birth coaches and assisted me with the birth of my first son, Luke.  A year later, I moved to Kill Devil Hills to live with Luke’s father, Richard Baer.  We married a few weeks before our second son, Alex, was born.  Although I was a stay-at-home Mom, I organized a group of local people to form a hospice program.  As executive director and president of the board, I volunteered and remained active with the program for ten years.  Richard and I had our daughter, Zoë, during that time.  I volunteered in Boy Scouting for thirteen years, and helped coach my daughter’s soccer team.  All three of our children went to high school at St. Andrew’s School in Delaware, so we spent a lot of time traveling up Rt. 13 for visits.  Luke went to Kenyon College, Alex to Tulane, and Zoë graduated from Duke last May.  Luke is a coach coordinator and coach for a youth soccer club in Honolulu.  I visited with Dotty (Setian) Yogi when I was out there on my last trip in December ‘07.  Alex lives next door to us and is looking for a job again.  I just returned from visiting Zoë in Cairo, where she is teaching English at a private school.  She is fluent in Arabic and hopes to continue studying Arabic at AUC before returning to the States to find a job teaching Arabic.  We had been at the Khan el-Khalili on two occasions, where the recent bombing occurred, just weeks before.

My biggest interests, other than my children, are gardening, and watching soccer and NCAA basketball (my husband is a UNC graduate,  adding a little rivalry).  I was a four to five day a week tennis player, until I ruined my hip by stepping into a two foot deep nutria hole in our yard.  The hip was replaced almost two years ago, but I haven’t gotten back out on the courts again.  I did get to go to the Australian Open in 2004.  Zoë’s crew rowed at Henley that year, so I also got to go to Wimbledon.  I have been a member of the Professional Advisory Committee for the Dare County Home Health and Hospice and help fund raise for them.   Richard is semi-retired from Property Management, but continues to handle our own properties.  I am starting a job as an assistant to a physical therapist in a few weeks to prop up our failing rental income.  It should be fun since I’ll know most of the clients in this small community.  

Most salient high school memory:   It’s hard to identify ONE memory, but perhaps one many people would remember was the day that our beloved senior mascot, Kon, was stolen from the football game.  “We love you, Kon, oh yes we do”.  Who remembers the thief and what happened to him?  I must also mention the many teachers whose idiosyncrasies burn in my memory:  Ella Hagadorn, Martha Schnaubelt,  Murray Walter, Joe Formisano, Cynthia Kendall,  John Horton, Margaret McNally, Bob Richmond, Jim Steen, Inez Spiers, Bea Toner, Pat James, and from the janitorial staff Mr. Melenski.  We were blessed to have great teachers
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Name:           Betty Emslie & Dick Conway

Address:        438 Oceanfront, Long Beach, NY  11561

Phone #’s       (516)897-3012 (Home), (516)242-4429 (Cell)

E-mail:          bettyconway@optonline.net, recon42@optonline.net

Children:        Kristi (38), Kimi (36), Kelly (32)

Grandchildren:  Brady (5), Kate (3), ReeseC. (3), Owen (3),

                    twins, Luke & Michael (1) & VivE. (6 mos.)                                                                                                  

Occupations:  Betty, school secretary; Dick, telecommunication sales/sales management.

Educations:      Betty, Business School; Dick, C. W. Post College

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

After Business School, Betty worked until 1970 for Pam Am World Airways and enjoyed using all her travel benefits.  Betty and I married in 1968 and we kept traveling – Europe, Asia, Hawaii & more – until parenthood.  In 1970, our first daughter was born and we settled in Stony Brook, NY where our other two daughters were born.

I graduated C. W. Post College in ’69, stayed on as a graduate assistant with the Athletic Department for a year until Kristi forced a real job on me.  My career has been spent in telecommunication sales/sales management for Xerox, Micom/Phillips, Rolm then retiring after 20 years from Siemens at the end of 2003.  With sales award trips, we’ve been fortunate to have had additional travel all these years.  Along the way relationships with GC folks helped to guide career choices – Tom Hipp, Class of ’64 steered me towards Xerox and Kathy McGroarty’s husband opened some doors at Micom/Phillips.

Our daughter’s grew up much as we did.  Communities where education, sports, activities and community involvement counted.  In 1979 we moved to Rockville Centre, close to many friends in GC and an easier commute to NYC.  During these years, our favorite activities included camping, skiing most winters, spending time on our daughter’s high-school and college campuses and now seeing our grandchildren almost daily. And along the way, Betty became a very good, trophy winning, local tennis player.

Our daughter’s all left Long Island for College – Lehigh Univ. PA, Univ. of Virginia and Univ. of Rhode Island – all have now returned to Nassau County (2 in Rockville Centre, 1 in Manhasset) with husband’s in-toe and 7 adorable grandkids, so far…we were altogether yesterday at our regular meeting spot at St. Paul’s School property in Garden City where we use their playground equipment.  Great facility…

In 1997, Betty & I moved to a condo in Long Beach with the Atlantic Ocean as our backdrop, the same beach that my parents brought me to as a youngster.  With Betty’s retirement after 20 years working at Rockville Centre Schools last August, 2008, we now have a retirement home very close to our family, the beach and a great boardwalk for walking and biking, and of course, watching the ‘jiggly’.

I have spent some of my retirement with my favorite hobby - design, build, re-build, and then build again friends and family home projects, much as I did throughout our married life.  But most of all, we treasure the time spent with our children & growing up with our grandchildren. 
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Name:    Lorna Litton

Address: 145 Hamlet Drive, Mt. Sinai, NY 11766

Phone:  ( 631) 473-1951

Children:   Sunny (35), Samantha (33), Serena (25), and Stacey (23)

Occupation:   Maintaining and renting vacation home on LI North Fork

Education:  Merrimack College (BA), Adelphi University (Masters in Reading Ed)

Hobbies etc.   Golf, Travel,Volunteering

I have worked for the American Red Cross in Military Hospitals,  taught school in the city and at the Adelphi Reading Center,  bought, renovated and sold numerous investment properties,
 and at the age of 50, discovered that there was a market for 
"older women" in television commercials.   While I was 
raising my girls I did a lot of volunteering.  Spent many 
years with Girl Scouts, PTA, Music Guild and as an EMT 
with the Mineola Volunteer Ambulance Corps.

I have four beautiful daughters who are the loves of my life.
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Name: Janet (Jewett) Dickinson

Address: 4711 La Villa Marina #D, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292-7012

Telephone #’s: (H) 310 823-2155

Email: janetleedickinson@gmail.com

Spouse’s name: divorced

Children: Scott (39), Ross ( 37)

Occupation: RN; Retired Air Force LTC (flight nurse)

Education: AA Nursing; BS Organizational Management

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964: I went to nursing school in Boston. I wanted to join the military but my parents wouldn't allow it, so I quit in '68 to work for American Airlines. I married Al Dickinson in '69 on a break from his tour with the 1st Air Cav in Vietnam (helicopter pilot). We then lived at FT Rucker, AL and FT Eustis, VA.  I loved being a military wife and wanted to join the Army Nurse Corps but my husband wouldn't allow it. Divorced him in '77, bought my own house, finished nursing school and worked at the Shock Trauma Unit in Baltimore, then changed  to  OR nursing at Johns Hopkins Hospital.  Finally, when my kids were in high school, I joined the military (yeah!). At 39, I was "too old" for active duty, so I was assigned to the MD National Guard. With kids off to college, I moved to Hawaii as a Nurse Recruiter for six years and was activated several times for state emegencies with the Hawaii Army Guard. I got my BS at Hawaii  Loa College and moved to California to work at Kaiser Permanente. When the 176th Med Brgde was dissolved, I transfered to the CA Air National Guard and went to flight training in Texas. I have loved my time in the military. It's all been positive experiences. I've traveled to Korea to be medical support for military war exercises; to Japan to demonstrate MASH units; to Panama...to be medical support to Army engineers building schools in a distant village and to bring medical aid to tribes that were sick and the roads were inaccessible;  we instructed the military in the Ukraine on how to better handle mass casualties.  After 9/11, I  went on full time active duty.  I've been in the "sandbox". Lived in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Oman, etc. to fly our wounded soldiers out of the war zone and into Germany for medical care. I was then assigned to Scott AFB in Illinois until I retired last year. I am now enjoying all the things I've always wanted to do but never had time for......and I love to travel  (to the places I want to go to this time!). Honestly, nothing makes you appreciate this country more than traveling overseas. America is not perfect by any means, however....I would rather live here than anywhere else in the world!!!  I am now working per diem (a few days/month) in nursing. My oldest son is an artist and my youngest son works for Pixar. I live near the beach. Life is good!

Parting thought: Friends have come and gone over the years. I have only kept in touch with a few friends from high school...but those years are so fresh in my memory. They were years in which we were growing, learning....and everything was so passionate! We studied hard, partied often, had BEST friends, important secrets, boyfriends, school dances, football games and so many vivid memories. I look back fondly on them all, but what I want to know is....why is it that I can remember so many names from high school so clearly...... but can't remember what I ate for lunch yesterday? Go figure....! 
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Name: Athene Landis Anderson      

Address: 9038 SE 59^th St, Mercer Island WA  98040

Telephone #’s: H: 206 723-8644  C: 206 280-3414

Email: AtheneC@aol.com

Spouse’s name: Widowed      

Children: I wanted them but it never happened

Occupation: Ombudsman, IRS, retired (thank you Lord)    

Education:   BA Skidmore College, M.Ed College of William and Mary

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

I have lived in many great places since I left Garden city, from Boston to Laredo TX to Atlanta, to Washington DC landing in Seattle where I’ve been since 1979. I’ve been both unlucky and lucky in love, divorced twice and widowed once. My late husband Bob was the love of my life and we spent 21 years laughing at life together. He had a successful heart transplant and then developed a rare degenerative neurological disorder from which he died 6 years ago.  I was his willing caregiver throughout his illness. I miss him madly.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who ended up with a career they never could have predicted.  What kid says “I want to work at Internal Revenue Service when I grow up?” I got teaching credentials during the Vietnam War, and jobs were scarce as many young men became teachers to stay home. I substituted for a while and started working at IRS for full time employment. Eventually I became an administrator and ended my career as an Ombudsman.  My best job was as the Director of Support and Management at the International Office of IRS with 10 posts of duty around the world.  I always enjoyed telling people I was the “Director of S&M.” My mother never thought it was funny.

Speaking of my parents, my father Leo (of GC’s Leo’s  fame) lived to be 101 and passed away 6 years ago. It is so crazy to go to the reunions and have Leo’s (formerly Leo’s Midway) as a meeting place! It’s twice the size it was when he owned it, as it eventually took over the Garden City Music store that was adjoining it on the corner of Franklin and 7^th Streets. It was my job to sweep the floors as a kid growing up, and to this day, I can’t stand the smell of beer and I’ve never smoked!

After I retired, I’ve taught English to Vietnamese refugees as a volunteer, produced a liturgy book for my church, and cared for my late husband for many years. Since then I’ve gone to Greece every year to see my first cousins who live on a farm on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, across the street from the Gulf of Corinth (seriously). Bob and I befriended many Greek families who came to Seattle for bone marrow transplants (the protocol was invented here at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute) and several of them lived with us for extended periods of time.  When I go to Greece now, they argue over whom I should visit first, so I never tell any of them when I actually arrived in the country. O, the wily Greek!

I’ve enjoyed being able to see Bobbie Max, Florence Driscoll and Ellen Garrison in the last few years and I’m looking forward to seeing many more at the reunion! One of my favorite high school memories was when Pam Ross and I stole Mr. Biviano’s shoes  which he had taken off while proctoring a study hall.  We took them to the lost and found.  He was not amused. We thought it was hilarious!
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Name:  Bob Burton                                      [updated 2014]

Address:  505 Revere Court, Hockessin, DE, 19707

Telephone #’s:  302-230-0991

Email:  hibo46@aol.com

Spouse’s name:  Hilda

Children:   Michael (Mike)  (43)

Occupation:  Retired

Education:  Gardner-Webb University, Western Carolina University (BS), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (M. Ed), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,  Duke University,  Xavier University of Cincinnati, University of Georgia

 

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

My entire thirty-six plus year professional career was spent serving disabled/handicapped individuals either as a counselor, supervisor, manager or advocate/volunteer in local non-profit agencies and professional counseling organizations.
 

After completing graduate school, I went to work as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for the North Carolina Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in Charlotte assigned to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District.  Here, I meet my wife, Hilda, a vocational evaluator for a private sheltered workshop for the severely disabled.  A promotion to a Supervisory Rehabilitation Counselor took us to Butner, N.C. working with a staff serving all types of physical and mental disabilities.
 

After eight years with the N.C. Division, I accepted another Rehabilitation opportunity with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Veterans Administration) in Cincinnati, Ohio as a Counseling Psychologist. Four years later and a promotion to a Supervisory Counseling Psychologist (VR&E Officer) at the VA Medical and Regional Office, in Wilmington, Delaware. Retiring as a Senior Manager from the VA at the VA Regional Office and Insurance Center in Philadelphia.


Although I spent all of my working career in Rehabilitation Counseling, my first love has always been with marching and concert bands.  My undergraduate advisor thought that I spent too much time in the band room and not enough in the psychology department.  I continued that interest as a volunteer with the Alexis I. DuPont H.S. Band in Wilmington, DE.  It was during these 15 years that I was a band booster officer and the tour manager for the marching band. This gave Hilda and me the opportunity to participate in three Rose Parades, two in which I marched, and participated in two St. Patrick Day Parades in Dublin, Ireland, and three London New Year's Day parades in England.  Additionally,  I was the  Band Coordinator for the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade for 8 years.

Since our last reunion, Hilda and I have been volunteering in various capacities with the  Dickinson Theatre Organ Society in Wilmington and I am the Vice Chairman of the American Theatre Organ Society National Convention being held in Philadelphia in July 2015.  Hilda is the convention's Secretary.

Our son, Mike, graduated from college with a Theater Degree and has been working as a Professional Stand Up Comic based out of New York City.  He regularly performs in comedy clubs and has performed in front of and behind the cameras as a television Warm-Up Comic for the Bethenny Show, The Chew, The Revolution and for Rachel Ray and Martha Stewart,  in the City, on Long Island, regularly in Atlantic City and Las Vegas at the Tropicana, and through out the country.  He is married to Mychelle, a musical theater major,  and an Assistant Professor of Dental Hygiene at a local college in the city  and they have a eleven year old son, Caden in the six grade at York Prep Academy.

 
My wife and I enjoy traveling in the United States and around the world  having visited Egypt, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico since our last reunion.  This year we will be traveling to Sweden, Denmark and Norway this summer.

Unfortunately, I have lost all contact with my high school classmates having been back to Garden City only twice since graduation.  Unfortunately we won't be able to make this reunion due to several conflicts, we expect everyone will have a great time as we did at the 45th reunion.

A Thought for the Future:  Let's Have Fun! and remember music is in everyone's soul, you just have to let it loose.