Name:  William ("Kim") Polignani

Telephone: 516-431-4488

E-mail: polignani@msn.com

Spouse name:  Divorced

Children: Jonathan (age 17) and Michael (age 15)

Occupation: Attorney conducting civil and criminal trial practice and Ethicist (chairperson ethics committee at Long Beach Medical Center)

Education: 1991, Masters in theology, Seminary of Immaculate Conception; 1971, Juris Doctor, New York Law School; 1968, B.A., Villanova University

Since graduating from Garding City High School in 1964:

 While in high school I loved watching TV shows and movies about trial lawyers, the lone gun-fighter or the person fighting "the system"  ("Perry Mason, " "Paladin, "High Noon," and the best, "On the Waterfront") and playing football --- they fueled my love for the success of the underdog and going against convential wisdom.  Life experience has taught me that persistence and a "DON'T QUIT" attitude proves "success is failure turned inside out. . "  I have won and lost many trials but win or loose, I always win.  I have no retirement pension and I expect (and hope) to be practicing law for some time -- going out with my boots on.

My very best friend was always my father, Frank, who I gave such a hard time to while growing up.  I was amazed on how much smarter he became when I turned about 25.  Frank passed away in 1999, but he is still helping out.  My mother, Gloria, has turned 86 and is in the process of buying the new Camaro.  (By the way, my grandfather, Amadeo Polignani, is one of this nation's greatest heros having thwarted in March, 1915, as an undercover police officer for the NYPD Bomb Squad, a plot by militant anarchists (terrorists) to commence a nationwide "reign of terror" by blowing up St. Patrick's Cathedral during a High Mass and assassinating Rockefeller, Carnegie and Vanderbilt, which would hopefully lead to revolution and the downfall of our constitutional government.  Much has been written on this event along with the related events of the 1919 nine-city terrorist attack and the 1920 Wall Street terrorist bombing.)

I was a single man until I was 41 when I fell in love with a 27 year old "hard body" -- life certainly was good and just.  Who better than I to be the envy of men.  But as we all know, life is not always what it appears nor is it "greener" on the other side of the street.  After 11 years we separated and later divorced.  My two boys, the dog (Snowball, a Lab) and I moved out of the marital residence into a small, cramped, attic apartment which was "Heaven on Earth" since it was on the water in Long Beach, N Y and a good place to "recover."

My sons, Jonathan and Michael attend Chaminade High School -- Jonathan a senior and Michael a sophomore.  Both work hard at their studies and play football and baseball.  Jonathan will be attending The College of the Holy Cross in September.  My boys keep me young.

I am blessed with a few good friends.  Indeed, God has put people in my life just at the time when most needed.  At GC High my best friend was Bill Kenney (we met at St. Joe's in third grade and the Polignani and Kenney families became friends.  Bill's father, Walter, was like an Uncle to me (as was my father was to Bill.).  After high school we both went and did our "thing" but always to reunite at Bill's yearly Christmas party -- a great time catching-up with high school friends.  For years now Bill and his wife, Diane, and my boys and I have been actively involved with each other.  Uncle Bill, a self-made man, has been instructing Jonathan and Michael on the finer things in life like how to play golf, how to make a decision on a menu item in an expensive restaurant and how to curse in different languages and make it seem like a compliment.  With Uncle Bill's help my boys are becoming true "Chaminade Men."

Parting Thought: DON'T QUIT.
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Name: Barbara Sadler (Swinton)

Address: 11 Millwood Court, Pittsford, New York 14534

Telephone #’s: 585-385-3475

Email:  bswinton@rochester.rr.com

Spouse’s name: David

Children:  Scott (37), Kim (34)

Occupation:  Retired

Education:  University of Vermont, BS – Medical Technology

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

After spending four years in the arctic conditions of Burlington, Vermont – in the days when girls still had to wear a skirt to class - I was glad  for the opportunity to settle in western NY, specifically, Rochester.  Little did I realize that I was merely swapping one snow belt for another.  I married my college sweetheart the week after graduation and headed West, where he had a position with Eastman Kodak.  Though there were no positions for a medical technologist at the hospital associated with the University of Rochester, there was an opening for a cancer research associate and that’s how the four years before children were spent.  It was a fantastic learning experience and there are fond memories of those days.

For twenty-five years we lived in one of the more rural suburbs of Rochester which provided the best of both worlds…the cultural aspects which the city offered, along with “the little house on the prairie lifestyle” which must have been borne from the years in Vermont (my husband was a native Vermonter).  Having ridden every summer as a child, I developed a love for horses and we were lucky enough to have space for the kids to have horses at our home.  The whole family was very involved with youth equestrian organizations, particularly the US Pony Club, where we spent years volunteering.  Both kids were big into competition and traveling with their horses.  So, for me, a whole new “driving” skill set had to be learned to carry on that endeavor.  

During those years I was also involved working in the businesses of my husband, who was rather entrepreneurial by nature.  Divorce came after 25 years, at which point I re-entered the workforce.  Was that a scare!  For the following 15 years (I retired at the end of 2007) I worked with medical device manufacturers providing regulatory assistance and compliance to international standards for new devices being submitted to the FDA for approval.

Those years again, were a great learning experience and also provided great friendships…one being that of my husband, David, my fondest mentor.  He hasn’t caught the retirement bug yet and continues with a faculty position at the University of Rochester.  My wonderful children have provided us with 5 grandchildren…ages 3mos through 5yrs.  My daughter (a labor and delivery nurse) and her three live nearby – a grandmother’s greatest treat.  My son, who lives in Colorado with his family, is a global procurement manager.  Now visiting with grandchildren in that beautiful area and hiking in the Rockies to boot – well, it doesn’t get much better than that. 

My mid-life creative urges drew me through many stages: quilting, weaving, stained glass, painting and currently, jewelry design and creation.  In retirement I have started my own business and am selling in four stores in the Rochester area.  Life is good!

Most salient high school memory: No one memory, but many:  Mr. Allen’s English class, cheerleading, Bobby Vinton after prom night, those awful purple gym uniforms, great friendships, Mr. Decker’s homeroom, French Club dinner at the Hennings.  Life was good!
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Name: Robin Perry (Brauns)

Address: 174 Warren Road, Toronto, Ont. M4V 2S5

Telephone #’s: 416- 487-5372. 416-996-6131

Email: robin@lindsayperry.com

Spouse’s name: Harold

Children: Robert, Lindsay and Gregg

Occupation: President R,. Perry Management Consultants,

Education: Graduate of Business School

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

I worked for American Airlines for 5 years based in San Francisco and New York.  I met my husband, a Canadian,  in Acalpulco and we were married in 1973.  I moved to Canada.  Since then I have had three children and now have 3 grandchildren.

 I have had my pilots license for 20 years now and it has brought me great pleasure.  A lot of quiet time in the clouds when the children were little. My husband and I have had many adventures travelling around the world. Playing  Elephant polo in Nepal, sailing and working  for 2 weeks on the tall ship “Eye of the Wind”, Astronaught School and other adventures, including travelling through South Africa, Egypt, Australia and India to mention a few.  Ten years ago my daughter and I started a shoe company  (Lindsay Perry Shoes), made in Italy.  This has allowed us to spend a lot of time together in Italy.  She recently had a baby Boy.  I am very lucky all  my children live close by. 

Ten years ago, my mom moved from Garden City to live with me here in Canada. I am sure she misses Garden City but is happy to be near family.

 I have been married for 35 years, and  10 years ago we started spending part of the winters in Florida.   My golf is improving, finally, and have learned how to play bridge and canasta.  These seem to be all the necessities for preparing for old age.

I also feel we are very lucky to have had the privilege to attend such a great school, with such good friends who make an effort to get together.

Thanks to all the organizers whom have made such a great effort to make this happen.
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Name:   Karen Eileen Spurge

Address:  816 Lindenwood Circle West

                 Ormond Beach, Florida 32174

Telephone #’s: 1-386-676-9135  Home

                          1-386-677-0872  Work

                          1-386-846-9171  Cell

Email:  kespurge@aol.com

Spouse’s name:  Divorced

Children:  2 sons, Jerry Hadley (Stephanie) and John Hadley (Missy)

Grandchildren:  Twins, Emma & Jack age 7, Charlotte age 5 1/2 and Logan age 8           

Occupation: Parish Secretary at St. James Episcopal Church in Ormond Beach, Florida

Education: 2 years of college

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964 I attended Adelphi University for one semester and then transferred to Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY. I have lived in some great and some not so great places, Fayetteville, NC, Clarksville, TN, Bowling Green, KY, Atlanta GA, Silver Spring, MD, Arlington VA and Ormond Beach, FL.    Along the way I met my former husband and married in 1967. I was divorced in 1974. While living in the DC area I did medical research at Georgetown University.  This was truly a most fascinating job.  My boss was Peruvian and thought in Spanish and spoke in English!  It made for some unusual conversations.  My oldest son, Jerry, was born in Fayetteville, NC in 1970 while we were stationed at Ft. Bragg.  My second son, John, was born in Daytona Beach, FL in 1973.  They are now grown with families of their own and I’m very proud of both of them.  I have 4 wonderful grandchildren, John’s son Logan was born first in 2001 and 10 months later Jerry’s twins, Emma & Jack, were born.  Twenty months after the twins they were surprised with the addition of Charlotte.  It’s true what “they” say about being a grandparent; it is the best thing you can ever experience.  What fun!  I look forward to each and every visit.

When I moved to Florida in 1972 I was a stay at home mother, my favorite job.  After my divorce I went to work for various doctors in the community, mostly in OB/GYN, and I enjoyed my work very much.  In 2000 I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had to have surgery and treatment following that.  Fortunately, I have done well since then but I am always nervous when it is time for testing, which is often.  Thank God so far so good.  This May it will be 9 years!  That is a huge thing as any cancer patient will attest to. 

I have been working at my church for almost 9 years and just love this job.  I am the Parish Secretary at St. James Episcopal Church in Ormond Beach, FL.  I thought I would stay here until I was feeling better and then go back into the medical field but I’m thankful that I have this wonderful job.  I feel very blessed and thankful for each and every day I have.

Its fun catching up with some of my classmates on face book!  Sorry I won’t be able to attend the reunion!  Have a great time.

The most interesting, although I feel it is somewhat embarrassing, fact about my life is that I actually married my first husband three times.  That’s right, three times!  The first two were close together but the third time was after not speaking to each other for more than 24 years.  He suddenly reappeared and swept me off my feet said he had learned his lesson and we were married again.  This lasted a very short time and when I think about it, well you don’t want to know what I think about that.  Lesson here:  you are who you are no matter how you think you have changed.

My Parting Thought:  If God leads to you it, He will lead you through it.
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Name:  Mike (Russell) Hanford

Address:  65 Forest Lane, Swarthmore PA 19081

Telephone #s (H) 610 543 6196, (W) 267 765 6814, © 610 675 8090

e-mail: mhanford7@comcast.net

Spouse’s name:  Margee

Children: Diana (38), Stephanie (36), Jennifer (34), David (29), John (24)

Occupation: attorney, Defender Association of Philadelphia

Education: Princeton University B.A., University of Pennsylvania J.D.

Hobbies and Pastimes:  tennis, traveling, hiking, coin collecting

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

My initial foray into chemistry as an intended major (Jim Schenkel was my lab partner freshman year) came to an abrupt halt, and I decided to pursue political science. I made another 180 degree turn, after my professors converted me from a political conservative to a liberal. My senior thesis dealt with some constitutional law issues, which paved my way into law school. I was fortunate to defer military service until after I started my career, since I was commissioned as an officer in Army ROTC, and only had to serve three months active duty at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, learning the Army’s paperwork in the adjutant general school (somebody had to do it).

After turning down a job offer with a large civil law firm in Philadelphia (I really didn’t like all that paperwork), I became a trial attorney at the public defender’s office, where I have remained since 1971 (I guess I’m one of the few to have only one permanent job). I supervised a large felony unit of attorneys for nearly a decade, but stepped aside to become an adjunct professor at Temple Law School, while remaining in the office. The course was a hands-on practical clinical, where I supervised some very enthusiastic third year law students in representing indigent defendants in their “real life” cases, which is something I wasn’t taught in the ivory towers at Penn. After the teaching assignment ran its course in five years, I’ve been assigned to several units, and currently represent juveniles in what is euphemistically named Family Court. While I obviously didn’t make a fortune as a public defender, I believe I’ve helped a lot of people along the way, and have accumulated a wealth of interesting and often humorous stories, some of which I may put in book form one day. I also was able to play first base on our softball team for many years.

Margee and I were married during law school, and she is now on her third career, running her own company as a post partum doula (caretaker for newly born babies). We have five terrific children (three girls, two boys) and two lovely grandchildren. We try to visit two of our daughters in Florida as often as we can, and the three others live closer by in a three state area.

In the late 1970s I was fortunate to win a fellowship with the National Endowment for the Humanities and went to the University of Arizona to study sentencing issues. Afterwards, Margee and I took some time off to see a lot of the American West, which I became fascinated with. Since then, we have returned several times to see as much as possible. Margee was understanding enough to let me do a lot of traveling with our classmate Ed Ufier. He and I hiked throughout Alaska, The Rockies, Nova Scotia and New Zealand. As a kid, I really liked geography, so I set and completed a goal to see all fifty states and state capitals, as well as all the national parks and monuments, which is nearly accomplished. I also became interested in photography, and now have a ton of enlarged pictures, but not enough wall space at home to hang them all up.

My traveling has slowed down recently, but I remain active playing doubles tennis twice a week. The one group of friends that I play with has been together for about twenty five years. When I was eight, I took up the hobby of coin collecting, and I’m still quite active in numismatics; I’m currently the president of the local coin club, and have given several talks to local clubs on coin-related topics. I remain involved in the affairs at Princeton, serving on the graduate board of my eating club (like a fraternity), have season football tickets, and haven’t missed a reunion in over twenty years.

Parting thoughts:

We were all lucky enough to grow up in such a nice town with a really great high school and teachers. It doesn’t seem like 45 years have slipped by since graduation; if I could figure out a way to slow down time (without traveling at nearly the speed of light), I would share it with the world. Thanks to the committee for organizing the reunion—I’m looking forward to seeing everyone.
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Name:                  Jim Schenkel

Address:     5003 Palmetto Ave. #81, Pacifica CA 94044

Telephone #’s: 650-992-1650 (h)    415-553-4000 (w)

Email:                   jim@quojure.com

Spouse’s name:  Jane

Children:              Elizabeth (32), Ruth (26)

Occupation:         Lawyer, manager of legal research company

Education:  Princeton ’68; Univ. of California, Hastings College of Law ‘74

Since graduating from Garden City High School in 1964:

With an undergraduate degree in chemistry I went to work in the petrochemical industry right out of school.  The company made the mistake of moving me out to San Francisco in the fall of 1968, opening my innocent eyes very wide.  Eighteen months later they relocated me to Linden NJ, down-wind from the refinery, and I started planning my exit.  Took a weird career bounce for a science nerd and went to law school as a way to get back to California.  I started in law practice with a classmate, and we also started a business to provide writing and research for lawyers on a contract basis.  When my partner left I stayed in sole practice, and for a while was the counsel for Greenpeace USA.  As a spin-off from that, since 1991 I’ve been a director and general counsel for Earthtrust, a Hawaii-based marine conservation organization.

My practice dwindled as the business grew; now I’m almost exclusively running Quo Jure Corporation, which does for solos and small firms what the big firms have in-house associates doing: researching and writing litigation documents of all kinds.  It’s a small niche business, but until last fall it had been fairly stable for 30 years; now, we’ll see.

I met my wife Jane in San Francisco in the fall of 1968, and we’ve been together since 1971—got married the last day of 1974.  After a decade or so on their own, our daughters have boomeranged back home again, and we all live in a condo overlooking the Pacific Ocean, about 15 minutes from downtown San Francisco.  My family has camped and hiked all over the West, but although my Sierra backpacking days are mostly over, I still do a lot of day hiking in the nearby coastal mountains.

I’ve kept up with singing, in both large choruses and small groups.  I’ve sung classical music with the San Francisco Choral Society for 20 years, and kept in regular touch with guys I sang with in college, singing close harmony in quartets and larger groups.  In the late 80s I took up aikido, and by the mid-90s was actually running a dojo in San Francisco with a group of other black belts.  Since that gig ended I’ve been training much less, but I’m planning ahead now—working on techniques that use a cane.

Choose one:

• Parting thought:  I’d have liked to have had a lot more sex in high school.