HCHS Class of '81 Physical 20th Reunion - 2001
There will be a live, in-the-flesh reunion at the high school on Sunday, June
3rd at 10am. Lauren (Buxbaum) Kacir is coordinating. She is at
lbkacir@pol.net.
HCHS Class of '81 Virtual 15th Reunion - 1996
Welcome to the class of '81 virtual reunion! Like many of you, I blew it off
-- I couldn't find a single other person who was going. But I was still
interested in what had happened to everyone after all this time. And with all
the recent Internet hoopla in the media, I thought it would be interesting to
try to track people down on the net.
I found 18 people by searching the net. The rest of the information comes from
Brenda Rich (who received a number of letters) and from my firsthand knowledge
of people that I've stayed in contact with. Internet searching was done with a
number of Web crawlers, particularly
DEC's Alta Vista.
References to someone that I found in Web pages are included beneath their
names; pages accessible from their home page (if any) are not included. Also,
when someone is a regular poster to a newsgroup or listserv, I've included a
reference to the group rather than to all of the archived postings that I
found.
In general, the more unique names were easier to identify unambiguously. For
instance, there are many "David Bacon"s on the net, but so far only one "David
F. Bacon".
If any of the information is inaccurate or incomplete,
send me a note. If you'd like to
include a homepage for yourself but don't have the capability to host it, send
me the HTML file and uuencoded image files and I'll host the page for you. If
you feel that any of the information included herein violates your privacy, let
me know and I'll remove it.
What follows is an alphabetical listing of class members for whom there is any
information.
David
David is a computer scientist at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, and
is completing his Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley via the Internet. He married Laura
Bennett in 1994; she is studying
film-making at NYU. They live in Manhattan.
Email: dfb@watson.ibm.com
Melissa Bennett
Maddie Horstman reports that Melissa is an entomologist, specializing in ants.
Apparently, there's a lot of money in ants.
Jenni Bidner
Rachelle (Fontek) Zeluff reports: "I believe Jenni Bidner is a contributing
editor to a photographic trade magazine Popular Photography, answering
technical questions. This info is old if at all accurate."
Lauren (Buxbaum) Kacir
Lauren wrote that she is happily living in a tiny town in Texas. She has two
children, a two and a half year old boy, and a one and a half year old girl.
They live in "a farmhouse surrounded by 80 head of cattle" which she,
thankfully, does not have to herd! She is a pediatrician (working part-time)
in a rural practice.
David Casona
Polly Shulman ran into David on the steps of a Brooklyn courthouse; he's
working there as a paralegal.
I am a Systems Analyst at Wyeth-Ayerst Research...looking at databases, data
mining and machine learning issues for drug (ahem, that's prescription drug!)
design and development. I got my Ph.D. in 1994 in computer science from
Rutgers University, applying machine learning and expert systems techniques in
DNA crystallography.
I am philosophically opposed to putting personal information out on the web, so
I won't put any more here, but I'd love to correspond (even by email) with
other folks from our class and neighboring classes. So please do drop me a
line at the given email address and/or check out my web page. There's a lot of
you out there that I really miss and have regretted greatly not keeping in
touch!
Email: cohend@war.wyeth.com
Mattie (Cohan) Condray
Mattie just celebrated her fifth wedding anniversary - "no kids, but we do have
a big, furry cat". She is a lawyer - "counsel for a DC-based non-profit trade
association promoting the public transportation industry". She says her job is
"a nice mix of the "real lawyer" work, and other non-lawyer stuff". She and
her husband are both involved in community theater.
H.H. Cooper
H.H. is working as an assistant director in the film industry. His credits
include Jungle Fever, I Like It Like That, and Dead
Presidents. You can find out more in the
Internet movie database.
H.H. lives in my building, but we've only run into each other once in two years -- in the
laundry room.
Steve Danzis
Steve is a playwright, living in Chicago last I knew. I got together with him
a few times in San Francisco, and actually moved to a flat a few blocks from
him on Castro Street. He seemed to think there was a compelling reason for
leaving the Bay Area for Chicago, but I could never figure it out.
Chris Dogonniuck
David Wallace reports: "On a visit to NYC this summer I had dinner with Chris
Dogonniuck and his wife, Jennifer. They are living in Brooklyn and both are
helping increase the cost of healthcare as physician's assistants."
Alexander Dupuy
Alex was working at System Management Arts,
a computer start-up, until a couple months ago. He is now living in the
mountains of Guatemala for 18 months with his girlfriend Jennifer Burrell, who
is pursuing a Ph.D. in anthropology at the New School for Social Research.
Alex posts frequently to the
firewalls,
IETF's URI working group,
proxymail,
BIND, and
software
agents mailing lists.
Email: cirma@guate.net, c/o Jennifer
Burrell and Alex Dupuy
Ed Ferrell
Ed went to Yeshiva University graduate school for rabbinics and was ordained
subsequently. He served as a pulpit rabbi in Manhattan before taking a job
teaching at a yeshiva high school in New Jersey. He is married to a
"CPA-turned-yeshiva teacher".
Judy Fried
We're saddened to hear from Judy's mother that she died in October, 1995 after
a two and a half year battle with breast cancer. She had graduated from the
University of Chicago in 1986 and N.Y.U. Law School in 1991, and was living in
San Francisco.
Rachelle (Fontek) Zeluff
Rachelle attended SUNY Albany, and lived, worked and studied in Albany for 9
years. She got a bachelors in Business French '85 and Master of Arts French
'90. She "spent quite a bit of time in France, determining that I truly can't
stand the people". She had a fellowship abroad in '86 in Strasbourg.
Rachelle married high school era sweetheart Steven Zeluff, who she met on the
ferry commuting to Hunter High. She is currently Marketing Manager and Sales
Rep for HPI in Brooklyn, and has been in photographic sales for the past 4
years.
Rachelle writes: My son Mark is autistic and I am extremely involved in an
intensive program for him, learning more about developmental disabilities than
I ever dreamed I would need to know. This includes constant research and
management of a home schooling program for him. Autism happens to be the
developmental disability that receives the least amount of funding (with the
highest rate of incidence) so a lot is "happening", mainly in the last couple
of years. The cause is still a mystery and what is known as recovery is
possible but very diificult. I get a lot of information off the internet,
primarily from other parents and some professionals.
Email: Rachelle@HPI.Com
Beverly Greenfield
Beverly is living with her boyfriend on a boat at the 79th Street Boat Basin in
New York. She works in an office and acts as a booking agent for folk
musicians. She is a regular contributor to FOLK_MUSIC Digest.
Email: BG6@Columbia.Edu
Maddie Horstman
Maddie is working as an artist and is opening her own thrift store on Second
Avenue and Tenth Street. She is living in the East Village, and can't figure
out if it's being over-run by the homeless or the yuppies.
Ludmila Hruda
Ludmila Hruda is finishing a Master's program in Psych at the University of
Kansas and going on to a Ph.D. program in September at the University of
Michigan.
Email: Hruda@Kuhub.CC.UKans.Edu
Ahamindra Jain
Ahamindra is starting a new job as an assistant professor at Swarthmore
after doing post-doc at Penn State in Biochemistry/Mol Bio. He was married two
years ago. He sends greetings to everyone!
Email: AJain1@Swarthmore.Edu
Brian Kanterman
Brian lives in Butler, PA, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, "on a couple of
acres, surrounded by a bunch of backwards old farmers". He loves it! He is a
Business Analyst for PPG Industries. He has a wife, Patti, and two girls 4
years and almost 2.
Email: Kanterman@PPG.Com or
BKanterman@AOL.Com.
Judy Lee
Judy lives with her husband Eric Tyson in a lovely house they bought a few
years ago on California Street in San Francisco. She works at the University
of California.
Mark Lang
Mark is in NYC and acting in various arenas, teaching improvisation, recently
wrote a full length screen play, and does some directing. He and a friend have
a company that does "live comedic corporate entertainment", called
Laughingstock that keeps him pretty busy, too.
Email: MLang@Cris.Com
Gregory Leong
I unfortunately was one of the 3 people who did not blow off the reunion
although I only stayed for 10 minutes (I guess I semi-blew it off). Next time,
someone should plan a reunion for Post-WWII alums.
I'm teaching Math at Scarsdale High School and have done graduate work in
Exercise Science and Computer Science (although not simmultaneously). I still
in Queens and am still involved in some volleyball stuff.
I taught at HCHS for a while and if anyone is really interested in how the
school has devolved, we'll have to set up another Web site.
Email: 74451.265@Compuserve.Com
Mark is living in Santa Monica and working as a computer consultant, currently
for Sun Microsystems. He drives a convertible and plays lots of beach
volleyball.
Email: MarkLo@West.Sun.Com
Hilary Metzger
Hilary is a cellist; she performed recently at the
Czech Embassy.
David Miller
David is living in Santa Monica and working for a computer startup that makes
network hardware. Have they gone public, David? If so, you can buy the drinks
at the next non-virtual reunion.
Email: DHMiller@NetCom.Com
Donna Minkowitz
Donna is a well-known radical lesbian journalist. She was nominated for the
Pulitzer Prize and received a 1991 Print Media award from the Gay & Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation.
Aaron Panken
Aaron is a rabbi on the faculty of Hebrew Union College in New York.
He is married and has a baby son, Eli.
Email:AaronP3@AOL.Com
Marina Picciotto
Marina is an assistant professor at Yale.
Email: Marina.Picciotto@Yale.Edu
Sarah Ragan
Email: Suisser@AOL.Com
Sue Reiter
Sue is a veterinarian in New York state.
Brenda Rich
Brenda graduated from Oberlin and has been working in Environmental Education,
which she is currently doing part-time for the Girl Scouts. She lives in
Amesbury, Mass. with her husband of six years and their 16 month-old son Jonah.
Email: MEinson@AOL.COM
Email: rosenzweig@ny.hq.acm.org
or vr%acmcr.uucp@murphy.com.
Tom is a computational chemist, currently working at Sandia National Laboratory
in the Advanced Materials and Device Physics group. He's currently living in
Albuquerque, NM with his five year old daughter Katarina, who is, of course,
Talented and Gifted. She already plans to be either a marine biologist or a
paleontologist.
Tom loves living outside of New York City. His hobbies (besides bragging about
his daughter) are shooting and flying.
Email: Russo@SWCP.Com
Bruce Schneier
Bruce is an author and consultant on computer cryptosystems. He has written
the widely used and respected book Applied Cryptography. He reported
that he would have liked to come to the reunion, but was in Peru at the time.
Bruce's cryptography work made him the most web-referenced member of the class
of '81. If anyone (particularly Bruce) has some selected web links to include,
please send them to me.
Email: Schneier@Counterpane.Com.
David Salvage
David is a psychiatrist.
Robert Sarlls
I have been working in the finance business since graduation. After six
years at Citibank (2.5 of which were in LALA land) and three years at
European American Bank, I joined Rabobank Nederland (2nd largest Dutch bank)
and worked first as a senior credit analyst covering food and agribusiness
(makes sense coming from Staten Island, haha) and now I'm working on asset
securitizations for our clients in the U.S. and Latin America.
My girlfriend Alice is a director of television commercials and plays. She's
currently shopping a spec sitcom with the networks. She's from North Carolina
which means I need a translator from time to time. Her sister says "Rob's nice,
but he's so Yankee!!!!"
I am on the board of directors of the Louis August Jonas Foundation, the
organization that operates Camp Rising Sun. I also have been involved for six
years in the Kips Bay Boys and Girls club on the junior committee.
I have been obsessed with researching my family history. Trips have taken me
to Kentucky, upstate NY, PA and California in meeting distant relatives and
researchers. I've also spent a lot of time studying NYC architectural
history as am amateur (the AIA guide has been a vital tool).
I stay in touch with Peter Spielvogel, Steve Strickman, Steve Patrinick, and
Alan Olmsted. They all have net access, I believe.
I'm legally living in Stuy town as an "occupant," where Celia Slom lives and
only a couple blocks away from Spielvogel's folks' place.
Email: trash@cnct.com
Polly Shulman
Polly is working at Discover magazine as an editor and writer. She lives in
Brooklyn.
Email: PollyShu@EchoNYC.Com or
Polly_Shulman@CP.Disney.Com
Nora G. Singer
Nora is (we think) a lecturer in Rheumatology at the University of Michigan.
Celia (Slom) Vimont
Celia is the director of editorial services at the American Lung Association in
NYC. She and her husband Greg (a photographer) had a son, Benjamin, in July
1996.
Email: GVimont@NYC.Pipeline.Com
Peter Spielvogel
I work in high-tech marketing for a small software company that serves
the semiconductor manufacturing industry. After completing my MBA in
1990, I moved to Silicon Valley. Last year I got married to a local
Californian.
In my spare time, I enjoy road biking (occasionally mountain biking),
trail running, and enjoying the California sunshine.
I frequently see Tom Cheng, who lives about 3 miles from me, also in
Sunnyvale. He too works in high-tech marketing. We get together on
weekends to lift weights, then barbeque.
Email: PJS@RocketMail.Com
Anjali Tate
Anjali writes: "I completed my residency in Ob/Gyn at Stanford University in
1993 and now work for Kaiser in San Jose. My husband of four months, cat, and
I live in Cupertino, south of San Francisco. I'd love to hear from people."
Email: Anjali.Tate@NCal.KAIPerm.Org
Anthony White
Tony works as a computer consultant in the financial industry. His glamorous
jobs have included assignments in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Burlington, Houston,
and Toledo. Between consulting jobs he often disappears to South America,
Mexico, or the Carribean.
Tony has also spent a couple of years living and working on Staten Island,
which he's rather touchy about.
Despite the fact that he recently bought his own 200 MHz NT workstation
with 128 MB of RAM, communication with Tony is usually best accomplished with
pre-smoke signal technology. He still doesn't have an email address.
David Wallace
I'm a business and news reporter for various magazines -- Home Office
Computing, Wired, World Trade -- and primarily as a correspondent for The New
York Times and its online version, CyberTimes. I've specialized in the
consumer impact of info-technology so I've been hip-deep in the lawsuit
involving AOL's efforts to block junk E-mail. I also plan to return to Cuba
this winter (I visited there in 1993 and 1994) to examine how E-mail is
changing life there. And any top-secret, corporate intrigue or story ideas from
networked alums out there are always welcome.
I'm cohabitational with girlfriend Lauren Goldberg, who works dishing out
grant money on Health and Human Services programs for the Pew Charitable
Trusts here in Philadelphia. No pets, no kids, no shirt, no shoes, no
service.
Email:DWallace@Worldnet.ATT.Net.
Zoe Sybil (Warwick) Forsyth
Zoe is assistant professor of Psychology at University of Maryland Baltimore
County where she teaches Research Method/Statistics. Her husband is a pilot
for Fedex, and they had a son, Ryan, on July 7, 1996.
She went to Duke as an undergrad, spent two years as a Research Technician
there and ultimately got her Ph. D. in Experimental Psychology. She did a two
year post-doc fellowship at McMasters University in Ontario. She's been
married since 1994, and they enjoy sailing, skiing and traveling. They are
expecting a baby this month.
Email: Warwick@UMBC.Edu
Mirek Vojtek
Mirek is a New York City police officer and has a Texas-born wife and two sons.
Last modified 18 September 1996 by
David F. Bacon