Helen Gitelson's Page

hi helen life is good i hope for you love and memories  richie pretto

Hey stranger! Just wanted to stop by and say hi.I moved in the middle of 6th grade and have nothing but wonderful memories of 164. Unfortunately, I lost all my pics in a fire. I know our 4th grade pic is posted but by any chance do u have any others I may be in? I believe we went straight through from k-6 together. Hope all is well with you, I remember I always thought you were so beautiful!
xoxo
ginger(debra labensky:))

Helen! Long lost friend and classmate....I was talking with Ruben on Facebook and he led me here to this site. How are you? :-)

I think it was Mr. Luba. And I think I sat opposite you in lab. You sat next to a girl named Janet who was going to college in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. I also also seem to recall that you usually wore flannel shirts to class. The reason I think I remember you is that I almost asked you out. I think we were talking one day about the movie The Sting, and I was going to ask you to go, but I hesitated because I was seeing someone else at the time. Of course, I might be confusing you with someone else. But I thought I'd see if you had any memory of me.

Helen: Did you take Physics at Hillcrest High in 1973-74? I only found this website a few days ago, but when I was scrolling through the names, yours sounded familar. I don't think I knew you at P.S. 164, but I think you were in my physics class at Hillcrest.

Helen,

didn't you live in the corner apt in the Park Drive East (can't remember the real name) apartments? I lived at 70-75 Park Drive East (in the big court)

Helen: Work takes me to NY 2-3 times a year. Next time is probably during the Summer. Would love to say hello. I'll send you a note next time I'm headed that way and know that I have some free time.

Hi, Helen. Good to hear from you. Although I see Glen at least once a year (and speak to him often during baseball season), I haven't seen or spoken to Leonard in perhaps 20 years. He was, and very well may still be, the senior guru at the Brooklyn DA's office. But I think of him every time I see an original Star Trek series episode.

I ended up in Dallas due to corporate politics and stayed because of the coincidence of my wife's birth. I was hired by Bell Atlantic because I spoke Spanish and they had just purchased a piece of a cellular company in Mexico. They eventually sent me to Mexico. While there, Bell Atlantic acquired NYNEX and GTE and became Verizon. The GTE people were given responsibility for Legal and International, and their corporate philosophy was to have locals running the local units. So they kicked me upstairs to their Latin American operations unit just outside Dallas. They now wanted me to be a bureaucrat (and I wanted to be an operations lawyer, since I'm too anti-authoritarian to be a bureaucrat). It became clear they didn't have a long-term commitment to Latin America, so I decided to control the timing of what I knew would be an eventual exit (a mistake; I should have waited for the severance package that came 10 months later). Since my wife is a Dallas native and has most of her family here, she wanted to stay (especially since she doesn't like to move, and I had made her moved her 4 times in 11 years, apart from having a commuting relationship for our first 6 years together). So we're here -- even though my job is in NY (thank God for telecommuting). Dallas is not a bad place, really; it's nowhere near as exciting or full of things to do as NY, but it's not the cultural wasteland that I feared. And it certainly is cheaper!