Rick Ferran Hendra's Page

Rick
Sad to hear the site closing
Let's organize a 55th Reunion
Do you have all the emails!
Richard

Dear Rick: This website is closing--what a shame. Although I rarely use it, I feel very sad that it will die. I am hoping my classmates will start an email and phone list, so we can contact each other (even if mostly in our dreams). We would also include people from other 164 classes wha have been friends (even if only cyber-friends) of class members. Would you like to do this?

Hope you are doing well.

Best,

Bonnie

bsk1@cumc.columbia.edu

212 928-8111 (H)

212 874-3966 (W)

Hello Rick -- I vaguely remember you tho I clearly remember you name. I suspect we were in several classes together if we garduated in 1961 and had same teachers. I had mrs rosenberg in 4th grade and vividly remember going on a field trip to alley pond park to bird watch and stopping in Mrs. Rosenbergs house which was near the park. I also had Mrs Schmitdt in 3rd grade, Mrs Bromberg in 5th and Mrs Giordano in 6th grade. I was in the glee club and was in South Pacific - Eddie Siegal was Honey Bun. I was a "monitor" and wore that stupid white strap with the badge. I hope you're well. I lived on Long Island til 5 years ago, sold our home and moved to Riverdale. Married 42 years years, have two married sons and 4 grandchildren. I lived on 71st road just off Main streer, across the street from KGH Jewish Center, Hope you are well.

Rick-

What a pleasant surprise after all these years. I remember you well--we both developed a life-long love of opera thanks to Mrs. Rosenberg. Do I also remember that you played the lead in our class production of "Pirates of Penzance" and that Rona Hershkowitz was Little Buttercup?

I tracked down Robert Harris (f/k/a Heimowitz) through his father's name. Ironically, one of my associates at work was his college room-mate at Clark. Robert and I always traded charges about who had the worst handwriting. Years later, he confessed he had to take special penmanship lessons.

I had  lunch with Gave Taussig a few years ago--we had a great time reminiscing.

My favorite teachers were Belle Simon (Paul's mother) and Florence Bromberg. I left the class just before graduation because my family moved to Tenafly, NJ. Just recovered one of my treasured possessions, a Golden Book World History signed by every student in Mrs. Bromberg's class.

My direct email is richard.m.warshauer@gmail.com.

Best regards,

Richard

Hi Rick, Thanks for checking in. I signed up with this site several months ago, and yours is the first message I received. I seemed to have missed out on the original enthusiasm it generated and now it seems that many people have given up on it. Anyway, I see that the message you received from Sandy Weinberg brought you somewhat up to date with where I am and what I am doing. Sandy and I reconnected about ten years ago when her sister tracked me down as she was looking for pictures for an album to celebrate Sandy's 50th birthday (we went to the Jamaica HS prom together). We have kept in touch since then and get together when she visits NYC. Reading your post, it seems that you have found quite a comfortable and stimulating niche in life. Sometimes, at the end of those days that seem just a little too harried, I wonder how I would fare in what I perceive to be a somewhat less frantic life in academia (or are my perceptions of that life wrong?). As the prospect of retirement from my current job approaches, and I try to figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life, teaching frequently comes to mind. We'll see. Anyway, it was good to hear from you.
Gabe

hey Rick,
Wish I was inspired to geologize with Mrs. Rosenberg. I came to it late (second career), But love coming to the museum everyday. Let me know when yr in town. I'll get you tix. btw- my kid attends Berklee. Freshman bass player.
take care,
Jamie

No, I didn't knew either of the women you mentioned from Arlington. It was a small school system, but unless you taught in the same school with someone, there were no connections. To fill you in on a few people you asked about: Barbara remained one of my closest friends and still is. She married Jeff Rogoff, also from Parsons. She is a social worker and has her own practice. They have 2 children and never strayed too far, having bought a house near Main Street and 73rd. Gabe became a lawyer and works for the city. His wife is a computer teacher, and they, too, have 2 children. They have a house in Hollis Hills (?) near Union Tpke and 212th St. Dale Borrows didn't run for any office--her husband did. She was also a teacher--speech and drama. I just knew of her because she was very active in the temple that my mother belonged to, and that's how our paths wound up crossing again. Iris Earlbaum and I had no contact since high school graduation, but we really reconnected at the Parsons gathering and enjoyed each other tremendously. She and her husband live in Florida and own a business, what type I really don't remember. She has 2 children as well. Howie Ginsberg I think is a college professor. Although I would have assumed he'd be teaching entymology, I don't think that's what it is, but it is something science related. I agree--our class from 164, and I found the same about our class from Parsons, really did go on to do good things. I sometimes wonder about some of the students I had who had major problems and WERE major problems. Reading alumni notes from my school, I occasionally read about one of them and am delighted, but frankly astonished, that some of them became doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc. I would have assumed I'd read about them being out on parole! So, one can never tell.
When my brother told me about this website and I signed on, the one person I sent a comment to was Allyn Cohen. We actually went out a little later on. I knew he was a radiologist because my mother and his mother knew each other I think. I never heard anything back from him, though. Do you have any word of him? Sandy

Rick--It sounds like you've had a really interesting and satisfying life. It's such fun to hear what folks you knew 50 years ago went on to do! I taught in Arlington, Massachusetts for 3 years before we moved to Colorado. Other Massachusetts highlights for me: college in Boston (Simmons), grad school in Medford (Tufts), apartments in Brookline, Somerville, and Arlington. I'm still friends with Barbara Tsao and Gabe Taussig, and we get together whenever I'm in NY, which isn't as often as it used to be since both my parents have passed away. A few years ago, somehow our group of kids from Parsons Junior High had our own informal reunion, with many of us traveling distances to attend. It was just fabulous. I'm sure that many of the people who showed up were also at 164 with us, but I don't really remember who. I think that Meryl Levine, Iris Earlbaum , Howard Ginsburg, and Ellen Greenberg were all 164 kids. It was great seeing everyone. We HAVE changed! I hadn't seen most of them since we graduated from Parsons in 1964! Take care. Sandy

Rick--How much fun to hear from people from way back when! Your comment made me laugh, because I am totally not artistic, and I don't really remember ever having been. And coloring people with yellow skin? If you say so! My husband and daughters are very artistic and musical--I'm glad they got his talent and not mine. I've been a great audience all these years. Where has life taken you?