Victoria A Baird's Page

My name is Ron Kooper.  was looking at you photos and the class picture of Class 3-3/1962 are you in it? If you are what was the teachers name. I moved to Bayside after the third grade. Moved to Rochester, New York in 1968.

Hi Vicky, Wanted to drop you a note to say hi. Sounds like things are going well for you. Is the photo of the three soccer playing kids your kids? How did you like UConn? I live in CT now so we are often reading about what is going on at UConn--which has been a lot, lately. My husband used to work on Wall St. and we lived down in BPC. Adrienne

Hi Vicky,

Sorry I did not write back sooner. That's some story of your accomplishments on Wall Street! Hope you and your family are well.

I am married for 32 years to Jill Braunstein, a neighbor of yours on 72nd Ave. We have two sons, one married and living near Chicago. We are going to be grandparents end of August. Don't feel that old but it's a long way back to PS 164.

All our best!

Jill and Jeff

P.S. While I am writing here I am scalping the ES. I think it started from losing all my baseball cards to Alan Zylbert when I was 8.

Wow. You've been amazing. I made a little bit of money on Bob Diamond. When Barclays was getting whacked and it was trading at 4, he came out and said that they were going to beat. Nobody believed him. I figured he couldn't lie so I went long . Anyway, my email is tradertiv@yahoo.com. Keep in touch. Andy P.S. are you ok? Were you friends with Bruce Berkowitz? I've been in touch with him down here and had dinner with him a couple of months ago. I think he was your year.

I had 2 year sp, they didn't want me there for 3 years. How was the reunion?
Are you still trading? Its funny, even though I was never on the bond side, my first trading position was with a company called MKI, i think about 20 years ago, which was primarily a bond house. I had no clue what i was doing then, its amazing they gave me money to trade back then.

Campbell was a blur. I was only there for 2 years and its where I learned to do as little work as possible that would still enable me to get over a 90 in the class. Friendly sounds familiar but I can't say for sure, what did he teach?

You look great by the way, probably could still win Miss Flamingo.

Did you have Skala at Campbells also?

Hey. Forgive me but i was eavesdropping on your messages with Pete M and you mentioned Mrs. Penn. I remember her well I started out as the worst typist in the world in her class and she had me stand up one day and she really made fun of me, and it burned me inside really bad. At the same time, I had Mr. Skala who assigned all that crazy homework and reports. So i spent Christmas Vacation in 7th grade typing out like 10 extra credit reports for Skala and teaching myself to type. I came back after christmas break and was typing 60 wpm and freaked her out.

Probably one of my biggest accomplishments.

vickie,
nice talking to you last night. i am glad you posted all the class pictures. we were not in the same kindergarten - you were in afternoon i was in morning. the "flamingo" pics are priceless. talk again soon - maybe stop over in connecticut when you get there.
peter