My Facebook account has been hacked. For those of you on Facebook do not respond to any messages in Messenger from me because it is the hacker. I am trying to delete account so nobody else gets hacked. I sent out an email to everybody letting them know what's going on. I am deleting Messenger and switching to Signal whisch is a much more secure message app. Those of you using Messenger should also switch to Signal. I am also changing the class email to ebhsclass1971@gmail.com. For those with valid emails you should be receiving email shortly. For those who have changed your email and forgot to notify me let me know your new email.

Hi everyone, It's been years since I would have seen any of   you. I have been living in Australia for the past 38 years. My hubby,  Michael,  is Australian. We met and married in New York. Moved to Melbourne Australia,  have five children and six grandchildren. Life is good. My email address is bethtreacy@gmail.com

Life is good!!! 

Class of 1973 has invited everybody from Class of 71 thru Class of 75

Just received a call that Doug Prefach passed away last night 8/11/2022.

Sad to hear this news. Doug was my boyfriend in HS and he was a sweet, kind, gentle and loving guy. I have not been in touch with him in 50 years but i honor his memory and will light a candle for him. Gail Washor Liebhaber

Such sad news! 

I am starting to box up all the reunion paperwork that I collected for the 50th reunion and store them away for the next 5-10 years. I am not sure what I plan to do in the future but I will keep this group up and running as well as the website. You can still order the flash drive. I would like everybody to still keep me informed if you move or change email address for future reference. I will be sending out an email to those not on Facebook to let them know of my plans. It has been a fun 6 year journey and who knows what the future will bring.

The committee met Saturday April 16 to go over final details of our 50th reunion. Everything is set for a great weekend. With less than 30 days until the reunion we still have classmates that had said yes to attending but have still not received there money. Remember you don't have to commit to the entire weekend. April 22 is the cutoff date but if anyone has a special need and might not know until the week before if you are attending please contact me as soon as possible. We have no problem squeezing you in.

Update: For those of you that plan on attending the reunion please think about sending your money as soon as possible because of the deposits that we are committed to giving to the venue, the photographer and the DJ.

By now you are probably getting tired of all the emails about the reunion but after meeting with the venue we need to get a ruff count on who will be attending. If we can get a good number before November 30 we can lock in a good price. The committee is still meeting in Nov to make the final choice. All I need is yes (classmate) yes+1 or no.

Please respond to ebhsclass1971@chafatelli.com

Well it has been about a year since I looked up everybody's address individually to make sure nobody has moved and quite a few not on Facebook have. The sad thing is that the number of deceased classmates has grown to 80. I am still at roughly 54 that have fallen off the face of the earth. Once again please check your Facebook friends to make sure everybody on Facebook is part of the group. On Nov 14th at our meeting we will be deciding on all the details about the reunion. By December everything should be set and by January you should be able to start booking your trip.

For those of you not on Facebook all my posts get between 120-140 views. Very few comments. There are over 300 on the website. This post will require as many comments as possible. We have one month until our reunion meeting where we will decide on Venue, Menu, Photographer and Music. We will go over monetary requirements at this time. What I need is input on what food you all would like for the buffet an Saturday night. Friday night will just be various Hors D'Oeuvres. Your input will help determine the cost of the reunion. Those of you traveling from out of state and need a hotel room the more classmates that register the lower the room price. Please don't just hit like and not make any comments. I don't want the committee to have to make all the decisions without your help.

Since we are shooting for May 13, 14, 15 2022 for our 50th Reunion I want to start getting an idea of how many are planning to attend. Once again we will do a 3 day event. Friday night meet and greet, Saturday Buffet Dinner, Sunday morning breakfast. You do not have to attend all 3 just making it a weekend for those  who can make it.

We are now setup to accept 4 different payment options for the reunion. Send a check through the mail, Credit card through website, PayPal and Venmo. If anybody would like to make a donation to the reunion to help with the expenses that we have incurred over the last 10 years as well as help with some of the deposits that will be necessary to get the ball rolling please PM me or email.

Those of you that have good emails let me know if you would like invitations emailed. Trying to keep postage costs down for those who do not have emails. We will be doing a booklet again this reunion and offering advertising space to classmates to help cover cost of booklet.

We have looked at 13 different venues and have come up with a couple that will fit what we are looking for. The committee will be meeting in November to make the final decision. At that time we will send out all the details about venue. Most will give discounts on rooms the more we reserve.

The missing classmate list is very large. We have a couple classmates helping out looking for the missing. If you happen to be in touch with anybody from our class check with them to make sure we have their contact info or email. If anybody would like a copy of the list let me know. Unfortunately the In Memory Of list has doubled since the 40th Reunion.

I have spent the last 5 years working on this reunion and want to make this the best reunion ever. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

It's been awhile since I posted anything about the reunion. The committee will be meeting in either August or September to start the detailed process for the reunion in Spring of 2022. I will be sending out an email for those not on Facebook. Right now what I am looking for is your thoughts on what you think would be a good price for a buffet style dinner for the Saturday night dinner. We will probably have a cash bar for the Friday night Meet and Greet as well as the formal dinner on Saturday. This will help us decide on a venue that everybody can afford. Most venues will offer a discount on rooms if we can get over 10 to stay at venue. You can voice your ideas here or just email me with ideas that you are looking for to make this reunion great.

Classmates

      The Reunion Committee has discussed all the responses we received with regards to the 50th Reunion. We have been watching closely what New Jersey is doing about opening up the state fully. At this time we feel based on what you all feel and the uncertainty of what the state is doing we will be postponing the 50th Reunion until April or May of 2022 provided that NJ has reopened so we can have the most classmates attend. After spending the last 5 years tracking all our classmates we feel that a reunion with only 50 or so classmates who would attend is just not the right thing to do. We would like to have those classmates that would be traveling from other states have the chance to attend a 50th reunion. I will keep all of you informed with updates over the next year. Remember that if you move or change your email address please keep me informed. Any comments or suggestions about the reunion are greatly appreciated.

We are looking for input with regards to our 50th Reunion. It's been over a year since the start of this virus. Parts of the country are doing fine while other parts are still in lockdown and have restrictions on gatherings. Even though the vaccine is making it's way across the country we are not sure what September or October will bring. What I am looking for is your thoughts about the reunion. I need you to be honest about what you think. Everybody has my email address so email me your thoughts. I will post this on Facebook as well as send out an email to everybody.

As some of you guys know I currently live in Florida and I'm an addiction specialist! Florida has been open for months w no more cases then the states in indefinite lock down.  WHY?  My numbers  went up dramatically when people were locked down!!  Lets move forward!!  Safely but let's not allow this to continue to dictate lives!!  I, for one, was looking very forward to finally see people from the past.  Lets make that our future!!  Rock on!!!

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had heard anything about Stephanie Hahn. I think she was class of '72 but she might have been '71.  She was a GREAT violinist. She was the All-Stae Concdert-mistress.  I'm proud to say that she was also my girlfriend. I'd just like to say hi and wish her all the best, Dave.

Hey Bill, 

Stuffed butternut squash

Mushroom Risotto 

Polenta lasagna 

Some type of curry dish....

I'm sure the chef might have ideas :)

Pitz

We have been going over different ideas for the buffet but have no idea what we need to do for vegetarians. Any suggestions are welcome.

We have come up with a couple of good venues. We will probably settle on one that gives us the best price on rooms for those coming from out of town as well as the price for a buffet style dinner. Depending on the number that plan on attending will determine the size of the venue. Because of the expense for deposits on venue, DJ and photographer we will be setting up a Go Fund Me account so that those coming to reunion can donate some money to help us out. Donations will be put toward expense for reunion and taken off price of your reunion ticket. Those of you who are not going to be able to attend are welcome to donate as well. Once invitations go out you will be able to pay for the reunion by check, credit card thru website and paypal. This reunion we will not be printing a booklet for every classmate because of printing expense. The booklet will be available online. Remember we need to generate some excitement about this reunion so we can increase the number of classmates already saying yes. Any questions or comments are welcome.

Reunion Committee

After having our meeting we have come up with a couple of good venues. A few of us will be visiting them and getting a more detailed package. But in the mean time we need to generate some more excitement about the reunion. Right now we have only about 70 classmates and spouses saying yes. I would like to at the least double that number. You will be receiving a email shortly about an idea for raising sum up front funds to get the reunion under way.

Reunion Committee: Left to right John Mooney,Tom Chernowitz,Kevin Lauzon, Kathy Fregans, Pat Ciak, Bill Chafatelli and Jim Witkowski. Missing were Carol Kosty and of course Karen Young who now lives in Puerto Rico. I will be posting the results of the meeting shortly.

Reunion Update: I had the chance to stop by the old Crowne Plaza where we had the 40th reunion today. I was able to talk to one of the construction supervisor's and found out some info on when they will be done with the renovations. Unfortunately it will not be done for Sept 2021. It was bought by Doubletree and they are doing a complete renovation from the ground up. The reason they are keeping it is because they are the only ones in the area with huge ballrooms. Complete renovation of restaurant, every room and increase size of ballrooms. So when we meet on the 23rd we will discuss other options.

This is what 400 Postcards looks like. These were sent out to those that had no email address or have not responded to any of the emails that were sent out. So far only about 30 were undeliverable.

Hi, My name is Dave (David Walter), class of 1971.  I am a composer, and I started to write an opera on a play by one of my classmates about a screaming woman in a bomb shelter.  I believe that my classmate was named Kevin, but no Kevin listed fits the bill.  He had lived in Texas. One day, the class went to the window to look at the snow...  He had never seen snow before.  We met a few years later at a bar. I thought his poems and play were pretty good.  I'd like to read more if any one knows were he is.  I think he went to Rutgers in creative writing, but I'm not sure. Thanks, Dave.

Bradleybeachdebbie@gmail.com

Regards, Deborah (Baran) Wright

Class of 1971

Postcards are ready to go to Post Office. We are sending them to those classmates without a valid email and those who have an email but never responded to any emails sent. It's roughly 400 classmates. We are trying to make sure that evey last classmate is given the chance to attend the 50th reunion in 2021.

kudos to the reunion committee. I really appreciate all of your hard work and efforts. Looking forward to hitting that dance floor!

Regards,

Valerie Mobilian 

Thanks for your continued hard work on the reunion!

Polli (Heh) Schildge

pollihs@gmail.com

Reunion Update: This past month has been quite. I am now ready to have postcards printed. It looks like I will be sending postcards to everybody with no email address as well as those who have never answered my emails. I was hoping to keep that number down but it still looks like around 400 postcards need to be sent. I will probably hold off until our April meeting that way the last of the email classmates can still respond.

Classmates, I have done a non binding survey on Facebook to see how many are planning to attend our 50th Reunion. This was just to get some idea of how many classmates are coming which will determine which venue we choose. This survey is for those not on Facebook. We are averaging 200 visits a week to website. If you are not on Facebook and visit this site use the contact us page to give us an idea if your coming. Remember this is just to give us some sort of idea of numbers. You can also comment on the 3 day format we are planning.

Fellow classmates. Karen Young is retiring to Puerto Rico, so a few of us got together to wish her well.

To all classmates, Karen Young is retiring to Puerto Rico. A few of us got together to wish her well.

I have 2 reunions on the same weekend. I didn't graduate from EBHS (my family moved to IL at the end of sophomore year), so until yesterday I was planning to go to the reunion in Chicago with classmates I had known for my junior and senior years. Then I read the comments and messages and looked at the photos on this web site. I went to school in East Brunswick with most of my 5 younger siblings from kindergarten through age 15...riding my bike to Lawrence Brook School and Churchill...I have a flood of memories, and a sincere desire to get back in touch. So since it's not too late, I would like to attend this reunion. I see many familiar names on the list, and funny, fond, if foggy images from the past to go with them. Looking forward to seeing you!

This is a post script to my previous post~

Thanks for the many e-mails from my friends of the past.  It's just wonderful to hear from you!  And I forgot to mention that I am amazed that someone found the photo of me on the car as sophomore homecoming queen...  Another flood of memories!  See you soon! 

This is a photo of me with my first grandson last year.

Polli (Paula Heh) Schildge

Hi Friends,

If you are on the fence about joining this group of "older but wiser" folks - follow Nike's words of wisdom: "Just Do It!"

It won't hurt. But will be filled with laughs and great dance tunes! 

Each day must be lived fully. 

Joanna Hess

If anyone is still undecided, please make the decision to attend.   I was very shy/quiet in high school and spent a lot of time trying to be invisible, so I have never attended a Reunion.   I was just at a Reunion Committee Meeting and couldn't believe how the years fell away and how much fun it was reminiscing with people from our class.  It didn't matter that no one was sure of who I was or if I could remember them.   I could even joke about how I don't even recognize that old lady in my own mirror some days!  I wasn't worried anymore about not having ANYTHING interesting to put on my Reunion questionaire...  hee hee hee.  It was just FUN because we all share a history together... like a family.  We were so lucky to have the 60's and 70's as "our good old days".    Very few of us will know each other after all these years, but we will never be strangers to one another.  Please decide to come.  

Laura (Lunney) Boyd

Well here we are the members of the 40th reunion committee.

Sitting left to right: Pat Ciak, Carol Kosty, Karen Young

Standing Left to right: Jim Witkowski, Tom Chernowetz, Bill Chafatelli, John Mooney

Sorry I will not be attending the reunion but seeing all the pictures on the website brings back great memories of EBHS.   I've been living in the Philadelphia area since 1982,  working at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,  married to Diane (see photo) for 28 years and have two great children,  Erica, 23,  who works for Google in San Francisco, and Max, 20,  starting his junior year at Drexel University.   

Have a wonderful party!

Irv

I just registered and( paid Bill :) I was looking on the memory page and it brought tears to my eyes. I didn't know that those friends of ours have passed. Thank you for sharing their names.  I really look forward to seeing some old friends and making some new ones. See you all soon.  Pitz  ~ Eileen Pitzner

I'm coming to the reunion. Hope to see lots of old friends and classmates from the past!!! Hope some people remember me. I've been living in Fort Lauderdale,Fl for 18 years. My Mom is still in East Brunswick inthe same house I grew up in. Can't wait to see her and my classmates.

Has anyone heard from Jimmy Young?

I am looking to seeing you all in a few short weeks!!

Warmest Regards,

                              Gary W Hansen ASLA

I guess I should tell you who I am:

Barbara Ferguson

Trying to get in contact with her.  Please contact me @ 609-203-7911 or e-mail me at jwustefeld@munichre.com.

Thank you!

Jenifer

I found our Churchill Cubs Yearbook for 1966-1967 and I am bringing it with me.  So all you Churchill kids be warned - 8th grade was not particularly pretty for any of us!  See you tomorrow!

Lynda Strasser Brooks

"....... Three thousand million human beings exist, each with some possessions, each a microcosmos, each infinitely precious, each with a peculiar treasure. There is a distant garden where curious objects grow, and there, in a lovely dusk of green, the heart of 'any 1971 EBHS graduate' hangs like a peach......."

Humanities - written in my yearbook by Mr. Michaud

      It was wonderful to see past and present friends and to share with each other the richness of our lives; the joys, the adventures as well as the tragedies. Little could we know 40 plus years ago how full and rewarding our lives would be. Little could we know 40 plus years ago how challenging our lives would be. I will remember fondly, this short time together.

Be Strong, Be Happy and see you at the next reunion!

Love, Frank Barszcz  barszcz4@comcast.net

Gina Resnik, if you see this note please email me. I'm sorry we kept missing each other last night. I would love to catch up! 

I bet people had a great time.  I was leading a community Pedal the Parks bike ride in Minnesota yesterday, and could not make it.  I would love to hear about the reunion if anyone has time to write about their moments.

Thanks to the planners for their hard work. 

Diane Colgrove Craig

p.s. Has anyone seen or heard from Karen Racz, Linda Hegadus, Dawn and Dale Thompson?  Just wondering how they are doing?

All I can say is WOW!!!!!  what a weekend!!!!!!  I know I had a blast and I know everyone else did also!!!!!  We didn't see anyone sitting in the corner pouting....everyone was up and around and talking and laughing and drinking and dancing and drinking and dancing and drinking and.....

Seriously.....thank you to ALL of you for coming.  It never would have happened without all the support we had.  When we started working on details about a year ago, we wondered if we could do it.  I can't even begin to figure out how many man hours went into this event but it was THOUSANDS!!!!!!

Jim, the DJs were GREAT and I'm so glad you enjoyed the Disco song in your honor!!!!! (Jim HATES disco and made no bones about it during the planning, NO DISCO!!!!!  Sorry Jim, the devil made me do it!!!!!

Carol, thank you for taking in all the money, paying the bills and working with Bill on the headcounts to make sure they were right.

Pat, thank you for everything you did, taking notes so we would remember after the countless meetings what we had signed up to do.  For taking photos this weekend and Sam, thank you too for manning the camera....

Tom, thank you listening and working with me to help this event so successful.  I never would have made it without you and Sue....you grounded me when I thought this wasn't going to happen....

John, thank you for working with the HS on TRYING to get something going for the homecoming game.  Unfortunately  Mother Nature didn't cooperate but maybe next year we could even just get together to go to the homecoming game and do pizza and beer afterwards.

Teri, thank you for your ideas.  Teri was the one who came up with the idea to dress as we did in school....I had a great time doing it and I know Bill did also.....    Karen Henry, stop laughing  :-)

Sue and Pete and Sam....you were honorary members of the committe, opening your homes to our countless meetings, putting up with our staying until the WEE hours of the morning, eating your food, drinking your booze (and Pete, you KNOW why we kept inviting you back)   :-)  Rhonda, thank you for your spousal support and laughs.  I'll be sending over the disco CD so you can play it to Jim while he sleeps....we'll get him to love disco yet   :-)

and Bill.....I don't know what to say.  You did MORE than your share of work....the Locater, doing the booklets, setting up and running the website...and I'm sure there were other things but the brain is fried....if you didn't work nights, you probably never would have been able to accomplish what you did and the events wouldn't have been as successful....thank YOU!!!!

Lots of memories were shared, friendships were rekindled and I hope you all look back on this fondly and tell anyone who you are in contact with that they missed the time of their lives.  I have a very strong feeling that we will definintely do a more formal thing every 5 years, now that the hard work is done, the remainder will be a breeze.

The website will be kept up and running.  PLEASE check in from time to time to see if anything has transpired.  If you find a classmates, please ask them to join the Classquest website, drop an email to any of the committee members or give us a call.  We'd love to chat with old friends and make sure that your current information is included in the database.

I'm thoroughly exhausted right now, but a good kind of exhaustion.  I will sleep good tonight and hope that I have dreams on the weekend.  Thank you all again!!!!  Love you all!!!!

Karen

PS - our next nametags will have our names a little bigger so we don't have to stare at everyone's chest    :0

PPS - one more thing.  I understand that some classmates didn't get to pay for a class photo.  On the inside of the booklet is a full page ad for Lamar.  I'm sure if you drop them an email or give them a call and let them know it was EBHS, they can still get a photo to you.  If you have a problem, drop me a note and we'll make sure you get one    kryoung16@optonline

PPPS - and please, if you change your email address or phone or home address, let us know so we can update the database.

I'm heading to the couch to put my feet up and watch the Yankees slaughter the Red Sox   :-)

Hats off to the Committee's work for setting this up.....Unbelivable how many of us were there after all these years and where some traveled  from just to be at this event....

We enjoyed meeting you all again. The people we were friends with  and also the ones we didn"t really "Hang" with back then. All we met were very friendly and brought back many memories,

God Bless & Wish all well and hope we can all be together again for the 50th!!!

Robert M&Marlene(Sommer) Scott

If there is anyway possible please put names next to photos posted from reunion weekend as I keep going back and forth thru the yearbook trying to identify everyone. I know it's alot of work but if you could it would be great, thanks Russ Herzlich 

What a GREAT time I had and seeing people I haven't seen in years!! The committee ROCKED  thanks to all your hard work.

Eileen (Pitz)

Many thanks to the Reunion Committee for organizing a terrific event. Also, to all my classmates who attended - looking better than those awful high school photos. It was such a delight to "re-meet" my childhood friends, who have better memories of me than I do of myself. Hugs abound!

PS- The Memory Book ad and information about "Donate Life" came from me.

What a great time!!!!!  Hats off to the committee.....really pulled off a great weekend.  I really think this fabulous website helped a lot of classmates connect  and also let us know who was attending. 

I think 5 years, at this time in life, is a good thing.  I also like the idea of the Homecoming game next year.

Hope to keep in touch with my old friends.

Joanne Hess:  I will e-mail you, but did you hand out the art brochures?

Barbara Ferguson

Had a grat time.  I think we all did!!!!  I love the web site and I believe it really helped us keep track of things nice and easy.

I like the idea of 5 years.   Geea....in 10 years....how old will we be?

Homecoming sounds like fun.  I am local and can always make an impromtu get together.

Hope to keep in touch with my classmates this time around

Barbara Ferguson

Just wanted to say that i was so gald I went. The committee did a GREAT Job !. In a matter of a half hour I felt I was back in 1971. And I will tell you for a bunch of old people we look Dam Good !. I was was real happy that not one person had forgoten about the parties at my house. Those were some great parties and talking to eveyone they seem like they were just yesterday. I thank everybody for being able to be a part of the class of 1971 and the memories that I will never forget. NEXT TIME PARTY AT MY HOUSE !!!

It was great seeing everyone and thanks to the commitee for its time and efforts.  I look forward to the next one (hopefully I am retired) and everyone please stay active and healthy. 

Pat Donohue (jdonohue7@cox.net)

What a memorable reunion!! It was great seeing everyone, I was very overwhelmed by the number of classmates that showed and/or took the time to view our website, also, the positive feedback we recieved. We are already getting ideas for the next reunion.......probably in two years.......so start planning now. We are keeping the website active, so feel free to peek in now & then, keep the pictures & comments coming......thank you ALL for making this reunion successful.

Carol Kosty Schmidt

I had such a great time visiting with everyone. I couldn't even get to see all of the people I remembered even if some that I did see did not remember me. The reunion was well planned and I talked about it all the way home to Charlotte with my wife. She was amazed how welcomed she felt since she knew no one. I wish I would have had more time to spend with everyone as what a flood of memories from all that I talked to. Oddly enough I met many new friends that I didn't even know or remember from school. Thank you so much for making this happen I am so glad I decided to go even though my closest friends decided not to attend. Boy did they miss a great time!!! Thanks again for all your hard work and I am so sorry to those who remembered me that I missed.   

Kudos to the Committee!! Your years of prepwork paid off big time. I made it to the Friday night Meet and Greet and knew I would regret not seeing those signed up for Saturday and Sunday. I didn't want to leave! If you were there, please post an email so we can reconnect with those long lost BEARS. Life takes some interesting twists, but I think there's still a little green and white in all our hearts. Thanks to all who signed my yearbook and aplogies to those I missed. Stay well! Denise D'Onofrio Casey

Great seeing everyone.  I just decided to go at the last minute.  Glad I didn't miss it.  Thanks to the committee for planning this awesome event.

Thanks to all the committee members.  There was obviously a lot of time spent in organizing and it was deeply appreciated..  It was fun to see everyone and talk to people I had never even spoken with in high school.  I was shy back then!!!  Some of you  looked as good as you did in high school [surprise,surprise].  Hope to see and talk to more people at the next one.  Keep well everyone!!!  Bob McGarvey

The reunion was fantastic! it was sure great to see people i have not seen since high school. I attended all of the events and had a blast! those who did not come really missed something! lets not wait until 10 years lets do another one in 2 to three years,it was one of those events i did not want it to end! A GREAT JOB BY THE REUNION COMMITTIE ALL OF YOU DID A WONDERFUL JOB MAKING THIS A MEMORABLE OCCASION THANKS SO MUCH !!!!

Many thanks to Carol, Karen, Bill, Jim and the rest of the reunion committee.  It was the first reunion I attended and I had a great time! It was so good to see so many familiar faces and reconnect with those I was friendly with in HS and those I only knew casually.  But I have to say, next time around,  I want an invite to Mark Montauk's parties - seems I missed out on a really good time in 1970!

   -Sue (Ball) Mikorski

I wasn't expecting to have fun at our reunion, especially since none of the people I hung out with were attending.  This was a blessing in disguise, for I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know lovely classmates I never spent time with back then.  Much gratitude and respect to the entire Committee for changing the attitude about reunions for many people like myself.  When the absentees hear about the great event you pulled off, anyone still alive will be at your next event, so plan on a larger room, ha-ha!  Are you listening Mindy Miller, Karen Hudak, Nancy McGrath, Jody Siegal?  Make new friends, but try to connect with the old. Stay well everyone, and rest up for the next round!

Pam Johnson (Patch) - pjpaws56@yahoo.com

to quote the words of the song written by the Beatles and sung by Mary Hopkins     "Those were the days my friends we thought would never end, we'd sing and dance forever and a day, we lived the life we choose, we'd fight and never lose FOR WE WERE YOUNG AND SURE TO HAVE OUR WAY !"   (WELL WE DID LOSE TO SOUTH RIVER AND NEW BRUNSWICK) !!! the Reunion was faboulous . this is my second post on this subject but i had a fantastic time, and to think i did not want to come! i am so glad i did.

I preached a sermon last Sunday (Feb. 19, 2012) in which I spent some time sharing about the reunion. The rest of the sermon is available at http://togetheronthejourney.blogspot.com/2012/02/holy-reality.html. The part about the reunion is as follows:

At the end of September I went to NJ to attend my high school class’s 40^th reunion. I have to say I had a great time. I saw some folks who I went to 2^ndand 3^rd grade with. Even someone from 1^st grade. I was surprised how old they all were. At the same time, in a lot of folks I could see the 10 year old or the 14 year old. And I got to know some folks I didn’t even really remember from back then, but there was something about connecting with people with whom I’d grown up – knew well or scarcely at all. It was a joyful event.

 

And behind it all I felt a spirit of reconciliation. We all knew or at least vaguely remembered the rivalries, the competitions, the slights, the insults, the embarrassments in all of our trying to learn to be human beings: to grow up and find out who we were to become.

 

It’s a tricky business and all of us had stepped on one another’s toes as we tried to sort it all out. But let me tell you about one encounter there in particular.

 

The reunion event had a website where I could see who was going to show up. I noticed that George Sirgiovanni planned to be there. I made up my mind that I was going to have to make sure that I talked to him. You might be wondering why. George was one of perhaps two or three guys I had an actual fist fight with in those days. We mixed it up in the locker room until a gym teacher came and intervened. By now I really don’t remember what it was about. I just knew I felt bad about it.

 

I knew I needed to apologize to George. I wondered whether I would recognize him. Finally after dinner I spotted him across the room. While I was still probably 15 yards away he saw me coming and recognized me. Within moments we were apologizing to each other and laughing and shaking hands and then embracing.

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John McNeill

Happy to see all messages!

Really pleased to read all the posted messages. I have been away from East Brunswick for several years now since I moved to Springville, Pa. after I retired as a Union Carpenter (local 1006) due to my affliction (I.B.M.- a form of muscular dystrophy) when I was 51 years old. I sure do wish the best things in life for all my old friends and classmates!

Adam Heitzenroder

Life long friends

This past weekend was spent with my best friends: Debbie Doyle, Debby Dobrzynski, Linda Newell and Linda Radionoff. I've known Linda R. since 4th grade at Lawrence Brook School. I met Debby in 6th grade, and Debbie and Linda N. In 8th grade. We have stayed friends and kept in touch since then, with minimally a weekend together once a year. We always have a blast remembering the days when we were young, and we love that we are growing old together. We have been to many of the reunions, including the 40th. We talked a lot about it this weekend, and we are all anxious for another one. So I thank the committee for their time and planning, and while the picnic last year didn't work out, we do hope for a 45th reunion. We love staying in touch with everyone!    Sally Burgeson Clay

 

Sally Burgeson

I went to East Brunswick schools thru grade 9 I would like to attend if there is another reunion thank you.

Edward Wood

Early planning

It probably is a good time to start planning i hope to be there and let's hope it's the BIGGEST AND BEST REUNION YET ! I really had a great time and Enjoyed myself at the 40th reunion.

Richard Meagher

Michael R Antolino Jr EBHS 1971

Can labels be added to (all) of the pictures. currently at 33 Church St Apt 4, Ramsey NJ 07446 jrantolino@aol.com 551-500-3183 BS Math U of Notre Dame 1975 Michael Antolino Jr EBHS 1971

Michael Antolino Jr

50th reunion

looking forward to seeing everyone 

Patrick Donohue

50th Class Reunion

Well classmates I am well on my way to locating everbody for the 50th reunion. I want to thank those of you that have updated your contact info and hope that if you have not you do it soon so I don't have as many postcards to send out. I will be posting here as well as on Facebook to let you know what is happening.

Bill

Looking forward to attending the 50th reunion! Jody Segal (J Sarah Nicol)

Hello to my fellow EBHS classmates,

Please keep me in the loop, and if its not to much trouble, may I request communicatons made through my personal email: JSNicolinc.com?  Due to my internatonal business I refrain from social media sites.

A quick shout out to Pam Patch, I will reach out to you via email.  Mindy Miller and I are in contact with each other, I will update her with this information. 

Best to all,

Jody Segal (J Sarah Nicol)

Jody Segal