Re: 30th

[Sug...@aol.com]

Last I knew, Banta was in NY with wife and children. But I am not sure how to contact him. I can find out though.

Sulyn

 

In a message dated 7/19/2008 6:33:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jeannie...@gmail.com writes:

O.k. so you got me thinking about long lost classmates, Steve, and Karan Nejad came to mind.  Anybody know where he is?  I googled him thinking I'll probably get a lot as I assumed it was a common Iranian name.  Much to my surprise, however, only one came up -- a cardiologist in Hackensack, NJ.  Do you think it's him?

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Steve Coleman <india...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Jeannie,

I was just thinking of you, although not dreaming you pushed me into the Lake (even though you did, in a manner of speaking....).

I want to see everyone.  It seems like there are so many people we haven't seen in a long time.  I think the last time I saw Laura Collins and Jen Ham was '86.  Michael Sanders even longer ago.  Montilla?  One of the many I haven't seen in 30 years.  Where is John "Death is Pure" Banta?   Curtis "I'm a teapot-- boil me!" Carroll?  Jon Vance?   Elisa Barbour?  And so many more.  And for all those I have seen all along, it's great the way that so many of our relationships have grown and shifted and sustained through the years, now with some of our children becoming good friends.

What is the power of the bond at Westtown that has me riding my bike downtown with my son, when suddenly I am doing my imitation of Curtis singing "Mongoloid, he was a Mongoloid -- one chromosome too many!  And he wore a hat, and he had a job, and he brought home the bacon so that nobody knew -- he was a Mongoloid!"  Not exactly what I thought they meant when they talked about the stuff of immortality.

I also want my son to meet all you amazing people who have in so many surprising (and ridiculous) ways helped shape the life that I have led.  Does everyone remember the characters you became for our "50th Reunion" the night before Graduation?  It's neat to compare who we're becoming to who we thought we would be.

Maybe the way to get everyone back is a full retrospective of Don Wildman's entire oeuvre, from Vainamoinnen to Extra Strength Medicated Denorex, from the Dime a Minute Man to the Man Who Makes History.  Heck, why not a YouTube channel for all of us to show off snippets of what strange and wondrous turns our lives have taken.

Funny that it's been almost 30 years.  There was a commercial recently for the Time Life Series on Soft Rock Sounds of the 70's (not the one that Don was on), and it brought so much flooding back.  I'll leave out the part about how really old the two people selling the video looked.

It will be great to see everyone and to see how gracefully (and gratefully?) we're all heading toward half a century.

much love to all,

Steve

--- On Thu, 7/17/08, Jeannie Hall <jeannie...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jeannie Hall <jeannie...@gmail.com>
> Subject: 30th
> To: westt...@googlegroups.com
> Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 8:34 PM

> Hi all,
>
> I've been thinking of us lately.  Yesterday I received
> an email from the
> "higher ups" hinting that we need to start
> thinking about our 30th.  My two
> youngest stuck at home all day said they spent the day
> watching a marathon
> showing of Don Wildman on "Cities of the
> Underworld."  Last night I had a
> dream with all the Cronister's in it (minus Hugh), and
> I was on a cliff,
> needed to get to Westtown so I wouldn't miss a work
> job, and Rob Cosinuke
> and Michael Montilla pushed me off a cliff into a lake (I
> just returned from
> a family gathering at Mononk Mountain House where I was
> swimming in a lake
> so that's where that image came from).  Anybody want to
> analyze that dream?
> And just now my youngest sent me this link which I'll
> pass on to you.
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-oreo-ads-flash,0,5336228.flash(doesn't
> he look awfully young?)
>
> The point of this email is to start a reconnection for our
> 30th.  I went to
> the class of '78's 30th, and I'm determined to
> do better than they did.  I
> promise not to ask for money.  I just want to see friends
> -- Karen Coulter,
> Amy Righter, Jen Ham, Molly Deisroth.  These are just a
> small sampling of
> the people I want to see again.  Who do you want to see and
> what can we do
> as a class to get them to PA in May 2009?
>
> --
> "In the present circumstances, no one can afford to
> assume that someone else
>
> will solve their problems. Every individual has a
> responsibility to help
> guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes
> are not
> sufficient; we must become actively engaged."-- His
> Holiness the Dalai Lama
>
>