Saturday, December 25, 2010

CHRISTMAS MORNING


I wanted to wish you all a warm Christmas morning – it is even brisk here in Central Florida this fine morning and gives me somewhat of the taste of those Christmas mornings in CNY... Ron Fairbank sent this to a number of us this past week but I thought it was worth sharing with all of you this wonderful morning as I contemplate memories of previous Christmas mornings …

Another year gone—
Judy Norton did her stage manager thing again with Rudolph the Red Nose...and the local children’s ballet schools.
Suzy Becker is back in Arizona
Bill Little even got a taste of cold weather down in usually sunny Florida
Steve Bernardelli despite the weather probably still played golf.
Dick D'Orazio returned a few weeks ago from another successful hunting trip with his son down in Montana
Dawn D'Orazio continued teaching the kids at Cazenovia
Pete Dardaris still can't believe he screwed up on the date for our re-union
Ron turned another year older, continues procrastinating on completing the story of the "Purple slip" for the blog. And Carol is seriously considering retirement next June but concerned about too much free time.  Imagine?
Louise and Al put the bikes up, and got out the wax and skis.
Barb Clark --I loved her pearls Friday night-no doubt has been busy doing something...
Lee and Jim Wilson probably continued traveling to visit their kids.
Ed Hutchinson our ever faithful record and web keeper has passed the torch to Bill little-we all owe him a huge debt of appreciation for all his reliable tracking and keeping us up to date on J.D. classes.  Big thanks for the numerous hours you devoted to all of us Ed.
Our classmate Jim Robb remains at James Square--I plan on taking my reunion photo disk and laptop and pay him a visit in early Jan.

The time is here for the Syracuse group to reconvene for a breakfast or lunch, catch up, and take some photos to share. Will contact Louise in January.

Lastly, Anne Brennan sent in a short note to the Post Standard Editorial page last week--reminiscing about the monorail at E.W. Edwards at Christmas time--how many of you remember that.  Dick Case in his weekly column brought it all back about 2 weeks ago when he interviewed some folks who grew up here and shared their memories of the attraction.  I remember riding it and ending up in the toy department and Santa Claus. Progress (?) and time moves on.

Fondly,
Ron Fairbank

Thursday, December 23, 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS


Louise Brown Smith and her husband want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. See their Card


Thursday, December 16, 2010

WE ARE SORRY TO HEAR ...


We lost another class associate and close friend to many in our class this past week. Tim O’Day passed away on December 9th in Pinehurst NC, where he resided in recent years. Tim lived on Dewittshire Road just down from Judy Skelton another classmate. He did eventually go away to school but was in our class up through at least 10th grade. After completing college he lived in Skaneateles for years until retiring to Pinehurst. For those of you who would like to know more on his life please click here to view his obituary.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

For those of you that have moved out of the CNY area and have trouble remembering what it was like to live there during the winter see the photo of Sue Reisman's back yard. It is not officially winter until the 21st of December but I believe it was about 8 degrees and 15" of snow on the ground when the photo was taken. Florida is wonderful this time of the year folks - come visit us we need the tourist dollars.