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2 Lived in 9 states and Japan. Traveled to 18 countries, including
China. Divorced from Maureen Holl, 2 sons. Live in New York City.
Joined GE after receiving MBA degree from NYU. Was with Emerson
Electric Co. as a division president. In 1991, founded a turnaround
CEO firm that fixes bankrupt manufacturing companies. Expect to work 5
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Avid runner and lap swimmer for 35 years. Completed mini triathlons.
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3 I am a clinical psychologist in private practice. I continue to work full time and really love the work. I write and publish papers about group therapy and present often at national and international conferences. My life is very full with all of this but perhaps most important is my five children, their spouses and my nine wonderful grand children. My oldest is 21 and she is a senior in college and my youngest is 5 in kindergarten! This year, I am taking four of my grandsons to Italy to visit their great great grandparent’s home in Positano. My mother is still alive at 98!
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8 What a kick looking at the current pictures of the 1956 graduates of BHS. Thanks for cluing me in to the pictures and the names. You are such a gem to take on this big task of collecting up to date information, pictures, planning reunions, etc. It certainly adds much joy to everyone's lives....Thank you................I'll get the current bio to you soon and a recent picture.....................Judy Berman Cohen
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27 My wife, Heidi, and I live just outside of Chicago where I run a small residential remodeling business, Fasolt & Fafner Contractors. I've been doing this for 5 years since retiring from Motorola after 14 years. Heidi is a classical pianist, teaching and accompanying thoughout the Chicago area. We travel a lot, most recently (July, 07) for a month in France and Germany.
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32 Died 1/29/93
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45 Died 12/82
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56 After graduating BHS in '56, I spent 4 years in the USAF between Texas and Dover, DL. After discharge, I worked in a factory in Hackensack, NJ and in two plumbing supply houses. In 1961, I got married and had 2 daughters. In 1971, I joined the Montvale Police Dept., where I worked for 27 years until retiring to New Port Richey, FL where I currently reside.
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60 To begin, it has been wonderfull to have spent quality time with many of you in 2006 at Bing's Landing in Palm Coast. Sorry to have missed you all last year due to conflicting schedules. The 50th reunion was a blast, thanks to the Reunion Committee, all came off really smoothly and we all had a great time to re-bond.
Without the benefit of a college education, I went to work for some local printers in the Bergenfield area. Later on I attended Manhattan School of Printing to get enough traning to enter the lithographic industry. Then it was one of the highest paying jobs in the late 50's.
This career was to continue until retirement working in NJ and the NY Metro area. Having been a litho journeyman pressman, I'd had the opportunity to serve as Pressroom Foreman working for 24 years with one of the formost plants in NJ . The litho industry succumbed to newer forms of publishing and began to fade. I retired in 1993, at 55 and ready to start a new avocation in farming.
We built our first home on new land in Sussex County, NJ. It was a post and beam solar heated design. We've been here since 1981, and have operated a certified organic farm till present., doing all the work and management till present. Interest in organic has blossomed recently to create a strong demand on our on farm market.
Seems like years ago that I was first mate on my friends sailboat cruising and racing on Long Island Sound. Night and day races, we took many trophys. Later I crewed with him in the Virgins, British and American and Culebra off the coast of Puerto Rico, we sailed into Viequez , also, an active US bombing range, so sad. The Morgan Yacht was a comfortable home for us, an Out Island 46' yawl. My friend had sailed the Newport to Bermuda race on off years when the multimillionaires were not racing. I missed being his crew, then, but they took First Place 2 out of 4 years in succession.
We're finally tiring of all the work needed to run the farm, we hope to reduce our crops to garlic and christmas trees and start to get away more on motorcycle trips during the next season. I just bought a 2007 Triumph Tiger and ready to explore the northeast !
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63 Died 10/2/96
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65 "How great it was to see everyone in 2006! I am so proud to be a graduate of BHS: a strong school, excellent faculty, and the students were all “above average!” What a wonderful foundation for our fulfilling lives. Keep in touch."
Hope that works. In the meantime, does anyone know what happened to Miss Soldner? I often think of her commitment to the English language and literature, and know that her intensity helped us all to be better communicators.
Married to a sociologist, it was hard to ignore the overwhelming percentage of our almuni group that had entered the education field -- whether K-12 or university. I attribute that to the wonderful education we all received at BHS. Miss Soldner, Miss Rule, and Mr.Hunter were the teachers of legend.
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