They summer in Maine and enjoy golf, bridge, and biking. He says, “I hear from Bob Magnus, who with Mary now lives in Rye. Poly seems to be getting better and better!!”
1950s 1950
Arnold Tolkin and his wife just had their second great-grandchild, Rylee Mila, born to their grandson, Ryan Tolkin, and his lovely wife, Ariella. Tolkin and his wife are off to Europe in the fall to experience the newest, most luxurious cruise ship ever built. They live in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, and next year Tolkin will turn 85 and take his entire brood for a short cruise on a yacht. They have four sons, 12 grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters with another on the way. He still lectures on genealogy. Tolkin also mentors young people who need direction and have achieved a certain amount of success. � Joseph DePaola says, “This year marks my 50th anniversary as a Texan. Joan and I relocated to the Dallas-Fort Worth area with American Airlines.”
1952
Joel Spector is still practicing law on Long Island.
1953
Peter Liebert just completed a three-year graduate course at the Hagan School of Business at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, and received an MBA in Finance and Healthcare Management. He continues to practice pediatric surgery in Westchester and Connecticut, and he hopes to begin research in population health and tran-
sition into that field, utilizing years of experience as a practicing surgeon.
1955
Ira Merritt is an active realtor in Boca Raton, FL, and has been living in Boca West Country Club for the past 28 years. He has been married to Vivian for 55 years. Merritt says he received birthday wishes from his classmate Rudy Brody.
1956
Edward (Ted) Fuller started a new company, Cruzer Scooter LLC, to manufacture electric scooters for the college student and urban commuter. The Cruzer goes 28 MPH, has a battery life of 25 hours, and features cup holders, speakers, extra storage, and a touchscreen dashboard. � George Marks says he enjoyed the 60th reunion more than he can say. This year, he toured the beautiful national parks in the southwest USA: Bryce, Zion, Arches National Park, and the Grand Canyon. He says, “Best to all my classmates.”
1957
Peter Siviglia’s treatise, “Commercial Agreements,” has been a best-seller since publication in 1993. He’s saved deals for major international companies that they and their high-profile law firms couldn’t handle. But despite these accomplishments, he says, “My wife and all other teachers do more for humanity in a day than I’ve done in a lifetime.” � David Lifton is completing Final Charade: Oswald, Strategic Deception and the Murder of JFK. The book is a sequel to Best Evidence, his 1981 best-seller, and breaks new ground by exposing a strategic deception, one designed to disguise a political murder as a historical quirk of fate and thus pave the way for the ascendancy of LBJ to the Oval Office.
‘56
1958 Michael Kay and his wife Erica recently moved from Boynton Beach, FL, to a new home in Delaware. Kay works in the Appeals Division of the State Attorney’s Office in West Palm Beach, where he is a paralegal volunteer. September found Mike and Erica in Albuquerque, NM, where his daughter Tamara and her husband, Harold, are professors of sociology at the University of New Mexico. Mike is proud that granddaughter Mireya, age four, is fluent in English and Spanish thanks to her parents’ efforts to ensure her heritage as a native-born puertorriqueña. For recreation, Mike plays tennis and occasionally rides motorcycles. � Mark Groothuis: “Far from the heights called Dyker, there’s a town they call Delray.” Mark says he has given up employment to play golf every day, but brother Mike’s still working. “Don’t know when the day will be, when he leaves NY for the sunshine, and joins me on the tee!” � Edward Jeffer had the opportunity for a comprehensive tour of Afghanistan. Jeffer and his father’s postcard collection was donated to The College of Staten Island and is available on their web site. 1959
Gary Mettler is still doing gigs and recording sessions. Several videos are on YouTube under his name. Mettler has three original tunes in the top 20 of the Blues/Rock category on Number 1 Music. � Frank (Jim) Tuttle retired from the board of the Kinderhook Bank and recently returned from 10 days in his primitive northern Quebec camp, where he identified warblers, following a week in Budapest. � David Lichtman recently retired from his practice of orthopaedic surgery in order to spend more time at his second home
‘61
Class of 1956 Front Row: James Flug, Neil Koreman, Anthony Purpura, Michael Heitner, Michael Rosen. Second Row: Michael Bradford, Daniel Pollack, Walter Williamson, Richard Press,
Stephen Krass. Third Row: Harry Yates, Robert Schoenemann, George Marks, John Kells, Richard Segall. Fourth Row: Maurice Finkelstein, John Malhame, Edward Fuller II, Malcolm Thompson, Arthur Delmhorst. Class of 1961 Front Row: Peter Richtmyer, Albert Keck, Robert Coates, Allan Rosenbloom, Richard Linn, George Sherman, Jr. Second Row: Stephen Pearlman, Francis Love, John Delmhorst, Paul Feinstein, Barry Musikant, John Brancato.
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