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HERALD A day for somber remembrance
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Vol. 58 No. 24
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A chat with David Paymer OHS alum, distinguished character actor reflects on career and whose son, Robert, is now chief executive of the Walt Disney Company. Together they put David Paymer, a renowned on a show called, “Oceanside character actor, recently remi- USA,” which was modeled after nisced about his formative years the Broadway hit “Oklahoma.” at Oceanside High School. In an At School No. 8, Paymer’s interview with the Herald, Pay- musical and acting jour ney mer, 68, a 1972 OHS graduate, began under the guidance of credited his early music teacher Herb experiences in his Rothgarber. Encourhometown for shapaged by Rothgarber, ing his successful Paymer explored the acting career, and piano, bells and shared his gratitude glockenspiel, develand acknowledged oping a multifaceted the impact that the musical skill set. hamlet had on his “He was an inspilife. ration,” Paymer said Paymer’s parents, of Rothgarber. “He Marvin and Sylvia, was just the best played the first sigteacher I ever had. nificant role in nurHe inspired his stuturing his artistic dents.” Paymer perinclination. His formed in musicals father, a pianist and including “Fiddler composer, and his dAVId PAymER on the Roof ” and m o t h e r, a p l ay - actor “Oklahoma.” On wright, collaborated opening night, he on community recalled, Rothgarber shows that often raised money would gather the cast and say, for the Oceanside Library in the “Tonight’s your night — go out early 1960s. there and make magic.” That, Growing up, David watched Paymer said, was the first time his father play piano in produc- “that I was sort of recognized tions, while his mother acted for actually being good at anyand produced alongside Artie thing.” Iger, who lived two doors down Continued on page 7
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lINdSAy CHEtkof ANd Michael Caine are the Oceanside High School Class of 2023 valedictorian and salutatorian.
Students at top of their class care about their community By kARINA koVAC kkovac@liherald.com
Oceanside High School Valedictorian Lindsay Chetkof and Salutatorian Michael Caine have a lot in common — but not their approach to being at the top of their class. Chetkof always pushed herself to get there. Caine, in contrast, wanted to relax after the toll the coronavirus pandemic’s toll on his freshman year. They are similar, though, in the respect that both took at least six Advanced Placement classes, and supplemented their exceptional academics by taking part in extracurricular activities.
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“I was speechless. There was nothing left to say. It was just, like, it felt so incredible to kind of see that all come to fruition,” Chetkof said of her happy disbelief when she was told by high school Principal Brendan Mitchell that she was the valedictorian. She is heading to Duke University in the fall to study mechanical engineering, and Chetkof said that OHS’s technology programs helped nurture her love of engineering and physics. “Something I always wanted was a blend between engineering and the humanities,” Chetkof said. “I saw that engineering could Continued on page 6
hings worked out for me, and somehow I think that Oceanside had a lot to do with it.