RIVERDALE ALUMNI
Class Notes Congratulations to the Classes ending in 0's and 5's, who are celebrating their reunions in the 2015-2016 school year! Classes ending in 1's and 6's will have their reunion in the 2016-2017 school year, beginning the weekend of October 21-23. Please save the date!
PLEASE SEND YOUR NEWS TO YOUR CLASS CORRESPONDENT(S) BEFORE NOVEMBER 1, 2016. 1941, 1942, 1943 Dick Korf ’42 info@mycotaxon.com
1944 Richard D. Rosenblatt rrosey26@gmail.com
1945 Be a QUAD Class Correspondent*
1946 Elizabeth Eidlitz eidlitz@gmail.com
1947 Be a QUAD Class Correspondent*
1948 Victor S. Noerdlinger vnoerdlinger@comcast.net
1949 Barbara Neebe Thompson 26 Dorchester Avenue Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
1945
Cindy Robinson, the daughter of Joan Chesley Robinson, let Riverdale know that her mother passed away on January 27, 2016. We extend condolences to Cindy and all of Joan’s family and friends.
1949
Class Correspondent Bill Gardner ’53 let QUAD know that Herbert “Burt” Kwouk died May 24. An actor best known for playing Inspector Clouseau’s manservant Cato opposite Peter Sellers in the “Pink Panther” movies, Burt also appeared in three James Bond films. The British-born actor received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to drama in 2011. Helen Vincent Atlas wrote the following “homage to the Pulrang family, who took in a refugee child and sent her to Riverdale at the
outset of World War II: “As one of the 25 refugee children on the SS Excambion that docked in New York harbor shortly before Christmas of 1940, I now recall— some 76 years later—having been visibly impressed by the Statue of Liberty we glided by (‘A gift from the country you come from,’ I was told) and the number of American flags adorning the pier. The French tricolor was all I’d known up to then. “I was unaware as a nine-yearold that mother and I and the 24 other children aboard were here owing to the bounty of the American Committee for the Care of European Children and the Unitarian Service Committee for having organized our getaway from Nazi-occupied countries to the safety of the States, a neutral oasis in the early years of World War II. Mother spoke several languages and was an adult in whose care we were entrusted on our trip from
Marseille to Lisbon via Barcelona, and Atlantic crossing. “Once here, the committees arranged for me to stay with a Unitarian family while my mother sought employment and housing, which brings me to the Dr. Stanford Pulrang family, the physician at founder Frank S. Hackett’s
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