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First Arizona Reunion
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Wednesday March 21st, 2018
at Kitchen 18
Some Thoughts of the Reunions by Alumni
The Zoom66 Reunion
March 15, 2023
Ron …that was great fun.Include me next time as well.
Best Regards,
Gary Greenberg
February 21, 2023
Thank you Ron
In addition to us, you included two very interesting Stuyvesant alumni during the February 20, 2023 Zoom meeting you moderated. The attendees, Dr. Robert A. Sargent and Alan Knapp each had storied careers.
During the meeting we learned that Alan earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and an MBA.
We also learned that Dr. Sargent, now retired, became a pediatric ophthalmologist. During his active career, he took time off to donate his services in numerous trips to undeveloped countries. Quite a guy!
As far as we are concerned, we’re about as close to retirement that you can get as patent attorneys and still say we are “semi-retired.” Ron, we look forward to more of your interesting Zoom meetings with our Stuyvesant classmates.
Regards,
Charles and Phil Rodman
The Zoom Reunion
January 26, 2021
Hi guys,
At the end of our Zoom call Ron asked if one of us would write a short piece about our call. I agreed to do that. What follows is what i wrote.
Warm wishes to everyone!
Ken Frank
Early in January I received a call from Ron Pinkus, a fellow alumnus from Stuyvesant in 1957. I remembered Ron but I’d been out of touch with any others for many years since the guys I’d been closest with had long passed away. Ron said he was setting up small group Zoom sessions with others from our graduating class. I was invited to one of these on January 26th.
The Zoom meeting was convened with myself, Bob Sargent, Phil Rodman, Monroe Rabin and Ron Pinkus. It was a delight catching up on memories and what we’ve been up to in our lives in the 60 plus years since we’d graduated. While I didn’t really know everyone, it was wonderful anyway. Phil’s brother Charlie was a buddy of mine back then, and after an invite call by Phil, he joined us.
I got to share about my life and career that included attending undergrad at NYU in the Bronx, working for American Cyanamid in NJ for almost a decade. After that I moved to Mobil Oil in NYC for over a decade and then left to become a carpenter, builder, and cabinet maker (so I could see the results of my work every day). I finished my formal career as an IT manager with AT&T for about 15 years. Finally I was a volunteer manager with a non-profit organization for another decade.
Remarkably, it was precious to share stories with these guys after all these years. Two consecutive forty minute sessions wasn’t enough time to talk and share our thoughts and stories and we agreed to have another Zoom call in a month or so. If you get a chance to join one of these, I’m sure it will be well worth it.
Ken Frank
The Florida Reunion – 2018
February 20, 2018,
How I Survived the ’57 Alumni Luncheon and Lived to Write About It.
About a dozen Stuyvesant Alumni gathered at Mario’s in Boca Raton, Florida to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Class of ’57. They came from near and far, driving 3 hours in one case that I know of. My husband never told me that women weren’t invited. He did tell me that women were invited to the dinner and lunch for the 60th held in Manhattan. He added that I belonged because my father ran track for Stuyvesant, setting a high school record for a relay team at the Penn Relays.
I was sitting next to Ron Pinkus and at the end of the lunch it was agreed that I”d write a few words on the reunion luncheon. Sitting unobtrusively at the end of the table, knowing no one except my lying husband, my observations and recording abilities are limited.
The food was great, the server charming, and the restaurant beautiful. We sat at a nice long table by a window in the back with lots of light. The conversation along the table was flowing. I couldn’t hear what was said, but it was fun to observe. I did catch someone saying that next time we should have a round table. However, Mario’s was a good choice.
Ron told the group that my husband had appeared in the Academy Award Winning movie, “Man On Wire.” He then spoke briefly about helping the wire walker, Philippe Petit, gain access to the World Trade Center, but there wasn’t much interest among the group.
I want to thank Ron for running two great reunions. One just now in Florida and also the New York 60th Reunion in October. Invite me again, Ron.
In reporting on the New York meetings, Alumni seemed surprised at the statistic that 85% of current Stuyvesant students are Asian. The Stuyvesant principal allowed that the percentage included students from many countries throughout the Asian continent. Ron discussed a number of issues concerning our alumni, including their associations.
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Greenhouse, the lone wife.
The New York 60th REUNION – IN BRIEF
The Peripatetic Award for the alumni coming the longest distance went to Paul Ephraim from Studio City, CA a distance of 2804 miles and Bob Sargent from Englewood, CO a distance of 1794 miles. Both would have lost to Art Chen from Bellevue, WA, a distance of 2852 miles. Art had to cancel at the last moment due to family issues.
Thanks to SHSAA for helping us publicize our reunion by sending out post cards and including us on their website. Are we supporting them with dues!
A welcome sight was Eric Contreras, the principal of Stuyvesant. He talked about today’s Stuyvesant. It is alive and very well.
It was good seeing Louis Cardona and his daughter Leslie who came in from Austria to be with him. Thank you Leslie. She would have won the Peripatetic Award if eligible.
Kudos to Ron Pinkus for hosting Bob Sargent during Reunion Week.
Our thanks to Reunion Committee members Charles and Philip Rodman for generating the ‘In Memoriam’ list and ‘Missing Alumni’ list for distribution.
And lastly to Reunion member Ron Pinkus for convincing Ben and Gale Armstead to attend the reunion. Gale had a great time.
The 60th Stuyvesant reunion dinner was lovely and especially propitious for me. I did not see any of my close friends from Stuyvesant at the 50th reunion though it certainly was very enjoyable also. However, at the 60th I was delighted to reconnect with Joel Novak who I hadn’t seen in 60 years! What a treat to meet up with a old friend after all those years. We talked and talked throughout the dinner about our lives and experiences which were very interesting and very different. We graduated high school at a time when opportunities were everywhere and most of us, I’m sure, had rich lives. When we were young Stuy students we were somewhat self assured and even a little cocky, not unusual qualities for privileged kids in a premiere school. However, the vicissitudes of life did attenuate those early qualities making for closer and warmer feelings between alumni. One of the few benefits of getting older and meeting old classmates after a half century or more!
Arthur Kramer
We celebrated during the weekend of October 14 and 15 with a 6 PM gala Saturday dinner at Dolcino Trattoria Toscana and an 11 AM Sunday brunch gathering at Old Stuy. Some joined us at one or both events(See REUNION page for attendees). The Sunday gathering featured a Q&A with Eric Contreras, the newly-appointed Stuyvesant High School Principal.
Fraternally,
Your Reunion Committee
The Good Guys
Ron Pinkus, Hank Karpf, Phil Avruch
stuyalum1957@gmail.com