40TH REUNION

FOR THOSE OF US WHO WEREN'T THERE/ or maybe for those who were (how big was the room and how many people were in it?) PLEASE SHARE SOMETHING ABOUT THE REUNION!
if you want to send photos not a thousand words send photos to e.chester69@gmail.com and i will put them up here for you since i am the "blogger" even tho this is open and 100 PEOPLE OR CATS ARE INVITED TO RESPOND. u have my girl scout's word of honor that i won't mess with your pix but will put 'em right up here. (i'm rebecca rosenbaum, & cannot tell a lie) ciao and MEOW and HAPPY 40TH---ALMOST 40 &1/2TH, EVERYBODY!!!

snow days

one snow day risa and i walked and walked and.....

adventures

58 years of thank yous/gratitude

dreaming of topics

which topics would you like to discuss?

here and now

at this moment it is time for a snack and the heart meds and some sleepy tea and the bed. i write from iowa city which is exactly a thousand miles west of the gw bridge. which is to say i am still in the same lattitude it's only the longitude that has changed. and i have the same attitude too. and you? hope you are in a good l/attitude.....

survivors

that put an XX here questionairre that michele sent out had survivors on it and i wrote OF WHAT. the word is used for many things: holocaust, sexual abuse.....cancer. heart disease. if we are alive we are all survivors, yes? i am, of: duck and cover, the war on drugs, the sexual revolution, the mccarthy era (which one rad farmer out here calls the truman era)(and note this is not in cronological order). my crazy family. a little heart disease. i mean a big heart with a little disease. measles, mumps, chickenpox, heartbreak, cat bites; sleeping in a hammock within hearing range of the contras shooting the sandanistas on the nicaragua/honduras border. the pull of the tides in the atlantic ocean and the pull of the chanel of the missouri river. hitchhiking alone. angels watched over me as i talked my way out of trouble. glory be! that i learned to talk before i had teeth. i am still talking. i love to talk and to listen. stories R us. i am the same as ever except i picked myself up by my bootstrap and put my foot in my mouth. it was quite a stretch but i felt that it was my responsibility to overcome the pain of shyness. hey enough about me! what's up with yo?

the aughts

the 21st century begins!

nineties

nineties--the last decade of the previous century

eighties

uh, i think i missed the me decade and didn't know when the 60's/70's ended..

sixties/seventies

what is generally called "the sixties" actually continued into the seventies

IN MEMORIUM

A MEMORIAL PAGE FOR SOME OF THOSE WHO HAVE LEFT THIS EARTHLY REALM
WHO THEY WERE, HOW THEY LIVED, HOW AND WHEN THEY DIED, AND THE NICE MEMORIES YOU/WE HAVE

designated driver

my kid brothers got me into all sorts of situations

going back to visit ehs several years later

this is actually a nice story but i am not going to write it now. it is 12 54 central time! that's am. i am an owl. but i live with 5 pussycats....

sweethearts

well not only didn't i marry the one i had in hs but i didn't have one in hs!

it was however oh so exciting to be one of the couriers, one of the links on the chain who helped pass love notes back and forth between 2 sweeties who were forbidden to see one another but would meet on a golf course...what was their song? ANGEL OF THE MORNING by....uh, my husband says well we could look it up on google if you want but i just want him to make the pile of dirty dishes in the sink LOWER!! anybody out there remember
-----who wrote the song or
----who had the romance?

i know who the girl was but i'm not telling now....

looking at colleges

risa and i almost lost kathy henke in the public transit system of philadelphia. then we almost set my cousin's apartment on fire....

disorganized social activites

well, uh, this could go anywhere...

organized social activites

proms, mixers, dates. i hated them all! but actually i LOVED being on the junior prom planning committee and there being ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION about my NOT going because it was the same day as my (2nd of 2) kid brother's bar mitzvah. yay, bro! and now he is all growed up and has just made an award winning documentary, cash crop the movie. check it out! you can see trailers, or set up a showing near you. he uses a pseudonym but he IS my bro!

drama class, sr yr

drama class gave some of us opportunities: a trip to england

half price or less tickets for plays in da city

activism

some of us wandered around parent teacher night with little cans, collecting money for starving people in biafra

some of us organized for girls to be able to wear pants on cold days

some of us got permission from the principal to go and hear our congressman talk

anti war while in hs

while we were still in ehs some big things happened including the war in vietnam, the anti war which included the chicago 68 riots, and the jan 201969 counter inaugural ball

november 15th, 1969

nov 15 69 half a million people went to washington dc to protest the war in vietnam

woodstock

woodstock was a couple of months after graduation

after high school

some of us went to college and some of us...

sex drugs and rock and roll

now why would anyone put these three topics together?

jones beach

jones beach was a great place to go while cutting school

new york state regents exams

the english essay questions started with IN LITERATURE AS IN LIFE. do they still?

the town in which we lived

the town of eastchester...now why did YOU live there?

hs/sports

h

Publish Post

hs/clubs

high school

it really wasn't that high of an experience for me. and you?

betsy bosworth

betsy bosworth was our 8th grade home ec teacher.

junior high

junior hi was way better than high school for me

religious school

the catholic kids got out early on wednesday afternoons and the rest of us had to just SIT THERE.

some of us went to sunday school on (of course) sunday mornings.

and also some of us jew kids went to hebrew school after public school, on weekdays

genesis nursery school

genesis nursery school shows up in my dreams.
in reality the synagog is now a korean methodist church
i had the pleasure of re-meeting the late sylvia rosen, great teacher, in my (alleged?) adult life

k-6 waverly

waverly school is located...where?

k-6 greenfield

the north end seemed so far away

k-6/anne hutch

wow, some of us went to a school named after

preschool, nursery school

pre

introduction

this is a space for classmates to share reflections and thoughts on ehs69, k-12, before and after that, etc. the"person' lightly monitoring this is e (aka "earl) chester, e chester69@gmail.com.
he is a pseudonym. i am actually rebecca rosenbaum. anyone can respond to posts. pls write
echester69@gmail.com if you want to be one of the 100 people who can post to this. it's first come first served. my husband is helping me with this. i took typing at ehs but i am actually at a fairly low level in computerland. the rules are: admit who you are, be nice. kind of anarchistic but c'est moi. this blog idea was born out of the invite to the reunion. the inside of my head is going ping! pong! boinga boinga with so many memories that i want to share and i am interested in your (that's the whole lotta ya) feedback on my thoughts.

all posts are c. the writer. if anyone wants to quote anyone else ya gotta ask the writer. sounds fair?

i'm gonna run thru my kindof sleepy mind and post a few labels/or a shell of a post so the 100+ NOT YET REVEALED potentially interested parties can have something to which to respond.

happy summer, everyone, and hope to see you in october! ciao and meow,
rsr/echester69