Marilyn Ford (Evans)

 Hello All, and to Barton it is like Comeing back from the dead. For me after Retiring from NASA 

in 2004 I started working as a Private Caregiver. I had retired from that in July of 2019 bur I am 

back at work for now helping where I can. This Coronavirus leaves the elderly very stressed and hard to deal 

with not being able to have their family come in and they not beinbg able to go out of the facility.  We will 

all get through this if we take this seriously and do what the Health Professionals tell us. I wish you all

well and PLEASE do everything you can to take care of yourself and all arounde you. For me it is like a

ghost  town in Houston and surrounding countys. When this is over it will be a stampede to the Mall's

Ha Ha 

Take Care and Much Love

Marilyn Ford (Evans)

Wishing all My Jewish class mates a Happy, Safe and Prosperous Passover.

Barton Solow

Hello All, and thankx for the back at ya, Marilyn...I must of picked up on your wave lenghts

as you were in my thoughts, today...And of course, all of you have a very pleasant faithful

time during these religious days...

Yes, this virus problem is a tuff one...but, we will get thru it...it just takes time and for all of us to do our part, as it reveals our home, town and country's future tasks...in the mean time

I'll be making some new freshwater lures for fishing and taking it one day at a time...soooo

hang in there; 'cause the best is yet to come...

Susan Fishman (Orlins)

How nice to hear from our classmates. Danny, congratulations on your book! I hope everyone is safe and well and finding ways to make the best they can of this difficult time when half the world is staying home. 

I feel a wide range of emotions. Foremost, of course, is concern for essential and hospital workers and those who are ill as well as for those who do not have a home or safe space. Yesterday I spoke to the homeless man whom I helped to write his memoir. He is a vendor for a street newspaper, Street Sense, here in DC. Even if they were printing papers, there would be no customers. He sleeps on the bus and the Metro. 

All of the awfulness makes me ever more grateful for and appreciative of my home and the nature that surrounds it. In addition, I have beloved neighbors; we had a seder on either side of our shared driveway. On the glass half full side of things, I see my grandchildren more often than before, albeit virtual. Being both an extrovert and a competent loner, I find that the lifestyle of cooking for one suits me and then there is Zoom for getting together.

It's hard to focus on the writing I'd like to do, but I continue to study German, even though my classes have been cancelled due to coronavirus. And I participate in team meetings for my oldest daughter, who launched her campaign for Manhattan District Attorney (elizaorlins.com) 6 days before stay at home became the norm. 

Everybody, I hope you stay safe!

Barton Solow

Good to read your on the sunny side of the street, Sue and smilin'...

It's said, the more things change, the more they stay the same...well,

our country will do fine, with the changes at hand...For me, every picture

is worth a thousand words...

George Trapp

I notice that , unlike me, several of you are old. This birthday cycle is 3/4 of a century. WOW, not sure I ever envisioned being this age. Comparitively, I'm still a " chippee "  with almost exactly 10 months to go until, Lord willing, I reach 75. I know at least two or three of us will not hit 75 until Feb 2021. Do we have classmates even younger than those ? Really these numbers are unimportant. Many of us are a far younger 75 than were our parents and grandparents. 

Out there among you are tennis players, pickle ballers, possibly some age group softball players, dancers, authors, and who knows what else.

Within the past few days I have roto tilled the small garden we will soon plant, fired up the chainsaw and begun cutting up the wood we will burn next winter, and this morning the log splitter on the bigger pieces.

So, what is the point ?  Is it not a blessing to be able to do things we are used to doing, enjoy doing, and need to do ?  The virus has cramped our style a bit for now ,but for most of us it is not the first circumstance to  temporarily alter our lifestyle. Yet here we are. My dad used to say " still able to sit up and take nourishment ."

Since I so often flap my jaw, you might wonder why no picture of me .  Simple answer is 132 HS pounds translates into 220 virus induced pounds. Not sure there is a camera with a lens of that wide an angle ! 

So right now I take the opportunity to wish you all a happy 75th, belatedly , today, or future.   Be safe, be well and be blessed from a fat old man.            George T

Barton Solow

Your so right, George...I too really enjoy working outside, using the chainsaw, turnin' the soil for new

life to pop up and laugh, then scratch my head, when the squirels figure out how they got to the bird feeders...here along the waterways, actually millions of blackbirds and such, fly migration that actually

darken the sky with thier numbers and beat out a rythmic quality of something of an ancient language...

Reckon we do these things because we are happy souls and can do them...Even at 102 years, my

Mom use to tell me, "Age is only numbers" and me now about to complete 75 years. How can that be as I'm only 21 for the 54th time !!!...So, I too wanna wish you and all my classmates a Happy Birthday;

passed, present and future...even thou you don't know me...perhaps someday, you might...

Barbara Barasch (Rosin)

 Hi,  I  remember you , Barton ..and wish you well. I'm responding to your wonderful description of the blackbirds' migration darkening the skies. You seem to enjoy the simple wonders of nature around you -what a treasure that is. I wonder where you live that you're able to see  all this. Best wishes , Bobby Barasch Rosin

George Trapp

Hey Bart ---- Great reply. My intent is to keep truckin until God either forces me into a chair or takes me out altogether. My hope is the latter and I anticipate a more fantastic future after that.

Jan and I love the birds and all manner of them visit the feeders. Not too long ago I began taking them in at night as we've had two visits from a bear in t he two previous years. Recovering and repairing feeders is not my fav duty.

Bobby B ..... You would love to sit in our yard and watch the birds. Maybe even more the whitetail deer. On any given evening there are between three and 17 eating in the side yard . We see lots of young bucks but rarely a mature good buck except during the rut. Then , on occasion, a dominant buck visits with his entire harem. There is a smaller buck of about 2 years now that is part albino and looks like a brown and white paint horse in marking.

In my mind you two are still 17. Iwas very shy, but always girl watching so I have no particular picture of you, Bart, in my mind. 

Searching backin memory, I think Bobby had real pretty auburn reddish hair which really set off a very attractive  teenage girl. The picture in my mind is of you, Bobby, in an autumn shade green sweater of the type girls back in the day favored. Lots of grad pix taken in black ones of that style. Is my memory accurate ?

We have foxes, raccoons, an occasional cayotes, and often can hear porcupines trilling in the trees at night. Often we hear the pileated woodpeckers hammering the trees. I,love the outdoors and used to love to hunt. These days I Just enjoy watching the birds and animals. Even when I hunted I saw some incredible things that deer were capable of. Lots of education I did not get at CHS.

You both be well, safe and be blessed, GT

Carole Grossman (Chasen)

I love mowing my lawn and doing all the yard work.  I have a question and hopefully someone in our class will get back to me.  I have a big tulip poplar tree around which I have a small area of mulch with hastas.  My question is, beyond that area I have no grass, haven't for years... Should I just enlarge the area of mulch and add lplants or get goose egg stones  and put them over the existing mulch and out around the tree (about 14' feet in diameter.  I am sure you are wondering why would I ask you, well, I have had several contradictory recommendations and am just confused as to how to proceed.  HELP, please.

Nathan Sklar

Ellen Karabell (Rugel)

Sorry, Nate, but a bunch of us won't be 74 until June: me, Arthur Cohen, Jessica Lobel are a couple I recall.  

Barton Solow

I have to get my yearbook out...can't communicate on that Classmate site...but, I'll be back !!!

George/Bobbie, I'm south of Christianna and a stones' throw from Christianna River...

George Trapp

Nate, Ellen and other "chippies" ,   You are really young by comparison. Did you all skip a grade somewhere along the school route?

Bobbi --- My brain was a bit slower than usual this am. In describing the sweater I couldn't come up with the color olive which is what I remember

I wish I had not been so very shy as a schoolboy. I certainly would have enjoyed getting to know you guys and girls better back in the day.

I  am currently having a 4 way conversation with Girts Perkons, Bob Cox, and Ed  Landau. We are swapping stories about kids we knew in all the classes surrounding us. lamenting the several lost to the Vietnam War, talking over shared memories of others who have passed, talking about sandlot sports in backyards and the Asbury Rd park/playground  down in our end of the Twp, teacher stories, etc. 

A couple of questions. Does anyone have info about Joan Trichon CHS 62 or her younger brother ? Her family patronized my dad's pharmacy. I think their dad passed suddenly when she was 9-10th grade.

Like everyone , there is much time right now as we cannot absorb ourselves in many of our usual persuits. The good news is that we are mostly healthy and not fighting the virus. Hang tough all.        George

George Trapp

Nate, Ellen and other "chippies" ,   You are really young by comparison. Did you all skip a grade somewhere along the school route?

Bobbi --- My brain was a bit slower than usual this am. In describing the sweater I couldn't come up with the color olive which is what I remember

I wish I had not been so very shy as a schoolboy. I certainly would have enjoyed getting to know you guys and girls better back in the day.

I  am currently having a 4 way conversation with Girts Perkons, Bob Cox, and Ed  Landau. We are swapping stories about kids we knew in all the classes surrounding us. lamenting the several lost to the Vietnam War, talking over shared memories of others who have passed, talking about sandlot sports in backyards and the Asbury Rd park/playground  down in our end of the Twp, teacher stories, etc. 

A couple of questions. Does anyone have info about Joan Trichon CHS 62 or her younger brother ? Her family patronized my dad's pharmacy. I think their dad passed suddenly when she was 9-10th grade.

Like everyone , there is much time right now as we cannot absorb ourselves in many of our usual persuits. The good news is that we are mostly healthy and not fighting the virus. Hang tough all.        George

Marilyn Ford (Evans)

Hello Classmates,

I find the one thing this Coronavirus has done while keeping us to shelter in place has gotten us up to do things we had only thought about, I my self have cleaned out closets, cut Hedges, organizes kitchen cabinets and worked in my Garage. For me in Texas we have had many days in 80 and 90. I am blessed and thankful that I to can still do all of these things. In my mine also I feel like 20 but half way through I know I am 75. Ha Ha   I  find myself smileing when I think of haveing  lived  3/4 of a Century. I know we are way over due for another Class Reunion. If anyone has heard from Tommy Israrl pass it on. Always glad to hear that so many are doing well and wish more of our classmates would join in on our Post. Take Care, Stay Safe,  and know we will get through this as we have in all the challenges we have been faced with in these pass 75 yeare.

Barton Solow

Good Morning All...

   I would like to thank you all for your recent posts...I find them to be refreshing to read as well as to respond...I don't have much to add, but I now realize I would have liked to get to have known you all better, then...anyway, don't be strangers...

Better late than never, huh ?.....

Gary Hoffman

Great to hear how all of you are doing including the success with replacement parts

3 months ago, I had a knee replacement and my sister-in-law sent me a tee shirt saying

RETIRED AND REBUILT

MADE WITH AFTERMARKET PARTS

Hopefully they were not knock off parts from China

Was scheduled to have a rotator cuff repaired in March and obviously that was postponed due to the virus.  Likely this will be done in May.

As we age, we are fortunate that so many parts can be replaced with modern medicine.

Take care and be well

I used to think that I was one of the youngest in the class since I turned 74 in February.   Now, I realize that there are a number from the class who are much younger (by months)

Gary

Sunny Ingber (Drohan)

Gary H, any idea where your sister-in-law got those TShirts? I think they are hilarious. I've been lucky....so far. My husband has 2 new hips. He lets nothing stop him. Tennis, biking and working on his Mustang. Really, there is nothing left to tinker. Oh now he wants new wheels. He does love cars. 
 

Carol G C, I am not a gardner. The only thing I have is a philodendron which I took a shoot off and rerooted. I have had that new off shoot now for 11years. The main plant went the way of of most of the plants I had. 
Now my two Orchids are now 3 years old. They just keep coming back. I think they like my lanai with a northern exposure. 
But if you need advise I have friends who know this stuff. I could post it to them. 
I am sure though whatever you decide, it will be fantastic. 

Gary Hoffman

She bought it from etsy.com 

Barton Solow

Sunny,

   You're husband has the right idea, by far !!!...the same reason I have tinkerd, played with and pamper my Eldorado sport coupe, since the assembly line in Lansing...she's the last of that American, personal, luxury breed...LQQKs, runs and smells like new...hope your husband keeps up his good work...

George Trapp

Gary ---- Hang tough ! Of 7 ortho surgeries ,the rotator repair was a complete bitch. Worse than knees , Achilles, neck, by far. When you get it done and can start therapy, pay attention, work hard and use the pain meds for that , if nothing else. Hard work and perseverance are the ticket to a great result !

Sunny, your husband has it right. Keeping on keeping on is the key to one's age just being a number and putting surgeries in the rear view mirror.

Bart and Sunny ----- Boys toys, cars and collector firearms , along with trains and antique toys are the mistresses of my $. Have owned 3 rocket ship cars, driven on a road course, am comfortable with speeds near 140. Would have gone faster still if I had confidence that the cars would not go airborne on me. Big engines need ground effects to stay down. These are a far cry from the muscle cars of our youth which were powerful big blocks but really deficient in handling and braking.

A question ----- Does anyone remember a girl in our class or maybe the 64 class whose family owned a gold colored Avanti ? One of the classes had a paper drive. This girl lent me that Avanti to go collect papers by myself. I didn't really mistreat it but I did give it some exercise on Cheltenham Hills Drive. Fastest and quickest machine I had driven to that point in life.

Blessings to all.      GT

George Trapp

That would be Chelten Hills drive. 

All of a sudden the first name Celia popped into mind in conjunction to that Avanti.  Any bells ringing ?     GT

Barton Solow

G,

   I lived One (1) door in at Chelten Hills Drive and Rodgers Rd. (8009), but don't seem to recall a Gold Avant, rollin' around...That Avant was a really nice machine, thou...

Gary Hoffman

Geroge

I had the left rotator cuff tear repaired about 10 years ago and it is the longest and hardest recovery.   This time it is the right.   I have a massive tear and with the delay, now it may be beyond repair and if so then I need a shoulder replacement.   

I am fortunately, so far on three replacement and this will be the 4th

Need to stay active both physically and mentally, otherwise the body and mind go straight down hill.   Make the most of each day.

I saw that you driving at 140 on a track.   Years ago, on the German autobon, I found that my eyes didn't focus enough when I went above 120 so that was my max out speed.   While I have a car that will do a lot more, I have not taken it to the track to try it out.

Stay safe and well

Gary