Dr. Metablog

Dr. Metablog is the nom de blague of Vivian de St. Vrain, the pen name of a resident of the mountain west who writes about language, books, politics, or whatever else comes to mind. Under the name Otto Onions (Oh NIGH uns), Vivian de St. Vrain is the author of “The Big Book of False Etymologies” (Oxford, 1978) and, writing as Amber Feldhammer, is editor of the classic anthology of confessional poetry, “My Underwear” (Virago, 1997).

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P.S 217 Prosopography

After the passage of oh-so-many years, I've become shamelessly curious to know what happened to the friends and classmates who graduated from P. S. 217 in June of 1952. There were about 175 of these golden lads and lasses, and you can see their pictures here.

I know just enough to pique my curiousity. Lester Silberman became a gynecologist, Stephen Lewin an editor, Herman Bressel was career navy, George Coven an entrepreneur, Fred Litto a professor in Brazil, Buddy Sogluizzo a librarian, Melvin Polay a CPA.  Allen Guday emigrated to Israel and Stuart Blickstein to South Carolina.  Nicky Antonucci died in Korea.  But I have no information on 90% of the boys and 100% of the girls.  Hey, guys and gals, check out the pictures and help me track down those missing members of the class of 1952.  Where the heck are you?  What have you been doing since 1952? 

We're all 70 years old;  It's now or never.    

Am I the only one who's curious? 

One response to “P.S 217 Prosopography”

  1. stu stillman Avatar
    stu stillman

    I don’t know if this will get to any of those making comments but:
    Sandy Stillman, now 70 like almost all of us,aka Stu Stillman in his later years[after 13]is a lawyer living in Southampton, NY and Scottsdale Az. I am a lawyer almost retired, went Syracuse undergrad and NYU law . Have twin sons who live in Conn. and are both attys and 4 grandchildren.I go past PS 217 every once in a while just to be sure I remeber where I came from. Everything looks much smaller to me.Probably because I was then.
    In the 1952 grad picture, I can help with the following:
    In the 6th row to the right of Tommy Bellavita, is John McKay,then unknown and then Robert Goldstein.In the 3rd row Carol Gerber is to the left of Marlene Gold;in the 6th row Roberta Katcher is to the right of Phyl Mancuso;in the 4th row the twins evelyn and norma greenberg[who lived across from the school on westminster rd], are to the right of Barbar Wolowitz;in the 4th row,
    two to the left of Hilda Tarud is Lori Katcher;in the 8th row on the far right is Loretta Tillman;in the 3rd row, 3rd to the right fro Barbara Heifferman is Sheila Katz and to her right her buddy Carol Coniglio.
    I am in face book now if anyone wants to say hello. I just joined recently when I found old friends were looking for me.
    Its lots of laughs. I am glad to see so many of us are still here.
    I went to the 50th Midwood reunion{I left in the middle of my sr year and moved to Great Neck so I didn’t graduate from Midwood]and saw lots of old friends whom I had not seen sice 1956.

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