Sunday, December 16, 2007

My first blog submission

Hi Classmates,
This is my first opportunity to add comments to our blogsite and I'm really pleased that this has happened. After I attended our 50th reunion in June I started to think about all the people I had lost touch with over the years. Living in La Jolla California didn't give me much opportunity to have contact and I missed that. So, once I arrived home I began to think of ways to maintain contact. The obvious and easiest way was via the internet. So I called my old friend Mel Vogel and expressed some of my thoughts to him about "keeping the ball rolling" in terms of ongoing contact amongst and between classmates both in Cleveland and those of us who have scattered to the four corners of the U.S. and beyond.

Mel responded immediately and begain to investigate the possible ways of handling this idea. I cannot thank Mel enough for picking up the ball and running with it. As of this writing, I believe we are well on our way to having a fluid blog site that will allow all who choose to do so, communicate with anyone in the class that can receive blog communications. I know that Mel will be following up with much info on how, when and where to do this. So, I look forward to hearing in general about the comings, goings and happenings of our classmates and the direct contact with individuals as each one desires.

Meanwhile, I have resumed a fairly active travel schedule following a brain bleed that I had about two and one-half years ago (thank G-d) I made a 95% recovery with only a small peripheral vision problem to mark the incident. Carol and I took our 8 Toronto grandchildren to Mont Treblant for a week in August and followed that with a couple weeks touring Prague and Budapest. October found us in San Francisco visiting with our 3 grandchildren and their parents from Israel. December found me back in Toronto for 8 days during Hanukah and a snow storm. It registered some memories of winters in Cleveland.

2008 will find us in Hawaii celebrating our anniversary on the big island. So far for 2008 we have also planned a trip with our grandchildren and their parents from Israel to do a safari in August in Tanzania and then some beach time in Zanzibar. The rest of our year will be filled in with Toronto, San Francisco and possibly South America.

I hope this finds everyone well and my best wishes for continued good health. I'm also looking forward to this blog site providing a liquid avenue of communication for our Class of '57.

Best regards,

Ron Fox
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50th Reunion Weekend: A Great Time Had by All

Back when we were students at Cleveland Heights High School, our January 1957 class was known more for the "small in size" part of its motto, but you’d never know it from the great attendance at our 50th class reunion.

Held in Cleveland Heights and Beachwood, Ohio, June 30-July 1, 2007, the reunion saw 83 classmates (out of 207 who graduated 50 years earlier) attend a gala dinner at The Oakwood Club, Saturday, June 30. The next day, sixty came to Sunday brunch at The Village Party Center in Beachwood. Quite a few private get-togethers took place the previous Friday, as people arrived in Cleveland after traveling here from all over the country.

50th reunion committee chairperson Chuck (“Mr. Reunion”) Lissauer was gratified to see the large number of attendees, some of whom had never been to any of the previous reunions we held every 10 years. Some had been missing – we were never able to find them, but perseverance paid off, they were located, they were contacted -- and they came.

At the weekend's events, a great time was had by all, as people reconnected, passed around pictures of grandchildren and got caught up on all that had happened in their lives since the last time they had seen one another – for some, that was 50 years ago!

Meeting several weeks later, our committee recommended the next reunion event be scheduled just five years from now – suggesting that an informal affair be held -- perhaps a picnic or something similar. We're open to any suggestions and would welcome your ideas; let us hear from you. Details will be sent to you as they become finalized.

Our 50th Reunion Committee

Three cheers to our 50th reunion committee, 19 of our classmates, all of whom worked very hard for well more than a year to put together the dinner and brunch, communicate with classmates, produce a celebratory DVD presentation, and -- last but not least-- pay for everything.

Committee members include: Eileen Kahn Drechsler, Richard Friedman, Marilyn Caplow Nudelman, Joni Diamond London, Gayle Polacek Singerman, Roberta (Bobbi) Finkle Thal, Frances Lapine Rosenthal, Chuck Lissauer (chairperson), Herb Braun, Diana Richter Turoff, Beth Bassett Rosenblum, Gene Elconin, Gary Melsher, Mel Vogel, Sheila Malkes Mahler, Barbara Brofman Goldfarb, Barbara Bloom Tuber, Norton London, and Phyllis Pressman Benjamin.