Sad News From Pat Prince Rath:


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Link From Meg Castora Scionti:
http://genxparents.blogspot.com/2008/03/lesson-that-should-be-taught-in-all.html

Sad and Wonderful News!

First the wonderful news!  Meg Castora Scianti found our group!

Now the sad news! Meg and Tom missed our wonderful reunion!


Hi Ben


I happened to find the reunion for Sachem Alumni as I googled my own name just out of curiosity..................I didn't know of the Sachem Alumni Gazette or Reunion...... Tony Perna was right. Tom and I live in Westhampton Dunes for the last 10 years...........we lived and raised our 2 daughters in the Village of Shoreham.


I taught K and 1st grade in SWR for 20+ years and Tom was Mayor and Trustee for over 20 years in the Village........I graduated in 1961....50 years ago........I was wondering if I would hear of a reunion......so I just found it online tonight...and it looked like FUN.......sorry I missed it!


Meg Castora Scionti

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Dennis Pelliccia's Photo Appears in "Dan's Papers"


Artist, Videographer, and Sachem Alumnus Dennis Pelliccia, has been featured in the February, 11, 2011 printed edition of "Dan's Papers;" which is an Internationally renowned publication, covering events and news from the "Hamptons". "Dan's Papers" regularly publishes, links to Dennis's many Art Related Web Sites.


Featured in Dennis's web site is Sachem Alumna, Melissa Brennan, lead singer in the "Suffolk State of Mind," video, that went "viral," on the Internet.


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Weather Report From Back Home on Long Island!

The Big One is on it's way!

"Like we need more Snow!...."

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Ten foot Snow pile in the Home Depot parking lot!



We must get around on Snowshoes!



Fifteen foot pile of Snow in the Supermarket parking lot!





Other means of Snow removal are starting to look more attractive! Must buy one of these for my driveway!



I was going to go to a Jimmy Buffett concert in Miami, but he fell off of the Stage!  Oh Well!...................

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Photos by Bill and Arlene Monteverde:

 

Dear Classmates,

 

Arlene and I were able to tour Sachem on Saturday September 11, 2010.

 

The photo’s were taken with my cell so the picture quality is some what compromised.

 

We hope these photo’s bring back pleasant memories for our classmates.

 

Bill and Arlene

 

Do any of these photos bring back memories?  Please leave a comment at the bottom of this post!

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These are some of the best photos that I have seen of Lake Ronkonkoma!

The third photo down brought a smile to my face!

http://www.bygoneli.com/forums/showthread.php/2134-In-search-of-Old-Lake-Ronkonkoma/page2

Do you see yourself in any of the photos?


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News From Home on Long Island

Please send this boy to camp in Fort Lauderdale!


HOW WAS YOUR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY?
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The Most Beautiful Christmas Tree in Brooklyn and Patchogue

By Ben Vitale

My wife comes from 69th Street in Brooklyn, NY. In the 50s everyone lived a very modest life. The quality of life then, doesn't even come close to the quality of life that most of us now take for granted. We owned only one pair of sneakers, and we extended the usable lifetime of a failing sneaker by inserting cardboard into the bottom of the sneaker to cover a hole. We "had no clue" that we were poor, because everyone around us lived exactly the same way.

Christmas presents were scarce at that time; toys were few, and we usually got something practical instead, such as a pair of underwear! My wife's father sold Christmas trees on 69 th St in order to supplement the family income. A side job such as this does have its perks; my wife always had the biggest and most beautiful Christmas Tree in "all of Brooklyn!"

I inherited the tradition of having the "Biggest and Best Christmas Tree," when I married my wife Marie. Every year we always purchase our Christmas tree at the same place. The employees knew my wife by her first name; why; because they had to lift 47 Christmas Trees for my wife, before she would select a tree. The employees always smiled as they participated in my wife's tree selection ritual; they too could feel her joy and enthusiasm; it was contagious!

Large Christmas Trees did not come without their problems! My living Room has a Nine foot ceiling; in the early days she had a tendency to select a Twelve foot Christmas Tree. So! For many years we had to cut three feet off the top of our Christmas Trees. Yep! Our trees sometimes looked like a Trapazoid! What fond memories!

I will always remember our biggest quest for the most beautiful Christmas Tree! Armed with a Cassette Player and many Christmas Carol Tapes, two adults and three teenagers, piled into a Ford Fairmont mid-sized wagon, and drove to Eastern Long Island, to cut down our own Christmas Tree. We could not find a tree that was big enough so we drove to Upstate New York, in order to find the perfect tree. Our biggest mistake was to cut down a tree that was over eight inches in diameter at its base! The tree was beautiful, but it was also huge! It took three teenagers and two adults to get this tremendous tree on the roof of our small car. The Christmas tree was so big that it offered a tremendous wind load to our car; our gas mileage was severely degraded. I couldn't understand why my small car was using so much Gasoline! With the combined weight of two adults, three teenagers, and one huge tree, the small ford Fairmont wagon was essentially hugging the ground! The tree cost us Twenty Five dollars, and the expenses, and Gasoline required to transport this huge tree back to Patchogue, cost us One Hundred and Fifty dollars.

So we have a Twenty Five dollar Christmas tree that cost us $150. dollars to transport home; a total of $175. !

After 47 years of marriage we have honed and tweaked our Christmas Tree selection process, to the point that is now an "art." This year my wife and I selected our Christmas Tree in only Fifteen minutes! Truly miraculous!

It is an absolute certainty, that if we lived in Brooklyn, NY, we would indeed have the "Best Christmas Tree in Brooklyn." We now live in Patchogue, NY, so.... we now have the "Most Beautiful Christmas Tree, in all of Patchogue, NY!"

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Merry Christmas!!!

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THANKSGIVING
By Nancy Bishop Farrell
(Re-published from her Facebook post)

As I am getting ready for the big turkey day, I am taking a few quiet minutes to reflect on all I have to be thankful for. Not knowing where to begin, I will just say how lucky I am to have met so many people in my life that have helped make me who I am today, unknowingly being there when I needed them. I am thankful for my family, friends (old and new)and the wonderful life I have..ty

Nancy

Sending this greeting your way
To wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving with family and friends.

Louise Oneill

Photos from RICHARD ARDITO (NUNZ):

DO THESE PHOTOS BRING BACK MEMORIES?

THE VASITY JACKET WAS THE 2ND ONE HANDED OUT TO ME, YEAH I STILL HAVE IT.
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RA2 FISHING ON A LAKE IN NORTH CAROLINA.
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