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FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR OUR ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES
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(Last request mailed in 2022)
By responding to our
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and paying at least a nominal $25 in annual dues when requested,* a portion of such dues will be allocated to
the
website fund, and this way you can provide financial support for the
website. The balance of your dues will support
any future reunions and
other activities planned at the Board of
Directors' discretion.
You should know that many hundreds of dollars
have been invested in the creation and continue to be required
for the maintenance of this site, among other costs,
to keep it "afloat" and free of annoying advertising. Of course, I enjoyed creating it, I enjoy
continually updating, expanding and improving it, and I enjoy just
visiting it, too, but the class website is there for everyone's enjoyment
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is
our site, not
mine.
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And why not send
your
photos (or scanned image files of them), memories
and information about yourself to share with
your classmates, too? If I don't
have your e-dress yet, use
e-mail or
the Class Survey form on the
Feedback page to register for our Class Directory
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SEND IT NOW
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Does anyone have any photos from our 10-year reunion in 1970 to share with your classmates? |
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me know,
PLEASE.
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SITE HISTORY:
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CLASS WEBSITE KEEPS GETTING COOLER
We're still rockin' 'n' rollin'!! |
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Our class website is
over 200 pages
and about
100 megabytes of memories
with
close to
3,000 embedded photo and other graphic
image
and sound files
for your pleasure!
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Significant
new features of this website throughout its history
are summarized below in reverse chronological order to
help you readily determine what you haven't seen
yet. Use the links on this page to visit the listed features and your browser's "Back" button to return
here after each side trip until you have seen it all.
Then, you can use the navigators at the left or the
site map
to sail wherever you want. Use
this list to see what you may have missed, and keep coming back to
it every time you've been away for a while to see
what's new.
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Our
online review
of two
books about the history of
Nathan's Famous
and the life of its colorful founder, Nathan Handwerker, written by two of his grandsons,
Bill and Lloyd Handwerker. |
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Our
memorial
tribute to Muhammad Ali, photos of
of the
Oceanside house that held the
weeping Madonna in 1960 with a crowd gathered in front
and of
Young Israel of
Oceanside, our first
Orthodox synagogue, and
Ed
Chilton's special memorial tribute page. |
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A beautiful "new" musical selection on our
"Memory
Book" page,
updated research on our
"Googamooga" page, and a
page commemorating the 2016 "sweet 16"
anniversary of our class website,
and our "Chuck
Berry Memorial Tribute" linked to our
page about his 2000
Kennedy Center Honors page, which, in turn, now
features a link to a video of the event. |
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A detailed report
of our fabulous 55-year
reunion held in Long Beach in September 2015 is now
available together with a nostalgic, video slideshow
of images of the
Long Beach boardwalk the way it
was when we were kids that was made for and
presented at that reunion. Also,
our 2010 reunion
videos
once inaccessible have now been restored.
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A photo
of the
new
Oceanside Nathan's Famous, a long-awaited one
of the historic
Merrick branch of the Roadside Rest
and
a
Meyer & Kronke menu cover. |
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A memorial tribute to our principal,
Charles
Mosback,
linked to a report of a community
ceremony in which his daughter and our classmate,
Ruth Ann Mosback,
participated. |
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Powerful
"new" background music on our
memorial page. |
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Beautiful
Oceanside artwork from the 1950s. |
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A 1937 or '38
menu from the Roadside Rest, a memorial tribute
to
Sid Caesar, a new photo of
Jazzbo, the clown in a circus and a
revamped
St. Anthony's page with a new
historical photo. |
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Photos
of
Joseph's and Wetson's 15¢ Hamburgers, the "Long
Island Casino" of the 1930s (across
the street from our beloved
Roadside
Rest),
t he
Sunrise Drive-In, a second view of
the
Towers Funeral
Home, and the
Columbia Firehouse when it was built in 1951. |
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A
new and improved
Jocko page (best on the web)! |
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A
sample football game program booklet
from our junior year (October 26, 1958) |
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Photos
of typical homes built back home in
the early to mid-50s |
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Two
pictures of the legendary "elephant's
hole." |
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More
photos from our beloved (now rebuilt
after
Superstorm Sandy)
Long Beach Boardwalk,
including
a second
one of
elephants building it in 1907. |
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A matchbook
cover from
Rudy's Fish & Chips. |
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A special page describing
our class'
Sandy relief fundraising effort |
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An update
on
JAZZBO,
still performing at age 85. |
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Chris Knorr's memorial page. |
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Our own obituary for OHS basketball
legend,
Art Heyman ('59) |
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The
oldest known photos of the famous
Roadside Rest
building,
an
enhanced version of our
1955 Word Series page
and another
photo of
Bristol Motors
Ford. |
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Obituary of William F. Helmcke,
our OJHS
principal. |
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Tribute
to Richie Woods,
author of
Oceanside, (the book). |
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Photos of
Ocean Chemists, the
candy store next door and
Silver Lake |
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A photo of
Oceanside Gulf. |
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Hal
Wilensky's memorial tribute page. |
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Lois
Rindner's memorial tribute page. |
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A couple of "new" old
photos of the Shrine at
St. Anthony's. |
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A
1942
menu from the historic Roadside Rest. |
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Our OHS
marching band
in
their brand new, full dress uniforms,
Memorial Day, 1960
and a souvenir
from our beloved
Rainbow Diner.
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50-YEAR GRAND
REUNION VIDEO!!
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The colorful and
little-known history of the
grand
Towers Funeral Home. |
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A
photo of the popular
Texas Ranger and a 1972 photo of the
late
Alan Lupi. |
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A
memorial
tribute page for Donny Fine. |
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An
original video
documentary entitled The Dawn of Rock
'n' Roll, 1954-'59 made especially for us in
conjunction with our 50-Year Grand
Reunion.
This is REALLY something!! |
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Two shots of our
beloved
Rainbow Diner during the 1958
Memorial Day Parade and
three "new" photos
of Long Beach Road,
circa 1958-'59 |
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A "new"
photo of our Nathan's, as we knew it. |
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Archival images from
the OHS dedication ceremony booklet from September 21, 1955. |
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A complete roster of our
class of 1957
OJHS graduates and some
history of our OJHS
building before we arrived. |
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Our
class leaves
its mark again in our hometown. |
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A dedicated
memorial tribute page
for our dear, dear friend, Michael Katz |
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A report of a "mini-reunion"
in Florida in December 2007 among four dear old friends and
classmates. |
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A musical tribute to track coach,
Roy Chernock,
and his illustrious career (which still continues). |
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Oceanside/Island Park
HERALD's report of a
doo wop concert
at OHS in May 2007. |
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Our own home town
clown,
Jolly Jazzbo, and his Jazzmobile. |
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Oceanside/Island Park
HERALD's
full-page
feature article about this website. (It's a
big file, may take a
while to load.) |
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Captain's Column added to
p. 1. |
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Three more
old
boardwalk photos added. |
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Ten more music files
added throughout the site! Watch
for
the links, and listen for the songs. |
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A memorial tribute page added for
Alan Lupi. |
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More photos of the
boardwalk and beach at Long Beach,
including Izzy's Knishes and
under the boardwalk. |
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More memorabilia added to
Sports,
Sider Press,
Teahouse,
Prom Night,
Music Program and
Other Activities pages. |
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Photos added of the OJHS
band from 1957 on our jr. high graduation day
and Memorial Day (click
here,
here and
here) and the
Cozy Corner
Tavern. |
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Rock 'n' Roll Radio pages revised and
expanded with "new" photos,
history and
audio clips for 3 top NY DJs of the
1950s, a completely new
Alan Freed page,
Murray
"the K" and
now, JOCKO,
the "Ace from Outer Space,"
back with over 20 |
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minutes of
extremely rare audio! |
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Music recorded live, in concert, by
our
school band in 1960, also performed
at our graduation |
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All of Howie's nostalgic
reunion speeches over the last 25+ years now feature
AUDIO!! |
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A total of
14 pages with almost 200 photos from our rockin' 'n'
rollin',
sea cruise-themed,
45-year reunion Memorial Day
weekend in 2005, with a
full, detailed, illustrated
report, Howie's
welcoming address, the
class
photo
and 11 pages of our reunion
photo album, including now starring on his own page,
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The sound of the ocean on the
home page, and other
cool, new sound effects here and there. |
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The last game of the exciting 1955 World Series,
which the Brooklyn Dodgers finally won,
revisited (see
announcement,
p. 3) |
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Convenient new links in the upper right corner of
every page for easier navigation |
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Oceanside
(the book) and more photos from "Our Little Town" |
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Nathan's Famous'
acknowledgment of our
tribute
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Our new
Site Search
feature |
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A circa 1954 photo of the
RAINBOW
DINER! |
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1952 photos of the
Oceanside
triangle and more from
Andy
Southard, Jr. ('51) |
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Exclusive interviews with
the 82-year old (and now late)
Murray (late son of Nathan) Handwerker,
the man who brought
to Oceanside in 1959, and
Morty Shor,
late son of
Roadside Rest co-founder,
Leon Shor |
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Our site has been diced with "new" souvenirs
(mostly from memorable OHS events) from the "treasure
chest" of our classmate, Marta Watts, a rich scrapbook kept
by her from 1957-'60, including selected clippings from
Newsday's
sports section and rare
group
pictures of our entire
class as we were graduated in
1957 from
OJHS.
Check out the montage of
memorabilia on the
Acknowledgments
page and the AWESOME photos of the
St.
Anthony's fire of March 1960.
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Yearbook Online
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For those among us who,
as the years sailed by, have lost
their precious yearbooks
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called it, "The Old
Book"), worn them out or just don't want to
dig them out of mothballs
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it has
57 complete, original pages right
out of your yearbook.
These pages contain the senior portraits of all 500+ of us, with all
the commentary that accompanied them
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and from
prior yearbooks, a total of
21 group photos of us as the OHS junior and
the sophomore classes. |
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Click
on the little Spindrift
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Yearbook Online |
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Maiden voyage of "The
Spirit of 1960" launched March 10,
2000 |
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TECHNOLOGY TIPS:
WANT A SAILORS' DESKTOP SHORTCUT
ICON?
If you would like a desktop shortcut icon in the
white-on-blue sailor's
silhouette image, as
appears in the banner at the top of each page of
this site,
to speed your access to it,
ask me,
and I'll send you one. |
IDEAL SCREEN RESOLUTION:
The ideal screen resolution for viewing this site is
now 1024 X 768 pixels, a setting
commonly used on many monitors today. With this
setting, you should see whole page on your
screen at one time, and, although they will appear smaller,
the images will be clearer, and no scrolling should be
necessary. If you need to reset your screen resolution,
go to windows/ control panel/ display/ settings.
(Some older monitors are limited to 800 X 600, which should,
nevertheless, be
satisfactory but with some scrolling required.) |
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ARE YOU GETTING THE
MUSIC? |
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If you have not yet been able to enjoy the music on our class
website, you should do something about it it
because you are missing the single feature that
will most enrich the nostalgic experience that
it was intended to give you.
Click
here for tips. |
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RECENT
FACULTY/ADMINISTRATION LOSSES
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Popular
guidance counselor during our OHS days, Daniel
Bashner, passed away at age 91 on January 15th,
2021, most recently a resident of W. Babylon, NY.
Some may remember him fondly as their driver's ed.
teacher, |

The
third legendary
OHS coach
from our time to pass away most recently in less than a
year, Coach Roy
Chernock died on.September 4, 2018.
Click here for
Coach Roy Chernock's memorial page.
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Coach
John ("Jack") Hay passed away January
21, 2018, at age 89 at his home in Maplewood, NJ.
During our time there, Coach Hay was a popular phys.
ed. teacher, wrestling, cross-country and girls'
softball coach . See our
memorial tribute page for Coach Hay.. |

One
of our very favorites, Coach Frank Januszewski,
passed away September 19, 2017, at age 89. Click on
his photo at right for our
special memorial tribute page. |

Lawrence
Cascio,
former foreign language teacher at
Oceanside
High School (and
later, Fordham University), passed on July 23, 2016. |
We
were informed by classmate,
Bill Schrader,
that Thomas Fetherston passed away on January 22,
2015, at the age of 92 near his home in Rhode Island after battling
declining health for some months. You should
recall that Tom was a universally beloved teacher of
biology at
OHS during our time and for almost 40
years, and he was one of my favorites.
Bill recalls a talk that Fetherston
gave one day in his sophomore biology class about
this amazing molecule called “deoxyribose nucleic
acid” (“DNA”). That talk was only three years after
DNA was first identified in 1953, and pre-dated the
related Nobel Prize given in 1962. Said Bill, “Fetherston
was giving us a taste of the most exciting science
of the time, a tribute not only to him but also to
the fine educational system that we enjoyed in our
public schools in that era.”
Rick
von Brook and
Betty Griffin
remember fondly when Fetherston and another
biology teacher used to come out of the prep room
frequently between the labs dueling with pointers.
Tom was born on April 12, 1923, grew up in Baldwin
on the waters of Long Island and attended
Oceanside
schools where his father (also, Tom Fetherston) was
the president of the school board. He was a
Sailor through and through having spent many years
cruising with his family around its South Shore out
to the Hamptons.
He served as a
laboratory technician in the
U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II. This
experience helped shape Tom's compassion and his
interest in life sciences, particularly biology.
Tom returned to Baldwin after the war, and in 1948 he married while attending Hofstra University, and upon
graduation, he earned a fellowship at the Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute
where he conducted research. He then joined the
faculty of his alma mater (and ours) in 1952. Teaching
gave him the outlet he needed for his dynamic and
nurturing personality, and he shaped the lives of
literally thousands of students. He was also a coach
of the OHS varsity rifle team and as the first coach on Long Island to recruit women
to the team., he was way ahead of his time. After his retirement,
Tom still wanted
to be around students, so he joined the
administration staff at Hofstra University, where he
worked with his wife until they relocated to join
their sons in Rhode Island in 1999.
Tom Fetherston will be remembered as a
warm, thoughtful and caring man with a passion for
biology and a sense of humor who made an enormous
impact on his OHS students and all those who knew
him.
Much
of this material was derived from an extensive online
obituary.
Click here for the full text. |
According
to his May 2, 2012,
obituary in the Oceanside Herald,
William F. Helmcke, our
Jr. High principal who retired in
1972, died on March 17, 2012, at his
home in Sedona, Arizona, at
age 95. Before serving as
OJHS principal, Hemcke was a
physical eduaction teacher at
OHS, where students nicknamed him,
"Wild Bill Helmcke."
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Sadly,
we learned that Arlene Nolan
O'Leary, a citizenship ed. teacher
fondly remembered for her classes
entitled "Problems in American
Democracy" passed away in early December
2010. Miss Nolan (as we knew her) had
just honored us with her presence at our
50-Year Grand Reunion Gala
in June that year but was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer about two months
later.
William
J. Gerek, a
business teacher at OHS during our time,
subsequently Assistant Superintendent of the West Islip School District where he
was a lifelong resident, a WWII Army Air Corps veteran and a golfer, died on
January 7, 2009, at age 93.
Photo taken in 1982
Best known as a beloved baseball and
football coach at OHS for
34 years, phys. ed. teacher,
Angelo ("Angie") Plaia,
passed away July 28, 2006, at age 79. His
coaching career produced more than half a dozen baseball
championships for the Sailors, including one county (in 1959), three division
and four league titles. He was honored in 2004 by induction into the OHS Sports Hall of Fame's
"Circle
of Pride."
In an exclusive to this site,
Coach Roy Chernock said,
"He was the absolute
best PE teacher I have ever
known and I am positive any of his
former
students would
agree with that assessment!"
Click here for the full text of the
Newsday and Oceanside Herald obituaries,
including what Coach Jan (Frank Januszewski) said about Angie Plaia.
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Athletic
Director,
Frank Mangiapane, died July 31,
2005, in Long Beach, NY. One of the most
popular adminis-trators in OHS,
Frank was a member of the original New
York Knicks basketball team briefly in
its first year, 1946. We were privileged
to have
Frank as our guest at both our
30-year
and
40-year reunions in 1995 and 2000. |
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Anne C. Marks, 91, who began
teaching English at Oceanside Jr. High
School in 1956, passed away from a
stroke on February 25, 2005. Mrs.
Marks honored our class in 1990 by
attending our
30-year reunion. |
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A
Newsday obituary reported the
passing, February 1, 2005, of
popular and revered, 78 year-old,
retired OHS soccer coach,
Art Wright (OHS
'44). Coach Wright co-founded Oceanside
Little League in 1950, in our junior
year, led our
undefeated 1958-'59 soccer team to the County championship
(among others), and was in the 2003
first round inductees into the OHS
Sports Hall of Fame's
"Circle
of Pride." |
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We
learned in 2004 of the passing of
popular OHS math teacher, Elaine Rapp
(left). Click
here
to read many fond memories of
Miss Rapp
expressed by our classmates.

Also, popular English teacher,
Marion Musante passed in
the Spring of 2003.
(Click here for a photo of
Miss Musante
at
our
40-year reunion.) |
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