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Volume 5, Number
12, July 2001
MIDNIGHT SUN ONLINE
-The Online Newsletter
for Robert E. Peary High School Alumni-
MSO WEB SITE - http://www.pearyhs.org/
INTRODUCTION
Greetings
Huskies:
PHOTOS:
Our apologies for forgetting to process/post and announce in the last
newsletter, photos from the Scottish Festival, courtesy Judy Miller
Ridgway (1968). These photos
from the May 6, 2001 festival held at the Berman Academy are now available
for viewing on the MSO website!
ALSO
MR. HILL’S 75th BIRTHDAY: Photos now
available for viewing online from Mr. Hill’s 75th Birthday
Party, held on June 3, 2001 at Dave and Busters in Rockville, Md.
Photos from Gale Senseman Privette (1966).
BRAD
OSCAR (1982):
From Stuart Goldman (1981)... “Just a report: On Wednesday’s (7/11)
‘Late Show with David Letterman,’ actor Edward Norton was on and was
telling how he wrangled some tickets to ‘The Producers.’ He said that
on the night he went, Nathan Lane was sick and Brad Oscar did his part and
‘was flawless.’”
MURIEL
HOOVER:
A Memorial Service for former Peary teacher, Muriel Hoover was held July
27th at River Road Unitarian Church.
Ms. Hoover, who retired from teaching in the mid-70s, passed away
June 9, 2001 at age 89.
CONDOLENCES:
We are sad to inform you of the following classmates or alumni
family members have passed away recently.
Nancy Van Meir Rose (1966); Dorothy Trattner, mother of Sandy
Trattner Keefer (1975) and Suzanne Trattner Wood (1977); and Mr. Gold,
father of Barry Gold (1972), Michelle Gold Smith (1974), and Barbara Gold
Bryan (1981). Details posted
are in this newsletter.
REUNIONS:
Details are available in your Class Information Section on the website.
CLASS
OF 1986:
Reunion picnic Saturday, October 6, 2001
CLASS
OF 1985:
September 21-23, 2001
CLASS
OF 1981:
In-Progress
CLASS
OF 1975:
“Annual Get-together: Saturday, August 4th, 2001 CLASS OF
1966: August 17-19, 2001. Discount
periods over.
JOHN
LEJNAR (1979):
Another benefit for John and his family is planned for September 29th
at the Magic Cue in Germantown, MD. Details
in this newsletter, on the MSO website... and on a new website devoted to
assisting the family, http://hometown.aol.com/rockforjohn
CONGRATS:
John Farrel’s (1970) first book, “Tip O’Neill and the Democratic
Century,” spent a month on the bestseller lists!
More details below.
FROM
PARADE MAGAZINE: Personality Parade, April 15, 2001
Q:
You said Danny Nucci was dating his “Snoops” co-star, Paula Marshall
[1982]. I bet my husband an expensive dinner that their romance would not
last any longer than that TV series.
Who wins? A: It’s
your turn to pick up the tab. “We’re not just dating - we’re living
together,” Nucci, 32, tells us. What’s more, he boasts that their
careers have flourished since they fell in love. Nucci now stars in the
CBS sitcom “Some of My Best Friends,” with Jason Bateman. And
Marshall, 36, is on The Weber Show” and developing a pilot with Paul
(“Mad About You”) Reiser. Ain’t love grand?
[Found
and forwarded by Ed Gursky, Class of 1965 - Thanks!]
GOOD
LAUGH:
Yours truly was cast earlier this year by casting director Suzanne
Broderick (out of L.A.) for a setup on NBC’s “Spy TV” when they shot
episodes in Las Vegas. The
reality TV series airs on the network Tuesdays at 8p and Thursdays at
8:30p. Similar to a Candid Camera.
My airdate unknown (possibly August 7), but keep an eye out
throughout August for the episode about a “lucky/unlucky day trader.”
P.S. Yes, the Asian accent is phony (hey, in-character, Mr. Wong,
the Chinese food order/delivery guy). The twist: “Pork and rice. Coffee
- No Sugar.”
DONATIONS:
MSO has received enough funds from donations by you to continue only
through October 2001. A mere
11.5% of listed alumni from 1963-1986 have supported the project
financially. If you’ve been
able to contact an old classmate/friend, enjoy these monthly updates, have
used the website to obtain your reunion information and other Peary-related
events, we hope you’ll consider supporting this 5-year effort.
If you’ve been doing “pretty-well” in life, we hope you’ll
consider Mr. Burlas’s
challenge that was presented this past April (information at
http://www.pearyhs.org/text/benefactors.html),
and consider an investment as a “Benefactor” to continue this project.
All
other donation information and methods are available online, including
acceptance of Visa or MasterCard payments.
We need your support for this to continue beyond fall 2001.
The average donation in 2000 was $66.
The average donation to-date for 2001 is $47. ANY amounts are welcomed at this near-critical time.
Even $5-10 from each who have not yet supported MSO (more than
3,100 of listed alumni) would ensure this project for a VERY long time,
i.e. (3,100 alums X $5 = $15,500). The average annual cost over the past 5 years is $2,300.
Do the math.... almost 7 more years of MSO if only we had this
support from every classmate listed with MSO.
There are no required subscriptions (hopefully there never will
be). The website and
newsletters come at no cost to you, but it costs MSO for hosting,
registrations, online services, and software/hardware support.
Thank you to those who have helped and have continued to support
MSO over the years—we would not exist without you.
Also,
the local archive of the entire operation is nearly out of space. If there are any hardware resellers out there who wish to
donate equipment, the MSO could use a USB hub with USB-type hard drives to
back-up (but still with quick accessibility) years of information/files,
please contact us ASAP. An
alternative to this would be a Pentium machine (even a Pentium motherboard
with minimal memory at this point) to serve as a drive server for some
existing SCSI drives. Either
way would help with the storage of MSO’s accumulated data.
Thank
you for your consideration. We
celebrate our 5 years of existence next month!
Let’s make it to 10 years. Purchase
a Peary Polo Shirt, order a Gustafson litho of Camden Yards or Redskins
Stadium, order a Cookbook from Homecoming 2000 -- all of these sales
support MSO!
The
deadline for next issue of the Midnight Sun Online is Saturday August 25.
“Submit an Article” or “Sign-Up/Update” on the MSO website!
Bob
Lau, Editor/Webmaster
The
Midnight Sun Online
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