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Captiva Island alums Catharine Ashley Mus 1 1 11-20-05  06:38 pm

Fall semester 1978 Bob Konkel 3 1 10-30-05  10:08 pm

Anybody been checking here Stephen Frankel '72 2 1 09-28-05  09:25 am

Hi There!!! Jerry Abitbol '69 1 1 09-14-05  03:33 pm

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JERRY ABITBOL
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Posted From: 82.51.137.207

Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 10:08 am:

DEAR FRIENDS
ANY LUCK REF GETTING BACK THE BULLETIN BOARD'S
MATERIAL LOST TO "HACKERS"???
I HOPE YOUR PROVIDER WILL HELP YOU.
I MISS READING THE ENTRIES.
CIAO FROM TUSCANY.
JERRY ABITBOL

Stones
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Posted From: 216.170.196.5

Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 11:04 pm:

http://www.windham-alumni.org/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=10&post=14#POST14

Jerry:
The server hasn't figured out what happened, so we will be reconstructing the old bulletin board as a topic in this discussion board.

bruce bramson
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Posted From: 69.111.53.111

Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 09:42 pm:

It's october now - I loved October in Putney. Sneakers were the key - How long could I get away with wearing them before the cold was too much. Once I made it all the way to Thanksgiving. And by then the leaves were all gone....My California sunset finds me longing this evening.

intolight
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Posted on Monday, October 17, 2005 - 02:53 am:

Bruce, i feel the same way. Not about your sneakers, but i haven't had a good autumn in i don't know how long. Rainin tonight in So Cal, but warm, still sandal weather though.
hugs
gregory

JERRY ABITBOL
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Posted From: 82.55.193.217

Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 04:36 am:

HI BRUCE.
I FIND MYSELF IN THE TUSCAN HILL SIDE, WHERE CHESTNUT TREES ABOUND... THE LEAVES AND URCHIN LIKE SPINY HULKS CONTAINING THE CHESTNUTS COVER THE GROUND.
. I MI9SS THE RED OF VT. AUTUNM .
BRUCE YOU SHOULD COME BY SOME DAY AND SPEND SOMETIME HERE.
JERRY

Bruce Bramson
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Username: Bruce_bramson

Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2005

Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 06:57 pm:

Hi Jerry - There is something surreal about our current geography and how we met way back then. In many ways, southern Vermont was my Tuscany. And it was all so foreign to me - a kid from Manhattan. So much I didn't know, took for granted, entirely missed....Yet how rich and vivid it all still is. I must built a fire now. It is damp here in Marin, October almost gone. I remember how special we all were to each other, how mad the world outside seemed, how magical we all were together - crazy beyond belief. Thank you for showing up, both back then and somehow now. You know, it's not the memories or the meloncholy - it's the knowing even now that we were right. And boy weren't we ever!!! bruce

JERRY ABITBOL
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Username: Jerry_abitbol

Post Number: 1
Registered: 11-2005

Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - 01:02 pm:

HI FRIENDS , FINALLY POSTED MY REGISTRATION FORM!!!!
IT S GETTING DARK @ 5 ....WINTER IS APPROACHING.

GOT TO TELL YOU ALL ...I BECAME GRANFATHER FOR THE 2ND TIME. MY FIRST DAUGHTER ,LISA , WHO GREW UP IN PUTNEY (HER MOM IS LINDA MORGAN FROM
TENNISON HOUSE) HAD , KAI. NOW 3 AND HALF.
ILONA GAVE BIRTH TO THE 2ND GRANSON.LAST JULY.!!!!IN NYC.
TALKING ABOUT FEELIN' OLD AND VIBRANT.
IF ANY OF YOU EVER TRAVEL TO TUSCANY , PLS GIVE ME A SIGN.... WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU.
READ YOU SOON.
JERRY

JERRY ABITBOL
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Username: Jerry_abitbol

Post Number: 2
Registered: 11-2005

Posted on Monday, November 14, 2005 - 11:23 am:

HI BRUCE,
THOUGHT YOU D ENJOY SEEING THIS PHOTO. IT WAS TAKEN
BY JACK SOPPER IN FRONT OF EARLAM HALL OF ME AND LISA, THE FLOWER CHILD OF PUTNEY. SHE GREW UP AMONGST ALL OF US GOING TO COLLEGE IN HER FIRST
YEARS OF LIFE. SHE NOW GOES, WITH HER BABE KAI,
TO VISIT PUTNET AND PUTNEY MT.WHERE WE USED TO TAKE HER. YES WINDY U. HAS BECOME PART OF OUR LIVES.
LONNY WHERE ARE YOU. KELLY WHY DONT YOU WRITE
AND SEND ME THOSE PIX OF "WAFFLES" THE LUCKY DOG?
DON T IF ANY OF YOU REMEMBER FRANK MINELLI... HE REGISTERED IN 62... LEFT IN 64...WELL, HE FOUND ME THANX TO THIS BOARD !!!
BRUCE LOVE TO HEAR FROM YA. I TOO GOT LIGHT UP A FIRE.IT GET NIPPY. NO MAPPLE SYRUP AND PANCAKE HERE...
HELLO TO ALL AND WRITE
JERRY .......................................

JERRY ABITBOL
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Username: Jerry_abitbol

Post Number: 3
Registered: 11-2005

Posted on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 03:39 pm:

DAER FRIENDS
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU ALL
CIAO
JERRY

Lee Konowe
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Username: Lkonowe

Post Number: 1
Registered: 11-2005

Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 06:42 am:

Always early for the things that matter little, I arrive late for the 2005 reunion, but am here if you care to touch the wisp of memories from 62-63.

There was so much turmoil in that year, yet I remember Sandanona's peace as the closeby hills poked through the morning mists, way too early each morning.

I remember the chairs out front that held my form and the 100 great books we were to absorb, as if that were even possible.

I remeber a cold night, a less cold keg and a young fireball named Tory(i) Glen (sp. there is a street by that name just outside of Reston where I now live and pass almost every day... it is not needed to keep that memory alive, but doess bring a smile each time I pass).

I remember as well Brubeck (always seemed to be "take Five" playing) softly joining with great philosphical debate (at 18 we thought we knew what it all meant) playing chess with I can't remember who, sipping on a Dajaling Tea (sp)and making coy remarks to Joan Hoffer (My Lambchops - with sadness knowing that Shari Lewis and the hand pupet "Lambchops" are gone forever) at the same time. Joan and I shared New Years Eve that year in Brooklyn and I had such an inflated sense of well being or alcohol induced at any rate, that I tried to go the wrong way through the tunnel on my way back home (obviously I survived the attempt and the ticket).

It wasn't all great... I remember my second home at school, the shack that did not resemble Sandanona in any way whatever. I remember the cold that came in through cardboard covered windows and somehow still rushed through our bodies once inside. I remember reading by the only light that was a bare bulb hanging in the stairwell. Mostly I remember the cold as that was where we spent the winter longing for the new dorm to come a bit too late.

I also remember Bill Krupp, who despite his American family heritage was always trying so hard to befriend this little Jewish kid and saved my ass from freezing more than once, by driving me down the hill.

Most of all I remember Prof's that cared and taught their hearts out even when the cash ran out. What they initiated in me continues to this day.

Sorry for the ramblings, but I have had this inside of me for a very long time with no other survivor with which to share.

If you remember me do assist in helping me to feel part of this assembly.

Cheers,

Lee Konowe
703-928-2805

Bruce Bramson
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Username: Bruce_bramson

Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2005

Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 11:17 pm:

Dear Lee - I don't think we've met - having myself arrived in Putney late January '66. But I do know you by osmosis and I thank you both for your time spent and your heartfelt recounting. There was a brilliant, unique clarity to our collective northern exposure. Great sacrifices - large and small - brought us through it all. It is so good to hear of the richness present before our arrival. Those of us who came later heard your footsteps and in our own stumbling way honored them. Thanks for giving voice to the ancestors.

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