by Tobias Van Buren

Created on: June 29, 2008   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

MY CLASS OF '58 '43' REUNION, NOVEMBER 3, 2001

This coming November 15th 2008, my New Rochelle, NY High School Class of 1958 will be having its '50' Reunion. In 2001, we decided to have a special reunion to celebrate the new Millennium - its '43'. We thought it would also represent our '50' Reunion, as we'd never expected that we would, in just seven short years, want another. But our experience at '43' was so wonderful, that we immediately wanted a real '50'. So, we started right to work on it.

Thanks to a Jocko Roman, our Reunion Coordinator, we had the Millennium Reunion, and ever since the year before (2000), a web-site. This site enabled Jocko to advertise the Reunion, he and a few of our classmates working very hard to locate members of our graduating class. It was late in 2000 that I stumbled upon the site, or it just might be I'd never gone to the 2001 event or the upcoming one this year 2008.

This true '50' Reunion will be as great as if there had been no '43' reunion, with hopefully even more attending than that one.

Here is what I wrote of our '43' Reunion, as if it had really been our '50:

NOVEMBER 05, 2001

NRHS CLASS '58 REUNION WEEKEND GREAT!

The New Rochelle High School Class of 1958 Reunion this past weekend was truly great, so much more so than I could have anticipated!
Without the two buffer days, it would have been too little, with so much packed into just the few hours we had at Beckwith Pointe. It was
literally packed in that place too, and I did not get to see all those I had wanted to; where were you, Martin Traum; how come we
didn't meet up Alan Frank, T-shirt guy Les Benowitz, Stan Jaffe? Even with the other mini reunions Saturday, November 2nd and the
terrific "Brunch" at Elsie Whiteheads Sunday, November 4th.

Well, to be as brief as I can here, which will seem just the opposite to most of you, the reunion weekend started with my getting
everything ready beforehand, especially what I'd wear to the big reunion dinner at Beckwith Pointe, and I had to do that as reasonably
as I could. I used the jacket to a suit given to me a year ago from Grand Central Social Services, the company I've been working for
nearly two years now. The pants had long worn out, but the jacket was and is still good, a dark navy blue (too bad it wasn't purple - our school color - eh?), ideal for conversion to a blazer, which is just what I did. I ripped off the original buttons and replaced them with special "blazer" ones, picked out by me in a button store on Broadway in the

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