I see a few new faces here. Welcome to all. Drop me an E-mail with your graduation year and I'll be happy to add you to the Members List. bonaire@thecanteen.com
Donna Zaros, a member of neighborhood,couldn't find where to add her name as a member or find other old friends. Well Donna, try adding your name from the link in the above message from John Crowley the site owner. Enjoy the trip down memory lane.
Donna also wanted me to tell the owner of the site what a wonderful experience this was for her to read all the messages and see the pictures from her childhood.
Carol Raab Davis
Thanks, Carol. We have added a few new members this week, including my ol' classmate Linda Rice. (We're already planning our 40-year reunion for 2005.)
For new arrivals: That link above goes to the Members List page, where there's an E-mail link to me. Hit that link, tell me your name (incl. maiden name) and graduation year, and you're in!
HEY JOHN JUST WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS SITE AND FOR ALL THE WORK YOU PUT INTO IT.I'M SURE ALL THE OTHER MEMBERS REALLY APPRECIATE ALL YOU'VE DONE AND LOOK FORWARD TO ALL THE GREAT PICTURES THAT BRING BACK LOTS OF MEMORIES.
John - I thought I was already registered but I must have screwed up the process. I checked the membership list and I'm not listed (but then again neither is my sister and she is a regular poster). In any event I am class of 63 (your brother was class of 64, correct?). I've posted a few times, once to ask if anyone knew where Chris Carlin was. We all played on the SRL baseball team, your brother backed up Terry Curran as catcher. I still remember the coach starting him on his birthday and him getting 2 or 3 hits.
I used to hit Cryan's all the time after we moved to Maplewood but I live in Hawaii now and haven't been there in 25 - 30 years.
Next time you visit from Hawaii, make it during the first week of the month, and you and I (and perhaps some of our sibs?) will join the crowd at Cryans on First Friday...
We have a few new members to welcome: Linda (Rice) Miller, '65 (the greatest of the classes); Mary (Scheper) VanDeventer, '72 and Jim Muzeni, '64. Not to mention Bill Sheppard, whose Newark Academy Class of '64 was the last in that old building on First Street. Welcome, all. Make yourselves at home.
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Hi Steve. Please extend my "hello" to Al and Terry next time you are in contact with them. I was in the drum corp with them and we all had a wonderful time together!
Great to see you at back Bodholts! Are you still Steven Dowdell, "Esquire"?
It seems, thanks to the good and talented folks like John and others in the SRL Alumni, that we can go home again. It is hard to believe it has been 40 years since we graduated.
There were so many memories. I guess the two that stands out in eight grade were the boat ride to the World's Fair and of course Tino touching the May shrine. Do you remember playing football in the Food Fair parking lot at lunch time?
I stumbled upon this site one Sunday night and ended up til close to four AM
Didn't get the work I had to get done for Monday morning meetings. As a matter of fact, I had a heck of a time stirring... the names... the pictures... the memories.... the fun.. the great place we all had the chance to grow up in... When I tell people I grew up in Newark, I would first get this "look"... Oh, we all know it. But once you share the passion and the love that made up the fabric of our youth... from "dropyernuts" in the playground at lunch to stealing a peek at the posters in the Tivoli... all these things that set the stage for the adults we are today and the children we guide... You cannot truly capture the magic of the times.
What a wonderful job you and the rest of the SRL-ians have done... and it was well worth the evening and starting the week off with toothpicks keeping the slits of my bloodshot eyes propped open . I can't wait to tell my brothers and sisters. Oh, they're all strung out from the West Coast - Terrence and Christopher... to Europe, Al... to Montclair and Randolph... Judy and Melissa (my beautiful sister Maureen passed away nearly ten years ago)... Maybe some remember her from Cryans...
I was in your brother's class of '64 and we had a ball together... Sister Aggi Lou (my personal favorite) ... Tino setting the shrine on fire... (oh, yeah, I was there) Billy Goldie chipping his tooth trying to hop over a parking meter on Orange Street and then nibbling on an ink cartiridge and having it explode in his mouth, dribbling over his chin - a sight you can never forget... There were so many, many memories that come by now and then.
And your father... what a fantastic man. I was on the Continental Can baseball team he coached with Jim, Billy, Neil Melillo, Bobby Molinaro and a host of others... We played at Newark Academy. He fought for me to be able to play on the team even though I lived in East Orange. We ended up playing in state tournaments in Trenton and Asbury Park... great memories of a wonderful time.
And playing football with him.... no helmet... no pads... just tough as nails. he was a neat guy!
But no, Mr. John Crowley... you are not going to get me going tonight. I've another ton of work to get done. But I'll be back.
And thank you truly from my heart. and please tell your brother hello... and also a special Hello to the entire O'Brien clan... Aloha Dennis!
Hi Steve,
Welcome! I think all of us who have found Bodholt's Diner would agree that this site is a wonderful bridge between our past and the present. More important, it has given us a way to help the current students at SRL. (A not-too-subtle hint: Think about joining the alumni association.)
Where are you living these days? I have such wonderful memories of the O'Briens and the Dowdells playing in the Oval, going on picnics at Forest Hills Lake, and sharing so much through the years. Did you know that Chris contacted me last Fall and subsequently he and my brother Kevin got together for dinner one night in Boston on one of Chris's trips East?
Say Hi to Judy for me, and maybe we'll see you at one of the alumni events...
Hi Steve -- I remember you well, as you were one of the guys at my house all the time, along with Goldy, Buchanan, Hemple, Carlin, et al. You always were kind and friendly. And thanks for the nice words about my father. He was a memorable man who taught me a lot.
I'll say hello to Brother Jim for you. Please visit Bodholt's often.
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Wow - long time no see, no hear. If I recall correctly it was 1983 or 1984, you were living in Greenwich Village, I was at MCRD San Diego and we, along with your brother Chris and my brothers Terry, Jerry, and Kevin, met at Molly Malones. That was the night a fight ensued and we all ran like crazy. I ended up getting stitches in my knee, my brother Terry ended up doing a low crawl back to his car (so the police wouldn't see him; they had already told him to take a cab or walk) and the upshot was his wife won't let him out to play with me anymore. Time really does fly, hope all is well with you and yours. I've been living in Hawaii since I got out of the Marine Corps (1994). Kida are grown, I'm old, nothing else really to report.
So sorry about Susie, I visited her in West Orange along with Chris and Kevin in the 70's.
Please say hello to your brothers and sisters and if any of the Dowdell clan make it to Oahu give me a call (808-627-1536 or 221-2782).
