40th Class Reunion - Notes December 1998A note from Ron Brown. March 15th, 1998 Aileen Sweeney discovered me up on the web 2 years ago. She pointed me to this Great Ilion Alumni Web site. After seeing the great job Aileen had done, I agreed to be the info person for the class of 1959.
What’s Up With The Class Of 1959??? Well I’m glad you asked.
We will be celebrating our 40th year out of high school in 1999. A great reunion is being planned. MARK YOUR CALENDER TO BE IN ILION ON OCTOBER 8th & 9th, 1999 for THE CLASS OF 1959 BIG 40th REUNION
Details on the MAIN EVENTS Updated September 5, 1999 I have taken on the responsibility to put a together a CLASS OF ’59 DIRECTORY. My goal is to get everyone who is interested in finding out "What happened to so and so?" a chance to find out. The price for this knowledge is your personal contribution to the directory. I plan to put the Directory together in April - June 1999 & mail it out in late August 1999. Copies will only go to classmate who have filled-in the form!! I will never publish any of your personal info here or anywhere without your permission. About 75% of the class has contributed to the reunion directory. Unfortunately we lost 3 more members of the class of 1959 this year and last Corrine (Bean)Cocke, & Janet (Lewicki) Murphy, & Bob Lyman. Our Class Advisor, Bill Teeter, passed away late last year also I had an interesting page of 1950’s home life sent in with one person’s directory response.
Just so you don’t think I want more info from you than what you know about me.... I graduated from RPI in ’63 & went to work for Merck, the pharmaceutical company, as a research chemist. Live in New Jersey less than an hour from NYC. Married Rhea Rabatoy the same year. Had a couple of girls in ’64 Roberta & Rory in ’68. I did grad school at night for awhile, but quit as I felt life was passing me by in ‘71. Still married after 35 years. Kids are grown, Bert’s a teacher/administrator & Rory Ellen’s an industrial engineer. Both married and Bert has a 3 year old boy, Anthony. He is physically handicapped. I hike, bike and canoe with my grandson and we build many fun projects. Well, I don’t do any research anymore but manage 7 labs with Magnetic Resonance instruments for the basic chemistry group. Hope to retire in 1 to 4 years, but had a shock this summer when Rhea lost her job (nursing administrator) of 20 years. She’s back working for the time being. For fun we did a lot of camping in the 70’s & 80’s. Enjoy traveling,- recent trip have been to Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Barbados, & Ireland. Ran a local access TV station in the early ‘90’s as a volunteer (like ch10 HCCC. Took up biking in ’95 and now bike to work weather permitting (1500miles/yr). Trying to keep fit for my grandson and retirement. I wanted to do this directory thing so I would get the sneak preview of my classmates lives and adjust mine accordingly! Ron, the voyeur, Brown ANY CLASS NEWS?? Please email 1 or email 2 or Fax me at 908-276-0609 all of your Class of 1959 news items.
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