Barbara (Brandes) Brown – Barbara was married in 1960 and gave up a scholarship to Montclair State College. She married Robert Brown a graduate of Passaic High School. Bob was a teacher and now has a worldwide stamp business. Bob and Barbara have two children, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. While her husband completed college, Barbara worked as a programmer for TV Guide. When Bob began teaching, they began a family and Barbara did volunteer work. At 34, Barbara got her teaching degree and taught first grade until 2003. Barbara was the second woman to be called as president of her congregation at Shenkel United Church of Christ. She served in this position for two years.

Twelve years ago, Barbara and Bob bought the Lititz, Pennsylvania post office and then purchased a new home to house this set up. They call their home, Brown’s Postal Museum, and conduct tours of their home so that others can see their postal collection. They like to travel and to participate in stamp shows. Barbara is very active in her Red Had Society and has written many songs for this group. We are hoping that she will write a song for our reunion. She graciously volunteered to take charge of our reunion luncheon on Thursday, September 18, the day before the reunion. She has more than 20 signed up for that event. She hopes that more will come.

Robert Johnson – Bob graduated from Delaware Valley College in 1962 with a B.S. degree in Dairy Husbandry. Partnering with his father, he managed a dairy farm in Unadilla, NY for 10 years. In 1972, Bob became a Youth Counselor for the New York Division for Youth. He worked at the Youth Facility for the next 15 years. During this employment, Bob and his wife, Carol, started a business selling woodstoves, gas stoves and fireplaces in Oneonta, NY. This endeavor became full time in 1987, with Carol operating a branch store in Binghamton, NY. In 1991, Bob and Carol bought a waterfront home in Beaufort, NC, leading to the sale of the business in upstate NY. In 1992, they moved to Beaufort and became Manufacturer's Representatives, covering six Southeastern States, for several of the same companies they sold at retail in NY. They continue to be self-employed as Reps choosing their own working schedule. Bob has three sons living in NY, NC and New Mexico, with five grandchildren. Over the years, Bob has competed in sports car racing (he and Carol still enjoy attending NASCAR races), triathlons, running, cycling, and canoeing. Bob and Carol attended the 1988 class reunion and look forward to attending the 50th reunion in September.

Barbara (Van Der Horn) Kaczyk – Barbara retired in 1994 after thirty-five years at Citizens First National Bank. When she retired she was Vice President of the Operations Department. She has lived at her present address in Midland Park since 1964. She was married in 1960 to her first husband who passed away in 1988. She married her current husband in 1993 and traveled with him to Europe, Hawaii, Alaska, and most of the western USA. Today she is involved in some church activities and she is trip committee planner for her senior group.

Peter Vreeland – Pete has lived in Jacksonville, FL for the past 15 years. He retired after spending most of his life in construction, which included buying houses and remodeling them before selling them again. Before moving to Florida, he spent about 15 years in Mechanicsville, Virginia and prior to moving south, he lived in and around Oakland and Wyckoff. Shortly after graduation he moved to California for four years . He owned apartments in Oakland and had a horse equipment business, Junction Saddlery, in Oakland.

Pete’s been married twice, but now is happily single. Pete enjoys golf, and bowling, watching basketball and his local football team, the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Arlene (Nielsen) Bennett – Arlene left RRHS early to start her family; she married Jim Bennett (graduated Ramsey HS 1955) from Wyckoff. In the next eight years their family grew and included Jim, John, Tracy, & Mark. They lived in Wyckoff until the late 60's when they moved out to a five acre farm in rural Unionvlle, NY. Jim went into business for himself, and Arlene worked part-time as a waitress at the Playboy Club in McAfee, NJ. While she was working there, she attempted her hand at skiing, but after the first downhill kitty 'pull', she decided that maybe she wasn't going to make the Olympics.

After being in NY state for seven years, they moved back to Wyckoff, and purchased Itzen & Robertson Construction Co. - Arlene then was managing clothing stores in Closter, Fairlawn and Woodbridge, and was held up at gunpoint at the Woodbridge store. Shortly after that, they moved outside of Cooperstown, NY to a 240 acre farm - and took their hand in raising beef cattle, pigs, ducks, hay and grew everything they ate. Arlene and Jim divorced for a few years, and then remarried. Seven years ago, they retired to Lewes, DE. Jim Bennett passed away two years ago

At present Arlene is taking care of her father, aged 93, in her home. Arlene is a certified Genealogist and is a coordinator of the Newfoundland Gen Web Page. She also spends time gardening, antiquing, rescuing injured wildlife and feral cats. She gets the cats 'fixed' and releases them again. Arlene is a breast cancer survivor having 14 years of a clean bill of health.

Sally Anne (Burgess) Pilcer – After graduation from RRHS, Sally Anne attended Green Mountain College in Vermont. Following graduation from Green Mountain with a degree in pre-nursing, Sally Anne graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, NJ, with a degree in Nursing and then pursued her education at University of Pennsylvania studying Anesthesia for two years. During her two years in Pa. she married George Breen and in 1964 moved to Fort Knox, Kentucky where she had two children, George IV and Ruth Ellen. After two years in the military the Breen family moved to Oakland where, two years later, Richard was born. She divorced in 1977 and remarried. She is divorced now but she has kept the name Pilcer!

Sally Anne has lived in Oakland since 1966 and has contributed greatly to her community and the children who live(d) there. Sally Anne worked for 26 years as the School Nurse, Health Education teacher at Valley Middle School in Oakland. Her office became the favorite place for the students to visit, to share concerns, cry, and get a hug or just talk (sometimes they were actually sick!). During her tenure at VMS she accomplished lots of stuff. She received two Master’s Degrees, founded the Oakland Education foundation, coached cheerleading, ran a golf club for the students, chaperoned several student activities and class trips, sponsored educational programs for parents, and more.

Sally Anne received a commendation from the Senate of the State of New Jersey for her volunteerism and dedication to her community when she was the honoree at the "foundation's" dinner-dance. A day in May, 2006 was named "Sally Anne Pilcer Day" in the borough of Oakland. Sally Anne has traveled extensively through Europe, the US and the Caribbean, her favorite being a cruise to Alaska. One of her favorite activities, other than spending time with her children and six grandchildren (two more on the way) is golf. While working full-time she managed to post over 100 rounds of golf each year and participated in many tournaments, winning her share of those she entered.

Sally Anne says that she has, "had a full, rich life and has been blessed with much."

James Heath – After graduation, Jim went to Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA to study music. He says that he discovered that he was woefully untalented compared to the other kids who had been born with silver trumpets in their mouths so he worked at Nabisco in Fairlawn till the following fall (‘59). He returned to LVC to study anything but music or, perhaps, Home Ec. This time around he discovered and began a lifelong relationship with running and with a woman, Ellen, who became his wife. He became bored and says that he was about to enter a life of crime when who should come along but Steve Mason. Instead of becoming criminals, though, they became victims; they joined the Coast Guard. He married and served three years in the USCG, and returned to Wyckoff.

He worked as a photographer for a couple years shooting for The Ridgewood Newspapers. He reached the pinnacle on that job when he photographed Richard Nixon. He then went back to LVC and finished his degree in Philosophy and Psychology. All this moving around had him graduating in January of ‘69 and for the 6 months or so before beginning graduate work in psychology at Millersville University, also in PA, he worked as a floor director at WITF-TV (Channel 33) in Hershey. Here he worked on stage managing a show with Taj Mahal and one hosting Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek fame.

After grad school, Jim went to work at a PA state hospital. That lasted for three years and then he moved to Rhode Island in 1974 and began work as a psychologist in a mental health clinic. That led him into writing a grant and creating and managing a new program in consultation and education service for the community mental health center. Later he created and managed a program for the elderly (that would be us now, folks). Jim retired in 2001 but he missed the world of work. Now he is a supervisor at AAA of Southern New England in Providence. A real plus to this arrangement is that he lives only two miles from work so much of the time, from April through October, he can commute by bike. Now he’s getting close to retiring from full time work again, most likely by the time he sees us in September. But, he says, “ You can bet my plan will include doing something part time, because I can't face sitting around all day being retired.” Jim and Ellen have two children.

In conclusion, Jim says, “Finally, the thing that gets me about this whole reunion extravaganza is that, come September, I'm going to drive from RI to NJ to spend a weekend burning through at least five hundred bucks or so having dinner with a bunch of old people I hardly know. And I have to admit I'm a bit afraid. You see, about 10 years or so ago I had a rendezvous with Steve Mason at his sister‘s house in NJ. It was a great, happy little reunion, yet I drove away with tears in my eyes. What really hit me was that my whole life had gone by and Steve and I missed out on sharing all the many things that have made my life so wonderful. So I don't know how I'll handle being surrounded by all of you after 50 years. Hell, I might even need a therapist. In any case, at least it will be a different sort of weekend. And I'm willing to bet it won't be at all boring.”

Robert Clarke – After graduation from Ramapo, Bob began working in residential construction. He served six years with the New Jersey National Guard. His construction experience led him to work in the commercial construction field, where he worked until his retirement in 2003. He has been a member of Local #15 of the New Jersey Carpenters Union for 45 years and was recently recognized for his years of service. Since 2004, Bob has worked part-time for a local consulting engineer.

He is married to Gail (Johnson, Class of l959). Bob and Gail have three children, Kristin, Amy and Eric, as well as four grand- children, DJ, Austin, Allie, and Logan.

In addition to his children and grandchildren, golf and travel are two of the things Bob enjoys most. Visits to our National Parks rank high on his list of destinations. He and Gail also spend several weeks in Florida each winter. He looks forward to doing more extensive traveling in the future. He does occasional cooking and is particularly proud of his clam chowder.

Life has been good.

Eleanor (Meer) Dallal – In 1958 Elie entered Douglass College (Rutgers Univ.) to study economics. She completed her degree in 1962. In her freshman year, she began dating her future husband, Salim Dallal. They attended Columbia Business School together. Salim began a career in banking and Elie worked as a medical office business manager. They were married in 1965 and settled in their home in Wyckoff. They have one daughter, Nancy, who was born in 1968. Nancy graduated Columbia College in 1989 and received her Ph.D. and works for the university. In 1989 Elli became a certified financial planner. After a number of years in the business, she is semi retired. Salim retired from banking in 2000. They both enjoy traveling, reading, theater, cooking and volunteer work.

Regrettably, they will be out of the country during the time of our class reunion. Elie says, “Please extend my best wishes to all, I am hoping they have a very enjoyable time.”

Nancy (Strickland) Foreit – Nancy married in 1960 and spent the ensuing years raising three children, two girls and a boy, who are all married and have produced six grandchildren and a great grandson. Two of her granddaughters are graduating from High School this year, fifty years after the class of 1958. So, in 2058 they will be reflecting back on their lives, as we are doing in 2008.

After Nancy was divorced she graduated from Antioch University. She has lived in New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Texas, Maryland and finally California where she has lived for the past five years.

Nancy spent several years as the Director of a Prison and Jail Ministry in the New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania tri-state area, establishing and equipping teams of men and women to serve throughout the region. Then she worked full time as Director of a Short Term Missions organization that she helped establish. Her travels took her to Argentina, Belize, Haiti, Mexico and Panama 22 times. A highlight of those years was a trip down the Pan-American Highway almost to the border of South America. She was transported back in time as she visited many Indian villages. The people there seem to live in a time warp, existing as their ancestors have, for generation after generation. Some of them had never seen a white person! She spent the night in a village, lying outside on a tarp under a palm thatched roof. The family lived in a hut that had a shelf, a plaster bowl and a dented pan. Their food supplies consisted of a small plastic bag of salt, garlic, several chickens and a pig. After preparing and serving dinner at 11 PM---chicken soup with the addition of some type of a root that they dug up out of jungle, the mother and father laid down on an old rusty mattress spring with one thin blanket for padding. Made Nancy think, and sure changed her life!

Charles Shotmeyer – Charles and his wife, Alexandra McGracken of Wyckoff and from the Ramapo class of 1961, raised their six children in Franklin Lakes. Their children are all Ramapo graduates. The six children and nine grandchildren live close by to Charley and Sandy. Charley and Sandy were co-chairs of the Parents Committee of Lehigh University and were involved in the launching of Lehigh’s $500 million capital campaign.

Involved in Boy Scouts since 1948, Charles attended the Jamboree in California as a member of Troop 89. As an adult scouter, he has served as Assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 77 of Wyckoff where his son, Chuck, is now the Assistant Scoutmaster. His grandson, Jacob, is about to become an Eagle Scout now. Charles has served as President of the Northern New Jersey Council for 2006-2008 (Bergen, Passaic, Essex, and Hudson Counties.)

He is currently serving as Commissioner of the North Jersey District Water Supply Commission, New Jersey’s largest water provider. He has also served as its past chairman. Charley is also a member of the Valley Hospital Foundation Board and participates in several community service organizations.

Harold Galenkamp – Harold Galenkamp has been an elected member of the Wyckoff Township Committee from 1972-1981 and was Mayor in 1974 and 1981. Harold has served his community as a volunteer fireman, as a member of the Bergen County Planning Board; a legislative aide to State Senator Hank Mc Namara [R-40th]; property manager of Willow Pond Farm, Wyckoff and as President of Sicomac Dairy Products, Inc. of Wyckoff from 1960-1985 at which time the business was sold. Harold was elected to serve again as a Township Committeeman in 1992, a position he holds at the present time. Harold served the Township of Wyckoff as Mayor in 1996, 2002, and in 2005. Harold and his wife Jeannine reside at 511 Sicomac Ave. in Wyckoff. Harold has two daughters, Heidi Misovic and Heather Borst. Heidi and her husband Stephen have two daughters, Emelia and Molly. Heather and her husband Mark have three children, Erin, Sara and Nathaniel. His children live in Wyckoff.

Evelyn Gaire – After high school, Evelyn spent 10 years working for Sabena Airlines, she enjoyed it very much and traveled extensively. She met her husband in 1970 and lived in Southern California and in Tucson, Arizona. She enjoyed working with the San Diego Opera and when in Tucson, working with the Tucson Museum of Art which included being Co-Chair of the Dinner A L'Art (a large fundraiser for the Museum). She played lots of golf and hosted many dinner parties. When she was married, Evelyn and her husband traveled to Europe and China. She is now divorced after 36 years of marriage and she is enjoying her life in Palm Desert California. Evelyn is helping with the calling of classmates.

Carolyn (Jones) Arvenitis – Carolyn was a Visiting Nurse in New Hampshire for 12 years, leaving in 1987. She took a couple of years off and then worked for a bank heading up the Mortgage Department for the last two years that she worked there. She has been divorced since 1992 and she moved to Charleston, South Carolina in 1995 to assist her parents until her Dad's death in 2002. Her Mom then moved in with her and they relocated back to NH in 2002. Her mom passed away in February of this year at the age of 93. Carolyn has a daughter, Maria, who is 43 and divorced, and a granddaughter, Elizabeth, 20 1/2 and a junior at the University of New Hampshire. She has a son, Christopher, 37 who is married and has two children, Benjamin 6 1/2 and Isabella 3 years. Her daughter lives in NH and her son lives in Colorado. Carolyn regrets that she will not be able to attend the reunion.

Ken Hoffman – After leaving Ramapo, Ken spent the next five years earning a degree in Civil Engineering at Cornell University. Then came two years as a recruit in the Army where he was assigned to a desk job in Arlington, Virginia. This was within walking distance of all the tourist attractions along the Mall in Washington, D.C. which helped make his military tour of duty pass quickly. In September of 1968, Ken headed west for a job with the U.S. Forest Service in Grand Marais, Minnesota on the shore of Lake Superior. This area had been recommended to him by his friend, Fred Young. After three years Ken quit the Forest Service, moved to rural Duluth to take classes at the University of Minnesota, and found a job in Duluth. While in Duluth he met a local girl, Molly, and he finally married at the ripe old age of 33. In 1980 Ken and Molly moved back to the Grand Marais area where they have lived ever since.

Although Ken could have spent all his time exploring the woods and lakes with Molly and his dog friends, he knew that at least some income was necessary. He and Molly started their own survey business. This meant they could set their own hours and leave time for other things. Having the time, they built their own small (16’ x 24’) house with hand tools. To keep it simple the house has solar electricity and no running water. They also have gardens and grow enough food to have had to dig a root cellar for storage. They have, for various spans of time, kept bees for honey and tapped their own maple trees for syrup. As an end of the road community, Grand Marais has its own art colony, playhouse, folk school, dance school, community radio, and lots of other organizations to be involved in. Ken and Molly have volunteered at the community radio station, the nursing home, the folk school, the whole foods cooperative, and most recently have been producing a number of field guides to flowers, birds, trees and shrubs, ferns, mushrooms, etc… for a young environmental non-profit, Harbor Friends.

Bernard Schnaudt – Bernie began high school at Ramapo, but is a graduate of Jersey Preparatory School. He received his degree in Graphic Arts from New York City College of Technology. He also attended Rutgers University, where he majored in Business Administration. Bernie retired in 2003 after 47 years in the Graphic Arts and Mailing industry. He spent 32 ½ years with CBS Corporation where, for the last 22 years, he was Manager of the Corporate Printing and Distribution Services Department in Manhattan. While working in Manhattan, he also graduated from the Graphic Arts Institute of America as a “Certified Printing Executive.” Bernie also served two terms as president of IPMA (In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association) and was awarded the designation of “Certified Graphic Communications Manager.” He also twice received the “Fellowship Award’ from the New York Club of Printing House Craftsmen for “distinctive service and contributions to furthering education within the graphic arts industry.”

Bernie and his wife of 42 years (Joanne Walton of North Haledon) moved to the Greenbriar Oceanaire Golf and Country Club at the Jersey Shore when they retired, after living in Prospect Park for 4 years and West Milford Township for 33 years. They have two married sons, Steven and David, and one beautiful two-year-old granddaughter, Aubrie. Both Bernie and Joanne remain active volunteers in their church and community in their retirement. They enjoy traveling in the United States and in Europe. They are looking forward to the Ramapo HS reunion and are grateful for the invitation to attend.

Fred Young – After high school, Fred bummed around for a while and then attended Paul Smith College in the Adirondacks. He ended up at Michigan Tech in Northern Michigan and studied forestry; this is what Fred has his degree in. He minored in Biology and Geology. Right after graduation he spent four months paddling a canoe in Northern Michigan with the BWCA. After this he began to work for the National Park Service. He has worked in the Everglades National Park, Lake Mead in the National Recreation area in Arizona, Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior, and at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Park in Munsing, Michigan. He met his wife, Marcia, on an isolated island in Lake Superior. They have two sons, Fred and Parker. Fred lives in Seattle and Parker travels.

Fred retired ten years ago yet he is never bored a minute. He and Marcia have traveled extensively through Europe and have seen every state except Alaska. He volunteers as a teacher of geology in the schools, kayaks, walks, bicycles, gardens, and loves to take pictures and paint with watercolors. He loves living with nature. He started making rustic twig furniture and sells his pieces at art fairs and galleries. One of his works of art, a king sized bed, has been featured in the magazine Log Home Living. Fred and Marcia plan to be at the reunion.

Cean (Bredimus) Molinari – Cean writes, “A lot can occur in fifty years. As for most of us, after high school and college the essential learning began.” Cean and her husband Terry live in coastal Georgia outside of Savannah after fourteen years in Phoenix, Arizona. Where and how they have lived suggests a confused mingling of Girl Scout and gypsy genes: urban and rural, desert and coastal, they’ve loved it all. Their sons visit as often as possible.

Cean’s most alarming learning experiences were being mugged in the Bronx and being nominated as a mayoral candidate in upstate New York. She didn’t give up the money, but she did give up the opportunity for a political career.

She says that her resume resembles a maze more than a career path. She’s tried everything from Outreach counselor to spa manager, but she always came back to floral design. Her life of flowers has opened doors to a Who’s Who of American Life. She has designed arrangements and events for the famous and infamous. Elizabeth Kubler Ross, the founder of Hospice to Jenna Jaimeson, the darling of porn have been clients of hers. She has designed for the icons of the design world, sports stars, television and radio personalities, politicians and philanthropists including runway backdrops, balls and fetes, photo shoots, museum endowments and, once, all the dressing room arrangements for “The Rolling Stones.” She says, “Altogether it has been a behind the scenes fast lane career. What a delightful surprise for a slow lane girl. I am grateful to have grownup in the fifties. That time and those friends remain the gold standard for me.” Maybe Cean will add some of her expertise to our reunion. Hope that she brings some portfolios for us to see.

James Yeomans – Jim joined the army right after high school. He put in his two years and married his Oakland childhood sweetheart, Priscilla, from the class of 1959. He joined the Oakland Police department and built houses on the side. He moved out of Oakland and bought a dairy farm in New York State. He tried farming for seven years but sold it. At that time he moved to Hardwick in New Jersey. He went back into building and worked as a constable in Hardwick as a CD, DC, director and zoning officer. This is now the emergency managing director. His wife was a floral designer until 2002 in Blairestown, NJ. Priscilla and Jim have two children and seven granddaughters who live in Pennsylvania. Jim likes to visit his family and watch his granddaughters grow; two will begin college this year. He will be married for 48 years this year. His hobby was racing standard bred horses in NJ, PA, and NY until 2002 when he sold the horses. He has a summer place at Lake Ontario where he is a charter boat captain. He takes people fishing.

Bonnie (Darby) Donwen – Soon after graduating from Bucknell, Bonnie married fellow Bucknellian, Jon Hutchinson. They moved to Drexel Hill, PA where their first son, Jim, was born. From there they moved to Orlando, FL and then back to NJ where their youngest son, Jon, was born. In 1976 Bonnie married Bill Donwen and moved to Dallas, Texas where they live today. Bill and Bonnie have done lots of traveling especially through Europe and the USA. Bonnie plays lots and lots of tennis and has been active as a volunteer for any worthy causes-mainly animal welfare and politics. Since Bill retired 14 years ago, they have enjoyed spending time at their other homes in Destin, FL and Kapalua, HI on the island of Maui.

Their sons live close by so they see them and their four grandchildren 3 to 14 years old frequently. Bonnie likes to read and to do aerobics and yoga. Bill is a gourmet cook and enjoys working on the computer. Bonnie says, “Life has been pretty good the past 50 years despite a few health episodes. We are looking forward to many more years of good times. Hope to see you all in September.

Louise Lunde – Louise moved to California after living in NYC for sometime. She met her first husband, Lance Henriksen who has been in over 90 Hollywood films. (Look for his biography on the internet and you will see the films that he appeared in, you will probably recognize some of them. Louise says that she hasn't seen them. Louise says, “I was divorced, married and divorced.” She says that at one time she found herself in Berkeley, CA with four boys, their friends, and various animals. Sometimes she took courses at UC Berkeley. She worked for sometime in San Francisco in advertising and public relations. When her children grew up, Louise left for Las Vegas, after trying Los Angeles and Santa Barbara for a year or two. She didn't like either place. She does like Las Vegas. She moved there on a shoe string. She got a job in the retail world. Within two years she got her real estate license. Louise says that she does well, but it is an up and down business. She also has a part time retail job at the Forum Shops, at Caesar’s Palace three nights a week from 5-1 PM. Louise hopes to be able to see us at the reunion.

Mary (Hone) Messaros – Mary worked in a bank until 1962, when she married Cliff, a Wyckoff guy. They bought an old farm house in Mahwah, and had fun collecting antiques. They raised their children there, four girls and three boys. When their youngest started school, Mary went to work in the office of the family business. She has been there ever since, but now, only two days a week.

In 1988 they bought a farm in N.E. Pennsylvania. It started out as a weekend getaway, but 10 years ago they decided to work less and spend more time there. Her youngest son works in film and TV. He wrote and directed his first film, and filmed it at the farm. Mary says, “It was very interesting to watch it being filmed, and getting to know the cast and crew.”

Mary and Cliff have 3 horses, and spend many hours riding in the mountains near by. Mary also enjoys hiking and gardening. She is one of those strange people who looks forward to winter, especially the weekly ski trips to VT.

They aren't world travelers, but they have enjoyed ski trips and horseback riding trips to the Western states and Canada. They also took a trip to Ireland. Five of their children still live in NJ, and two have settled in Washington State. The children have given them 8 grandchildren. They love going to Washington to visit their kids and 2 grandchildren. Their son lives on an island and their daughter lives near the mountains, so they get to explore the best of both worlds. This is the year that they plan to leave busy NJ, and become full time PA residents.

Carol (Henry) Opper – Carol graduated from Montclair State University with a degree in English and Social Studies. She taught in NJ for four years; one year in high school, one year in Junior High, and two years in fourth grade. She was married to John Hatch in 1964 and they were married nineteen years. They had four children, Lori, Beth, Julie, and John. When her third child was born, she moved to California. She has lived there for the past 38 years. Carol worked for Atari and IBM as an administrative assistance. Now she owns a housekeeping business with her daughter called Carol’s House Cleaning Business. She has seven grandsons, ages two to seventeen. When she was 50, she became Mrs. Opper. Now she likes to read, watch TV, walk, play Pinochle and Bridge, go to the theater, and ballroom dance. Her goal now is to find a companion who has many of the interests that she has.

Mary Ann (Smelik) Pruiksma – Three weeks following graduation from RRHS, Jim and Mary Ann were married. They had been going together for two years. Their parents said they were “too young” and would not sign permission forms in New Jersey, so they eloped to Rocky Mount, North Carolina and were married on July 15, 1958.

Jim was in the Navy, his home port being Newport, Rhode Island. We lived in Brocton and Boston, Massachusetts for eighteen months while he was in the service. After Jim was discharged from the Navy, they bought a house in Lincoln Park, New Jersey, and lived there for six years.

They then moved to Hartford, New York and bought a farm, built a house on a hill and raised a family, living there for 40 years. Mary Ann worked for Mallincrodt Medical for 23 years in the Quality Control Division and as a Laboratory Technician. She retired from there when the company moved to Mexico. For a time she worked as a prep cook at an Applebee’s Restaurant. Jim and Mary Ann retired three years ago to Waynesboro, Virginia where they are very happy and comfortable. Now Mary Ann enjoys working part-time at a nursing home as a cook.

They have been blessed with six wonderful children, 3 boys and 3 girls. All are married and have given them 14 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Jim and Mary Ann will renew their wedding vows and celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on July 15th in Lake George, New York, with their family and friends in attendance.

Diane Smith Pruiksma, Elaine Burns and Mary Ann are still friends and talk to each other often. Life has been good to them.

Janet (Katje) Goodman – Janet graduated from Montclair State University with a degree in English and Spanish four years after graduating from high school. She taught English and Spanish I at Anthony Wayne High School in Wayne, NJ for four years. At that time she left teaching for a while to raise her two children, a boy and a girl. Later she moved to California and taught Spanish to pre-school children. After doing that for a while, she decided to try secretarial school and she held various secretarial jobs for big companies. Janet is active with the First Four Square Church in Van Nuys, California. She is involved with their prayer ministry. Her son lives in North Hollywood and her daughter lives in Oregon. She has four granddaughters and one grandson. In her spare time she likes to critique movies. She is looking forward to the class reunion followed by a family reunion.

Lois (Levy) Stammer – Lois is married to her high school boyfriend, Skip, and they have two sons Russ and Steve. Russ and his wife live in Oakland with their two grandchildren, Katie & Jon. Steve and his wife, Angie, live in Illinois which Lois says is much too far away. Skip and Lois are still working with no plans to retire. Although Lois still keeps her real estate broker's license active, she had obtained her insurance license a number of years back & has been working as an account manager in an agency in Hackensack. Her plan was to have a family while she was young and then travel but they had a trip of a lifetime many years ago when a friend gave all four of them an all expense paid trip to visit him in Australia. Besides ballroom dancing which they have enjoyed for the past 18 years, Lois loves football and she always has to be reading-usually a couple of books at a time.

Elizabeth (Rothwell) Meyers – After graduating from RRHS, Betty worked in the Wyckoff Bank and then she worked at other secretarial jobs. She met her husband, Ron, while staying with her sister in Clifton, and they married in 1962. After their son, Ron Jr, was born they bought their first home in Denville. Three years later, their daughter, Laura was born. Betty stayed home with their children for a few years and then worked part-time in the office of their church and the Christian School where the children attended school. For a time she worked as a Legal Assistant for the General Counsel of a corporate holding company, and then as the Administrative Assistant to the CEO of a chemical company. After her children left the nest, Betty worked during the day and in the evening attended County College of Morris, working toward an Associates degree. She particularly enjoyed her writing classes. In 2004 she retired from the chemical company and a few months later decided to get her real estate license. She’s now a sales associate with Weichert Realtors, working from the Rockaway office.

Ron and Betty live in Rockaway Township, in Morris County, NJ where they’ve lived for 30 years. Ron has recently retired and they’re thinking about doing some traveling. Besides selling real estate, Betty likes to sew, stencil, and spend time with her four grandchildren. She also enjoys keeping in touch with her siblings, nieces and nephews by e-mail. Betty is working on a poem for our reunion, she wrote the theme poem for our yearbook back in 1958.

Roberta (Westdyk) Cirillo – Roberta went to school for a liberal arts degree at Florida Southern University in Lakeland, Florida. She would return to NJ in the summer and on one of these trips she met her future husband, Dominick Cirillo from Newark. They married when she was 21 and they lived in Pompton Lakes for eight years. They moved to St. Louis, then to Kansas City, and then to a small town outside of Norfolk, VA. Then they returned to a small town outside of St. Louis called Chesterfield. Roberta has three children, two boys and a girl. She has five grandsons and three granddaughters. Her oldest granddaughter is a senior at The University of Florida. Her husband passed away five years ago and since then she has retired and then returned back to work. She works in the retail business. She likes to play golf and she frequently travels to Florida to visit her daughter.

James Cox – Jim and his high school sweetheart, Ann, are celebrating 49 years of marriage. They have three children Jim Jr., David, and daughter, Tracey. Being with their family is one of their favorite leisure time activities. Jim owned his own construction company for many years, but it has now been passed down to his sons. He works part time for them as well as transporting special needs children to and from school. Ann is working for the Sussex County Educational Services Commission as a paraprofessional teaching special need students. They live in Branchville, N. J.

In their extra time they cruise in their classic cars, travel in their motor home searching for treasures at auctions, antique shops and garage sales. Above all, Jim’s favorite pastime and hobby is restoring classic cars. There are no immediate plans to retire. We are enjoying life as it is today. God is Good!! They plan to be at the reunion

Rowena (Campbell) Magid – After graduating from Gettysburg College with a major in Biology and a Psych minor, Ro took teaching certification courses in the summer of 1962 at Montcalir State College. She student taught at Ramapo in the fall of '63 and got a job teaching Biology in the spring of '63 at Ramapo. Ro taught there until 1972 when she married Gilbert Zerbe and moved to Long Beach Island where both of them made and sold hatch cover table (remember those?!). This was quite a change from teaching Biology at Ramapo!

Ro was a single parent from '79 to '85 and worked in an accounting firm as a receptionist, proofreader, and audited-confirmation mailings. She married Abe Magid in 1985. They lived in Manalapan, N.J. until 1994 when they moved to Howell. Ro went back to teaching in 1990 at a private high school, Hillel High School, in Ocean Township. N.J. She is still teaching Biology, Anatomy and Physiology Environmental Science and the AP Bio Lab there and has been Chairman of the Science Dept. for the last two years. The call of learning was very strong, so in '96 she began taking courses at Rutgers in Archaeology/Anthropology eventually earning an MA and a PhD in Archaeology/Anthropology. She conducted research using stable carbon isotopes as a means of diet reconstruction from archaeological bone. Midway through the education process, Ro spent a summer doing excavation of a site called Mound House in the Illinois River valley for the Center for American Archaeology.

She has a daughter, Kate, and as of Jan 5, 2008, a grandson, Connor. For her next project she is thinking of writing a cook book with her daughter. Retirement does not look attractive to Ro at this point!

Bob Fippinger – Robert Fippinger, or Bob, lives in New York City with his wife, Ann, and walks to work. They also have a home in Arizona, but don't spend enough time there. "Fip" has three sons and three grandchildren.

After graduating from Duke University, he went to Michigan Law School and to Northwestern University for a Ph.D. Bob is a securities lawyer in New York and has taught securities law at Yale, NYU, and Hofstra law schools. He is the author of a book published annually on securities law and public finance. In September, Bob climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with his son Randy to celebrate Randy's 40th birthday. After learning to steal scraps of wood when Barbara Collins' home was being built around 1950, late in life, he is trying to be a woodworker and is actively involved with a woodworking school in Maine where he spends several weeks a year as a beginning student.

Donald Prol – Don graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University with a B.A. degree in Business Administration. He married Jean Southway in 1962 and they had three children, two boys and a girl. From 1968 to 1975 he was president of the Prol Development Corporation in Franklin Lakes. After that he was National Sales Manager for Missbrenner Design Printery in Clifton, Richloom Fabric Group in New York, Contract Sales Fame Fabrics in New York, and for Northeast Textiles in Rahway, NJ. He traveled extensively both nationally and abroad to acquire designs and direct colorations for contract textile products. Now that he’s retired, in June 2003 he formed a color consulting firm: Color Solutions of Delaware. In 2007 Don joined a Benjamin Moore Signature Design Center with Color Solutions of Delaware.

In 1990 he joined historic St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Church (founded in 1681) and became a Lay Eucharist Minister, Lector, served as a vestry member, and a board member of the St. Peter’s Pioltown Road Cemetery. Don has eight grandchildren and he has been divorced since 1982.

Pat (Travers) Frydendahl – After graduation Pat attended Paterson State (College) University and graduated with a degree in Elementary Education specializing in Primary Education. She had a Kindergarten class waiting for her at Marshall Hill School, West Milford Twp. She married Ed Frydendahl (also a Ramapo graduate), but she met him at church. They have 2 daughters Nancy and Sue.

Pat moved to Lacey, NJ and helped organize the New Comers Club of Lacey; she was involved with Girl Scouts, was a charter member and organizer of Friends of the Lacey Library and was the first Storyteller at the Library. She returned to teaching right in Lacey Twp. and taught Kindergarten until she retired. During her years of teaching, she became know as the "Puppet Lady", teaching with alphabet puppets that she made. She presented many workshops throughout the state on how to use puppets in the classroom.

Pat was President of the Ocean County Kdg. Association for several years. Her greatest achievement was being inducted into Delta Kappa Gamma Society (an International Society for Outstanding Teachers). In her chapter, she held every position from President to Historian. She also had several craft ideas published in Instructor Magazine.

Retirement came a little earlier than expected for Pat because she was diagnosed with Lupus. This closed one chapter in her life, but opened others. Now she spends many hours crafting and doing craft fairs with her daughter. Pat re-wraps candy bars for special occasions..."It's a Wrap by Pat ". She also loves to read stories and do activities at her grandchildren's schools. After 32 years living in Lacey, she retired to a 55+ active community (Renaissance in Manchester). Now that Ed is retired, they love to travel and cruise. They are looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion.

Joy (Johnson) Garde – After high school Joy went to Vermont College in Montpelier, Vt. She left after two semesters and went to Candy Jones modeling school in NYC. Then she modeled for Murray Hamburger Bridal Gowns and she did fashion shows.

Joy married Jere Garde in 1962. He worked for Mercedes Benz of North America and got transferred around the country every four to six years. They lived in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Jacksonville and New Jersey and ended up in Atlanta where they opened up their own car dealership. Joy worked at the dealership for several years and then did something she always wanted to do, go to a floral design school. She worked for a florist for several years. Joy always kept an interest in art and took painting classes for many years, watercolor is her favorite.

Joy has three sons and five grandchildren, three girls and two boys. They all live in the Atlanta area, so she has had a grand time being part of their lives. Joy says, “They are the light of my life. I have been very blessed.”

Joy now lives in the unique town of Peachtree City, Georgia. There are 100 miles of golf cart paths including bridges and tunnels. Everyone owns a golf cart and they go to the stores, restaurants, and everywhere else they want to go in town in these. When she’s not playing golf, Joy belongs to a group that knits tiny little hats for newborn babies for Atlanta area hospitals and for Ronald McDonald House for children who have had Chemotherapy and lost their hair. Joy is still helping others.

Carol (Rao) Palmieri – After graduating from Ramapo, Carol went to a secretarial school and graduated in 1959. She immediately got a job as an administrative assistant at Coats & Clark in the Fair Lawn Industrial Park. There she met her husband and they have been married for 43 years. Her husband is now retired but she is still working. She has five children, three boys and two girls and 11 grandchildren.

Carol has been working for the past 26 years right where it all began, in Wyckoff, NJ, at St. Elizabeth School as their administrative assistant. Carol says, “In all these years here, I have only met up with one of my former classmates and, of course, that was at the Market Basket.” One of Carol’s favorite pastimes is visiting Atlantic City, Las Vegas...get the picture? She also likes to go to Seneca, S.C. to visit her brother, Bob, (Class of '59) with her husband when she can.

Virginia (Black) Stoehr – After graduating from RRHS, Ginny received her Assoc. of Arts from Centenary College and her Bachelor of Arts from Elmira College, both degrees in Business and Economics. After graduation, Ginny married her husband Peter. They will be celebrating their 46th wedding anniversary in July. In 1962 they lived in Switzerland for a year while Peter attended a work/study textile program. Upon returning to the US Peter worked in textiles and Ginny worked in PR for American Cyanamid.

Their son, Peter J., was born in 1969 and their daughter, Susan, was born in 1975. In 1970 they moved to California and then relocated to Tequesta, Florida where Peter and his partners built and sold 325 condos and the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre. Peter and Ginny later started their own real estate company. They are now both happily retired in South Carolina and enjoy being near their family and four grandchildren.

Joel Kurtz – After high school Joel went to Paul Smith College in New York State. He majored in forestry and engineering. After college he was drafted and he had to spend two years in the Army. Fortunately, he was able to stay in this country. When he got out of the Army, he ran a lumber company in New York State. He lived in Pennsylvania and the lumber company was two miles across the state border. Not only was he a constructor designer, but he also invented components of yachts including a system of righting. He has many patents for his inventions. His wife Linda is from Pompton Plains and a graduate of William Paterson University. They have two daughters and a grandson and a granddaughter close by. He has been a volunteer medic and his job keeps him traveling. He is still working. He lives in Callicoon, NY and he just got a new computer.

Ernie Spicer – Ernie and his wonderful wife, Louise, are still in Ramsey at the same address for the last 35 years. They have three children, two girls and a boy. They have two grandsons. Ernie officially retired in 2005. Leading up to that involved years of night school to finally finish his math and science degrees. Most of his work was in the machine shop type activities. He spent many years at Abex Corp Research Center in Mahwah, NJ, involved in designing tools and fixtures for electrochemical mills and edge/surface preparations to various grades of carbide cutting tools to reduce machine downtime. His other major effort was put to design and build dynamometer fixtures used for testing automotive and commercial friction material that eventually was DOT approved. Some of his work involved assisting and setting up the operation of a state of the art indoor ballistic facility for testing new armor. He was also project manager for the subscale system testing of metal/ceramic/composite armor. He was also involved in the plastics/chemical industries as a service representative for Werner & Pfleiderer from Stuttgart, based in the Ramsey office. He says, “The experiences were unique. In spite of all the fun I ended it in July 2005. I just bet I had more fun than anyone else.”

Ernie is not currently active in any old car clubs but his '46 Studebaker truck is waiting in the barn. Numerous other cars are in sleep mode as well. He has collected old records- mostly 78s from pre WW2 era since he was in grade school and has continued to do so ever since. He has been a Life Member of the NRA for about 40 years and enjoys a bit of shooting at his NY place. Retirement experiences now fill his time. Ernie and Louise are slowly moving from New Jersey to their upstate New York house. Ernie says that with all of the accumulated things it is a challenge but fun.

They have done some traveling - Germany, Austria, and just recently Croatia. They look forward to other trips but nothing is currently planned. They look forward to the RRHS reunion to hear what everybody else has done.

Nancylu (Hoffman) Arndt – Nancylu worked as a bookkeeper after graduation in Fairlawn. Then she met her husband Ted Arndt who was stationed at Fort Dix. They lived in Wyckoff for eight years but Ted missed his family in Minnesota and convinced Nancy to move there. Not only did he convince her to move to a very cold area, he also convinced her to run a small farm for them while he worked in town. They raised pigs, sheep, and dairy cows. At times Nancy had to be surrogate mother to the live stock if their own mothers didn’t want them. At times she would have to leave her warm bed to give a bottle to a lamb or a piglet. She preferred keeping them in the house to having to make the trip to the barn on cold nights. Nancy and Ted have been married for 44 years. They have four children, two boys and two girls. They also have three grandchildren. These days Nancy keeps busy with bean and corn crops. Five years ago her husband became disabled and they had to give up the animals. Nancy regrets that she will not be able to come to the reunion because she is the caretaker for her wonderful husband.

Simone (Pagerie) Kunath – Tuddy or Simone left Ramapo, got married to Steve Lewis, and had a wonderful son, Barry, (who is now a detective in Ft Myers Florida. Recently he did a case that ended up on Americas Most wanted, 1-19-08).

After years of working for the Ramapo greenhouses in Mahwah, Simone eventually owned them for a short period. During this period she worked for an artificial flower company out of Stanford, Connecticut and NYC. She received a designing degree and eventually worked as a supervisor for the company having 200 employees under her. She traveled the states of NJ, NY, and PA., while working for the company. One of her assignments was to design the roof garden for President Johnson at the library of presidential papers in NYC.

In 1967 she owned and operated Flowers by Simone in Oakland, remarried Ed Kunath, and had a son, Michael, (who has his own business as a computer analyst.) She sold her floral business and moved to Upstate New York where she resides now. Here she owned another greenhouse business and a restaurant. Simone received her culinary status, sold the restaurant and worked several years for various restaurants and hotels; she also does personal chef services for attorneys and doctors in their private lives. At present she is an executive chef for the Worcester White House Inn. She has a web page http://yourkitchenchef.com . She would like to retire but she loves to work. She can’t wait to see everyone at the reunion.

Brian Taranto – After graduation from Ramapo, Brian went off to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. as did our classmate, Rich Flewelling. While at RPI, Brian met Judith Oberlin of Hawthorne and they were married in 1963. They have two children, Brian and Susan, and three grandchildren, Andrew, Sarah, and Nicholas.

Brian graduated from RPI in 1962 and stayed for an MSCE degree in 1964. Then he went off to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers at Ft. Belvoir, Va. and then to Mannheim, Germany for two years and then back to Ft. Belvoir for another year.

After the Army, Brian and Judith moved to Lincroft N.J. and he worked for Humble Oil (predecessor of Exxon) in Linden and Florham Park, N.J. until 1982. Then he worked for them in Houston, Texas until he retired in 2000. His entire career was devoted to environmental protection activities.

Judy and Susan and Brian are living in Texas and his son and his family live in Ohio. They have kept their summer home at Highland Lakes, N.J. and are now able to be there June through October to enjoy swimming, sailing and visiting family and friends. Their grandchildren also spend part of the summer at "the lake" for all kinds of sports activities and to keep them young. During the winter Brain enjoys volunteer "work", especially on the "Elissa" which is the Texas tall sailing ship docked at Galveston. It is a 130 year old square rigged ship that was restored and is maintained and crewed by volunteers and is open to the public as part of a maritime museum. Other hobbies include restoring a couple antique cars with his son, and gardening.

Linda (Sellers) Brown – After graduation, Linda got a job at an insurance company in Montclair. She got married and had a daughter, Kathy, in 1961. She divorced and worked for a builder and real estate office in Packanack Lake. She married again but that didn’t work either. From then on she chose to stay single; she felt that marriage didn’t agree with her.

She moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1969 and got a job for Hughes Aircraft Company (now Raytheon) and was in charge of the Tool Crib inventory. Linda worked there 22 years and retired in 1995.

Linda says that she still likes to party. She has a half brother and a half sister in Tucson, and another half brother in Flagstaff, AZ. They are very close. Linda had horses and for a time she liked being a “cowgirl”. When she outgrew that interest, she sold her horses. Now she is grandma to three, her grandson has had two tours in Iraq. He will be out of the army in March or April. She is very proud of him as we all are. She has two great-granddaughters, eight and two and a half. She loves Tucson and being around her family and friends.

Claire (Schneider) Merritt – After graduating from Ramapo Regional High School, Claire received her BA from Wilson College and her MA from Yale University, both degrees in French. She spent a year in France studying French literature at the University of Grenoble on a Fulbright Grant. She taught French and occasionally German at various schools, including Connecticut College and the Williams School in New London, CT. In 1987 she left teaching and moved to Sandgate, a small, rural community in southwestern Vermont, where she now lives with her husband Michael and their golden retriever and two cats. Since her “retirement” she keeps busy with many activities: volunteer work at a hospital, participation in town government as an auditor, involvement in many aspects of her church, in addition to reading, photography and writing poetry.

Dora (Vandevelde) Messina – Shortly after graduation, Dora met and married her husband, Carmen. They will be celebrating their 49th wedding anniversary in September. In the fall of 1958 Dora started to work for a satellite office of Sears, Roebuck & Co. in Hawthorne, NJ as office manager. She was there until 1966 when her oldest daughter, Lissa Marie came along. The following year her other daughter, Michele Renee was born. She became a stay at home mom for the next fourteen years. She was busily involved in her daughters' activities such as softball, girl scouts, cheerleading coach, etc. After 14 years, Dora went back into the workforce and landed a job as assistant manager at AT&T in Basking Ridge, NJ in the Executive Human Resources. During that time both of her daughters got married and produced four grandsons who are the light of Dora and Carmen’s lives. They range in age from 5 to 16.

When a retirement package became available in 1993, Dora took advantage of it and she and her husband packed up their gear and moved to Clermont, Florida along with their daughters, their husbands, and grandsons. Before her husband retired, he worked as an instructor at Universal Studios in Orlando FL. for 13 years.

Dora and her husband are enjoying their retirement and watching their grandsons' sport activities and school plays. They also love the mountains of North Carolina and spend quite a bit of time there. They currently live about eight miles from Disney World and their grandchildren love going there!

James Woodford – After graduation Woody moved back to Ohio and joined the Army. He was trained to be a crypto repairman. He had a top secret job. He spent three years of his army career in Germany. It is here that he met his wife, Monica. They have one son. After his stint in the army, he worked at a steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio for 15 years. After that he went to school to study electronics. He was an electronic technician for NCR in Southern Ohio. He retired when he was 50 and now he likes to fish with his buddies. They often drive up to Lake Erie to fish for steelhead. He also likes to raise flowers in his hometown of Andover, Ohio.

Alice (Watson) MacDonald – Alice worked for a dentist in Oakland after she graduated from Ramapo. In 1962 she married Ken MacDonald and a year later she had twin girls. They lived mostly in Ramsey during their married life. Besides raising her children, Alice enjoyed working at restaurants -namely Howard Johnson’s and Kinchley’s in Ramsey. Now she is retired and living in Greely, Pennsylvania. She is having fun decorating her brand new home. Her husband loves antique cars, especially his 1956 Chrysler. They go to antique car shows and like to show off their car. They often get together with Ernie Spicer and his wife Louise. Ernie also shows his antique cars. Alice and Ken have three grandchildren, three boys and a girl.

Jacqueline (Borthwick) Gallo – After high school, Jackie married and had two sons. She has lived in Oakland for a long time. Besides raising her two children, she worked as a waitress in different establishments. She loved meeting different people and taking care of them. Now she is retired and her gardening keeps her busy. She takes pride in all of the vegetables that she grows. When asked what she likes to do the most, she answered, “Hanging out in the back yard.” She also likes Suduko puzzles and fostering cats for the Animal Shelter. Of course, she has four cats and a dog of her own as well. Jackie has three grandchildren, two boys and one girl. They are her pride and joy.

Ingrid (Storch) O’Brien – After graduating from RRHS, Ingrid spent her last summer working at a guest farm in Pennsylvania. In the late fall of the same year, she crossed the Atlantic by ship to visit her father's family home in Germany. She spent four glorious months traveling all over Europe, becoming fluent in German again and meeting relatives. Upon her return to the USA, she landed a job with American Cyanamid in Wayne, N.J. as an Order Processor handling the Far East and government AID shipments to Vietnam. After some 5 years at A.C., she felt a need for change and moved to California in 1965. Jack Nelson and Ingrid's twin brother Ron were living in Long Beach at the time. Not being satisfied with her decision, she left California after a short stay and decided to return to N.J. with one stop in Wisconsin to visit a friend -- and the rest is history. She became a Professional Ski Instructor, taught for 5 years, met her husband Frank J. O'Brien and married in 1972.

During Frank's time as an executive at Motorola, he purchased a grain farm 60 miles west of Chicago. This is where they lived while raising 2 children, Jeff & Regina. Having never been a farmer before, her husband thought livestock would be a great idea, thus they started raising hogs and producing some 360 baby pigs every 28 days. When her husband passed away in 1990 she managed the 2,000 head pig farm for 12 years. She worked very closely with the University of Illinois, was known as the HOG LADY at livestock seminars, and was producing over a million pounds of pork a year. She closed the entire hog operation in 2003, put in an air strip, and is indirectly involved in crop dusting. She still grain farms and is also managing a Black Walnut grove of l,000 trees that she and her husband planted in l984 for veneer. Life has been fascinating, educational, and an interesting experience and she hopes to ride it out for another 30 years. Retirement is not in the books for her.

Don Breen – After Ramapo, Don enrolled at what is now known as the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He graduated in 1962 with a BS in electrical engineering and accepted a position with Pennsylvania Power and Light Co. in Allentown, Pa. In 1968, Don married the former Bernice Cernok of Allentown. They had one son, Jason, who currently works as an information technology professional at Merck. Unfortunately, Bernice passed away in 1995 after a long illness. In 1996, Don elected to take early retirement from his position as Division Operating Manager. Since then, he’s actively managed his investments, worked with handicrafts and did a stint as a caregiver. Currently, he is remodeling his 37 year old house, playing a little golf ,and hanging out with family and friends.

Judy (Hadnot) Catlin – Judy graduated from Katherine Gibbs in Montclair and worked as a legal secretary in New York City. She especially enjoyed working for Bill Shea, the man for whom Shea Stadium is named. She says that it was a fun job with lots of free tickets to sporting events in and around the city. In 1962, Judy married her high school sweetheart from Pompton Lakes, Rob Catlin. They have three children and now have seven grandchildren with a new one arriving Jan. 21st - 5 girls, 2 boys and ?, ages 9 down to newborn. Five of her grandchildren live in and around Madison, NJ and the second son with three lives in Toledo. When her youngest was in third grade, Judy resumed work in 1979 as a paralegal in Madison, NJ where she and her husband raised the children. Her husband's career was with the Port Authority of NY/NJ and he became Director of the World Trade Center before the end of his career but retired mercifully before the catastrophe. They retired in 1999 and moved to Cape Cod to play golf, swim, and eat lobster and steamers. All the children love to come all summer but Judy and Rob still go to Madison often. They now go to Tucson every winter for three months to play golf, go to Arizona Wildcat’s basketball games (where our second son went to school), attend the Tucson Symphony and hike, etc. Judy and Rob’s grandchildren are the light of their lives and they see them often despite the five hour car ride to NJ or to Toledo. Judy looks forward to seeing everyone in September.

Bob Barclay – After high school Bob went to William Paterson University for a year. Teaching wasn’t that interesting to him so he quit and went to work. He joined the US Navy and was discharged on Feb. 6, 1964. The same year he went to work with the Operating Engineers Local 825. January 21, 1967 he married Isabel Ward, they lived in Oakland. They had four children who gave them four grandchildren. On April 11, 2002 Isabel passed away. After forty-four years of working Bob retired and went sailing. He settled in the Florida Keys. On April 29, 2006 Laura Testroet became Mrs. Barclay. Bob is meeting in February with some of the class members who live in or visit Florida to help make plans for the reunion.

Tim Hankins – Tim went off to Dartmouth College after graduating from Ramapo. After college graduation he spent two years in the Navy. Then Tim went back to Dartmouth for his MS degree for a total of almost seven years in New Hampshire. When he was ready to get his PhD at the University of California at San Diego, he called Steve Mason to drive across the country with him. The first day they drove eight miles because they stopped to visit Jim and Ellen Heath. Then when they reached Southern California they got snowed in. After seven years in sunny Southern California with a PhD, several years of teaching and research, and lots of fun (that was the late '60s and early 70's, after all, and there was a lot of sailing, surfing, and guitar playing), Tim took a staff scientist position at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The Observatory runs the largest radio telescope, which you may have seen in the movies "Golden Eye" and "Contact".

About a week after his arrival in Puerto Rico, Tim sailed to a nearly deserted beach and met a girl who was doing environmental research. He eventually married this talented lady. In 1978 he was awarded a fellowship to the Max Plank Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany so he and his wife spent about 18 months in Bonn, Germany. His next move was back to Puerto Rico.

In 1982 they moved back to his wife's home town in New Hampshire where he was on the faculty at Dartmouth College. Two kids and seven years later they moved to New Mexico where Tim took a faculty position at New Mexico Tech and a research position at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array. He has had a year's sabbatical leave in Australia, a sabbatical at the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, and a sabbatical at the Arecibo Observatory again.

He retired from teaching in June of 2006, and was all set for a Fall of leisurely research and learning to play bluegrass banjo when he got a call asking if he would be the Interim Director of the Arecibo Observatory for six months while they had a search for a permanent Director. When his wife asked, "What on Earth would you want to do that for?" he replied: "It will look good on my resume."

Now Tim is back in Socorro, New Mexico, doing some radio astronomy research, hiking, biking, skiing, and trying to figure out what to do next, and how it will include more sailing.

Elaine (Van Saun) Burns – After graduation Elaine worked in a couple of banks, one in Ridgewood and one in Waldwick. She married Frank Burns in 1962 and moved to Sloatsburg, New York. She has five children, four boys and one girl. In 1968 Elaine and Frank moved to Jefferson County New York where they owned and operated a dairy farm. Elaine became an expert in breeding her herd. She had to take classes to learn how to artificially inseminate cows. In one year she had twenty six pairs of twins born to her cows. In 1987 Frank and Elaine’s dairy days were over when they sold their farm. From that time, Elaine has been a realtor and she has her four sons living rather close to her. Her daughter lives in Tennessee. All together she has 11 grandchildren. Now, when they can get away, Elaine and her husband go camping on Cranberry Lake in New York State. They also have a pontoon boat that they ride on the lake. Elaine is looking forward to seeing friends at the reunion especially Steve Mason who was a neighbor.

Diane (Smith) Pruiksma – Diane married Steve Pruiksma in 1964. They have been married for 43 years. They have four children, two boys and two girls. They also have six healthy grandchildren. Diane has worked in nursing homes and assistant living facilities. She and her husband have lived in various places in Pennsylvania for 30 years. They love to travel and they have time shares in Ocean City, Maryland; Myrtle Beach; Hilton Head; and Atlantic City. They have a grandson who left for Iraq on January 6. Diane likes to make crafts to take with her when she visits shut ins in nursing homes.

Harry Jung – Just after graduation Harry enlisted in the Army for two years. He was stationed in Germany. When he returned, he gave college a try but he says that it was not his bag. Next he worked in construction for a while. In 1964 he started to work with NCR as a field engineer. He worked on cash registers at the beginning of his career and at the end of his career he worked on ATM's. Harry retired in 2005 after 41 years of service.

He met his wife, Carol, in 1966 and moved to Oakland. Then in 1970 Harry and his family settled in Pequannock and he still lives in the same house today. He has three children, two boys and a girl. His children are all married and they have blessed Harry and Carol with four grandkids, two boys and two girls. The two sons live in Pequannock and his daughter lives in Pennsylvania so they get to see their kids all the time.

Cathy (Pauls) Bush – was married in 1961. She has three children, two girls and one boy. She also has five grandchildren. After she was married, Cathy moved from Wyckoff to Midland Park – three miles away – until recently when she moved to a smaller home still in Midland Park after loosing her husband in 1995. .She is enjoying the job of feathering her new nest. Cathy has worked in a dental office for the past twenty five years and continues to work. Her biggest challenge is to begin to explore the internet and the computer at home as well as learn her new computer system in her dental office!!! She says, “Who said an old dog can’t learn new tricks.”

Cathy enjoys her family who all live nearby as well as the friends that she has had for a life time. She likes to cook, to read, and to knit. She also enjoys traveling as often as the occasion arises. Her children have given her a trip to Paris this spring.

Joyce Ann (Toth) Van Dyke – attended Montclair State after graduation pursing teacher certification for high school. She ‘stopped out’ and married her high school sweetheart, Albert Van Dyke (Ramapo’s first graduating class of 1957) and had three children ( 6 grandchildren). She resumed her studies when her children were in high school and graduated with a BA from Ramapo College. Realizing that she already had a houseful of teenagers and no longer wanted to teach that age group, she never left Ramapo College. She became one of the founding members of the Advisement Center at Ramapo College and has served as an Academic Advisor for the last 25 years specializing in counseling the returning adult student. Al and Joyce have never moved far from Wyckoff, residing in the neighboring town of Mahwah since 1965.

Judy (Sietsma) Terbeek – The years flew by after graduating from Ramapo. Judy met her husband, Glen, at Hope College, graduated with a teaching degree, was married and taught school in Michigan. Judy and her husband lived in Michigan, New York State, and back to Michigan where their sons were born. They moved to The Netherlands in l974 and lived near The Hague for three years. What a wonderful experience for a "little N.J Dutch girl"! They returned to the US and made their home in a Chicago, Illinois suburb--for 21 years. They were very involved with international business and traveled to Europe, Australia, Asia, South America, and Japan often. While their sons were in college, they again lived in The Netherlands for three years, and then moved to the UK and lived in Sunningdale (a suburb of Windsor) on the Sunningdale golf course, much to Judy’s husband's delight--for three more years. Then they eventually retired to Hilton Head Island, SC and built a house on the ocean. Life was great, until both of her sons decided to "go west"! One son now lives in Seattle, and the other is married and lives in West Hollywood, California. His wife is an actress. The writing was on the wall, Judy and Glen moved across country to be near their children and bought and remodeled a home in LaJolla, California near San Diego. Glen is a golfer, and Judy enjoys digging in the dirt and trying to keep up with their Portuguese water dog.

Steve Mason – Following graduation from Ramapo, it was off to West Virginia Wesleyan College, about the only place that would take such a marginal student, according to Steve. A great year there was followed by a not-so-great semester at Marietta College (Ohio), another at Fairleigh Dickenson and finally a semester at the University of Pennsylvania (night business school). He says, “I could never get it together enough to graduate from anywhere. Predictably, the United States Government then had plans to draft me, but with some prodding from Jim Heath, we decided to join the US Coast Guard. Alas, I finally managed to graduate from something... boot camp at Cape May, New Jersey!”

That graduation was followed by two years of service which included guarding the south Coast of New Jersey against a Cuban invasion. After the Coast Guard episode, Steve reports that it finally occurred to him that he would have to earn a living or take up a life of crime. He decided on the former, got a commercial pilot's license in 1966, then moved to San Diego and started a flight school. He still has the school which is celebrating 40 years in business next year. He found the woman of his dreams in Southern California; he got married in 1976 and has two grown kids. He also wants us to know that he still has the Studebaker. Now he’s thinking about retiring in Pennsylvania in the next couple of years. As we can see, Steve never lost his sense of humor.

Barbara (Sammarco) Caulfield – Since graduating from Ramapo, Barbara attended the following schools: First she got her Associate in Arts degree in Nursing From Fairleigh Dickenson University in Rutherford, N.J. Next she got her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Then she received her Master of Science degree in Nursing and Nurse Practitioner degree from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Now Barbara is a CRNP (Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner) and presently works as a nurse practitioner in a private practice as well as a hospital. She is married and has four sons. Currently, she lives in Kensington, Maryland. Barbara’s ambition was to be a nurse and she certainly accomplished her goal.

Grace (Perna) Havel – After high school, Grace was a bookkeeper for Grand Union. Then she married and had three children. When her children were all in school full time, she followed her dream and went to hair dressing school. She worked as a beautician for fifteen years. Her next career was managing a retail store for eight years. This inspired her to open her own school and stationery store in Wortendyke. She ran that store for 17 years and just recently sold it to one of her step-daughters. Grace has been married to her current husband over 25 years. She has two sons, one daughter and two step-daughters. She also has eight grandchildren. Grace recently moved from Midland Park, NJ to Little Egg Harbor, NJ. We are fortunate to have Grace’s help in organizing some classmates to decorate for our reunion.

Betty Joan (Livingston) Teschon – After high school graduation, BJ went to work as a secretary. When she was 21 she married and continued to work until her children were born. She has a married daughter who is an Equestrian and performs in many shows. Her daughter lives in Warwick, New York. She has a son with a family in North Haledon. Her son is the dad of her two precious granddaughters, nine and twelve. Betty Joan lived in Hawthorne and Oakland and currently lives in Mahwah. When her children got older she returned to work and held various positions as administrative assistant. She has restored her home, an early Dutch Bergen County stone farm house built in the 1750s. She collects antiques, many that she uses to decorate her home. Another hobby of hers is gardening.

Harvey Glynn – Harvey graduated with a BA from Paterson State University and an MA from Seton Hall University. He taught in Hawthorne for 14 years and Milton, New Jersey for another four years. Then he moved to California and worked for the Blue Cross Insurance of Southern California as their Director of Training. His career path then led him to become an adjudicator of law for the state employees of California. He read and interpreted the Labor cases for the State. The career that he retired from was Mortgage Broker. He has two children, a boy and a girl. He likes to travel and read about US history especially the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Harvey was married three years ago and still feels like he is on his honeymoon. He does not have a computer, but he would like to hear from our classmates. He invites anyone from the class to visit him in Santa Maria, California. Harvey has been keeping in touch with Miss Elliott. His phone number is 805-934-9537.

Donna (Chewning) Rabenow – Donna attended Englewood Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in Sept '61, and has been working as an RN ever since. She has worked in ER’s, Cardiac and Renal Care Units, and for the State of New Jersey Department of Health in their Narcotics and Drug Abuse Division. Her last full time job was as an Occupational Health nurse for Motorola, from which she retired in 2001. She still works part-time for Intel, and SRP (AZ Electric Co.) for her “traveling” money. A few years after becoming a widow, she moved to Phoenix in 1980 with her two sons. Her son John is an ex Navy Nuclear Reactor Operator and he now lives in Seattle. Mike, her other son, is an instructor at the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute in Phoenix. Mike lives a few blocks away from her. Donna enjoys house boating on Lake Powell, exploring antique shops and traveling, - her two favorite trips being white water rafting on the Colorado River in 2001 and visiting Italy in 2003 (lots of good red wine and food). She also spends as much time as possible with spoiling and playing with her granddaughter, Donna, age three.

Tom Havekost – Tom received his Bachelor’s Degree in Education with a specialty in Biology and Physical Education from St. Bonaventure University in New York. He entered the Air Force and worked on a paramedic rescue team for four years. Tom moved to Denver, Colorado and met his wife Mary. They were married in 1967. His job took him to Lafayette, Indiana. From there they moved to Columbus, Ohio and then back to Goshen, Indiana near Perdue. He worked in sales and marketing for some Fortune 500 companies such as Merck, Holt, Rinehart, and Brunswick. While he was with Holt, he was involved with marketing college texts. For 25 years, Tom worked for a recreational vehicle company. He retired from Reese Trailer Hitches. He has three children, two girls and a boy. Now he likes to read, talk politics, work out, watch TV, and go to casinos. He doesn't care much for topless clubs. Check the guest book if you would like to contact him.

Robert White – When you call Bob and he’s not home the message is “You have reached the White house but the president and the first lady aren’t in right now.” Bob never loses his sense of humor. Bob joined the army when he graduated and served in Korea. After the service, he moved back to Wyckoff, got married, and had four children. In 1970 he moved to New York State and worked for Tuscan Dairy. In 1977 he moved to Texas and worked for a company that contracted for the US Post Office. He has six children, two in Pennsylvania, two in Texas, one in Tennessee and one in Maryland. Bob has 12 grandchildren. He likes to fish in his spare time. He lives in a little town called Joshua in Texas.

Peter Ossi – Classmate, Peter S. Ossi received his BSME from the University of Miami in 1963. From there he went to the United States Army Aviation School in 1964. He was stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco in California in 1965, mostly flying Generals to Vegas for three days on per diem. Then BAM! Pete was in Viet Nam in 1966, flying an L19 "Bird Dog," acquiring targets, and adjusting fires thereupon. He went to the University of Oklahoma in 1967. He has been in Wichita, Kansas since 1968 with his wonderful Okie wife, Shirley. Now Pete is retired from a variety of engineering and flying jobs.

Jeffrey Heend – After Ramapo, I attended Stevens Institute of Technology, graduating in 1962. Since then, I have worked as a licensed professional engineer for ITT, South River Board of Public Works, Hercules, Inc and Merck and Co, Inc. as manager of design engineering. I received my Masters of Science degree from Stevens in 1988. I retired from Merck in 2000 and began a life of leisure, playing tennis, racquetball, traveling and spending time with my wife, Marilyn, and our two sons, Dan and Bob, who will be retiring from the Navy in 3 years. After 3 years, I decided to enter the medical field and went back to college for an associate degree in Nursing. I received my degree in December 2006 and passed the nursing boards (RN) in February 2007. In April, I started work as a staff nurse on a med-surg, neuro, orthopedic unit at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, NJ. I have since left Monmouth Medical Center and have a rather unique position as a staff nurse at the East Jersey State Prison (formerly known as Rahway State Prison.) That's the place where they filmed "Scared-Straight". No grandchildren now, but hoping our sons will get married and provide us with some before it’s too late. I am looking forward to our 50th reunion to see my classmates and share our experiences since RRHS.

June (Lish) Ball - After High school June worked for a CPA, got married to her sweetheart sailor, Douglas Ball, 46 years ago and moved to California and had two sons. She opened a garment factory with two great friends in New Jersey and was in business for ten years. Then June worked for two insurance companies.

June and her husband have lived in California, Maine, Old Bridge N J, Freehold N J, and Brick N J. Now they have lived in Punta Gorda, Florida for the past five years. They haven’t quite retired, Doug is working in Florida for his company in NJ and June got her real estate license in Florida. They have five beautiful granddaughters; three in Tulsa, Oklahoma with their son Bruce and his wife and two granddaughters in Brick NJ with their son Wayne and his wife. They survived hurricane Charley two days after they moved into their new home in Punta Gorda. Their goal is to fully retire in Oklahoma some day. June says that God has been good.

Jeff DeFeo - Jeff received his engineering training and degrees from Lehigh, NCE and RPI. He spent his entire career with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft working on advanced military and commercial aircraft engines. He had increasingly responsible positions in management concerned with engineering design and development, in airframe and airline technical support, in product marketing, and finally in instilling the Toyota Manufacturing System in the P&W manufacturing processes. He had a fascinating and rewarding career, but gladly gave up all the required travel and retired from United Technologies Corporation in 1995.

Jeff has been happily married for the last 42 years to Patricia (formerly from Clifton). They have three children and two grandchildren. Jeff and his wife owned an upscale wine shop for 17 years. They sold it and retired again in 2005. In retirement, Jeff and Patricia are now only traveling for pleasure, catching up on projects and hobbies, and spoiling the grand kids.

Nancy (Morgan) May - Nancy was married in 1957 to Robert May. They lived in Virginia for two years and then they moved back to Wyckoff. From there they moved to Waldwick and had three children, two boys and a girl. In 1994 Nancy got an Associate Degree in Hotel Restaurant Management and became the Dietary Manager at Easter Christian Children’s Retreat. She has an amateur radio license and she took flying lessons but she didn't get her license because she was too scared to fly solo. She likes to visit her daughter and son in law and her grandchildren in South Dakota. Going to the race track, attending baseball games, and spending time with her friends keeps her active. Nancy is looking forward to less work and more fun time. She is helping with decorations for the reunion.

Robyn (Casson) Erickson - Robyn married shortly after graduation and moved to Rhode Island where her husband Paul (Hawthorne H.S.) was stationed at the Newport Naval Base. After two years, they returned to N.J. where their two sons and daughter were born. Robyn did volunteer work and attended college part-time. She has been a Realtor for 24 yrs. They are the proud and "very involved" grandparents of five grandchildren, ages 8-19, who all live nearby in Wyckoff. Robyn divides her time between homes in Ho-Ho-Kus, Chadwick Island, and Florida. She and Paul have a passion for travel and have visited 19 countries and 35 states. Robyn and Paul will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in July 2008!

Robyn wants to express her enormous gratitude to the committee members who are working so diligently to make this reunion a very special event. This wouldn't be possible without your tremendous help!! Go Ramapo!

Ron MacGregor - After graduation Ron went to work for the United Parcel Service. He held various management positions in his career. He lived in Park Ridge, NJ most of the time. While there he was involved with his children’s sports activities, he served as President of the Athletic Association and he also was Baseball Commissioner of the North Bergen Little League Association. Ron retired in 1996 and, in 1998, he bought a condo in Bonita Springs, Florida. At first he was a snowbird or he came to his condo when it was cold up north. In 2001 he decided to make a permanent move to the warmer climate. Ron plays golf and tennis and even gets some fishing in when he has time. He also helps with the Special Olympics and Habitat for Humanity. He has three children, two boys and a girl. His daughter is a teacher in North Carolina. He was the Master of Ceremonies for our Thirtieth reunion and has been kind enough to take on the same job for our Fiftieth. If you have any information that will help him, please contact him at 239-949-6035.

Barbara (Conrad) Herbster - Barbara Conrad graduated from Montclair State University with a teaching degree majoring in art. Weeks after college graduation, she married George Herbster and they moved to Germany to complete George’s tour of duty. In Dettlebach am Main, Barbara cooked, cleaned, washed clothes in a bath tub and kept a stove fire going for heat. After Germany, Barbara taught art for four years in a junior high school just outside Washington DC. Barb and George decided to settle in Manchester by-the- Sea, MA (35 miles north east of Boston) and eventually raised a family of three boys. A weaving class at college sparked a life long interest in Barbara for all aspects of fiber. Barbara has been contributing to galleries, writing and teaching weaving for some 40 years. Her work has appeared in “Hand-woven Magazine”, a publication for weavers. Her colorful red chenille shawl is on the book cover of Interweave Press “Design Collection #19”. The latest article in Handweavers’ Guild of America’s publication “Shuttle Spindle and Dyepot” magazine encourages an active exploration of bamboo yarn and invites weavers to submit samples for critique. Barbara says, “You can see that teaching and learning is a re-occurring theme in my life. What can I say, I love to learn! Now, our middle son has just presented us with out first grandchild. Talk about a teaching opportunity! ” Write and let me know what you have been up to since graduation. barbara@shuttlesong.com

Barbara (Collins) Steenstra - The years since Ramapo have been busy for Barbara with family and good friends. She graduated from Katharine Gibbs School in New York in '59' and proceeded to work as a secretary until getting married in 1960. She started a family and has three grown children, two boys and one girl. She lived in Ridgewood until 1973 when her family moved, on a whim, to beautiful Cape Cod, after looking at just one house on a foggy February afternoon. She doesn’t know what possessed them, but they never looked back and have loved living there every since. When she moved to the Cape, she became a Real Estate Broker and has been engaged in that job for the last 33 years in the mid-Cape area. She still likes it and has no plans to retire. Her three children were raised there and as they say on the Cape; they all have "sand in their shoes" and live not far away with her five grandchildren, three girls and two boys. She considers herself very lucky to have everyone so close and she sees them often. Barbara enjoys gardening, knitting, decorating, and eating out with friends!

Caroline (Kukan) Urbanski - Caroline is still as zany and carefree as ever. After 43 years she did something she always wanted to do! She went sky diving! Her husband said it's something he would do only if a plane was crashing! After the Coney Island parachute, she wanted a little more. It took her a while, but she found an airport near her home to accomplish her childhood dream. She claims that it was awesome! We'll take her word for it. Caroline has 10 grandchildren in her extended family. Four are hers and her deceased husband’s and six are her husband, Steve's. They keep her busy but she loves it! Since retirement, she and her husband are enjoying the world around them. The year she retired she and her husband went to Europe. She said that Prague was awesome. She just returned from a hunting trip with Steve to Newfoundland, Canada. Steve bagged a moose and a caribou! She spent last Christmas and New Year in California and Hawaii visiting Steve’s grandkids and children. Now she’s looking forward to seeing her old classmates again! She’s glad that the class detectives found her!!

Lynn Le Roy - Lynn went into the Army for two years after graduation. Upon returning, he joined the Wyckoff Police Department where he worked for 25 years and retired as sergeant in 1989. He married Pam Woodbury (class of 1959) and they lived in Wyckoff for 43 years before moving to Milford, Pennsylvania in 2006. They have three married children still living in Bergen County along with nine grandchildren. Lynn graduated from William Paterson University in 1976 with a BS degree in Public Safety. He had his own painting business after retiring from the police department, easing his way into full retirement in 1999. He now spends his time teaching his grandchildren the fine art of enjoying the outdoors through fishing and hunting adventures.

Carole (Topp) Korfker - After Carole graduated from RRHS she worked for eight years in the Credit Department of the Prospect Park National Bank. In 1966 she married Bill Korfker and moved to Grand Rapids, MI. She has two children and eight grandchildren. Carole was a stay a home mom and didn’t return to work until 1980. After a couple of different jobs in four years, she became an office assistant in the Service-Learning Center at Calvin College in 1984. Carole retired from this job in May of 2003. For several years she has been volunteering for the Meals At Home Program, coordinating a route for drivers who deliver meals to shut-ins, as well as delivering meals herself several times a month. She also tutors once a week for the Kids Hope USA program for a child in an inner city school. She enjoys reading and does some knitting.

Joyce (Gilmore) LaRusso - Joyce turned 16 in April and graduated with our class in June. From there she went on to a law firm in Paterson, NJ where she worked as a secretary/legal assistant for many years. Joyce married Cass LaRusso in 1962. They began raising and showing English Bulldogs. After fourteen years of marriage and a move to West Milford, they adopted their oldest son, Daniel. Six years later they had their first biological child, Benjamin; and two years later had a third son, Matthew. Joyce became a stay at home mom and an Avon Lady.

Jane Anne (Meyer) Lee - Jane or Jane Anne as we know her, graduated from William Paterson University in 1966 with her MA degree. She taught in Oakland, New Jersey; Nanakuli and Maili, Hawaii; Chula Vista, California; and retired from teaching at Safety Harbor Middle School in Florida last year after being there 22 years. Jane’s husband, Bill, is retired from the U.S. Navy. Traveling and playing Bridge takes up her time, as well as her volunteer work and walks on the beach. She lives in North Redington Beach, Florida. She has three children and five grandchildren. Jane Anne is trying to find people for our reunion. Please help her by checking the webpage for those who are missing.

Donald P. Northrop - Don graduated from Fairleigh Dickenson University. After graduation he began working for Duro-Test Corporation, a lamp manufacturing company in NJ. That same year he married Gail Anderson, a Ridgewood High School graduate. Don retired in 1996 and moved to Colorado. He accepted the position of vice-president of Colorado Lamp Company in Denver, a fledgling lamp company. Among his accomplishments he developed a lamp that is used in the motion picture industry. Now Don is self-employed as a consultant for lamp engineering. He likes to travel and hike in the parks in the West. He also has a beekeeping hobby. Besides living in the foothills of Denver, Don has a second home in Arizona so that he can spend some time with his daughter and her family. Besides his daughter, he has three sons and 12 grandchildren. Don and Gail will be putting together our reunion booklets.

John D. Spencer - John attended Upsala College and New York University Graduate School. He is a Certified Public Accountant and served as a financial officer for several companies before retiring in 2004. He will be celebrating 43 years of marriage to Barbara Rose (Ramapo 1961) in September. They have two daughters. Hobbies include travel, hiking and biking.

John R. Steinkamp - John attended Montclair State College and was the first graduate of Ramapo Regional High School to return as a teacher. He taught American History and Economics in the Ramapo Indian Hills High School District. Prior to his retirement, the Indian Hills PTA named a scholarship in his honor.
He was married in 1962 to Claire Borer of Hawthorne. They have two daughters and three grandchildren who now live on the West Coast.
 
Since retiring, John lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. He keeps busy serving on various committees, playing bocce and croquet, and traveling to visit his family in California.